• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Sounds like, wait for it, you need record breaking massive investments!!

    No one is saying we don’t.

    But giving a foreign company billions to build an assembly plant here doesn’t help as much as making our own.

    We’re still dependent on parts shipped here, and it’s still a company from a foreign country.

    And no it doesn’t take 30 years to build up the industry lol.

    No one said it did.

    But there’s not enough time to wait for this to come online and billions of dollars. We could be importing Chinese solar and EVs today, right now.

    While we build up domestic production

    I legitimately don’t see how this is confusing. If it was republicans doing it, everyone would agree it’s not the best path.

    Like, imagine your starving and a guy has a ham sandwich. But he says he grills a very nice steak, so you agree to the steak and the sandwich is thrown away. Then you find there’s all these delays on the steak, like the cow is even still alive and just munching on grass.

    Why wouldn’t you eat the ham sandwich while the steak gets ready if you’re in danger of starving? You can still have the steak later.

    Isn’t that supposed to be the moderate’s whole thing anyways?

    But since Biden is doing it, we have to pretend he’s FDR and this solves everything.

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      6 months ago

      But giving a foreign company billions to build an assembly plant here doesn’t help as much as making our own.

      The production of the panels is in Georgia…