Sadly, it's what enough people have been told that they want, and they believe it. To me it's a generational failure of public education to have a population that is so easily sold against their own direct interest.

Good point - good science and use of resources would be for the HHS to announce a study to find out whether sacrificing things to gods makes it rain. After all, like you said, we'd never be here we didn't stop questioning literally everything over and over until the end of time.

I'm not going to believe you, because you're comparing a Chevy Bolt which is a small car to an SUV. I get what you're saying, but American's tastes for owning a large vehicle that is much cheaper to own and doesn't need filling up .. might win. How would they know? They literally don't have access to, or a neighbor who has what China is producing. You think it's an EV issue - I think it's that Americans just dont yet get how cheap cars could be. Obviously this is all intertwined with Americans thinking "We make the best stuff, and if we don't, we need to cut ourselves off from international markets so we're forced to relearn it" .. making cars is a national identity thing.

It's okay. American exceptionalism is a thing, and it is/was well earned. But I very much recommend Americans keep working on not thinking they're at any kind of leading edge anymore when it comes to mass produced commodity products.

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Compete or perish. Not every school is worth attending. Not every degree gets money, and without money there is no leisure to take programs purely for fun.

Incurring debt for fun is almost always a terrible idea but the US primary education system is trash so students don't know how to make wise choices. Not everyone SHOULD bother with conventional secondary education when there are so many ways to make money.

Think about that for a moment.

I think it's safe to assume that any agreement in which Canada stipulated that Chinese EVs can/must be sold in the Canadian market would include needing to meet regulatory requirements both Canada and the US have. (The dip in cross border travel notwithstanding, a car you cannot drive in the US from Canada would be orders of magnitude harder to sell to Canadian consumers.)

I imagine China would not have a problem with this, for what should be fairly obvious reasons. Selling cars to Canadians would represent an excellent opportunity to expose American consumers to Chinese EV vehicles on the ground via visiting Canadians. That's a kind of exposure they have not been able to have with the current USA/Canadian market barriers.

China produces vehicles for a ton of markets. Meeting the regulations of those markets is not something new to them.

Cartels still have huge amounts of firearms, including machine guns.

Hahahahaaha. Haha. Ha. Yeah, I wonder where they get them from?

"According to [U.S.] Justice Department figures, 94,000 weapons were recovered from Mexican drug cartels in the five years between 2006 and 2011, of which 64,000 -- 70 percent, according to Jim Moran -- come from the United States." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

Unless they're legally obliged to produce infinite power, declining business should not be a problem.