Or is it fantasy?
E&E News (8/27/25) reports: "After seeing Republicans gut their signature climate law, Democrats have embraced a strategy they think will make the GOP pay in next year’s midterm elections. During the August recess, Democratic lawmakers have used town halls, press conferences and social media posts to hammer home that President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act phases out a host of energy incentives from the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. They say that — and the administration’s hostility toward wind and solar — are beginning to show up in consumers’ utility bills...Tom Pyle, president of the conservative Institute for Energy Research, pointed to relatively flat energy prices over the last decade despite the rapid addition of renewables to the grid. He also said the intermittent nature of renewables means they are inherently less valuable. 'It must be nice to be a Democrat, to turn around and try to blame Republicans for years of their own bad energy policy,' Pyle said. 'The fact of the matter is that managing intermittent renewables and the closure of fossil fuel plants is what is driving prices up.'...Pyle said data centers need the baseload, at-the-ready generation that Trump-supported energy sources like natural gas and coal provide. He did, however, point out that Republicans will have to focus intensely on countering Democratic blame for high energy prices in the coming months. 'Republicans have to absolutely communicate effectively that this is the Biden and Obama administrations’ problem,' Pyle said. 'Voters have a tendency to blame the people in charge.'"
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