During a Senate Energy hearing, West Virginia senator Joe Manchin was questioning Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm about her department’s budget proposal when he expressed his doubts about the push to transition to EVs, citing the industry’s reliance on an overseas supply chain.
He suggested the clean-energy priority should instead be carbon capture technologies, natural gas, renewables and nuclear power, which would not require relying on foreign suppliers.
Granholm, a former Michigan governor, replied that President Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan includes funding for the United States to develop a domestic supply chain for critical minerals that would ensure “we’re not reliant on China or other countries who are under China’s umbrella.”
Read the article at The Detroit News.