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JD Vance on Energy & Oil
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Scrap federal tax credits for Electric Vehicles
Vance is a sceptic of renewable energy and climate change, and introduced a bill to scrap federal tax credits for
EVs that he said helped "offshore" American workers' jobs to China.
Source: South China Morning Post on 2024 Veepstakes
, Jul 16, 2024
Drive American: Chinese-made EVs don't solve climate crisis
The senator has been dismissive of concerns about climate change. "Even if there was a climate crisis, I don't know how the way to solve it is to buy more Chinese-manufactured electric vehicles," he said in 2022, saying the idea of an
environmental crisis was "created" to please Democratic donors.He has sought to put significant blame on China for greenhouse gas emissions. In a 2023 hearing, Vance dismissed carbon offsets in aviation as "climate
reparations": "Why are we effectively penalizing the American aviation while we don't require, or even attempt, to force the Chinese to do the same to their aviation industry?"
Vance last year introduced the "Drive American Act,"
S. 2962, which would repeal the federal tax credit for electric vehicles and instead offer tax credits for U.S.-made vehicles powered only by gasoline or diesel.
Source: Environment & Energy News on 2024 Veepstakes
, Jul 15, 2024
Europe has become weaker pursuing a green energy agenda
Biden's entire agenda, such that it exists, has been about protecting green energy jobs, at the expense of the industrial heartland. If you are in Wisconsin, Michigan, or Pennsylvania, you are not being empowered or enriched by
Biden's green energy agenda. So, applying tariffs on the green agenda stuff, does it help steelmakers? Does it help natural gas workers? Does it help the heart of the American economy? The answer is no.
The reason Europe has become weaker is because they've deindustrialized. And why have they deindustrialized? Because they've pursued a green energy agenda, following the lead of the Biden administration, and that necessarily empowers China and
Russia. We need to acknowledge that it's our decisions that are making these countries stronger. We need to fix that, not whine at countries that have 10 million people.
Source: CBS Face the Nation on 2024 Republican Veepstakes
, May 19, 2024
Subsidizing electric vehicle technology helps China, not US
Vance remarked, "What the Biden administration is doing on climate change will effectively force the transfer of manufacturing jobs and capacity to China, because when you subsidize, let's say, electric vehicle technology,
what you're really subsidizing is the country that manufactures all that technology, which is China, so you're subsidizing a country that hates us [and] that is building its middle class off the backs of ours."
Source: News AKMI on 2022 Ohio Senate race
, Jul 2, 2021
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