If the only food like substance within your budget (including time budget) is pulped meat nuggets sprinkled with sugar, guess what's for dinner?

They didn't. They went up variable amounts, often higher, depending on what they were. And those prices went up YEARS before this legislation was passed, so the link you're implying is imaginary.

Unless SCOTUS officially rules "Unconstitutional", essentially. That's the check and balance we have.

Hell....Biden would have happily announced it was feed a cannibal day if they ran that one by him on the teleprompters.

That guy has no clue WTF he's saying, announcing or giving a speech about if it isn't on a teleprompter or big print, multi-page notes he's given.

You can readily see this any time he dares to go off script and potentially make "them" mad and get into trouble...

You say that as if American auto makers haven't gotten multiple bailouts and other special gifts over the years. You say that as if the U.S. isn't full of malls inhabited by tumble weeds and rats (literally) and doesn't have enough chronically empty residential property to house every homeless person here.

The U.S. is being strangled by the financial and real estate sectors.

And hey, with regard to leather....it isn't like we're not going to be "harvesting" cows for food any time soon, so, using the hide for leather is just keeping from being wasteful and using the whole animal from nose to tail as the old saying goes.

And well, it's an organic product too....cows are carbon based life units.

So, hell, you're checking two boxes right there.

And it isn't like anyone is forcing the vegans to buy a leather option that may be offered....

So...why again did they do away with the leather option?

The American companies manufacture in China for cheap but sell expensive in the U.S. The huge margin goes to executive management and Wall Street. They COULD profitably manufacture in the U.S. without raising prices, but Wall Street wants it's windfall and CEO needs a new yacht, so that's out.

Commerce Clause. It's been that way for over a century. It's why the TVA could exist. We stopped pretending states were little fiefdoms in the late 1800s. The interconnected nature of them in a modern economy ("modern" here meaning anything after the Industrial Revolution) triggers the Commerce Clause and in turn gives them the authority needed.

and it's the estimated time to build the entire plant. For solar you don't have to worry about melt downs so there's a hell of a lot less regulation. You'd be looking a a few weeks to a month to make sure nobody did something stupid, and most of that is waiting on inspectors which the $7b is I believe meant to help address (though that funding might be coming from a different pot)

The complaints are twofold. They moved their manufacturing overseas but didn't cut their prices to reflect the savings. So Americans are getting squeezed from both sides. Consumers can't force them to pull production back to the U.S. but they can (in effect) offshore the top heavy expensive management and Wall Street by buying Chinese. The difference is apparently around $40K on a car.

Different industry, but I have a Chinese 3D printer. It's not perfect, but it cost 20% of what a 3D printer from an American company would cost (which also wouldn't be perfect). All it's missing is a bunch of ugly beige plastic, vendor lock-in on the supplies, and replacement parts made of pure unobtainium. Believe me, I don't miss those "features" at all. It did come with full respect for my right to repair and a wide variety of 3rd party parts readily available.

On a side note, I did consider building a 3D printer from parts, but when I looked in to it, sourcing the parts in the U.S. would have cost me more than buying the ready made (some assembly required) printer from China.

then it's good. Would I prefer the government just build it out themselves? Sure, but I'm guessing most of the folks bitching about this subsidy would shit kittens if we did that.

you need to build a solar farm. The teleco subsidies are pretty much handed out w/o strings attached but if you tried to just sign up for this one you'd find yourself in jail in about 6 years when they caught up with you and prosecuted you for fraud.

You seem to have a problem understand the word "over". It isn't a lump sum at the end of the decade, it is accumulated over the 10-year period -- like like the spend.

Congress and their powers to tax and spend in general. That doesn't vary by specific technologies like solar vs oil, etc.

at best. Sometimes worse. Hertz got out of EVs and besides unpredictable and severe depreciation maintenance was a big factor. That could just be a Tesla thing, since they were all Teslas, but by all accounts the current crop of EVs from other manufactures are still iffy. That's not a surprise, it's a brand new platform.

Also, oil changes are every 6000 miles and have been for ages. If you're low mileage you can go a whole year. I work from home and put very little mileage on my car, so I do the change with full synth once a year for about $100 bucks. but even worse case you're looking at an extra $300-$500 a year. Not cheap, but it wasn't enough to make Hertz keep the Teslas.

And yeah, people are going to take away our gas buggies. There's multiple laws on the books right now to phase them out in 6-10 years. Personally I'd rather have walkable cities and public transportation. An realistically those laws will just get pushed back. But they're getting pushed back because EVs are still too expensive for regular folk to afford. China has affordable EVs... for China. But that's more a quirk of exchange rates and their ability to use borderline slave labor. Even without the tariffs it just doesn't translate here.

And we've got a few major issues with EVs that aren't being addressed. Higher weight means they burn through tires (and put a ton of extra tire particulate into the air), an EV battery fire is a nightmare and replacing an EV or even Plug-In-Hybrid battery is fraught with risk. I've seen EVs where the battery is more than the car...

On the positive end EVs really do reduce our dependency on foreign oil. But as it stands I spend about 2 months out of the year working for my car instead of myself, and I drive an old car very few miles and own it outright. It's looking more and more like an EV is going to push that to 3 months, and I make good money.

All's that to say I don't think EVs are a solution to our transportation woes.