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President Biden announces a series of tariffs on green energy products from China. (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The US Government doesn't want US automakers to lose market share so that they have plenty of manufacturing capacity that could be retooled to make weapons in case of war.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Makes sense. Also petro-profits.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

When a trillion dollars a year doesn't commit enough warcrimes :(