Navy consultants are elevating nationwide safety issues over the Biden administration’s electric vehicle agenda, warning the president’s formidable coverage push will make the U.S. too depending on China.
A coalition of 17 retired army officers, together with retired Navy Captain Bob “Shoebob” Carey, despatched a letter this week to President Biden and the Environmental Safety Company (EPA), warning regulatory initiatives geared toward incentivizing EV adoption “intensify America’s vulnerability to political interference by the Chinese Communist Party.”
Carey instructed “America’s Newsroom” Friday that the aggressive push is “fundamentally wrong” and makes the U.S. reliant on our “biggest potential enemy.”
“In order to be able to make these electric vehicles operate the way they need to, you need lithium, you need gallium, and you need a lot of other rare earth minerals that we don’t have, we can’t process. And we’ll basically allow the Chinese to control the flow of that in order to for us to be able to have those vehicles on our roads,” Carey stated.
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A BMW electrical car sits parked at a Volta EV charging station on July 28, 2023, in California. (Justin Sullivan)
In accordance with the Worldwide Vitality Company (IEA), China produces about 75% of all lithium-ion batteries, a key part of EVs, worldwide. The nation additionally boasts 70% of manufacturing capability for cathodes and 85% for anodes, two key elements of such batteries.
The letter took specific situation with the EPA’s April 2023 proposal to implement the most aggressive tailpipe emissions regulations ever crafted. If finalized and applied, a staggering 67% of recent sedan, crossover, SUV and lightweight truck; as much as 50% of bus and rubbish truck; 35% of short-haul freight tractor; and 25% of long-haul freight tractor purchases could possibly be electrical by 2032, the EPA projected.
The White Home stated on the time that growing emissions requirements for gas-powered vehicles would not directly incentivize the adoption of zero-emission vehicles and supply a “clear pathway for a continued rise in EV sales.” Biden beforehand set a purpose of making certain 50% of automobile purchases are electrical by 2030.
“You don’t make transitions like this by taking away fossil fuel cars, internal combustion engines. And the way this regulation is being put forward, it’s being done by limiting how much the tailpipe emissions can be, which is going to not make us any more capable of handling electric vehicles while taking away those internal combustion engines,” Carey defined.
The retired captain famous that whereas the coalition just isn’t towards electrical automobiles turning into part of the American material, the priority lies with the speed at which the Biden administration needs to implement them into society.
“There is no doubt EVs will play a significant role in diversifying America’s transportation systems. Yet we believe your plans will rush our transition to EVs before the infrastructure necessary to support it is in place,” the letter acknowledged.
Carey stated the purpose of the letter is to lift visibility of “how bad this regulation is” and put public stress on the EPA.
“The public is saying, you have a solution that’s in search of a problem that doesn’t exist right now, but you’re going to make a lot worse problems that are going to make driving a lot more expensive for Americans and a lot less reliable. Then [the EPA] may start to listen.”
The EPA did not reply to a request for remark to “America’s Newsroom” or Fox Information Digital.
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Fox Information’ Thomas Catenacci contributed to this report.
