President Joe Biden continues to utilize authoritarian methods to cram down his climate change agenda on the American people.
This time it was over gas furnaces.
According to the conservative website Trending Politics, Biden invoked a 1950 federal law to speed $169 million to makers of electric heat pumps, which are an alternative to gas-powered household furnaces.
“Getting more American-made electric heat pumps on the market will help families and businesses save money with efficient heating and cooling technology,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said in a statement.
“These investments will create thousands of high-quality, good-paying manufacturing jobs and strengthen America’s energy supply chain, while creating healthier indoor spaces through home-grown clean energy technologies.”
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Although Granholm said these pumps would be “American-made,” Trending Politics noted that the funding will be directed at “nine projects across 15 locations worldwide.”
John Podesta, Biden’s clean energy adviser, said Biden by utilizing this law “is treating climate change as the crisis it is.” Biden’s national climate adviser, Ali Zaidi, asserted that Biden used his “wartime emergency powers” in order to “turbocharge U.S. manufacturing of clean technologies and strengthen our energy security.”
The American Gas Association took a different view of Biden’s action. The 73-year-old law is “being used as a tool to advance a policy agenda contrary to our nation’s strong energy position,” the group said in a statement.
Based on this move, Biden seeks to make the case that fluctuations in the natural climate are a national security emergency.
The law Biden invoked was the 1950 Defense Production Act.
As the Congressional Research Service explained in a paper published in October, the law “confers upon the President a broad set of authorities to influence domestic industry in the interest of national defense.”
“The authorities can be used across the federal government to shape the domestic industrial base so that, when called upon, it is capable of providing essential materials and goods needed for the national defense,” the report continued.
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Although it was initially passed as a response to the Korean War, the law is historically rooted in the War Powers Acts of World War II.
As the CRS pointed out, Congress has, over time, expanded the law’s definition of “national defense.”
Based on this definition, the DPA’s scope “now extends beyond shaping U.S. military preparedness and capabilities, as the authorities may also be used to enhance and support domestic preparedness, response, and recovery from natural hazards, terrorist attacks, and other national emergencies.”
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