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Tea Party Congress Biggest Obstacle to the Electric Car (Granholm)

Juan Cole 11/28/2012

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Jennifer Granholm’s War Room guests discuss the roadblocks in the way of a major new, job-creating industry in the US, the electric vehicle.

The Tea Party Congress almost closed down the government to block funding for retooling auto plants.

Granholm goes on to make a typically impassioned appeal for government support for EV manufacturing as an infant industry that is a large part of the future of employment in Michigan. She points to the success of funding for better batteries, and notes “George W. Bush passed a tax break for SUVs.”

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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