Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm suggested that solar panels and wind farms could be the key to ensuring world peace in the future.
Solar, wind and other renewable sources would be key for the U.S. and its European allies to have energy security, Granholm said during her remarks at the U.S.-EU Energy Ministerial hosted by the State Department on Monday. The energy secretary added that fossil fuel dependence puts the West at greater risk of volatile energy prices.
“High energy prices have been putting strains on households on both sides of the Atlantic,” Granholm remarked. “In Europe, you have seen prices go through the roof. Of course, tensions between Russia and Ukraine pose threats to the energy security of the European Union, our friends and partners.”
“All of this underscores the benefits of clean energy,” she continued. “I was at a ministerial last week and my counterpart in Ireland, Minister Ryan, said words that I thought were very interesting. No country has been held hostage to access to the sun. No country has been hostage to the wind. This is not just an energy and climate issue, it is also potentially the greatest peace plan that ever existed.”
Granholm, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and their EU counterparts discussed a range of issues at the ministerial including global net zero ambitions and clean energy investment, according to a joint statement issued by the U.S. and EU on Monday. But the meeting also focused on the European energy crisis in part caused by Russia’s decision to cut off natural gas supplies as the weather got cold over the last several months.
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Meanwhile, President Joe Biden has stood by his decision to support Nord Stream 2, a direct Russia-to-Germany pipeline that would tether EU natural gas supply to a Russian state-run energy firm. The president said Nord Stream 2 would be killed only if Russian troops invaded Ukraine, following a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the White House on Monday.
“Energy security is tied directly to national security, regional security, global security,” Blinken said during a news conference. “Europe needs reliable and affordable energy, especially in the winter months.”
“When Russia halted gas supplies to Europe over a dispute with Ukraine in 2009, people died from the cold. And when energy supplies fail, economies falter,” he added.
On Jan. 25, the White House announced it would help facilitate greater non-Russian natural gas flows into Europe amid the increasing tensions on the Ukrainian border. Such imports would come from North Africa, the U.S., Middle East and Asia.
Biden has pushed renewable energy alternatives, including solar and wind projects, aggressively since taking office in 2021. The White House has outlined plans to ensure the entire U.S. grid is carbon-free by 2035 and the economy reaches net zero emissions by 2050.
The Biden administration has also waged a war on traditional energy production, nixing the Keystone XL pipeline, ditching an oil drilling project in Alaska and confirming it would review the possibility of shutting down a Michigan pipeline supplying much of the Midwest.
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Biden’s energy secretary: Solar panels will bring about world peace
LMAO! Sure it will! What is the deal Biden has with his buddies in china to make them? What is his cut??????? Biden need to be in jail! He really makes the FBI that are ignoring him look like clowns blowing farts! They have become the laughing stock of the world!
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WELL GRANHOLM IS NO SMARTER NOW THAN WHEN SHE WAS GOV. OF MICHIGAN. SHE KNOWS HOW TO BANKRUPT THO!!
screw you granddum…. you tanked Michigan got rich off our tax dollars and I have a gut feeling you trained to 3 witches running this state further into the great lakes we pay the most for car insurance in the country, nestle is still pumping free water movies get made here for pennies but you sure know your energy HUH ??? this Michigander thinks NOT
If you really want world peace get rid of the Elitist which are the cause of all the wars that happens all so that they can make billions from it. Then we might be able to have world peace.
In the area that I live in we are being held hostage by the government, the solar clowns and by building codes. For my property I need between 15-18 Kw to run the property and here is where I am being held hostage of the matter. Building codes limit us to 10Kw, the solar clowns want roughly 23 grand for their system which would be out of pocket since I get no tax breaks for it and the power company wont subsidize. So why would I spend for some thing that is so limited. The comment that old pete buttplug made about us in the county would benefit from electric vehicles is also udder crap. Cant run the property on solar then it means cant run electric vehicles out here. Yes stop all coal and oil use and see just how far your electric vehicles go since that would shut down 90% of the grid which struggles now in some areas to keep power on.
LMAO…really? Where do I sign up? A typical statement from an administration that, so far, has gotten nothing right. Figures. It’s also the administration that wants to spend millions to give crack pipes to druggies in the name of racial equity, lovely.
Energy Secretary Jennifer must have forgotten about the people in Texas that died last year because of her renewable energy….?
Wackos!!!
Sheer lunacy.
Solar panels do not last long. The day after installation they are less efficient than the day installed and after 20 years are pretty much useless and hard to dispose of.
Another brain dead DemonRAT, just like Biden.
Biden’s people are stupid. The equipment used to collect wind and solar energy can be subjected to physical and/or cyber attack from an adversary determined to control another nation or ethnic group. No, wind and solar will NOT guarantee world peace. Oh, Jennifer, if only world peace was anywhere near as easy as you seem to think it is.
Maybe he should remember when he went to the G8 summit that there was 411 private jets there. I don’t think they will work on solar panels. Or how about when Kerry was asked about that he said “LET THE LITTLE PEOPLE WORK ON SOLAR PANELS” that tells us how much they think of us. These elistists who have never worked for a living always have the answer. Biden is a fake president and the truth is coming out now. We need to get rid of all of them. It is our fault we keep electing these idiots. Vote them out.
Tell that to the G8 summit that Biden went to and 411 private jets took all those people with NATO. I’m sure solar panels are going to power their private jets. But the little people can live with solar energy. How about all the people in the NE who had to deal with the freezing temperatures you don’t think solar panels are going to freeze. These people had no electricity and had to go in their pas powerered cars to get warm. It is easy when you are sitting in your existensial bubble and philosophical conversations around the dinner table to decide what is best for us. They are not freezing they are not worried about food or anything else. You think Kerry and his Queen of Heinz worry about us when they go to bed at night with a warm house. Not all. They don’t care about us. VOTE THEM ALL OUT. They are too old to be there anyway. There is old and there is old and Biden is old. He has made it so we cannot complain about anything anymore and have anything happen because nothing has happened to him when he has one anything wrong. We are just the “beasts of burden” to these elitists who have lived off our money for years. GET THEM OUT.