When President Joe Biden traveled to Michigan last week touting the new electric-powered Ford F-150 Lightning, the ever-watchful and vigilant traveling press corps were there to hold his feet to the fire. As the commander in chief hopped behind the wheel of the plug-in truck that carries a price tag as high as $70,825, reporters hammered him with hardball questions such as “how does it drive?” and “how fast were you driving?”
With this type of aggressive prosecution, who can blame Biden for openly threatening to run a reporter over with his truck?
Notably absent were any inquiries about Jennifer Granholm, Michigan’s former governor and Biden’s energy secretary. There are still lingering unanswered questions about a conflict of interest surrounding Granholm’s investments in an electric bus company and the Biden administration’s push for electric vehicles.
What a difference four years makes. In the opening months of the Trump administration, the media wasted zero opportunity to spill barrels of ink on alleged improprieties involving the new president’s Cabinet officials. The endless CNN loops about Russian collusion, private jets, used mattresses, and coziness with lobbyists are seared into our national memories.
To be fair, many political headaches were self-induced and could have been avoided. When the dust settles, the history books will record that former President Donald Trump was ill-served by many around him who created unnecessary drama and distractions.
But what is good for the goose is good for the gander, and that brings us back to Granholm. As the Detroit Free Press recently reported:
To summarize, Granholm stands to make a personal financial windfall from the policies being pushed fervently by the administration in which she serves. Instead of facing a barrage of questions about the apparent conflict of interest, Biden learned the topic hardly comes up from the so-called watchdogs in the press corps.
As distasteful as it is for politicians to use their positions to line their pockets, voters have already rendered their judgment and made it clear where they stand on this type of self-dealing. If you need proof, just ask Hillary Clinton, who ably and calmly dismissed any concerns about selling access to the State Department to enrich her family foundation.
As for Granholm, her tone-deaf comments in the aftermath of the hack of the Colonial Pipeline should be deeply troubling for anyone who relies on a vehicle with a combustible engine. At one point during the throes of the crisis, Granholm noted, “If you drive an electric car, this would not be affecting you, clearly.”
Talk about throwing bricks to a drowning person. Her pronouncement was good news for the approximate 2% of people who own electric cars, including Granholm, who recently added a $42,895 Mustang Mach-E to her fleet of taxpayer-funded vehicles. For the remaining 98% of us, well, we’re out of luck.
Of course, a life devoid of traditional energy sources is the future the Left wants for all of us. This month, we all got a taste for life without pipelines, and it wasn’t pretty. Gas lines for some, gas outages for many. Prices were already on the rise, thanks in large part to the Biden administration’s war on energy.
So while self-pronounced “car guy” Biden muses about the 0-to-60 speed of an electric truck few can afford, remember that his administration is coming not only for our combustible engines but for our entire way of life.
Daniel Turner (@DanielTurnerPTF) is the founder and executive director of Power the Future, a national nonprofit organization that advocates for American energy jobs.
