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[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 months ago

Mr. Podesta has sharply criticized China for having “distorted the global market for clean energy products like solar, batteries and critical minerals.” Not only that, he has set up a task force to explore how to limit imports from countries that have high carbon footprints, a practice that he called “carbon dumping.” That was considered a veiled reference to China. It remains unclear whether the Biden administration would impose a fee on products imported from high-emissions countries.

There is already a 25% special tariff on all Chinese goods >$800.

I have zero expectation we're gonna get cheap solar, batteries, or EVs from China. We wouldn't be here in the first place if the politicians didn't prioritize profit for their benefactors over a habitable planet.

Accusing China of "overproduction" is just calling for production to decrease so price goes up, at the expense of you know, actually decreasing CO2 emissions.

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I always suspected that China's early investment (and guaranteed dominance) of renewables would result in the western "free worlds" ruling corporatocracy artificially inflating energy prices to continue their fossil fuelled death cult.

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