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Republicans try to stop military’s electrification with mind-bogglingly dumb proposals (electrek.co)

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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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[–] teft@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Representative Gosar commented on his initiative:

>The military is no place to experiment with untested technology.

HAHAHAHAHA. Better tell that to the United States Army Test and Evaluation Command or the Army Futures Command or any of the other branches test and evaluation commands. That Gosar guy is a dipshit.

[–] j4yc33@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

um... DARPA?

[–] Flaky_Fish69@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

We all know DARPA is a front for all the alien tech that they’re reverse engineered.

Like Velcro and Mylar and the charcoallerizing ray gun

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