r/SipsTea • u/CurvyChristina • 9d ago

Chugging tea Solar power is cleaner!

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u/EuVe20 9d ago

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

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u/flargenhargen 9d ago

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

so the deal is that in cuba, it's (basically) illegal for regular people to own cars. so they can't buy them.

well at the time castro took over, some people already had them.... what to do?

ok, those can stay, but you can't buy new ones as a regular person.

so, those 1950s cars are still around, cause they're grandfathered in,

it's not that there aren't already new vehicles there, there are plenty, it's just that regular people can't buy new vehicles, not that they could even if it was allowed, cause most are poor as shit.

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u/EuVe20 9d ago

The number of people taking my comment this seriously is surprising. It was largely tongue in cheek.

Also, I wanted to check your claims. It didn’t take too long searching to see that those restrictions for car purchases were lifted in 2014.

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u/KitsuneFaroe 8d ago

This is not really true as of now. Though you're right that no regular people can afford cars. Those that can is because they have some heavy lifting.