America’s energy dependence on China and net zero from electric vehicles illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington TimesEnvironmental activists will need to decide very soon whether they are more concerned about the United States becoming dependent for energy on the communist regime in, noted mostly for its international hooliganism and genocidal tendencies, or are they more worried about the potential risks of climate change.
In short, if you own an electric vehicle, the odds are pretty good that your EV started its journey at a mine using child labor in the Democratic Republic of Congo — probably owned or controlled byThis problem is liable to get worse, not better. In May 2021, the International Energy Agency produced a report on mining and the energy transition.
That leaves the Biden administration with the following options: Abandon the energy transition to which it claims to be committed, anger their environmentalist donors and activists and permit American mines that will take decades to come to fruition, or continue to rely on the adversarial regime in