Biden’s Hypocrisy on Green Energy
How much is the planet, or human health worth?
Biden’s Hypocrisy on Green Energy
How much is the planet, or human health worth?
First let me start by saying I have always voted Democrat or Independent, basically whoever my stance on policy most aligned with at the time. I’m not a Trump supporter and have never voted Republican, I also believe humans are a large contributor to climate change. But as I get older I have seen so much hypocrisy from the claimed lesser of two evils.
Recently an article came up on my phone talking about how Biden is going to impose more tariffs on BYD electric cars, this is a brand from China that I see on the streets pretty often where I live now, which is not in the U.S. I had recently been looking at the starting prices and features on this brand of car and even their entry-level model is very impressive.
They include things like 360-degree cameras, sensors, wireless phone charging, and around 190-mile range on the entry model starting around 9k… you can’t find any of this at that price point in the U.S. After seeing all of these I began thinking, “wow this would cause a much quicker adoption of EVs in the U.S. if this was available there as well”…but they aren’t, and why is that?
Why the increased tariffs? Well it’s because the Biden administration claims it would hurt American jobs, meanwhile, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have outsourced just about every other industry already, why didn’t they stop those? Why impose these sorts of rules when it comes to EV adoption? Didn’t this same administration claim we were heading towards climate catastrophe? Don’t we need to do everything possible to stop that process? Is it possible that they’re in bed with fossil fuel, and that’s the true reason they don’t want quicker adoption of this tech? Are they just seeing how many more dollars can we wring out of fossil fuel before the inevitable switch?
So does his administration value people making the switch, or do they intend to just keep these items as a luxury for the more wealthy of the country to be able to adopt and enjoy a feeling of moral superiority?
Meanwhile, this administration has licensed more drilling on public lands than the Trump administration did.