Several Republican representatives have proposed amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act to try to stop the Pentagon’s electrification. The proposals sound so mind-bogglingly dumb that they look like they were written by 19th-century Luddites or the fossil fuel industry itself.

With the US military operating a fleet of hundreds of thousands of vehicles, including tactical vehicles, it makes the Pentagon the largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels in the world.

The entire transportation industry is currently transitioning to electric propulsion, and the US military knows better than to be left behind.

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    1 year ago

    Cui bono if the US military is hamstrung? Answer that and you know who is sponsoring Republican actions.

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        1 year ago

        China benefits in a big way too. So does UAE with Mister Bone Saw fancying himself as the power centre of ME politics.