Representing the interests of New York's 14th district, and the Chinese Communist Party.
Epoch Times (7/28/20) reports: "Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is quietly pushing an amendment to a congressional budget bill that energy experts claim could cripple Americans’ ability to heat and cool their homes. The amendment from the first-term New York Democrat who is more popularly known as 'AOC' would also be an economic boon to China’s near monopoly on rare earth minerals required for the solar panels, wind turbine parts, inverters, and batteries required for renewable energy systems...'This amendment is nothing less than unilateral energy disarmament that benefits the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Red China. At the same time [Ocasio-Cortez] is advising Joe Biden on energy and introducing amendments to stop American energy infrastructure, the Red China government is announcing a $56 billion deal to own and expand their own energy circulation system,' American Energy Alliance (AEA) Senior Vice President Dan Kish told The Epoch Times Tuesday. 'China knows it needs a good energy delivery system to make the solar panels, wind turbine parts and inverters and batteries Ocasio-Cortez’ Green New Deal will subsidize and force Americans to buy,' Kish said. 'Since China controls 90+ percent of the rare earth minerals and the cobalt and lithium and other minerals “green energy” sources require, this amendment really sets China up for a huge economic stimulus,' he said."
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"A key lesson of the U.S. energy revolution is that resource abundance will only get the Australian economy so far. A variety of factors such as institutional arrangements, property rights, free markets, infrastructure development, and regulatory and policy settings must all play a critical role."
– Alex Robson,
University of Sydney
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