China is rapidly becoming the world's first hegemonic electro-state, while the USA, under Republican leadership, doubles down on its role as a petro-state. It's a bit like building a navy full of the best sailing ships one can build at the dawn of the age of steam. Might work for a bit, but it's tantamount to conceding the technologies and industries of the future—and much of our global influence along with them...
The Republicans' One Big Horrible Bill simultaneously manages to raise US energy bills, kill 100s of planned manufacturing plants, hundreds thousands of good manufacturing jobs & millions of construction jobs, give up on AI, EVs, solar, batteries and other industries of the future, take health insurance & food assistance from millions of Americans, and do it all WHILE ADDING FIVE TRILLION TO THE DEBT. A truly remarkable piece of domestic policy achievement.
@elonmusk
The United States is about to walk off the field, ceding a major economic lever for the 21st century to China. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
The energy provisions in the Republicans' One Big Horrible Bill are truly so bad! Who wants this? The country's automakers don't want it. Electric utilities don't want it. Data center developers don't want it. Manufacturers in energy intensive industries don't want it. It straight up murders the boom in battery, solar and wind manufacturing investment. It jacks up your utility bill & raises prices at the pump. It kills a half a trillion dollars of pending investment in US manufacturing and energy supply and 100s of thousands of associated jobs. It makes our air dirtier and our climate more dangerous.
Seriously: Who the fuck benefits from this, besides Joe Craft and his coal mining interests and a couple of big gas producers? Republicans are screwing over their constituents, American business interests, and our country's future in an epic way here.
Dear fellow Democrats:
The Iranian regime is responsible for 74% of recorded executions in the world, puts people to death for being gay, arrests people for failing to wear a hijab or walking their dog, and employs “Death to America” among its favored slogans.
To those claiming to oppose oppression, this would be a good time to show it.