Biden is about to announce that he’ll be using the Defense Production Act to push his green energy agenda since his plans are stalled in Congress.
He was asked to do this by socialist members of the Senate, like Elizabeth Warren, Ed Markey and several others:
THE INTERCEPT – THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION is drafting an executive order invoking the Defense Production Act to alleviate shortages of key minerals needed for the technology to store clean energy. The act, which would bolster the manufacturing capacity of electric vehicle producers in particular, indicates that the administration is open to using executive power to achieve progressive policy goals as Congress remains reluctant to pass key parts of his green energy agenda.
The order would declare that “ensuring robust, resilient, and sustainable domestic industrial base to meet the requirements of the clean energy economy is essential to our national security,” according to a draft of the document that remains in the “pre-decisional” phase. That reasoning follows a renewed push from the administration on its climate change priorities in light of shocks in the oil and gas market following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The order would specifically call for the “domestic mining, beneficiation, and value-added processing of strategic and critical materials from sustainable sources for the production of large capacity batteries for the automotive, e-mobility, and stationary storage sectors is essential to national defense.” The Intercept has reached out to the White House for comment.
Several senators sent President Joe Biden a letter on Wednesday asking him to use authorities such as those contained in the Defense Production Act, which significantly expands the president’s authority to unilaterally alter domestic manufacturing policy in times of crisis, to “support and increase manufacturing capacity and supply chain security for technologies that reduce fossil fuel demand and fuel costs, such as electric heat pumps, efficient electric appliances, renewable energy generation and storage, and other clean technologies.”
The letter — signed by Democratic Sens. Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, Cory Booker of New Jersey, and Jeff Merkley of Oregon — encourages Biden to make the U.S. less dependent on oil drilling abroad while simultaneously supporting climate goals: “Producing efficient electric products and exporting those goods to the E.U. and other foreign markets would help many countries lower their dependency on fossil fuels, and thereby strengthen their own energy security.” It’s the latest example of progressives in Congress urging the president to use his considerable authority to achieve policy victories. In a release earlier this month, the Congressional Progressive Caucus outlined a substantial agenda that could be achieved with the swipe of Biden’s pen. That list included utilizing the Defense Production Act to bolster the production of green energy technology.
The last time we saw the DPA invoke was when Trump used it for an actual crisis, the coronavirus pandemic back in March or 2020. Trump used it to increase production of masks, ventilators and respirators. And it worked. Trump rallied the private sector and solved a huge problem left to him by the previous Obama administration.
Now Biden is going to use it for a fake green energy crisis that is only a ‘crisis’ because he can’t convince every member of his own party to pass his agenda. This is nothing more than Biden using his ‘pen’ to go around Congress.
All this at a time when gas and oil prices have gone the roof. One would think Biden might use something like this to increase oil production in America to bring prices back down, to make us more energy independent like we were before he became stepped into the Oval Office. But no, he’s the anti-fossil fuel president and he’ll only invest his time an energy into pushing his expensive and disastrous green agenda.