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."As far as I know, Granholm has no military experience. Apparently the current crop of military leaders doesn't have the testicular fortitude to explain things to her. A unit might need to change position at any time, without warning. Having all its vehicles charging will make that impossible. Also, I'm trying to imagine the size of the electric motor and battery pack combo required to move just an old-fashioned M114 APC, much less twenty seven and a half tons of Bradley IFV or fifty five tons of M1 tank.
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."
A fleet of electric vehicles for the military — which Ernst referred to as an "expensive, unreliable product" — will reportedly cost billions of dollars.
Granholm's comments come amid a push from those at the top to put forth green energy
... the attempt to produce energy without using fossil fuel. The preferred methods are solar, wind, geothermal, phlogiston, philosophers' stones, and rattling bears' teeth. The approach with the most promise involves attaching generators to perpetual motion machines, but using Words of Power to summon energy-rich demons may also work. The greenin the term refers to the vast number of dollars that have been thrown at the problem since 1973 with indifferent results...
solutions during a time of uncertainty and foreign conflict, such as Russia's war with Ukraine and the ongoing tension between China and Taiwan.
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."