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Alert! Covid 2.0?! Invoking War powers to nationalize U. S. Energy!?

Biden Urged to Invoke Cold-War Powers to Blunt Energy Price Hike - finance.yahoo.com/news/biden-urg…

"The federal law empowers the president to essentially nationalize private industry to ensure the U.S. has resources that could be necessary in a crisis."

"It even singles out energy as a “strategic and critical material,” giving the president wide latitude to prioritize contracts and force businesses to supply the government with materials and services."

Lawmakers & labor activists have urged Biden to compel deployment of drilling rigs and solar panels using 1950 Defense Production Act, the same authority wielded by Harry Truman to make steel for the Korean War and Donald Trump to spur mask production to battle the coronavirus."

More than 200 environmental, indigenous and progressive groups asked the president to use the DPA to rapidly scale up the production and deployment of electric-vehicle chargers, weatherization equipment and other clean energy technology.

And environmentalist Bill McKibben has pitched government officials to invoke the DPA to manufacture electric heat pumps that can help wean Europe off Russian gas.

Here we go again! Wartime emergency powers granted to the executive branch to battle a "crisis" without the messiness of market forces or democracy. Can anyone say more Chinese-style one party rule?!

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