Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Pipeline Crisis: Drive an Electric Car

Secretary of the Department of Energy Jennifer Granholm said at a press conference at the White House on Tuesday that people who are driving electric cars are not affected by the hacker-forced shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline.

"I just have a question for each of you. I'll start with you, Secretary Granholm, because ladies first," a reporter asked.

"Yeah, I mean, we obviously are 'all in' on making sure that we meet the President's goals of getting to 100 percent clean electricity by 2035 and net-zero carbon emissions by 2050," Granholm said.

"But it's just - it's another - it's - I don't want to - this company is acting in a responsible way," Granholm said.

"The broader issue is a very important issue," Granholm said.

"It's an issue for the president's priority and the American Jobs Plan - the issue of investing in a transmission grid, for example, so that you don't have the cyber issues associated with it." The secretary added, "So there's a lot of broader questions in this, and we hope that we'll be able to see that investment in infrastructure that will facilitate clean and renewable energy."

Jarrett Skorup the director of marketing and communications at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, based in Midland, Michigan, wrote about her appointment in December of 2020: "When Granholm was governor, she directed hundreds of millions of dollars to politically favored companies in the hopes of creating 'green' jobs. She famously promised Michiganders, 'In five years, you're going to be blown away.'"

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