Biden utilizes Defense Production Act for solar panels?

Solar power is one of those things that has had a lot of promise, but ultimately doesn’t actually deliver on that promise. After all, the only thing making them remotely feasible is the fact that the government subsidizes them to such an insane degree.

That’s the case with pretty much all so-called green energy methods, really.

And it’s unfortunate because I’d love to not rely on fossil fuels. While I don’t think we’re ever going to be completely independent of things like coal and petroleum, I do like the idea of cleaner energy sources that aren’t beholden to the availability of materials that have to be extracted from the ground.

I’m just realistic enough to know that solar and wind aren’t ready for primetime.

That’s not going to stop the Biden administration from using the Defense Production Act to spin up solar panel manufacturing.

President Joe Biden will invoke the Defense Production Act in order to produce solar panels, forcing private companies to comply with leftist demands to transition the United States away from oil and gas.

"President Biden today issued presidential determinations providing the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) with the authority to utilize the Defense Production Act (DPA) to accelerate domestic production of five key energy technologies: (1) solar; (2) transformers and electric grid components; (3) heat pumps; (4) insulation; and (5) electrolyzers, fuel cells, and platinum group metals," the Department of Energy released in a statement Monday. 

In a "fact sheet" released by the White House, Biden administration officials claim the move will spur domestic solar panel production and ramp up so-called "clean energy" projects. 

As Townhall’s Katie Pavlich notes, this isn’t that different than something Obama tried while Biden was vice president.

It didn’t accomplish much of anything then, either except to stick the American taxpayers with a bill. Does anyone remember Solyndra?

Yeah, this is a repeat of that debacle.

But more importantly, it’s a big old virtue signal. Biden wants people to know he’s Very Serious (TM) about climate change, but in a way that doesn’t involve actually addressing climate change.

After all, we have precisely one power generation method that can be scaled up in a way to provide all of our power needs with zero emissions. It ain’t solar, either.

However, nuclear power is very unpopular with the green energy sect, so it’s never even considered by them.

Instead, they’ll use government force to prop up industries that simply can’t innovate in any meaningful way to meet the consumer’s needs. It’s par for the course from an administration that cut off the flow of oil on their first day in office (Keystone) and then blamed soaring gas prices on an invasion that didn’t happen until a year afterward.

They’re not smart people, but even most idiots can see how this crap is going to end.