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Ron Johnson: “We don't have the rare earth minerals, we don't have the…”

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Ron Johnson: Joe Biden's policies are a good way to 'destroy the country'

Published | Video Starts at 02:16

That his green New Deal energy boondoggles are literally going to put a lot of them out of work. That these electric vehicles, first of all, it's impossible to produce as many as they're laying out. We don't have the rare earth minerals, we don't have the batteries, we don't have the charging stations to force every American to buy an electric vehicle. They want to outlaw the internal combustion engine. This would be disastrous for our economy. American consumers wouldn't particularly like it either. (02:16–02:25)

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Asserts that the U.S. lacks resources and infrastructure for widespread electric vehicle adoption.

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