Infrastructure Issue
"The car manufacturers were pushed to making electric vehicles. They were not planning to produce electric vehicles. They were trying to meet the corporate average fuel economy," Fix pointed out. "Then this administration came in and said, 'listen, we're going all EV so they need great cars.' Problem is there's only a certain range, which means you need charging available. So now we have a charging infrastructure issue."
Neoliberal Strategy
"At some point, when wages continue to drop and other benefits continue to drop, either the working class have no money to buy anything or they perish because of starvation and other problems," Tauheed said.
"The neoliberals, not just in the US but in the EU, have wanted this opportunity to depress the working class. And so we have real wages falling with higher energy prices and other types of inflation, and the working class in the EU is becoming poor," Tauheed said. "EU countries had an industrial policy which included re-education for workers in declining industry and universal health care and pensions and unions. Those are things that are being destroyed in Europe."