Oil, Corn Lobbies United Against Biden’s EV Plan
The White House’s push to electrify America’s transport system has united two rivals for the favors of Congress: the oil lobby and the corn lobby. Bloomberg reports that lawmakers supporting the oil and the bioethanol industries had joined forces in opposing the Biden administration’s EV plan, focusing on the plan to electrify the federal fleet. According to the lawmakers—50 of them, all Republicans—the plan will make the United States dangerously dependent on China and also jeopardize its climate change goals, they…