There is nothing conservative about policies that empower the government to decide the types of energy we use or the cars we drive. Everyone knows that. It's about time someone put it in black and white.
Daily Caller (12/2/22) op-ed: "You know things are grim among the Republicans when a former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) chairman, Neil Chatterjee, and former Congressman Carlos Curbelo team up to advocate for more expensive energy. Yet both of them did just that in a recent article where they tried to convince donors on the left to give to front groups — nominally Republican — working diligently destroy affordable and reliable American energy. Writing in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, both applauded passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, which takes $400 billion from taxpayers and gives it to wealthy investors in alternative energy. As a reminder, not a single Republican member of Congress voted for that legislation. Of course, what the authors probably want is cash for their own organizations. 'Groups … where Neil is a senior policy adviser, and … where Carlos serves on the board of advisers, also work regularly to inform members of Congress and mobilize, respectively, business leaders and Gen Z conservatives in decarbonization efforts,' they write. Good for them; everyone should try to make some cash. However, the notion that elected Republicans would favor making energy more expensive and less reliable if there were just a few more bucks floating around on the right is nonsense, and Mr. Chatterjee and Mr. Curbelo both know that...The very last thing the Republicans should do is accept their adversaries’ framing of the issues. The new majority is there to do something about inflation, lawlessness, border security and to generally check the errant and erratic Biden administration. They are also there to do something about energy prices. No one gave the Republicans the majority in the House so they could waste more taxpayer cash on the left’s daydreams or, worse, so they could become stewards of the left’s donor class."
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"Africans need electricity now. Not someday in the future, after their chance to survive a hospital surgery is denied by a policy maker enamored with fanciful visions of a carbon-free world."
– Vijay Jayaraj, CO2 Coalition,
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