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Biden Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm suggested in a recent interview that the United States’ green energy push will be the “greatest peace plan” in world history.
“If we want to be energy secure and energy independent, that means we’ve got to produce our own energy,” Granholm said in an interview with VOA News on Friday. “My counterpart in Ireland, the energy minister there, has said that no one has ever weaponized access to the sun. No one has ever weaponized the wind. Perhaps a move to clean energy will be the greatest peace plan the world has ever known.”
Granholm’s comment immediately received criticism from conservatives on Twitter and was highlighted in a post from an account operated by the Republican National Committee.
“The war in Ukraine and ensuing energy crisis were entirely brought about by ‘clean energy’ and climate idiocy,” author and Fox News contributor Steve Milloy responded. “Lying. Airhead.”
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Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington.
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Granholm’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Granholm has referenced the conversation with her Irish counterpart in the past including an instance in April that prompted Republican Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers to call her out on Twitter for a “dangerous” line of thinking.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Nov. 23, 2021, in Washington.
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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In the interview, Granholm said that the increasing oil production is what the administration is calling for “right now” but “ultimately we’ve got to move to clean.”
“That’s what the bill that the president signed…
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