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2024-02-20 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

America's EV boom goes bust! Lithium and nickel producers begin mass layoffs and pause multi-billion-dollar projects as US says no to electric car push

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-20 05:12|| || Front Page|| [26 views ] Top

#1 Biden caves on another big initiative. He'll do anything to win in 2024

Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-20 08:57|| 2024-02-20 08:57|| Front Page Top

#2 The US as a whole is not a cluster of quaint hamlets 20km apart.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2024-02-20 09:31|| 2024-02-20 09:31|| Front Page Top

#3 EVs were always a niche product. Their market is rich greenies in warm climates who want to feel good about themselves. No one beyond that, and that niche is beginning to appear saturated.

Posted by Tom 2024-02-20 11:01|| 2024-02-20 11:01|| Front Page Top

#4 If you accept (I know many don't) that gerbil worming is not the apocalyptic crisis it's being sold as, electric cars are a solution to a problem that does not exist.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-02-20 11:08|| 2024-02-20 11:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Americans were sold the promise that electric vehicles would bring production companies and an influx of jobs to small towns nationwide as part of a modern day goldrush.

No we weren't.

If we were, there wouldn't be such mass disinterest and rejection.

What that was, was government justification for its actions. You know, DM, like Covid response.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-02-20 13:10|| 2024-02-20 13:10|| Front Page Top

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