President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to the General Motors Factory ZERO electric vehicle assembly plant in Detroit. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)Over the last few months, the Starting Line team has noticed an interesting trend in Iowa social media: Stories about electric vehicles drive huge engagement and draw intense debate among supporters and detractors, mostly on Facebook. The uptick in animosity toward electric vehicles also seems to coincide with the Biden Administration’s push toward them, Iowa’s Republican leaders’ resistance toward embracing EVs, and Fox News coverage that paints the vehicles in a negative light. Grassley is also one of the biggest advocates for ethanol and has noted the threat EVs present to the biofuel sector on more than one occasion. “The economy and the nature of cars is shifting towards electric vehicles and some gets tied into this threat to sort of the agricultural economy of the state.

Source: Fox News October 05, 2022 22:35 UTC