Manchin threatens to sue US Treasury over EV tax credit rules

[AZLD4Candidate]

Source: Reuters via AOL

Senate Energy Committee Chair Joe Manchin said on Wednesday he may go to court after the U.S. Treasury releases guidance later this week on battery sourcing guidance for electric vehicle tax credits.

"If it goes off the rails" and violates the intent of the climate legislation approved in August, "I will do whatever I can - if that means going to court and I can do it, I'd do it," said Manchin, a Democrat.

Manchin said he is most concerned about how Treasury will classify processing and manufacturing in determining eligibility for $7,500 EV tax credits. Manchin, who has often pushed fossil fuel industry interests in Congress, says he is trying to move the EV battery supply chain from China. His political opponents say he doesn't like the EV industry.

"Manufacturing is meant to bring manufacturing back to the United States. It's not basically allowing everyone to put all the parts and build everything you can for that battery somewhere else and then send it here for assembly," Manchin told reporters.

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How do I criticize this wastrel without violating the rules and getting juried?

[ColinC]

1. Does this guy even have a life?

[edhopper]

2. The guy is literaly

a Fossil.

[Walleye]

3. I actually think the senator would have better luck getting reelected in West Virginia

If he became an actual Democrat, instead of trying to be a lightweight Republican. He’s not gonna beat Justice this way.

[Quanto Magnus]

21. The problem is

he's not an actual Democrat.... Maybe he's not a Republican either....

More like the Self-Interest/Self-Serving party

[truthisfreedom]

4. He's misguided in this case anyway.

He can’t change the rules for this industry without changing them for all industries, including the conventional gas auto industry. Everyone who builds in America buys subassemblies from overseas. Reversing that on a dime is absolutely impossible.

[Orrex]

5. If he were a Democrat, I wouldn't be able to post what I think of him

Oh, wait.

[lonely bird]

6. Imo, the Republikkkans will run someone similar to Manchin

But with more MAGAt bonafides. Manchin will lose.

[getagrip_already]

7. Odd position...

Doesn't make sense unless he is being paid in some way by the fossils fuel industry to stall the growth of ev tech; but that can't be the case here.

It might also make sense if he was somehow suffering from mental irregularities affecting cognitive recognition of tech growth and climate change; but again, that can't be the case here.

So I'm out of ideas.

[modrepub]

17. Manchin Owns The Mineral Rights

to piles of waste coal near the Grant Town power plant. That's the side that his bread is buttered.

[C_U_L8R]

8. What? He wants ANOTHER yacht?

[HuskyOffset]

9. You're late for your oil bath and petroleum rubdown, sir (NT)

[Traildogbob]

11. 😆😆

His exterior would match his black lungs. Maybe we will get lucky, and science win take action on him.

[2naSalit]

10. &%#*ing &%$head.

Useless waste of good air.

[kysrsoze]

12. Why aren't we giving tax credits for coal-powered cars?

[Irish_Dem]

13. A sitting US Senator can sue the US Treasury?

[mopinko]

14. um. isnt that how we build cars now?

and dont we count those cars as american made when it suits our purposes?

[Freethinker65]

15. Rescind all of this fu$Ker's fossil fuel taxpayer paid for subsidies.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

16. Standing

What standing does Manchin think he has? What personal damages can he claim? Will it harm him because it will reduce the bribes he gets from the extraction conglomerates? Will it hurt his coal profits?

Americans should sue him for theft of services (taking a Senate salary and not doing his job).

[AZLD4Candidate]

18. Go Bills. DIE HARD here.

[BlueTsunami2018]

19. I agree with him on the face of this.

We should be producing and assembling these things here, I’m all for that.

The problem is, when Manchin is involved, I have a difficult time believing he’s being honest with his motives.

[mountain grammy]

20. So will he be using his own money and resources?

[Warpy]

22. Manchin has lost the plot

and we've got to put up with his antics for another 5 years.

[Emile]

23. 4 billion dollars per year every year go to the coal industry.

The Environmental and Energy Study Institute found that the US government alone spends $20 billion every year on direct fossil fuel subsidies. Of that figure, around $16 billion goes towards oil and gas, while the remaining $4 billion benefits the coal industry.

[LudwigPastorius]

24. Old King Coal's gotta roll with the bituminous that paid for his toy boat.