John Kerry Blames EV Troubles on 'Disinformation'

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 19 January 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The departing climate envoy claims companies are pulling back from electric vehicles because of a scare campaign. But with Hertz downsizing its Tesla fleet and Ford cutting production of its F-150 Lightning, does this explanation fly? Plus, the Supreme Court agrees to decide whether the Eighth Amendment includes a right to homeless encampments, in a case called City of Grants Pass v. Johnson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.3	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:39.7	John Kerry says he will soon step down as President Biden's climate envoy with a
0:44.7	parting shot this week at disinformation on electric vehicles as the Supreme Court
0:50.0	takes a case on whether there's a constitutional right to be homeless.
0:54.0	Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.
0:57.8	We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Kim Strassle and Alicia Finley.
1:03.4	Let's start with a clip of John Carey, President Biden's
1:06.4	outgoing Special Climate Envoy at the World Economic Form in Davos,
1:11.8	asked to respond to some reports that companies are pulling back
1:15.6	from the electric vehicle market. It has been a very very clear policy which
1:19.8	regrettably has been attacked by people who are engaged in high levels of
1:23.9	disinformation. They've been trying to scare people about the range of vehicles
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