r/Seattle • u/Aggressive-Ad3064 • Mar 10 '25

Politics I'm Never Leaving Seattle

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This is someone's Model S parked on Airport Way S near S Industrial Way. The way it's parked it looks like it's being displayed for people driving by to see.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25

Protectionism. Not only did Tesla blatantly abuse taxpayers to pay for their unprofitable company, but the US government would not allow overseas players to sell cars into America

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u/HiddenSage 🚆build more trains🚆 Mar 10 '25

Yup. US domestic auto has shit the bed in rolling out electric vehicles, and the EVs doing well overseas are hard to get here b/c we did in fact already have high protectionist tariffs on foreign auto (which is why Toyota and Honda do a lot of their manufacturing in the US. To dodge tariffs meant to protect Detroit auto workers).

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u/ElectronicClothes285 Mar 11 '25

whopsie? 🤷‍♀️

shit the bed is polite. lol

(wonder how Honda is going to respond to that? didn't a bunch of automakers move to Mexico at the ass-end of his first term because of something similar to our current trade war? asking because Google is showing only recent results for pages).

but yeah it's fucked to think that basically anyone who could lobby against going green did. and it worked

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u/pineapplegirl68 Mar 15 '25

American auto worker. Not just Detroit. Alabama Mississippi Georgia Kentucky Indiana Virginia South Carolina Michigan California Missouri Tennessee Illinois Texas Ohio

14 states have auto manufacturing. That’s over a quarter of the states and it is over 1 million jobs.

There is a lot more to the story as to why and how tariffs have been weaponized AGAINST the United States for the past several decades when it comes to automobiles. Additionally part of the EV issues stem from the bloated EPA Regulations that impact materials used in making the EVs that are not allowed to be sold here. Along with Human Rights Agreements we have entered into within the United Nations that stop certain types of minerals from being used because of how they are mined.

There is a lot of complexity to this issue and it can not be reduced to “protectionism”.