Biden Picks Buttigieg for Secretary of Transportation and Granholm for Secretary of Energy

"Energy is perhaps the most important portfolio in the Biden cabinet, since it is key to greening America and decarbonizing our economy (which will present a model for the rest of the world)."

-Juan Cole

Juan Cole (side view)

The parade of lefties coming into the Biden administration continues. Old Joe has picked none other than Pete Buttigieg to be his Secretary of Transportation and former Michigan governor and UC Berkeley professor Jennifer Granholm to be Secretary of Energy. 

And just what are the qualifications of these two-other than being liberal? 

Granholm has no real professional experience in energy other than being an advocate for clean energy and electric cars. Buttigieg couldn't even run the city of South Bend, Indiana as mayor. As for his transportation experience, he may have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night. 

The bottom line is that both of these lefties want to transition away from fossil fuel and make everything electric. Thank God  Old Joe didn't put one of them as Secretary of Defense. We would have electric tanks in 5 years.

But there is one academic who is heralding these appointments as perhaps, the salvation of the world, saving us all from Climate Change.

That would be none other than University of Michigan comedian Juan Cole. Here is his latest laffer from Informed Comment:

https://www.juancole.com/2020/12/greening-buttigieg-granholm.html

Cole informs us of this 2011 interview with Granholm, where she talks about.....

“MALVEAUX: You and I spoke about a new investment in Michigan’s economy, the battery making business . . . How important is this new industry for your state?

[In older clip:] GRANHOLM: Well, that’s the whole thing. This is a whole new industry. So what you’re going to see here is one of 16 battery plants that are coming to Michigan or having been built in Michigan. Those 16 plants wouldn’t be here, but for the stimulus dollars. Those 16 plants are going to create 62,000 jobs here over the next ten years. . .

Cole- "Granholm was way ahead of her time. She understood early on the centrality of better and bigger batteries to green transportation and electricity." 

And there was this from Granholm:

"If Hu Jintao, the premier of China, wakes up every night thinking how can he create 25 million jobs a year for his people. And he is not abiding by the old theories that many of those running for president right now in the United States are abiding by, he’s actively intervening in the economy to create jobs for his people."

Something President Trump was doing quite well until Covid came along (from China).

As for Mayor Pete, Cole explains to the Uninformed why Buttigieg is the right man for the job:

"As for Buttigieg, he would be the first openly gay US cabinet secretary in history. He would be the second Arab-American secretary of transportation, after Ray Lahoud. Buttigieg’s family name is Maltese, who are Christian Arabic speakers. His name is formally Abu al-Dajjaj or chicken farmer."

"Buttigieg urges a carbon tax and slapping steep fees on carbon dioxide-emitting vehicles. This approach has worked like a charm in the European Union. It isn’t clear how much of that sort of thing Biden will be able to do without the senate, but maybe some executive orders will push things in the right direction."

You mean like all those "dictatorial", "fascist" executive orders that Trump was issuing, which the Juan Coles of the world condemned? And last time I looked, things are not working much like a charm in the European Union that Cole touts. The European people want out.

So what we essentially have here is Old Joe filling his government with tired old lefties whose biggest issues are Climate Change and Green Energy. But I'd better stop here, or Old Joe might appoint Juan Cole for Secretary of Education.