Senator Ted Cruz mocked Biden’s Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm after she voiced support for the military to convert to an all-electric vehicle fleet.
Cruz’s comments came after Granholm told lawmakers during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing of the administration’s push for the EV military force.
Senator Joni Ernst inquired as to whether the administration supports the military’s adoption of an “EV fleet by 2030.”
“I do, and I think we can get there, as well,” Granholm replied.
“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,” she added.President Biden signed an executive order “further embedding environmental justice” into the mission of federal agencies.
The EO “makes clear that the pursuit of environmental justice is a duty of all executive branch agencies and should be incorporated into their missions.”
All well and good for some government departments. The five branches of the military, however?
There once was a time when it was the military’s job to win wars, not worry about the carbon emissions from their M1 Abrams tank.Cruz fired off a snarky tweet as he shared the clip of Granholm saying she supports an all-electric vehicle fleet for our fighting men and women.
“It would be really convenient if the Russians and the Chinese communists would erect charging stations every 100 miles for the Biden EV tank,” he quipped.
I’m thinking army jeeps and the aforementioned M1 Abrams tanks rolling across suspect terrain in foreign lands aren’t going to come anywhere near 100 miles on a full charge.
