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Originally Posted by pylon
Being in the car business, I even understand that it's time to move on, and look forward. Yes, a bad oil market hurts my clients income and therefore their ability to buy cars which ultimately pays me. Yes, it means thousands of technicians will lose jobs and ultimately need to completely reboot their training or find a new career. Yes it means we will have to completely retool how we do business..... oh frikking well.
If someone thinks their immediate pay cheque, is more important than the future of this planet, then they are not a good person, and lack critical thinking skills. This is about doing something relatively small now, to fix a catastrophic problem that will unravel over a couple centuries.
Added bonus for me, there will be an absolute car boom in the next 5-10 years, when EV becomes mainstream, and not just for jet setting people living in their resource guzzling mansions to fake their way into being "environmentally conscious".
That being said, and back to the topic on hand, I look forward to Pardonapalooza today, it's going to be interesting to see how much farther Trump goes to tarnish his legacy, if that is even possible. Which he has proven time and time again he has an incredible ability to do.
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Probably not great to mention an added bonus and influx of business coming to you personally while proclaiming we need to do something without regard for personal well being.
Also, not in tune with the reality of human nature to conclude that anyone who thinks based on what feeds their families lacks critical thinking skills when that's how most human beings function. Especially when again, you mentioned an incoming bonus for yourself.
If you were out of work tomorrow and didn't know how to feed your family does your position remain consistent? Especially with a decision that has proven to be purely protectionist from a superpower and nothing to do with the environment. Do you speak for all of your friends and coworkers that would be out of work, or are their points of view different?
If you're altruistic and fully understanding of what's happening with the US Oil game, I guess I'll take you at face value, but I do question, for sure. Especially the overly harsh "lacking in critical thinking skills" part when there is a metric tonne of nuance to American Oil dominance in this world and how they succeed.