How many campaign contributors are reaping the rewards for this? How many who work for federal agencies? How many Senators and Representatives?
Biden awards $1.7 billion to boost electric vehicle manufacturing and assembly in 8 states
The Biden administration is awarding nearly $2 billion in grants to General Motors, Stellantis and other carmakers to help restart or expand electric vehicle manufacturing and assembly sites in eight states, including the presidential battlegrounds of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia.
The Energy Department will issue grants totaling $1.7 billion to create or retain thousands of union jobs and support auto-based communities that have long driven the U.S. economy, the White House said Thursday. Besides the three battleground states, grants also will go to EV facilities in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland and Virginia.
The grants cover a broad range of the automotive supply chain, including parts for electric motorcycles and school buses, hybrid powertrains, heavy-duty commercial truck batteries and electric SUVs, the White House said.
“Building a clean energy economy can and should be a win-win for union autoworkers and automakers,’’ President Joe Biden said in a statement. “This investment will create thousands of good-paying, union manufacturing jobs and retain even more — from Lansing, Michigan to Fort Valley, Georgia — by helping auto companies retool, reboot and rehire in the same factories and communities.’’
Oh, I see, it’s about rewarding union labor, who’ll build vehicles most do not want. Sales are continuing to stagnate. Those who wanted them got them. Now sales are lackluster.
The grants, paid for by the landmark 2022 climate law, will help deliver on his commitment to ensure the future of the auto industry is made in America by American union workers, Biden said.
Wait, I thought it was an inflation reduction law?
Meanwhile in the People’s Republik Of California
To charge or not to charge: California drivers express concern with lack of EV charging stations
During the thick of road trip season, people are driving their electric cars, but many say finding reliable chargers is not easy.
This as California is poised to stop selling new gas-powered vehicles by 2035.
Drivers across Southern California tell the NBC4 I-Team they are constantly negotiating for a place in line or attempting to charge their vehicles away from home and coming across non-working chargers.
“Hey, we’re going to force you into expensive cars with high insurance costs which need their tires replaced more often but you won’t be able to charge them as much, because we want you to stay home or take public transit.”
San Francisco neighbors hot over EV cooling fans causing noise nuisance
Electric vehicle charging stations are everywhere in the Bay Area, and with them come huge fans used to help cool the equipment. But one neighborhood station is already pushing long-time residents out of the city.
Imagine waking up, going to sleep, or working from home to a constant, incessant buzzing noise. That’s the reality for people living on Clara Street in the city’s SoMa district after an electric vehicle cooling fan was installed across the street.
I have zero sympathy. They voted for this.
Tucker Carlson – Catherine Herridge interview – Fired from CBS & Biden’s Dreadful Debate – Full Video
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2024/07/tucker-carlson-catherine-herridge.html
I have said many times before that I am brand loyal to Ford, because they were the only one of the American manufacturers which did not take the 2008 bailout. And yes, that bailout occurred in part under the younger President Bush; it wasn’t an entirely Democratic deal. So, no, it’s no surprise to me that another President is giving grants to automakers to build the President’s favorite kind of cars.
If the public really wanted the silly things, the automakers wouldn’t need subsidies to build them, and the customers wouldn’t need tax breaks to buy them.
Even as investors are fleeing companies which build commercial charging stations, seeing little potential profit there, the government is giving out $7.5 billion in grants to have private companies build commercial charging stations. I have one real hope here: that Donald Trump is elected this November, and stops all of this insanity.
If people choose to buy plug-in electrics, fine, let them, but our tax dollars should not go to subsidizing it. If investors want to build commercial charging stations, hey, it’s their money, go for it! It’s none of my business, unless the government makes it my business by spending my tax dollars on it.
I grew up in a Ford family! I even had a 1978 Ford Fairmont wagon for kid hauling. Great 6-banger car. Lots of hunting and fishing trips.
Our government subsidizes rich people all the time! This is America.
My first car was a 1962 Ford Fairlane, straight six, three-on-the-tree. His name was Trusty Dusty, named by my then girlfriend.
Maybe Brandon should concentrate on providing adequate, reliable sparktricity before pushing EV’s. Where I’m sitting, we still have significant numbers of folks without any juice due to a Cat 1 hurricane that blew through Monday a.m.. Those of us using petrol powered vehicles and generators got through with only moderate inconvenience. You aren’t going to charge your EV on a 5 or 10 KW portable generator to any significant charge and you can’t store a 5 gallon can of sparktricity in your shed.
Subsidies are usually a conduit for passing the public’s money to favored associates or industries. On occasion, subsidies are warranted, but such occasions are few. Let EV’s sink or swim on their own merits.
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Mt work here is done.