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President Biden burned some rubber in Detroit on Wednesday-driving an all-electric Hummer while visiting General Motors' new factory.
"Does anyone want to jump behind or on the roof?" Biden asked reporters after stepping on the accelerator.
"These fools are something else!" Biden said before driving.
Although the traditional Hummer is one of the most serious greenhouse gas emissions-14 miles per gallon city-but the modified vehicle is a plug-in.
According to a joint report, Biden said that if he "sleeps for 50 years" and wakes up in the car, he will exchange "title for title" with his favorite Corvette.
Biden visited the factory to promote the infrastructure agreement he signed on Monday and advocated for investment in electric vehicles as part of the $1.75 trillion "Rebuild Better" spending bill that his own party shelved in Congress.
Biden had previously tested an electric Ford F-150 in Dearborn, Michigan in May, and drove an electric Jeep Wrangler from Chrysler cruising the White House lane in August.
Biden has just signed a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package including $7.5 billion for electric vehicle charging stations and $5 billion for the purchase of electric and low-emission buses. His proposed social spending plan includes US$555.0 billion for environmental protection initiatives, including a US$12,500 rebate for the purchase of electric vehicles.
But Republicans, and even some who voted for the infrastructure plan, criticized Biden for focusing on electric vehicle technology at a time when Americans are struggling with soaring gasoline and natural gas prices.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Tuesday that “the Biden administration has no strategic plan to turn our huge country into a green utopia overnight.”
McConnell, one of the 19 Republican senators who voted for the infrastructure bill, said: "They just want to invest a lot of government money in solar panels and electric cars, and hope everything goes well." "American families are staring at the skyrocketing. Heating bills, and the Democratic Party’s response is to go to war with affordable American energy."
At the same time, according to publicly disclosed information, the brother of White House adviser Steve Riketty received $160,000 this year to lobby General Motors.
Biden snubbed Tesla, the largest electric car manufacturer in the United States, because it has no union employees-including not inviting Elon Musk to participate in the White House Expo this summer.
According to government data, U.S. companies sold nearly 327,000 electric vehicles in 2019, of which nearly two-thirds were Tesla.
Electric vehicles tend to cost more, but Biden believes that the United States can use the power of federal tax credits and purchasing power to make environmental choices more competitive.