If I were in Congress, strictly from a technical standpoint, I'd be ambivalent before knowing more about cost.
Your "If the Left" analogy is silly. The "Left" isn't pushing to eliminate AM radio. It was deemed incompatible with EVs and the market was making a decision.
I didn't say they were. You're making a straw man argument. I literally said the opposite, that they agreed with Republicans in protecting the safety of Americans.
> I question your claim that presecing AM radio in EVs costs only $5
I'll double down on that point. The radio retails, shipped, for $9. [1] Those are consumer prices on individual, discrete units, with additional plastics, documentation, packaging, separate warehousing costs, freight, etc.
It's obviously much cheaper than $5. I've grossly overestimated the cost of an AM radio.
[1]. https://www.amazon.com/Portable-Pocket-Compact-Transistor-Ra...
If the Left pushed to rearrange the band and won, then there would be something to criticize. Now we have to redo signage? Or we're all less safe? For what? To silence a handful of people? To give the automaker lobby a win by saving $5 per a car? I doubt they care so much.
The Left has no reason to do anything other than what they did. Approve it.