<><>On June 6, 2022, Biden invoked the Defense Production Act to accelerate domestic production of green energy technology.
The Biden administration was responding to growing energy costs caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The invocation came along with a 2-year tariff exemption that ends in June 2024 on solar panels from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. The technology included in Biden’s invocation included solar energy; transformers and electric grid components; heat pumps; insulation; and electrolyzers, fuel cells, and platinum group metals.
<><>On November 17, 2023, the US Department of Energy announced $169,000,000 funded by the Inflation Reduction Act for nine projects at 15 sites to accelerate US-made electric heat pump manufacturing.
REFERENCE The War Powers Resolution of 1973 (also known as the War Powers Act) “is a congressional resolution designed to limit the U.S. president’s ability to initiate or escalate military actions abroad.”
As part of our system of governmental “checks and balances,” the law aims to check the executive branch’s power when committing U.S. military forces to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. It stipulates the president must notify Congress within 48 hours of military action and prohibits armed forces from remaining for more than 60 days.
The Constitution divides war powers between Congress and the president. Only Congress can declare war and appropriate military funding, yet the president is commander in chief of the armed forces.
Good research, Liz. Note how well the low flush toilets are doing and how popular the new light bulbs are.
Government crosses the line when it tries to override consumer choice (and common sense) for the sake of their lobbyist’s benefit. We live over a real sea of oil and natural gas that God provided for our use on this planet that withstands far more environmental impacts from volcanoes and wildfires than what man has generated.
Nuclear warfare being the exception and that’s totally unacceptable. They dither about impeachment for this tool in the Oval for lesser things but literally pushing the Islamic powers to nuclear capability on our dime is treason and then some.
I want to see him stumble up some steps one last time to a scaffold were his masters await him for their simultaneous drop. Televised for a “So You Know” learning moment.
Thank you Liz. But we need to step back and look at what the true ramifications of this really are. These little illegal moves like this if allowed to be done are incremental steps that set president and condition society towards accepting the final end game of total martial law by one small decree like this after another.
These little moves may sound insignificant, but if they are not immediately nipped in the bud as deceptive abuse of power they are going to accrue and add up into false powers being afforded to the President. He has already done this illegally more than enough, time to block every one of these attempts to rule by decree no matter how small they seem to be.
This is another fork of slow boiling the frogs.