Biden’s climate transition will harm our military readiness and national security

As chairman of the Subcommittee on Military Readiness, I have serious concerns with the Biden administration’s forced clean energy transition. Industry is being baited into producing these technologies at great cost and use of time. Offshore wind could seriously disrupt the training and logistics of our military personnel. And our warfighters could be stationed at bases and sent to the battlefield in vehicles with unreliable sources of power that is not only produced by our most dangerous adversary but interferes with their training.

There are many ways to address climate change, but it can’t be done at the expense of our national security with strategies that make us more dependent and less ready. The goal of our Pentagon leadership must be training and equipping a fighting force that is the most lethal, not the most eco-friendly.

[As Rush Limbaugh used to remind us frequently, militaries have two purposes: break things and kill people. Missions that are extraneous to those are distractions; investments in anything else detract from combat readiness. The climate-change spending of military funds is the worst of these trends. Stop playing around with security and readiness and focus on the core missions. — Ed]