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Thursday, May 20, 2021
NAPPER JOE BIDEN TOUTS ELECTRIC VEHICLES - SAYS CHINA IS BACK AND THAT'S MORE MONEY INTO HUNTER'S BOTTOMELESS POCKETS
President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the Ford Rouge Electric Vehicle Center, in Dearborn, Michigan on May 18, 2021. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – President Joe Biden declared “America is back” after touring a Ford plant for electric vehicles in Dearborn, Mich., on Tuesday, using the opportunity to tout electric vehicle manufacturing and the batteries that power them.
“The future of the auto industry is electric. There's no turning back, and as Rory says, the American auto industry is at a crossroads. The real question is whether we’ll lead, or we’ll fall behind in the race for the future or whether we will build these vehicles and the batteries that go in them here in the United States or rely on other countries or whether the jobs to build these vehicles and batteries are good paying union jobs with benefits, jobs that will sustain and grow the middle class,” he said.
China is leading the race right now, the president said, pointing to the fact it was number nine in research and development compared to other countries while the U.S. was number one. Today, China is number one, and the United States is eight, Biden said.
“Can’t let that be sustained. The future is going to be determined by the best minds in the world, by those who break through new barriers. It has, China, the largest, fastest growing electrical vehicle market in the world. The key part of the electric vehicle is the battery. Right now, 80% of the manufacturing capacity of those batteries is done in China,” the president said.
“Though not the battery for the F-150. We went down to Georgia and took care of that. It allows them to corner the market on supplies for raw materials for those batteries. Important in almost all lithium, 90 percent, that comes from countries like Australia, which lead the world in mining these kinds of critical materials, and here’s the deal," he said.
“It's not that China’s battery technology is that much more innovative than anyone else’s. Remember our labs in the United States, our universities, our automakers, led in the development of this technology, but today, China has a bigger manufacturing scale than all other countries, and they’re using that scale to make these batteries not just in China, but they’re making them in Germany and in Mexico," Biden said.
"They’re now exporting those electric vehicles around the world with sights on the American market. They think they are going to win, but I've got news for them. They will not win this race. We can't let them. We have to move fast. That's what you are doing here," the president added.
Biden pointed to the work of the Obama administration in saving the auto industry, but he said the Trump administration rolled back standards that the Obama administration set in fuel efficiency.
“Through the Recovery Act, we made the largest investment in clean energy and battery technology ever. The big three have emerged from the crisis in a position to sell millions of vehicles made right here in the USA. Then, the previous administration came into office. They rolled back the standards we set, rollbacks that the Ford Motor Company opposed,” the president said.
“Despite bipartisan support for consumer incentives, they let the federal tax credit expire, penalizing autoworkers for selling the most electric vehicles at the time. They announced infrastructure week and they announced it and announced it and announced it and announced it every week for 4 years. They didn't do a damn thing, didn't get the job done,” Biden said.
“The rest of the world is moving ahead. They are not waiting for the United States of America. Government, labor, industry working together have to step up. We have a playbook that will work. We are going to set a new pace for electric vehicles. That means reversing the previous administration's short-sighted rollback of vehicle emissions and efficiency standards, setting strong, clear targets where we need to go,” he said.
To do that, Biden said Congress has to pass the American Jobs Plan to transform infrastructure and boost manufacturing capacity.
“Our infrastructure’s ranked 38th in the world. This is the United States of America, for God's sake! We are going to put Americans to work, modernizing our roads, highways, airports, rails and transit systems. That includes putting IBEW members and union workers to work installing 50,000 charging stations along our roads and highways, our homes and our apartments. The IBEW is ready to do it, and they can,” he said.
“We are going to boost our manufacturing capacity. That's why the American Jobs Plan invested in new and retooled union facilities, grants to kick-start new battery and parts production, loans and tax credits to boost manufacturing of these clean vehicles, but also makes the largest investment in research and development in generations,” Biden said.
“That's going to help innovate, manufacture and build supply chains for batteries and semiconductors and a small computer chips that make electric trucks and cars go, to be more reliable than they are now,” the president added.
The president said that there should never again be another worldwide semiconductor shortage.
“Never again should we be in a situation we face today with semiconductor shortages. The United States can't manufacture semiconductors,” he said.
Biden also said that companies will be required to hire Americans, use American-made parts, and employ a supply chain that is American. The only exception will be if a part is not available in the United States, companies would need to go through the White House to get permission to get the part from overseas.
“Guess what? I'm not letting a contract through a company that does not hire Americans, have all-American parts, and has a supply chain that is not an American product supply chain. By the way, that's not violating any trade agreement. It's been the law since the '30s, but no one’s had the courage and nerve to insist on it being applied. It's no violation of the World Trade Organization or anything else,” he said.
“If we are spending American tax dollars, we are able to say ‘Buy American,’ but there's a lot of exceptions in the law. If you don't have the parts available, you can go abroad and get it, and anyone can say, ‘I can't find it here. I'm going somewhere.’ Not anymore. They've got to go through the White House, not a joke,” Biden said.
“Nobody can get that exception now, because there's thousands of companies out there that are able to do, small companies, 3-15 people, who can supply those pieces if they know they can compete for them,” the president said.
Biden also said when he thinks about climate change, he thinks about “good-paying union jobs.”
“Last month, I kept my commitment to convene the leaders of the major economies around the world -- Russia, China, Japan, India, the European Union -- to convene them all. I think there were 48 or 50 heads of state, presidents, prime ministers, a meeting that I hosted by the White House on the most consequential issue facing the world: climate crisis. I made it clear at the outset as each of these folks came on what I've long believed,” he said.
“When I think of the climate crisis, beyond its devastation to lives and livelihoods and the health of our very planet, I think jobs. I think jobs when I think climate change, good-paying union jobs. I think about the UAW workers here today. I wanted to make sure that the world can see that there was a consensus, that we are in an inflection point in our history, and almost every major leader in the world spoke to it,” Biden said.
"If we act to save the planet, we can create millions of good paying jobs, generate significant economic growth and opportunity to raise the standards for people not only here, but around the world, but I also want to put the world on notice: America is back. America is back! In the competition for the 21st century, the future will be built right here in America,” the president said.
Biden in Michigan Ignores Record Allowing China to Buy Up American Electric Vehicle Industry
President Joe Biden, while touting his $174 billion electric vehicle (EV) plan, ignored his record of allowing Chinese investors with ties to the Chinese Communist Party to buy up key parts of the American EV industry.
During a speech at the Ford Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan, Biden touted his record as vice president to former President Barack Obama in relation to the nation’s battery-powered EVs.
“Our own Department of Energy pioneered and transformed the battery industry when Barack and I were in office. And through the Recovery Act’s grants and loans, battery prices dropped 80 percent because we were looking forward,” Biden said.
Biden also said he would not allow “a single contract go to a single company that does not hire Americans, have all American parts, and has an American supply chain that is an American product supply chain.”
Unmentioned in the speech, though, was Biden’s record of allowing Chinese investors with Chinese Communist Party ties to acquire American companies with EV technology capabilities.
Detailed analysis by Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Rebecca Mansour showed extensively how the Obama-Biden administration had let China buy up this critical industry in the United States market from 2009 to 2016:
The biggest winner in this push for an all-electric future is China, which is eager for the transition to EV because the communist regime does not have the same access to plentiful oil and gas as American consumers. In fact, the Chinese Communist Party has made dominance of the EV industry a key goal in its ambitious China 2025 initiative, hoping to overtake Detroit as the world’s automotive capital.
Indeed, China is positioning itself to do just that. Companies like Ford and General Motors have partnered with Chinese state-owned companies to develop and manufacture new electric vehicles in Asia. Ford has 16 new electric models coming out of China in the next few years, and GM intends to launch 20 electric models in China by 2023.
To be fair, the entire worldwide auto industry seems eager for an all-electric future. Nearly all of the world’s auto manufacturers are investing heavily in EV. There’s a reason for this, and it has less to do with the environment and more to do with the industry’s bottom line.
When you eliminate the internal combustion engine, you eliminate hundreds of components that comprise it. This will dramatically change the landscape of the automotive industry for millions of parts suppliers, engineers, mechanics, and countless blue-collar workers. That’s because the average electric vehicle deletes over 300 components. The fuel-powered vehicle’s engine, transmission, gas tank, radiator, hoses, pumps, starter motor, mounting brackets, etc. will all become obsolete.
This will dramatically reduce the amount of money it costs to produce a vehicle, but it will also reduce the number of blue-collar workers all along the supply chain needed to create those parts and assemble the finished product. However, the sticker price of the electric vehicle will not be reduced. These vehicles will be just as expensive for consumers as gas-powered vehicles even though they cost less to manufacture. In other words, EVs will be a cash cow for the big auto companies, but will not necessarily benefit American workers, American consumers (who are still skeptical of EVs), or even the American environment which relies on a fossil fuel-based power grid to charge EV batteries.
Most notably, the Obama-Biden administration approved the acquisition of the Michigan-based electric battery company A123 Systems in 2013 after previously being rewarded with American taxpayer dollars worth $12.5 million to develop lithium ion battery technology for plug-in hybrid EVs.
Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, had particular ties to such Chinese acquisitions of American EV companies, Mansour notes:
Consider, for example, China’s controversial acquisition of the Michigan-based electric battery company A123 Systems. In 2008, the company was awarded a $12.5 million grant sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy to develop lithium ion battery technology for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. But now this American taxpayer-funded research is owned by China, thanks to the Obama-Biden administration’s approval of the company’s sale in 2013.
In 2016, China purchased the electric vehicle company Fisker Automotive, after U.S. taxpayers had spent $193 million funding the company’s electric vehicle research. Fisker was based in Biden’s home state of Delaware, and it benefitted from a “fog of politically connected investors and lobbyists,” according to the Washington Post. The Obama-Biden administration approved China’s purchase of Fisker, again despite all the money American taxpayers spent funding the company’s research.
In 2015, the private equity firm of Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, partnered with a Chinese military contractor to acquire Henniges Automotive, another Michigan-based company. Henniges created dual-use military technology that China’s communist regime wanted. Despite all the red-flags that this sensitive technology would end up in the hands of China’s military, the Obama-Biden administration approved the company’s sale.
Specifically, in 2008, Biden’s Department of Energy Secretary, Jennifer Granholm — then, the Governor of Michigan — approved a $10 million taxpayer-funded grant to A123 Systems and praised the move. In 2013, the Obama-Biden administration approved the Wanxiang Group’s acquisition of A123 Systems.
A database compiled by Public Citizen reveals hundreds of cases where the Obama-Biden administration approved Chinese acquisitions of American companies — many in the auto and batteries industry.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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