I vote for sledgehammer.
Politico (6/5/24) reports: "President Joe Biden’s signature climate law is nearly two years old, and the tug-of-war over its future is only getting more fierce. The Biden administration is facing election year pressure from progressives to move more quickly to phase out fossil fuels, at a time when the U.S has become an oil and natural gas superpower. At the same time, conservatives and former President Donald Trump are threatening to gut the law and its hundreds of billions of dollars in clean energy spending if they take back power in Washington — though more than a few Republicans are coming to its defense...But a member of Trump’s 2016 transition team indicated the former president might not be so surgical — especially when presented with a pile of cash that could fund his own agenda. 'If Donald Trump wins the election he’s going to take a look at the revenue, the potential revenue you can generate from funds in the IRA that haven’t been spent, to fund his priorities,' said Tom Pyle, president of the conservative American Energy Alliance. Trump has repeatedly attacked Biden’s green initiatives, especially the spending on wind power and electric cars. In a recent campaign appearance, he vowed to 'impose an immediate moratorium on all new spending, grants and giveaways' contained in 'socialist bills like the so-called Inflation Reduction Act.'"
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If you couldn't make it to Politico's 2024 Energy Summit yesterday here's all you need to know.
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"The issues raised by the EV mandates involve matters of life, liberty, and prosperity—issues that are fundamentally political in nature. Under our constitutional republic, it is for Congress, and Congress alone, to weigh the competing interests at stake in these matters and to make the monumental decisions that EPA now presumes to take upon itself."
– Steven G. Bradbury,
The Heritage Foundation
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