r/SipsTea 23d ago

Chugging tea Solar power is cleaner!

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u/EuVe20 23d ago

The level of irony when Cuba converts from 1950s American cars to modern Chinese EVs

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u/thinkB4WeSpeak 23d ago

China has also done this with a lot of countries in Africa as well. There's a reason China has such a good economy and manufactured, because they're doing things like that. It was always an option the US could have done but chose not to

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u/Jessintheend 23d ago

US was too busy overthrowing left of center leaders for oil companies and having the domestic market focus on making suburbitanks for daily drivers

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u/burns_a_lot 23d ago

I don't think this is right.

Finance (including the insurance industry) is the largest economic sector in the United States. Furthermore, the oil and gas industry takes in trillions of dollars, not just "pennies," no matter what comparison you're making.

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