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> for reasons that escape me

The reasons are simple: liberals want renewable energy, therefore renewable energy is bad and must be destroyed.

It's oppositional defiant disorder on a cultural scale.



No- it’s just that people want choice, and not have to pay for tax credits (via lost government tax revenue)


There's a huge difference between getting rid of tax credits, and doing things like forcing unprofitable and obsolete coal plants to say open (https://stateline.org/2026/03/19/trump-is-forcing-coal-plant...) and attempting to arbitrarily ban free market renewable energy projects under no valid legal basis (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn7k6p6k5x5o).


Seems current admin wants less choice. No imports of EVs from countries that do it better and no support for local EV makers.

As for tax credits, sure, push policy requires spending. But then this admin has spent approximately 100B trying to reduce spending and instead increased spending, so this seems like penny-wise pound foolish


Citation needed that "the people" wanted to end tax credits on EVs. EVs were steadily increasing in popularity and capturing a growing market. In a very real sense consumers had "choice" before, in that the market supports made EVs accessible.


America has their own Cultural Revolution!




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