Amoxtli@thelemmy.club to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 months agoBiden's EV tariffs may not be enough to stave off the threat of Chinese vehicles in the U.S.www.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up190arrow-down10
arrow-up190arrow-down1external-linkBiden's EV tariffs may not be enough to stave off the threat of Chinese vehicles in the U.S.www.cnbc.comAmoxtli@thelemmy.club to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square33fedilink
minus-squaresave_vs_death [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up62·6 months agoreminder that in 2012 obama set a 250% tariff on solar panels and china responded by conter-tariffing american polysilicon, resulting in it cratering from 50% global production to under 5% global production, meanwhile chinese solar industry went exponential
minus-squareSacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·edit-26 months agoBiden like “I vaguely remember Obama doing something like this right before he won re-election, maybe it’ll work for me” Who am I kidding, he doesn’t remember what month it is without an aide
reminder that in 2012 obama set a 250% tariff on solar panels and china responded by conter-tariffing american polysilicon, resulting in it cratering from 50% global production to under 5% global production, meanwhile chinese solar industry went exponential
Biden like “I vaguely remember Obama doing something like this right before he won re-election, maybe it’ll work for me”
Who am I kidding, he doesn’t remember what month it is without an aide