Conservative politicians across the US are sharpening their attacks on electric vehicles as well as making anti-clean energy a carrion call for philosophic unity.
It has become derigueur these days for conservative politicians to boast of anti-clean energy stances and to promote supporting anti-clean energy legislation. “I never thought I would see the day when our products were so heavily politicized,” Bill Ford, executive chair of Ford Motor, told thetied to fossil fuel companies
It captures and foments a perspective in which “woke” people are trying to tear away familiar and comfortable lifestyles and belief systems. Indeed, such messaging is the antithesis of the Franklin D. Roosevelt leadership approach. In his last speech to the American people, FDR, “Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships—the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together and work together, in the same world, at peace.