President Joe Biden is marking Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal grants to provide residential solar projects serving 900,000-plus households in low- and middle-income communities.
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Sounds like, wait for it, you need record breaking massive investments!!

    …

    No one is saying we don’t.

    But giving a foreign company billions to build an assembly plant here doesn’t help as much as making our own.

    We’re still dependent on parts shipped here, and it’s still a company from a foreign country.

    And no it doesn’t take 30 years to build up the industry lol.

    No one said it did.

    But there’s not enough time to wait for this to come online and billions of dollars. We could be importing Chinese solar and EVs today, right now.

    While we build up domestic production

    I legitimately don’t see how this is confusing. If it was republicans doing it, everyone would agree it’s not the best path.

    But since Biden is doing it, we have to pretend he’s FDR and this solves everything.

    • FiremanEdsRevenge@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      But giving a foreign company billions to build an assembly plant here doesn’t help as much as making our own.

      The production of the panels is in Georgia…