This story might be the best example of the crossroads between ideological insanity and making America less ready on the battlefield.
As part of President Biden’s climate agenda, his administration has been proposing and suggesting for years now that the United States military needs to be part of the solution when it comes to embracing electric vehicles.
The notion dates back to 2021 when Kathleen Hicks, Biden’s Deputy Defense Secretary, mentioned that switching the military from gas-powered to electric would help fight climate change.
Hicks, at the time, was mostly referring to vehicles used on base that weren’t necessarily for combat. Still, the obvious pitfalls are everywhere since electric vehicle charging stations are sparse in many parts of the country and take hours of time to ready a vehicle. Not to mention the billions of dollars to invest in the technology and the ongoing cost to maintain such a fleet.
Fast-forward to this week and remarks offered by Biden’s Secretary of Energy, Jennifer Granholm.
Granholm went well beyond Hicks’ goal of non-combat vehicles switching to electric and is now talking about the entire military fleet becoming all-electric by the year 2030:
Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Wednesday that she supports efforts from the Biden administration to require the U.S. military to implement an all-electric vehicle fleet by 2030, telling lawmakers that she believes “we can get there.”
Granholm’s remarks came during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing following questions from Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, who asked the Biden administration official whether she supports the military’s adoption of an “EV fleet by 2030.”
“I do, and I think we can get there, as well,” Granholm said. “I do think that reducing our reliance on the volatility of globally traded fossil fuels where we know that global events like the war in Ukraine can jack up prices for people back home… does not contribute to energy security.”
“I think energy security is achieved when we have homegrown, clean energy that is abundant like you see in Iowa,” Granholm added. “We think we can be a leader globally in how we have become energy independent.”
Where does this “homegrown, clean energy” come from to power military vehicles half a world away? Furthermore, if the goal is energy independence, as Granholm mentions, then why is her boss doing everything he can to make America more dependent on foreign sources of oil?
Of course, Granholm is referring to energy independence that is solely based on the dream of green energy sources. Enough windmills and solar farms, in her mind, and we can power the U.S. military wherever it ends up on the planet. It’s unclear how that works exactly.
This is not a passing thought with the Biden presidency. The idea of “environmental justice,” as insane and comical as that sounds, is intrinsic in this administration from the top on down:
Earlier this month, President Biden signed an executive order “further embedding environmental justice into the work of federal agencies to achieve real, measurable progress that communities can count on.”
Titled “Revitalizing Our Nation’s Commitment to Environmental Justice for All,” Biden’s order, according to the White House, makes it “clear that the pursuit of environmental justice is a duty of all executive branch agencies and should be incorporated into their missions.”
The Biden administration also announced the same day the order was signed that it had published the first-ever “Environmental Justice Scorecard,” which was described by the White House as “the first government-wide assessment of federal agencies’ efforts to advance environmental justice.”
How many hours are being wasted to produce reports on “environmental justice” that the taxpayers get to pay for? How much time and energy within the Pentagon is being devoted to climate change rather than the actual defense of the nation? The answer is probably mind-boggling.
In the middle of a recruiting crisis, top Defense Department brass are concerned more with the carbon footprint of the military than actual military readiness.
At the hands of a left-wing environmental agenda, driven by ideologies within the Biden administration, America becomes less safe by the day even as the President wanders us into one conflict after another.
It can be assured neither Russia nor China care about their carbon footprint or spend a dime on figuring out how to forcibly switch military vehicles from gas to electric.
Not America, though! The climate agenda is the top issue of the day here thanks to the insane green new deal ideology that now infects every level of government.
