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If the U.S. is the first to “show leadership” in this area … what could possibly go wrong?
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is so committed to ending the use of fossil fuel by the government that she’s backing a hair-brained scheme to shift the entire military to a fully-electric fleet in just seven years.
She says that moving away from fossil fuels is important to achieve “energy security” and this move for the military to electric vehicles is one way to achieve “energy independence”.
No, really. She actually said that.
Biden Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says she supports requiring the U.S. military to adopt an ALL-electric vehicle fleet by 2030 pic.twitter.com/pw4F3jmrpo
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 26, 2023
What does she mean by an “EV fleet”? Are we talking a fleet of HumVees and personnel carriers or more than that? She can’t possibly mean the heavy vehicles, can she? That would be insane … and it’s probably not even possible yet since those batteries would need to be absolutely massive.
Let’s not forget that the batteries don’t make themselves, either.
Doesn’t China control the raw material components that are needed to make batteries — and won’t that mean the U.S. military would be (in a sense) dependent on China? Pish-posh! That’s not relevant, is it?
Maybe Secretary Granholm and/or the rest of the Biden administration don’t care if China surpasses the U.S. on the world stage.
Perhaps to them, it’s all about appeasing the Climate gods.
But if that’s the case, then this move doesn’t make much sense, either.
Where and how are all those vehicles going to be charged? She doesn’t say.
What will be used to produce the energy needed to charge those batteries? Not a word on that, either.
There are so many unanswered questions, but the Biden admin is so certain that the answer is to kneecap our military by chaining them to a ridiculous “Green” agenda.
Twitter users dragged Secretary Granholm for the absurd suggestion by pointing out that it (a) isn’t feasible; (b) it would do the opposite of securing energy independence by ensuring dependence on China; and (c) that it’s just a really, really stupid idea that will hurt our military and cost lives.
I build machinery to fuel natural gas powered vehicles such as garbage truck, busses, and semi’s. Talking to EV manufacturers at trade shows (it’s been about 5 years), the technology for vehicles of this size is expected to be viable in about 15 years. That’s just the vehicles…
— MojoRyzin1 (@MRyzin) April 26, 2023
How’s that gonna work when we put boots on the ground in third world countries…or isolated areas?? pic.twitter.com/ERgQkd0uEb
— Sandi Titus (@SandiTitus1) April 26, 2023
Too bad that Peter Pan here @SecGranholm (D-MI) doesn’t understand that our brave armed forces actually have MISSIONS, and might be in a WAR and under fire if their Crackpot-mandated electric tanks’ batteries die with no charging station nearby.
— James Higgins (@JamesEHiggins) April 26, 2023
.@SecGranholm knows zero about battlefield realities. There’s zero chance of our military forces being able to field an all EV fleet in a mere 7 years. More importantly such an effort would make the military almost completely dependent on China for its source of fuel.
— James Hutton (@JEHutton) April 26, 2023
Here’s an interesting point…
Wouldn’t an all electric fleet be EMP vulnerable?
— Thomas Underdahl (@tcunderdahl) April 26, 2023
Why, yes. It would be quite susceptible to EMP attacks.
That is incredible short sighted and not militarily strategic. One EMP and our entire military is just dead in the water.
— Thomas (@WayBack69420) April 26, 2023
Having the U.S. military as sitting ducks in the middle of a conflict seems a bit counterproductive.
But hey, that’s just the cost of “Going Green.”
Then again, this is the Biden administration we’re talking about, so they probably have a different view of things.
After all, a lot of the people that enlist are hardly the woke ideologues — they’re more MAGA than CRT.
Maybe that’s the point.
Are EV amphibious military vehicles even a thing though? After the rains in Florida the past couple of weeks and the disabled EV’s on every corner in downtown Ft. Lauderdale, this is a clusterf*ck of our own making. How is this fleet going to be ready for an immediate response?
— Milenka~ (@MilenaAmit) April 26, 2023
Others were just mocking it outright.
Tanks with batteries bigger than tanks. Genius
— The Dank Knight 🦇 (@capeandcowell) April 26, 2023
Next, Charging Brigades… follow the troops with diesel generators and fuel for the generators. Oh yes, lots of extension cords as well.
— MillerTime (@ItsMillerC) April 26, 2023
That’s not outside the realm of possibility as another Twitter user pointed out…
— Joel Fischer 🇺🇸 (@realJoelFischer) April 26, 2023
Some others posted mocking meme reactions.
I wonder where she thinks electricity comes from… pic.twitter.com/WPCxkvT9vq
— The Failing NY Times (@FormerNewspaper) April 26, 2023
Prototype! pic.twitter.com/w2rcrLR6vU
— Ole (@RogueOle) April 26, 2023
US Army introduces latest armored fighting vehicle based on Biden EV fleet requirement. pic.twitter.com/aQOHSC5G60
— Charles R. Smith🔹 (@softwarnet) April 26, 2023
Well, that’s a Democrat innovation if ever there was one!
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