Brandon J. Weichert 23 Jan, 2024 2 Min Read. On Earth Day in 2022, President Biden announced that the U.S. is determined to make American military vehicles "Climate friendly." Quoth he: "Every vehicle. I mean it. We're spending billions of dollars to do it." Today, the United States military owns the largest organizational fleet of vehicles in the country, and one of the largest in the world.
Placing heavier batteries on electric combat equipment would make those vehicles slower.
While space-based solar power is something that the military is investigating as a possible energy source for any "Environmentally friendly" combat vehicle, most experts believe that space-based solar power cannot be used as a total replacement for conventional energy production.
Electric vehicles would require more rare earth minerals than conventional combat vehicles and equipment do.
What of the cost of such a Green transition? At a time when the military is already having trouble meeting its growing obligations with increasingly constrained budgets, Biden would force the Pentagon to blow through its funding to replace perfectly reliable gas-powered vehicles and equipment with far less dependable environmentally friendly machines.
Over time, a larger share of the Pentagon's budget would go toward these "Sustainable" combat vehicles and away from combat readiness.
Forcing a transition away from dependable, affordable gas-powered military equipment toward unproven and undependable replacements is a sure way to sacrifice America's military advantages for no military benefit.
https://the-pipeline.org/u-s-military-sacrifices-readiness-for-global-warming/
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