Way Too Little, Way Too Late

The #Biden Adminstration puts #tariffs on Chinese imports:

The #US rolled out steep tariffs on Chinese products on Tuesday, quadrupling duties on #electric-vehicles (EVs) to over 100% and imposing new levies on #computer #chips, #solar-cells and #lithium-ion-batteries. The #WhiteHouse says the new measures are intended to “protect American workers and businesses.”

The tariffs will affect $18 billion of Chinese imported goods, including #steel and #aluminum, #semiconductors, #batteries, critical #minerals, #solar cells and #cranes.

Biden administration officials claim the measures have come in response to years of “unfair trade practices” by #China, including forced technology transfers, intellectual property violations, and cyberhacking of American businesses.

The time for tariffs is when a country still has #industrial #capacity, not after it has #transitioned to a so-called “service economy”. Service economies don’t win wars, they #service the #soldiers of the #victors.

And it’s not like this is going to help US electric vehicle #manufacturers. No one wants to buy their products whether a Chinese alternative is available or not.

245 #ClimatePolitics #GreenWashing #USsenate

Senator #Whitehouse and #Raskin on the purposely misleading of politics and the public.
After a hearing in the Senate they released this video.
[It could be 'a little much', if so use the transcript included]

Q: How to spot "GreenWashing"?
A: When the advertisement on the topic
approximates the spending
on the research of that topic.

"Senator Whitehouse's Budget Committee Drops Video Exposing Big Oil’s Decades-Long Deception Campaign" [7:56 min]
by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilcweCaNQKg

Quote by SSW:
"6 mei 2024
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, releases a video with Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee, entitled, “Denial, Disinformation, and Doublespeak: Big Oil’s Evolving Efforts to Avoid Accountability for Climate Change.”
The video follows the release of a joint staff report produced by the Budget Committee and House Committee on Oversight and Accountability as part of a multi-year investigation and the unveiling of new documents that expose the fossil fuel industry’s role in spreading climate disinformation and preventing action on climate change."