It's October 5th.

You're listening to the President's Daily Brief.

I'm your host and former CIA officer Brian Dean Wright.

Your morning intel starts now.

We've got a special edition of the PDB this morning.

It's a totally new episode on the dirty green revolution.

And today it's all about electric vehicles.

For those unaware, we had a four-part series starting on September 12th that looked

into solar, wind, batteries, and the mining of materials to make those batteries.

Now the goal was to apply a critical eye towards these renewable industries and ask whether

they're really as green and without cost as proponents tell us.

Well one thing that we didn't look into a few weeks back was electric vehicles.

And it's really important that we do.

And the reason is that Joe Biden signed a $370 billion bill last month with billions

to make sure that you buy one of these electric vehicles.

Plus in the past couple of weeks, the states of California, New York, and others have passed

laws banning the sale of new gas-powered vehicles by the year 2035.

And of course car manufacturers, they're getting in on this too.

General Motors, for example, has announced that they will stop building gas-powered cars

by 2035 as well.

So we have to talk about this as a country and as consumers.

Now to do that, I want us to imagine that we are inside the car dealership staring down

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