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WanderingThoughts
They'll start calling to use prison labor soon enough. Prisons are commercial facilities anyway and could use some cash. And there are more African American in prison proportionally so that's a bonus for MAGA. Police will get their cut for putting more people in prison. That way the new racist slave labor gets established.
The VDA now wants to shift from a full ban to a 90 percent CO2 reduction target for new vehicles by 2035. That means 10 percent of vehicles sold could be powered by internal combustion engines.
Here they go again. First it's 90%. If that's approved, they move to lobbying for 80%, 70%, ... We've seen that move before.
Not that it matters, China can undercut them on price if they need to. German manufacturers have been cheapening their brand for increased profits, so that premium reputation matters less and less. Meanwhile cost of living isn't going down.
Meanwhile data centers running AI use a lot of fossil fuels. If their own data centers can't manage it with renewables, it's not sure they can manage it with a city.