House Republicans announced Tuesday that they have launched an investigation into President Joe Biden’s Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm over her taxpayer-funded electric vehicle (EV) summer 2023 road trip.
Granholm’s 770-mile multi-state road trip through the southeast U.S., which was “intended to draw attention to the billions of dollars the White House is pouring into green energy and clean cars,” was documented in a September NPR article entitled “Electric cars have a road trip problem, even for the secretary of energy.”
NPR’s Camila Domonoske, who travelled alongside Granholm, told the story of the numerous challenges of attempting a road trip with EVs — including a dispute at a Georgia charging station between Department of Energy Staffers and a family that led to the police being called on Granholm’s team.
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When Granholm’s advance team arrived at a charging station in Grovetown, Georgia, they realized there wasn’t enough plugs to go around, and staffers decided to block a charging station with a nonelectric vehicle in order to reserve a spot for Granholm.
A family — with a baby in their car on a scorching summer day in Georgia — that was “boxed out” from the only available charger by Granholm’s team, got upset and called the police on the Energy Department staffers.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Chairman Pat Fallon (R-Texas), are requesting that Granholm turn over all documents and communications related to the purposes, costs, and consequences of Secretary Granholm’s EV road trip.
“We are alarmed by recent reports of your four-day summer 2023 electric vehicle (EV) road trip apparently intended to showcase the Biden Administration’s progress in achieving a radical green agenda,” the GOP lawmakers wrote in a Tuesday letter to Granholm.
“Using an internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle, your Department of Energy (DOE) staff blocked off an EV-only charging station so you could stay on a schedule which was ‘painstakingly mapped out ahead of time’ because of limited, slow, and nonworking EV chargers along your route,” the lawmakers wrote. “In ‘sweltering’ Georgia heat, your staff’s actions caused a family with an infant child and low charge on their EV battery to call the police out of urgency while waiting at this charging station.”
Comer and Fallon cite the NPR article as stating “Tesla chargers are significantly better than the competition, and most of the electric vehicles in the U.S. are Teslas,” and call into question Granholm’s decision of excluding any Tesla vehicles from her road trip as possibly politically motivated.
The House Republican’s probe into Granholm’s road trip comes as part of their larger investigation into the impact of the Biden administration’s efforts to “force a radical increase” in the number of EVs on America’s roads.
In June, the House Oversight Committee led a hearing on new emissions standards implemented by Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which the agency estimates could require that EVS comprise 67 percent of all new car sales by 2032.
That drastic of an increase would require EV sales to rise by eleven times within a 10 year period.
“This taxpayer-funded publicity stunt illustrates yet again how out of touch the Biden Administration is with the consequences of policies it has unleashed on everyday Americans,” Comer and Fallon wrote Tuesday.
“Committee Republicans remain committed to preserving freedoms like vehicle consumer choice in the face of an unproven, burdensome, and expensive Biden Administration push to force all Americans to buy EVs,” they wrote.
Read Reps. Comer and Fallon’s letter to Energy Secretary Granholm below:
Hiarchy Hypocrites. The Biden Administration from Pedo Joe, Climate Czar (Ketsup Kerry) and Energy Secretary ( Gluttonous Granholm) use more fossil fuel in one week than the average citizen will in their lifetime. They are the epitome of the “empty heads” society. We, the American Voter, have the final say. We made you! We can take you out!
Here in the NYC metro area, it has become blatantly obvious that those of us who live in apartments would have no access to home charging. So, the working class and retirees and in many cases simply those who live in apartments would have no way to simply hop in the car and head to work. We’d have to go to non-existent charging stations and wait behind the other peasants.
When I told my congressman this, he said, or his staff said, “There’s a climate crisis.” I said, “What crisis? Show it to me.” We CANNOT win with these people using logic. We SIMPLY must write checks to their opponents, in large quantities. Because, we need professionals to get the word out. We’re all busy working. So budget yourself $25 a week for contributions or when we lose big, just be quiet.
There are tens of millions of people who have have watched legacy media long enough to believe the following:
Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation
It is perfectly normal for voting locations only in AZ, PA, MI, WI, GA to stop counting votes at precisely the same time
Covid vaccines prevent infection and spread
Trump colluded with Russia to beat Hillary
BLM riots were mainly peaceful
EVs will replace internal combustion engines in 6 years
The border is secure
I agree with Big Al completely. The mainstream news media is responsible for voters that completely misunderstand issues. These voters can not vote to solve issues they don’t understand – worse than that these same voters are manipulated to vote in a manner that makes issues even worse. Without a corrupt news media we would not have a corrupt government. It’s downright diabolical.
With an honest and traditional news media we never would have had a President Biden. Race relations would be in our rear view mirrors. If there is ever another revolution it’s the mainstream media journalists that should be the focus.
Get a clue folks, “Legacy Media” (aka MSM) is merely the Ministry of Propaganda for the Democrat (communist) party…
Stupid meet stupid….energy czar has no foothold on reality for the majority of us who work daily to support hacks and their ideological stupidities! Enough! Let’s take back this country NOW!