Jennifer Granholm Wants All US Military Vehicles To Be Electric By 2030
As if the US military was not already crippled by woke activism at the highest levels of the Department of Defense, the latest news suggests that the nation’s military vehicle fleet will be hobbled as well
Biden Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, a Canadian born lawyer with no military background, testified Wednesday to the Senate Armed Services Committee that she supported requiring the United States military to move to an all-electric vehicle fleet by 2030.
That’s less than seven years.
She added:
“And I do think that reducing our reliance on the volatility of globally-traded fossil fuels where we know that global events, such as the war in Ukraine, can jack up prices for people back home – it 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. We think we can be a leader globally in how we have become energy-independent…”
Her assertions rest on a number of fallacies.
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.
Iowa is held up as a golden idol among climate activists for its large windmill farms that produce up to 40 percent of the state’s power, but such systems tend to fail under harsh conditions and are in no way portable, which makes one wonder why Granholm cited Iowa as a reference for justifying military EVs?
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.
Second, as a side note, gas prices were rising well before the war in Ukraine due to inflation caused by government mismanagement and central bank fiat money creation. Let’s stop trying to perpetuate the lie that Russia is somehow responsible for our economic troubles.
Third, a few years ago the US was a net exporter of crude oil, and after Biden’s entry into the White House this advantage suddenly disappeared. This increased production along with the completion of the Keystone XL pipeline would have ensured US energy security for many years to come.
That was until the government interfered with oil output and Biden blocked Keystone. He then began selling off US strategic oil reserves in order to artificially manipulate market prices down while depleting military resources.
It’s also important to realize that the lithium needed to create the batteries for EVs is primarily mined overseas in countries like China (often with child slave labor). How does switching to EVs reliant on lithium make US energy secure, let alone the military more capable?
Fourth, there is no evidence of a “climate crisis.” It doesn’t exist. So why are we talking about this at all?
There is no telling how much damage the climate agenda will ultimately do to US defensive capabilities, but the overall trend in energy is more and more centralization. Centralization, as opposed to redundancy, leads to weakness.
The reduction of US carbon based energy and the over-reliance on a green electrical grid is expected to trigger skyrocketing consumer prices over the next several years.
Transfer this dynamic of high cost and logistical uncertainty over to the military and you have a recipe for disaster.
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VOWG
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Granholm is an idiot.
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Dale Horst
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Yeah, she’s an idiot, but there may be new technologies coming that she was briefed on that will make fools of her critics. The party of flimflams might have the upper hand.
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Squidly
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Hahaha, that’s a good one .. oh, you’re serious .. yikes. I guess I don’t know how to respond to that.
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D. Boss
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C’mon people, do the numbers. I am including folks who write articles like this in my derision. (it’s conclusions are correct but does not address the elephant in the room of energy density in a fashion which the technically illiterate masses can understand)
Let’s take the M1 Abrams tank:
It uses a 1,500 shaft horsepower gas turbine (1,120 kW)
It holds 500 gallons of fuel. Which weighs 1,540 kg.
The fuel has 4.2 kW-hr of energy per kg net shaft output energy, so the fuel has 6,468 kW-hr of energy when the tank is full.
It has a range of 124 miles over land.
Now a Tesla battery has 85 kW-hr of energy stored. This weighs 540 kg. So if you used 3 Tesla batteries in the M1, to equal the normal fuel weight, you would have 255 kW-hr of energy.
6,468 / 255 = 25.4. So the tank now has 25.4 times less energy and range with batteries. So it can go 4.9 miles on a charge!
It is absolutely non feasible to electrify military vehicles. Worse for attack helicopters which have similar sized engines to the tank (but two engines instead of one) and ludicrous for fighter jets which have 20,000-40,000 horsepower engines….
Again do the numbers, they are easy to look up and it’s only simple arithmetic…
(both jet fuel and diesel have roughly 38,000,000 Joules/kg; 3,600 Joules is a watt-hour. These engines are roughly 40% efficient as to shaft output vs fuel energy content. So 38,000,000/3600*0.4= 4,222 watt-hours per kg) (the Tesla battery has 85,000 W-hr / 540 kg = 157 watt-hours per kg)
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Squidly
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Precisely why I am laughing my butt off at Dale Horst’s ridiculous comment above. Just shaking my damn head. You can’t even create a decent electric Hummer, let alone a tank or other necessary heavy equipment. It isn’t even a joke anymore, it just embarrassing to watch someone be that freaking stupid. Your comment is absolutely spot on the mark! Thank you for that! Very well said!
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