if you were to buy that car before the year 2027, you would get an extra $3,500 on top of that. if it was an electric car made in the united ates by a union auto shop, well then your rebate would go up another $4,500 on top of what you re already getting. and it keeps going like tha until the tax credits on this bill reach a grand total of 12,500 back. you could get $12,500 back if you chose an electric car rather than a tradition gas engine vehicle. i mean that sounds less like a piece of legislation and more like a car ad, right? who doesn t want to save $12,500? and help the environment doing it. it s very easy to get swept up in the will they/won t they
would be really the first piece of serious legislation that the u.s. congress has ever passed on climate change. and once you flip through it with great detail, and they re very good at this, have said that the provisions in there about the pricing plan, the price credits, the home electrification things there are enough things to get us to reduction in 2030, that joe biden has promised. that the scientists have told us is the absolute minimum we could possibly hope for and that we give john kerry, importantly, something to negotiate were he goes off to this intertional climate conference in a month in glasgow. i know, bill, that in addition to being an expert on climate substantively, you re also a pretty distinguished pert in terms of knowing how things get done on this and how thpolitics and how power works
conservatives in west virginia, how many self-identified conservatives support it. that number is 77%. i don t know if senator joe manchin wants to be known as the democratic senator that s holding the bill up for his voters back home might not be happy about that. it s not just joe manchin, of course and it s not just west virginia where the home state rumblings might be disconcerting to democratic conservatives who are holding this thing up. the state s democratic party in arizona is so fed up with her not being on the bill that they passed a resolution this weekend which says if she votes against the senate reconciliation budget bill, then they will give senator
narrative wit what they re talking about what sn the bill not just because it s popular and should and will affect whether it gets passed. but also because if this thing gets passed, it s important that it be right that, it be the next big bang for the buck we cou get. this could be the biggest piece of climate legislation we pass for the country ever. as such, is it a collection of right ideas? would it make a de? joining us now is bill mckibben. he s a climate expert, he s one of the founders of the grassroots effort 350.org. mr. mckibben, thanks for being here. what a pleasure, rachel. i imagine you are rooting for the reconciliation bill, the build back better bill, to pass because it seems like america s biggest stab yet in doing something climate. but what do you actually think substantively about the climate stuff that s in it? does it appeal to you? yes, absolutely. not only is it our best stab, it
kyrsten sinema are holding the whole thing up. but they have a problem. when you look at the package, it s very popular stuff, including in their home states. take a for instance on what the bill would do for electric vehicles. in the newsletter volts this week, he talked about if the bill gets passed, here s what you get in terms of buying an electric vehicle. if you buy an electric vehicle, you get a tax credit, a rebate, essentially, of $4,000. but it goes up from there. if you were to buy that car before the year 2027, you would get an extra $3,500 on top of that. it keeps going like that until this bill reaches a grand total