Joe Manchin Tinkers with Tariffs for “Carbon-Intensive” Imports

Sometimes U.S. Joe Manchin from West Virginia makes us nervous. He's done great work in blocking Joe Biden's radicalized agenda to destroy fossil energy by blocking the Build Back Worse program Biden and the Dems desperately wanted (saving the country from complete ruin with runaway hyperinflation). But then we read about Manchin tinkering with the idea to assess a tariff on foreign imported goods, like steel and cement, that are made in countries (like China) that don't give a flip about environmental controls. Supposedly such a tariff would encourage those countries to use more natural gas, or encourage more American manufacturing of those goods (because our plants use clean natgas). We're not sure what to make of Manchin's efforts.

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