We warned you about this back in February, but here's the context:
The Senate has already passed a bi-partisan bill to aid Ukraine in their ongoing war with Russia. That Bi-partisan Senate bill has a lot of problems — in that it also funds Israel's genocidal war in Gaza — but fossil fuels weren't an issue in it. There's a huge bipartisan majority in the House that supports Ukraine aid. But a tiny minority of House Republicans oppose aid to Ukraine, and a growing list of Democrats have concerns about military support for Israel given ongoing war crimes including the murder of a US citizen who worked with the aid group World Central Kitchen.
To try and unite the fossil fueled fascist party, Speaker Johnson is bringing out some old hits from Donald Trump's Presidency and adding "energy dominance" language to the Ukraine aid bill. That includes the dirty bill HR7176 which, as we told you a few weeks ago, would overturn President Biden's LNG export pause. And what's worse, some Democrats are reportedly "open" to the idea!
To be clear, we're already exporting more gas than Europe needs. Allies in Europe and Ukraine are already building distributed renewable energy and heat pumps. Gas demand declined last year according to international monitors. And additional US gas exports it will mostly benefit fossil fuel companies, and their clients in China and Asian markets.
What this latest dirty deal might do is unite fossil fueled fascists in the House and force Democrats to choose between peace and clean energy (which you can't deposit in a campaign account) and war and fossil fuels – two of the biggest campaign donors in America. Those are not good odds for climate activists and anti fascists fossil fuel campaigners.
Click here email your member of Congress and tell them: Hands off President Biden's LNG export pause – no dirty deals for Ukraine aid!
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Drew and the 198 methods to fight fossil fascists crew
