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| ‘Electric Cars Are Losing Us Money': UAW Member Slams Biden's Push For EVs |
| 2023-09-17 |
| [Daily Caller] A striking member of the United Auto Workers union (UAW) told a reporter on Friday that President Joe Biden’s pursuit of an all- electric vehicle (EV) economy would be a detriment to autoworkers. The UAW walked off the job at three auto manufacturing plants in Ohio, Michigan and Missouri at midnight Friday, after failing to reach an agreement with Ford, General Motors(GM) and Stellantis (formerly Chrysler). The UAW has criticized President Joe Biden’s efforts to promote EVs, prompting autoworker Travis Hanson to tell Fox News that "right now, electric cars are losing us money." "Right now, with inflation and the price of vehicles so high, we’re looking for fair for the future, not just for now," Harrison said on the picket line outside of a Ford plant in Wayne, Michigan. "So, for four years[referring to the contract length]it could be fair, but we are looking for more than four. I have more than four years to go before I retire, so I’m looking for future security." Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, which will provide $370 billion to combat so-called climate change, into law in August 2022. The legislation is loaded with green energy provisions, including a $7,500 tax credit for EVs. Despite Biden’s push for EVs, the Biden administration blocked efforts to start mining for copper and nickel near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in January, The Wall Street Journal reported. In addition, the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) made a determination on Jan. 31 that would block the mining of 1.4 billion tons of copper, gold, molybdenum, silver and rhenium in Alaska in order to protect salmon. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 "Are you really that stupid?" Is the crumbling industrial wreckage of the Rust Belt Cities not enough to open your eyes? The Democratic Party cabal of academic elitists, SEIU service unionists and the the New Rich Elite stabbed you in the back a generation ago ... you are unneeded because the think they have enough welfare recipients to win. |
| Posted by: magpie 2023-09-17 22:51 |
| #4 let's look at the logic here. Mandate electric vehicles and yet restrict mining the raw materials needed for electric cars all in the name of saving the planet. It's pretty clear that saving the planet is a pretty weak cover. It's actually about population control via restricting mobility. Cortez had nothing on these clowns. |
| Posted by: Warthog 2023-09-17 10:39 |
| #3 Well, yeah. But when you're a bureaucrat in an office, the job is to produce regulations, not cars. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2023-09-17 09:17 |
| #2 "Despite Biden’s push for EVs, the Biden administration blocked efforts to start mining for copper and nickel..." Yet another example of how ill thought out political agendas get in the way of actual real life. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2023-09-17 08:19 |
| #1 EVs lose money with each sale, but they help DEI scores. Perhaps there is another DEI strategy that can be selected that doesn’t drive a company into extinction. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-09-17 07:36 |