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High gas prices drive Georgia man to create a "mini car" costing about $3 to fill up (cdn.imgchest.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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[–] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Yeah I drive an old Nissan leaf, I'd love to own a new Leapmotor A10, but it is under tariffs.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Those Chinese cars are so amazing, if it wasn't for US protectionism (free market capitalism my ass) the US car industry would collapse in an instant.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    If they built a good car there wouldn't be problems. Our car companies are shrinking because of the tariffs.. Ford Europe isn't going to be a going concern soon more an assembler of Geely vehicles.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago*

    When it comes to luxury items let the free market decide, if they are genuinely so bad that they aren't worth their extremely low price let them fail as a product.

    Tariffs shouldn't be around to protect consumers from low quality stuff. They should be there for sanctions, or at best (not in favor but at least it makes sense) to protect local jobs, which given how car manufacturers pushed their production overseas, there's no point.

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