Energy Chief Insists All Military Vehicles To Be All-Electric By 2030

ANALYSIS – Is she nuts? Team Biden's dangerous obsession with the radical ‘environmental justice' agenda just keeps getting worse. According to the energy secretary, now they want all military vehicles to be electric by 2030.

It is bad enough that the administration's efforts are already being imposed on the Department of Defense.

Its new online scorecard required by Joe Biden says that the Pentagon has “at least 640 staff that work on environmental justice, either in a full- or part-time capacity.”

But that may not be nearly enough people working to establish team Biden's environmental justice agenda in our military.

Last April, Biden said his administration is working to make ‘every vehicle' in the U.S. military ‘climate friendly.' He also arrogantly said at the time:

One of the things I found out as President of the United States, I get to spend a lot of that money. We're going to start the process where every vehicle in the United States military, every vehicle, is going to be climate-friendly — every vehicle — I mean it.

He added: “We're spending billions of dollars to do it.”

But now Biden Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is taking this insanity even further and says she supports requiring the U.S. military to adopt an all-electric vehicle fleet by 2030. 

That is most likely a lithium battery charged fleet.

And she insists to lawmakers that she believes “we can get there.”

This is simply insane, and absolutely physically impossible to do in six and a half years, even if it was a good idea.

And it is not.

As Tyler Durden notes in ZeroHedge:

First, Granholm does not address where the energy would come from to power the lithium based batteries that an EV fleet would rely on. Generally, green energy options are highly inefficient and carbon based fuels are the primary source of electricity for much of the nation. They seem to think electricity is magic, but every time a climate activist charges up their EV they are most likely using “fossil fuels” to do it.

Durden adds, not unreasonably:

The advantage of gas based vehicles over EVs is obvious – There is no long wait time for recharging, refueling is instant and access to a large energy producing source is not required. In a war zone, there are few places to plug in your Tesla Humvee. Shifting to EVs would essentially bottleneck operations, making vehicles less independent with less range and easier to disrupt.

This electric vehicle obsession also makes the U.S. military dependent on China. In December Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, noted: “It's an expensive investment for an unreliable product constrained by a [Chinese Communist Party-controlled], child and slave labor-powered supply chain.”

“What confounds me – I don't get this at all – is all of this push behind electric vehicles, not drilling, not refining here in the United States, which means that we're relying on China,” she added.

Ernst is a retired Army reserve Lt. Colonel and an Iraq war veteran.

In contrast, Granholm, a Canadian-born lawyer, is a notoriously tone-deaf climate ideologue, but she is simply following Joe Biden's radical and accelerating ‘environmental justice agenda.

Earlier this month, Biden signed an executive order titled “Revitalizing Our Nation's Commitment to Environmental Justice for All.”

According to the order, the plan is “further embedding environmental justice into the work of federal agencies to achieve real, measurable progress that communities can count on.”

The White House notes that Biden's order makes it “clear that the pursuit of environmental justice is a duty of all executive branch agencies and should be incorporated into their missions.”

As part of the Biden climate lunacy last February, the Army unveiled a plan to tackle issues surrounding climate change, including the creation of an electric vehicle fleet and the reduction of the department's greenhouse gas emissions.

The plan, titled “Climate Strategy,” calls for the service to cut its emissions by 50% by 2030 from 2005 levels and reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

The Army strategy also aims to create an “all-electric light-duty non-tactical vehicle fleet by 2027” and an “all-electric non-tactical vehicle fleet by 2035.”

One of the plans at the Pentagon is to add hybrid fuel vehicles that use gasoline or diesel AND electricity.

The Pentagon is asking for $30 million to work on hybrid electric power systems for military vehicles such as the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles and the Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement. 

That is reasonable.

And whether you agree with the goal or the agenda, at least the Army is putting forth a relatively reasonable and achievable plan to get there.

But that's just one service, and it is only focusing on having a “non-tactical vehicle fleet” by 2035. Not on ALL vehicles being ALL-electric by 2030.

So now, the U.S. military is not just being undermined by leftist woke activism at the highest levels at the Pentagon, but if Biden and Granholm have their way, the nation's military vehicle fleet will be crippled as well.

And dependent on China.

The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.

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