This seems like such a no brainer to me..  use third world labor.. some of whom are kids to mine the needed resources to electrify.. cars.. trucks.. build out the renewables.. ship to China.. who if they don’t invade Tiawan.. manufacture into solar panels etc.. then ship to Cambodia.. or some place not banned by the US.. to gain entry.. then cover about 7 million acres.. the size of Vermont to electrify the grid.. to hopefully keep that up.

Or, increase biofuels blends.. like e30.. from mostly existing infrastructure to sequester probably more carbon.. when you include the mining part..and do less damage to the countryside, economy, trade etc.

A couple points..

1) Don’t hit ethanol with indirect land use if you’re not going to account for mining minerals in EVs and Solar panels.

https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/study-tricky-balancing-act-between-ev-scale-up-and-mining-battery-metals/

Mining these metals has major environmental impacts, typically requiring deforestation and a lot of water. Tailings from mining can pollute waterways with toxic chemicals like cyanide, mercury and arsenic if not properly contained. Many key battery metals are concentrated in Chile, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia and South Africa.

2) Growing opposition to further wind and solar farms makes the Biden plan for carbon savings from EV conversion highly questionable.  Can you site enough renewables to feed the grid?

 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2024/02/04/us-counties-ban-renewable-energy-plants/71841063007/

A nationwide analysis by USA TODAY shows local governments are banning green energy faster than they’re building it. 

At least 15% of counties in the U.S. have effectively halted new utility-scale wind, solar, or both, USA TODAY found. These limits come through outright bans, moratoriums, construction impediments and other conditions that make green energy difficult to build. 

Several counties and even entire states have banned renewable development.  What happens when solar panels are damaged?  Property values? Nuisance lawsuits etc.. opposition is rapidly growing in the country.

Do you want to live next to an 1100 acre solar farm?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2024/02/04/solar-power-in-kansas/71920670007/  

Small solar.. on roof tops.. parking lots etc.. fine.  But mowing down quarter sections?  Is that even safe?  What impact to birds and wildlife?

3) solar and wind farms not only DO NOT Sequester carbon but an honest assessment concludes that they may not even be negative.  Whereas crops do sequester carbon.  I can’t figure out how this is being missed.. I’m not sure that replacing coal fired power plants with billions of tons of earth moved to secure the metals to produce the renewables is even a positive?

it doesn’t appear that the data on this is being honestly discussed.. npr labels it is “misinformation” which it clearly is not.  You have to mine.. ALOT of material in order to find the metals needed. 

https://www.cecc.gov/events/hearings/from-cobalt-to-cars-how-china-exploits-child-and-forced-labor-in-the-congo

Mining of cobalt is linked to grave human rights abuses, including the exposure of miners to unsafe worksites and reliance on child and forced Congolese labor, as well as environmental degradation. The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that at least 25,000 children are working in cobalt mines in the DRC. 

Seriously?  This is our future???