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President Biden announces a series of tariffs on green energy products from China. (lemmy.ml)

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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 32 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Steel I get. That's an environmental issue since US creation is way more carbon friendly. However the rest makes no sense without an announcement in domestic investment that is pulled from currently used non-environmental budgets.

[–] You999@sh.itjust.works 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

They already put 6.1 billion into domestic silicon fabs this year and gave out a $362 million dollars loan to bolster domestic EV production while giving the solar industry 7 billion in grants.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Wait we gave the Auto industry money for EVs and 50k SUVs were the result? Holy shit, that's right up there with giving 4 billion to the telecoms for no actual network expansion.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 6 months ago

This is helpful, thank you.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

No nearly enough to fight the petroleum machine.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Pretty sure the steel tariff is a bad thing too. There are certain grades of steel that just aren't produced in the US. People threw a fit over it when trump did the same thing.