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Biden-Harris Administration Announces $15.5 Billion to Support a Strong and Just Transition to Electric Vehicles, Retooling Existing Plants, and Rehiring Existing Workers

www.energy.gov Biden-Harris Administration Announces $15.5 Billion to Support a Strong and Just Transition to Electric Vehicles, Retooling Existing Plants, and Rehiring Existing Workers

Funding Will Retrofit America's Existing Automotive Manufacturing Facilities, Expand & Retain High-Paying Auto Manufacturing Jobs, & Bolster Domestic Supply Chains, Part of the Investing in America Agenda to Create Not Just More Jobs But Good Jobs

Biden-Harris Administration Announces $15.5 Billion to Support a Strong and Just Transition to Electric Vehicles, Retooling Existing Plants, and Rehiring Existing Workers

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15B is a drop in the bucket. Throwing money at things doesn’t solve problems. Especially that small an amount. Only better policy decisions solve problems.
- While Congress is perpetually locked down by Republicans from doing any real legitimate progressive legislation, this seems like the most Biden can do. And I think it could be argued it's not terrible considering how absolutely fucking immovable our entire political system is for the past 3 decades.
- Isn't support for EV transition a policy decision..?
  
  A policy decision would be to mandate that no new cars use combustion by the end of the decade and for the government to use its regulatory powers to approve electrical grid infrastructure project, approve new nuclear plants asap, and incentivize the creation of battery recycling businesses, such as through making alternative energy companies tax free entities instead of mega churches.
  
  I'm sorry, English isn't my first language but what does policy decision actually mean? From what I understand it both are policy decisions, but I might not understand the proper meaning of the term.
  
  Policies typically are ongoing. A one-time distribution is an action. It could be a policy to provide distributions of money on a cadence, however I don’t feel that would be as good of a policy as one that doesn’t cost anything directly and enables companies to proceed at something good for society expediently.
  
  I was thinking of "support EV transition" as a big scale policy that this is a part of. But I see what you mean

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