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

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.”