Wudi@feddit.uk to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 month agoTIL that for the average price of a car in the US, you could buy 5 cars in Chinawww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square218fedilinkarrow-up1538arrow-down135
arrow-up1503arrow-down1external-linkTIL that for the average price of a car in the US, you could buy 5 cars in Chinawww.reuters.comWudi@feddit.uk to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 month agomessage-square218fedilink
minus-squarefreagle@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up55arrow-down3·1 month agohttps://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/?major_industry_sum=motor+vehicles&order=subsidy&sort=desc&page=1 USA subsidizes auto industry too
minus-squarerafoix@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32arrow-down1·1 month agoAnd the oil industry and builds the roads and fights the wars to acquire oil.
minus-squareSteve@communick.newslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down6·1 month agoNot to the same degree, or with the same goals. US subsidies are simply about corporate profits. China’s are about over-producing and lowering prices to incentivize global adoption. Forks and knives are both silverware, but very different.
minus-squareTubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-21 month agoyou also don’t eat your food with a 10" chef knife.
https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/?major_industry_sum=motor+vehicles&order=subsidy&sort=desc&page=1
USA subsidizes auto industry too
And the oil industry and builds the roads and fights the wars to acquire oil.
Not to the same degree, or with the same goals.
US subsidies are simply about corporate profits. China’s are about over-producing and lowering prices to incentivize global adoption.
Forks and knives are both silverware, but very different.
How about them tarrifs, though!
you also don’t eat your food with a 10" chef knife.