Ernst seeks to slow Pentagon transition to electric vehicles

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Ernst seeks to slow Pentagon transition to electric vehicles
By Bryant Harris and Joe Gould
 Dec 14, 04:50 PM


WASHINGTON — Congress is pushing the U.S. Department of Defense to transition its vast fleet of non-tactical electric vehicles away from fossil fuels over the next 12 years. But at least one Republican senator says not so fast.

Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, added language to the fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act that would set an additional barrier for the Pentagon – the world’s largest institutional fossil fuel consumer – to purchase non-tactical electric, advanced-biofuel or hydrogen-powered vehicles. The House passed the NDAA 350-80 last week, and the Senate is expected to vote on it by the end of the month.

“It’s an expensive investment for an unreliable product constrained by a [Chinese Communist Party-controlled], child and slave labor-powered supply chain,” Ernst told Defense News in a statement. “The NDAA should never prioritize climate politics over national security, and Democrats were forced to concede that point in this year’s defense bill.”

https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2022/12/14/ernst-seeks-to-slow-pentagon-transition-to-electric-vehicles/

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Is she worried our military will be too advanced with unreliable, fire prone electric vehicles while our enemies will be using those junkie old, reliable fossil fuel powered vehicles thus giving us an unfair advantage?

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“The NDAA should never prioritize climate politics over national security, and Democrats were forced to concede that point in this year’s defense bill.”