These are deep red areas, they were told that COVID was bullsijt and then some people died but not them. They’re told that solar and wind power and electric cars are a scam, They were told that global warming is a scam. So after all this why believe that anything is going to have an effect on you.
The loss of life is horrible. This is maybe, If we’re lucky, The turning point where people actually start to believe warnings again. Of course for the most part was only the people no lying areas that died. This means there is a equal chance that they’ll just claim it’s another case of them versus us and it was their fault for buying or building that close to water.
Putting a tariff on Chinese electric car inports is fine, but the governments need to get off their collective asses and pump the digital accelerator on native companies expanding their electric lines. Let’s take the income from those tariffs and apply it directly to rebates on locally manufactured ev.