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Biden also put out a bunch of incentives in the IRA to encourage domestic solar panel production.

Dumb waste of money, paying an order of magnitude more.

Either you want to secure the full energy chain or you do not. There are many comments in this thread about how the solar panels come from China. If that bothers you, there needs to be some financial reason for a domestic factory to open.

> Either you want to secure the full energy chain or you do not.

Is every part of the fossil fuel production chain "secure"? All oil production and processing equipment, chemicals and so forth are produced domestically?

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