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submitted 11 months ago by deconstruct@lemm.ee to c/politics@lemmy.world

In a pair of Truth Social posts Monday evening, Trump took aim at the electric vehicle industry and President Biden’s push for more electric vehicles. With this opposition to electric vehicles, Trump is likely trying to persuade Michigan voters to support him over Biden, who carried the swing state in 2020.

The Biden administration has pushed to boost electric car sales, with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) predicting that two-thirds of new car sales could be electric by 2032 under a new proposal released by the administration earlier this year. Last week, the Energy Department announced plans to invest $12 billion into converting auto manufacturing facilities into plants for hybrid and electric vehicles.

Trump also took aim at Shawn Fain, the president of the United Auto Workers, for supporting the Biden administration’s latest investment into electric vehicles.

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[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 165 points 11 months ago
[-] deconstruct@lemm.ee 83 points 11 months ago

Old man urges investment in horses, buggys, and oats.

[-] theragu40@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

I don't know, all those liberal coffee shops are selling oat milk. Can't the horses eat something more Republican like corn?

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago

Literally. He really should be mad at climate change for fueling the need for EVs.

[-] Poggervania@kbin.social 14 points 11 months ago

But then that’s admitting that climate change exists, and then it’s a slippery slope to saying he was trying to start an insurrection and coup, and that’s a big no-no for Dolan Trumpet.

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

There’s a reason he wanted to buy Greenland, and it wasn’t for the ice.

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

He thought it was a land of golf greens. As far as the eye could see!

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago
[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

Erik the Red’s naming scheme finally almost paid off.

[-] hansl@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

Gas would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for that pesky pollution.

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