Approximate location, price and date?

Edit: report back in a week any change if you remember.

E2: went up 9¢ since I posted this morning. $3.19 now.

E3: $3.30 now. ~20¢ in a day, 50¢ in 4 days.

  • Hazy@aussie.zone
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    1 day ago

    It doesn’t. If it was really a concern it’d be better to beat them to the technology

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      24 hours ago

      yes, it would be better, but we didn’t because we lack the industrial capacity to provide both at scale and affordably so. so instead we just doubled down on fossil fuels and carved out legal corporate & governmental protections for harming people that we predict will get fucked over by climate change.

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          21 hours ago

          we slowed them down by using super high tariffs on electric vehicles and solar panels and it makes sense from a geopolitical perspective. the united states & europe uses its economic leverage to control the world and letting people buy chinese electric vehicles, solar panels, etc. would give the chinese this same type of leverage.

          trump, biden, obama, both bushes, etc. consider china to be the enemy, so forcing people to stay dependent on fossil fuels instead of green energy is a way of making sure that the united states stays in control; the same is true for europe.

          that’s also why we regime changed venezuela, libya, iran, etc. because they started selling oil using other currencies besides the american dollar and that would make the united states lose some of this leverage too.

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            16 hours ago

            But that’s what im saying – high tarrifs doesn’t skow down technological innovation in China, of course they’re way ahead of us now on EV technology. Yes, they did it to keep power over their United Statesian subjects, by keeping us in the dark they have more control over us. China didn’t slow down at all because of that.

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              14 hours ago

              Exactly. So it wasn’t that they ignored navigating, it was that their hegemony took priority.

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                14 hours ago

                I guess my point is they used to have a lot more power in China than they do now. It didn’t have to be this way, the oil billionaires and automobile CEO could have found a way to monopolize renewables and EV technology at home too. They just operated off of fear and laziness instead of bravery and industriousness.

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                  11 hours ago

                  I’m glad they didn’t; the morally bankrupt and depraved lengths to which American capitalists will go to for profit is slowly killing this world and they’re in full knowledge of that fact.

                  They can afford the finest talent money can buy and I bet that China’s primacy had little impact on their plans. I also bet that’s why they opted to delay instead of deny China; it doesn’t matter anymore.