Biden’s EV Tariffs Will Delay an Essential Transition
The policy blocks access to low-cost clean technology and undermines efforts to curb greenhouse-gas emissions.
The more, the better.
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Flaws in President Joe Biden’s clean-energy strategy were apparent before his latest initiative underlined the contradictions. The administration has committed hundreds of billions of dollars toward accelerating the transition to electric vehicles. Yet in order to head off a surge of imports, it recently announced 100% tariffs on EVs made in China — thereby delaying the transition it rightly insists is essential.
Biden and his officials appear to be confused. They can make fighting climate change their top priority, or let their overriding goal be protecting US producers from foreign competition. They can’t do both.