A year after President Biden told supporters in Seattle that he wanted to “start the process” to ensure every vehicle used by the U.S. military is “climate-friendly,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told lawmakers that the Pentagon’s entire non-tactical vehicle fleet should be powered by electricity by 2030.
She recently told the Senate Armed Services Committee that it was critical to reduce the nation’s reliance on fossil fuels and said the military could help lead the way.
“Given our reliance on China for electric batteries, President Biden’s demands for ‘every vehicle’ in the U.S. military to be climate-friendly only serves to ramp up our dependence on the a regime that seeks to usurp the U.S. as a global economic, technological, and political leader,” wrote Mr. Rubio, Florida Republican.
The 2023 National Defense Authorization Act included measures that would set a 2035 target for the Pentagon’s non-tactical vehicles to be electric or otherwise zero-emissions. The Army says it is continuing the transition of its fleet of non-tactical vehicles.
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