Trump has a major strategic opportunity to win Michigan with Hamiltonian class warfare by splitting the Democrat’s wealthy, quasi-government worker, upper class that profits nationwide from government subsidized green energy scams from the state-level working class in Michigan (and potentially the middle and higher classes in Michigan who remember the false promises of free trade with China) over the issue of electric vehicles.
Trump can use this wedge issue to win Michigan by promising to end all of the tax breaks and subsidies for electric vehicles, and by significantly raising tariffs on electric vehicle batteries and other EV parts from China, in order to prevent China from wiping out US auto industry jobs because of illegal domestic Chinese subsidies to their own electric vehicle industry and because electric vehicles require fewer workers to make than hydrocarbon powered cars.
The Progressive’s green energy corporate welfare “upper class” would object that green energy will not benefit China, which will in turn simply work to Trump’s advantage by reminding Michigan autoworkers of previous promises in the 1990s that trade with China’s highly distorted manufacturing sector would not lead to manufacturing job losses.
Removal of the tax breaks and subsidies and increasing tariffs on Chinese EV batteries and parts would cause the electric vehicle industry in the US to shrink back to a smaller market share that reflects the fact electric cars cannot survive on their own without Progressive market distortions due the fact the technology is still immature with major performance flaws, their used batteries are a significant environmental pollutant, produce more carbon in their manufacture than they save over the normal life of the battery, and that electric vehicles are poor financial investments for consumers due the fact they have weak trade in value because the cost of replacing a used EV’s battery would be close to the cost of purchasing an entirely new car.
This is unlike a traditional IC car which can usually cut at least a third of the cost of a newer model during trade ins.
In fact, the position of the entire Republican Party should be to financially destroy the entire green energy sector and guarantee global fossil fuel industry world domination by ending all government subsidies for wind and solar power projects and ending, via tariffs, all green energy trade with China because government green energy market distortions are just a way to give trillions of dollars of the fossil fuel energy sector over to line the pockets and, of course, enhance the political power of Progressive corporate welfare “green” billionaires and Progressive green corporations.
Given the fact that the Progressives are gaining trillions of dollars for what is a de facto government run energy sector, the GOP should do everything in its power to crush green energy even if its technology works (which it doesn’t).
In particular the Republicans should destroy the wind and solar energy industries by significantly raising the engineering performance standards on wind and solar plants to a point they cannot meet with current technology, by cutting off their government subsidies, and finally ending their access to Chinese parts with greatly increased tariffs.
The only zero carbon energy source that is proven to work is nuclear which is also, of course, the only zero carbon energy source that Progressives don’t support funding.
Everything about the green energy market (aside from nuclear) is junk science and junk economics.
In the first place, the green industry is probably falsifying how much human greenhouse emissions affect the environment because 94% of all atmospheric carbon is naturally produced from the earth; because the projected increase in global temperatures a few degrees Celsius (if actually caused by the 6% of global emissions generated by man) is too small to significantly affect life on earth; and because the technology is simply not workable given technology constraints and the fact emission decreases in the West are being more than wiped out by increases in China and India.
Technology that is “not ready yet” is a concept that Progressives do not understand at all, but which plagues other scientific fields.
For example, paleontologists would like a time machine so they could study living dinosaurs. The problem with their wish is that the technology for time travel doesn’t exist yet.
Likewise, the technology to make green energy work reliably doesn’t exist yet.
Wind is too unpredictable and erratic to add without destabilizing electric grids, unless fossil fuels and nuclear still provide the bulk of energy.
Solar energy doesn’t work during the day in colder parts of the country and even in warmer parts of the country it is useless when the sun sets and energy demand starts to peak in the evening.
Neither wind or solar have the gigantic battery farms that would be needed to store electricity to increase their availability, and the lithium soil pollution from mining that much lithium for batteries would be enormous and probably be more carbon producing than simply producing more low-carbon natural gas.
And both solar and wind have other negative effects on the environment.
Wind mills are killing endangered species of birds in North America and Europe.
Meanwhile, solar panels produce significant toxic waste when the panels eventually stop working and need to be disposed of.
The GOP could destroy the wind and solar industries by raising environmental and engineering performance standards that neither industry could meet, such as by requiring any new solar and wind projects to produce 100% available energy to electric grids all the time, require battery storage to not use lithium, and requiring wind to not kill any birds and solar panels to not include any toxic materials so they are safer to dispose of.
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