Joe Biden has one thing right about climate change — that any meaningful evolution of U.S. policy can come only from a “unified national response.” There isn’t one of those in the making, and Biden shows no inclination or aptitude for forging a new climate consensus.
Instead, he is leaning into his favorite mode of politics, corporate welfare, by promising to have the federal government purchase a large new fleet of zero-emissions vehicles, which, he says — based on almost nothing — will create 1 million new jobs. He is issuing executive orders to this effect, which are practically meaningless — the president has no money to spend other than what Congress appropriates, and Congress has not appropriated funding for a happy-hour shopping spree at Tesla or General Motors, that quondam ward of the federal government.
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