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Jennifer Sensiba wrote this week about a proposal from U.S. Senator Marco Rubio to put big tariffs on Chinese electric vehicle imports (which are non-existent at the moment, but expected). He’s not shy about it — he’s concerned that cheap electric cars from China will come into the US and steal auto sales and jobs away from US automakers. There’s a bit of irony here, though. Republicans in Congress have supported the oil industry and fought electric cars for years, or actually for decades.
After supporting oil subsidies for years, after holding back any efforts to require that automakers try harder to clean up their fleets and electrify, after considering electric cars token green machines, after hating on and blocking a Green New Deal, now it’s time to be concerned about electric…
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