Are Electric Cars About “Saving the Planet” or Making Money?
This one move shows it’s about the money, not about the planet.
By Daniel Greenfield
Biden and his party are pushing for a ban on real cars in favor of electric cars in order to save the planet.
Unless we switch to electric cars, we’re told, the oceans will rise, the seas will boil, cats will start living with dogs and the planet will burn.
And then then sacrifices that will ban 53% of Americans and the majority of black people from owning cars will be worth it because keeping most Americans from car ownership will at least save the human race.
Right? But wait a minute.
The Biden administration is preparing to raise tariffs on clean-energy goods from China in the coming days, with the levy on Chinese electric vehicles set to roughly quadruple, according to people familiar with the matter.
I’m all for raising tariffs on Chinese plug-in toy cars or Chinese anything, but if the Biden administration really and sincerely believes that the planet is on the verge of destruction because we drive filthy polluting cars (instead of nice, clean EVs which require strip mining and poisoning entire villages so that they can be shipped here and then powered by electricity derived from coal), then why quibble about EVs coming from China?
As an American nationalist who doesn’t believe in global warming, I’m fine with it, but the Biden crew aren’t nationalists and they claim to think the planet is on the verge of destruction?
So let’s use Chinese EVs to save the planet. (If the planet is really in danger.)
Biden and the EU have been threatening China about “dumping” cheap solar panels and other “green” tech in Europe and America.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Monday said she would not rule out any measures, including potential tariffs, on China’s green energy exports.
The U.S. has been increasingly voicing concerns about an oversupply of subsidized Chinese clean energy products — such as solar power, electric vehicles and lithium-ion batteries — that it can export to international markets at discounted prices, which the White House says harms the competitiveness of domestic firms. Washington’s anxiety is shared by U.S. allies including Japan and Europe, as a glut of cheap Chinese products, such as solar panels, has flooded their markets.
“We just want to make sure that we’re not driven out of business, and that our firms and workers have opportunities in these industries which will be important ones in our future,” she added.
Again, if these people really believed the green garbage will save the planet, they would be cheering China for cheaply producing it.
They don’t believe it.
They’re not nationalists and they’re happy to have China dump lots of products on our markets. Why are they pushing back against green energy products? Same reason they’re pushing it on us in the first place.
Wealthy donors linked to the party invested big money in the so-called “clean energy transition”.
Biden and the gang aren’t trying to save the planet, they’re making sure those donors get rich and write them more checks. They’re not trying to save the planet by destroying our lives, they’re out to enrich the elites.