Car Dependency Baked Into Joe Biden’s $2 Trillion Climate Plan
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden revealed details of a $2 trillion climate plan on July 14. Biden unveiled the aggressive plan—which is the second part of his “Build Back Better” proposal—during a speech at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware.
His plan majors on “clean” energy and jobs, and would be fast-tracked through Congress if Biden was elected U.S. president in November.
“When Donald Trump thinks about climate change, the only word he can muster is ‘hoax’,” said Biden.
“When I think about climate change, the word I think of is ‘jobs’.”
Biden said his proposal would create one million jobs in electric vehicle manufacturing. The plan would also create subsidized replacement schemes for electric cars to wean Americans away from gasoline.
The presidential hopeful is currently riding high in polls. It is likely that many of those who’ll be voting for him in November will be doing so to eject from the White House the distinctly ungreen President Donald Trump.
However, for all his talk about also investing in light rail networks, eco buses, e-scooters and “installing infrastructure for pedestrians and bicyclists”—initiatives which got passing mentions in today’s speech—it’s clear that a Biden presidency won’t tackle America’s chronic dependency on cars and will likely make it worse.
Source : forbes
