Blumenauer also wants to close the loophole that allows for the import of cheap Chinese e-bikes with safety checks

Ah thats it. Gotta shield Americans from Chinas green tech boom.

I agree with some portions, but I think that the bike industry is going to need more than 10 years of help. We are basically starting from scratch here.

It’s a good goal though, we should have at least 40% capacity here for bike and ebike manufacturing. 86% from china is unhealthy.

Uh, who are these guys then?

https://www.seattlemade.org/manufacturers/re-cycles/

Oh boy, I recently made a joke, whether the US still needed to research how to build one of these “bicycles”. I didn’t know the situation was actually that dire…