Biden’s Tariff War on Clean Energy
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode Walter Smolarek and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss the lies both parties are telling about the effects on climate and jobs of tariffs slapped on electric vehicles from China.
Professor Richard Wolff is an author & co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work. You can find his work at rdwolff.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Biden administration is imposing a barrage of new tariffs targeting Chinese goods with huge taxes |
| 0:07.0 | on electric vehicles, solar cells, and other high-tech products associated with the transition to |
| 0:12.0 | clean energy. With U.S. corporations vying for market share, will the competition of the capitalist |
| 0:17.8 | market prevent the cooperation needed to save the planet. |
| 0:22.2 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded |
| 0:28.3 | impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. We are very excited to have Professor Richard Wolfe join us for a regular weekly segment where we discuss the biggest stories relating to the economy, the state of the working class, and the crimes of big business. |
| 1:07.7 | I'm Walter Smol-Erick, filling in for Brian Becker. |
| 1:10.0 | The Socialist program brings new content several days a week thanks to the support of our patrons |
| 1:13.8 | at patreon.com slash the Socialist Program. We appreciate all of your support and encourage you |
| 1:19.2 | to become a patron today if you enjoy listening to the show. Richard Wolfe is the co-founder |
| 1:24.1 | of the organization Democracy at Work and the author of many books, |
| 1:33.2 | the latest being The Sickness is the System. When Capitalism fails to save us from pandemics or itself, |
| 1:38.1 | you can check out all of his work at r.d.wulf.com. |
| 1:43.8 | Well, Professor Wolfe, we've talked about tariffs quite extensively on this program before. |
| 1:45.3 | We've talked about Biden's trade policy towards China. This is a major development on that front. There are tariffs being |
| 1:51.6 | imposed on Chinese-made electric vehicle, tariffs being imposed on solar cells, other materials, |
| 1:58.3 | semiconductorships for computers, materials that all essentially |
| 2:01.4 | revolve around the production of new technologies to create energy in an environmentally sustainable |
| 2:07.3 | way to move away from fossil fuels and towards renewables. |
| 2:12.4 | So just give us the big picture of what's going on here. |
| 2:15.4 | I mean, are we seeing the world market, as it were, |
| 2:18.0 | increasingly fragmented, especially when it comes to these most crucial goods when it comes |
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