Political Quotes

“this amendment fully defunds DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, or the EERE. This amendment is offered because we simply cannot continue to fund the destruction--and that is what it is--of the U.S. energy grid to satisfy a climate cult. The FY 2024 minibus gave this office $3.5 billion. While the underlying bill cuts funding down to $1.9 billion, we need to defund it entirely. Why are we fooling around here, taking half of it? This thing doesn't do anything good for anybody. This office's mission under the last administration was to ``equitably transition America to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions economy-wide by no later than 2050.'' What does that mean, net zero? What that means is everything that you see--the clothing you are wearing, the car you are driving, the cell phone you use--disappears in America because we can't make any of that stuff because it requires emissions. We will still have it, so we will just offshore that stuff to everybody else, including China. That is a brilliant plan. If we look at wind and solar, it funds wind and solar, which are actively destroying the power grid. They are the least reliable sources of power and the most expensive. Nobody would use them, and nobody would produce them, if they weren't subsidized by your tax dollars. It funds zero-emission vehicles that only the wealthy can afford and depends on supply chains dominated by China.”