• acargitz@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Boom, there, you just dropped the environmental argument, and started talking about trade practices and undercutting competition.

    Even if my argument about protecting the traditional automotive technology stack is wrong (and I will not litigate that here) I sure am right that these tariffs are nothing about protecting the environment.

    • ShepherdPie@midwest.social
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      3 months ago

      I never once said the tariffs were about protecting the environment as that doesn’t make any sense. I was countering your argument that “people need these cheap, brand new cars in order to protect the environment” by explaining why cars built under lax environmental regulations and then shipped halfway across the planet aren’t good for the environment to begin with.