silence7

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silence7,

There are a lot of other things China does, including:

  • Free/cheap land for factories
  • Assurances that a market will be available for the resulting product
  • Low-interest loans to businesses in favored industries
  • Grants to businesses in favored industries
  • Assurances that a market for the product will exist
  • Barriers to purchasing from abroad

Some of these can be replicated in the west without impinging on freedom in any kind of meaningful way

silence7,

For 50 Republicans and about three Democrats in the Senate.

The Republicans are the big problem here.

silence7,

I’d expect them to go along with not filibustering it because people will know that they blocked it, and vote for Democrats instead.

Research puts dollar figure on climate savings from electric school buses | A substantial portion of the half-million school buses in the United States are “highly polluting old diesel vehicles” (wapo.st)

Replacing the average diesel bus would generate a benefit of $84,200 per bus, split nearly evenly between health and climate effects. Such a replacement would cut 181 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions per bus and reduce childhood deaths and asthma cases from diesel emissions, the researchers conclude....

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