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Wind, Solar Credits Face Shorter Phase-Out in GOP’s New Tax Bill | The legislation also adds a new tax on wind & solar projects that don’t meet strict restriction against the use of Chinese materials (www.bloomberg.com)
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I'll note that key components, notably magnets for wind turbines, and cells for solar panels, are almost entirely made in China, and the GOP has also ended support for making them in the US. So this is effectively a total prohibition on new wind and solar after 2027.

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[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's things like this that make me suspect that the Republicans are actively trying to destroy the US.

If the goal is to benefit the US broadly, and into the future, there's no possible way that discouraging alternatve energy (or EVs) is a sound strategy. It's basically just handing China hegemony in the coming world order.

So it's pretty much either the case that Republican politicians are impossibly stupid, or that their actual goal is to guarantee Chinese hegemony and reduce the US to a bankrupt has-been.