A tax on Kenergy is a tax on life.
E&E News (3/13/24) reports: "Utah Sen. Mitt Romney is the latest Republican to complain about the Senate Budget Committee’s climate focus under Chair Sheldon Whitehouse. Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat, held a hearing Tuesday on the president’s new $7.3 trillion budget proposal — an issue over which the committee has clear jurisdiction. But for Romney — who is not running for reelection — the meeting was an opportunity to zing Whitehouse for using his perch to highlight global warming’s economic and fiscal impacts. Other GOP senators have questioned Whitehouse’s tactics, but Romney’s comments are particularly notable because the Republican has spoken previously about the need to act on climate change. He has even accused Democrats of not doing enough on the issue and endorsed policies the majority of his conservative colleagues refuse to touch. On Tuesday, Romney compared the Budget Committee’s work under Whitehouse to two recent award-winning films. 'I’m afraid what we do here is more "Barbie" than it is "Oppenheimer,'” said Romney. 'The public thinks we work on the budget. But we don’t.'"
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"The American government provides incentives and tax deductions to transition society to EV’s, but those incentives are financial incentives for the continuation of Child Labor and Ecological Destruction 'Elsewhere'. Is it ethical and moral to provide financial support to the developing countries that are mining for exotic minerals and metals to build EV batteries for Americans?"
– Ronald Stein, P.E.,
Heartland Institute
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