Chip Roy: “I saw a photograph today that had a person who was driving a Tesla. And God bless Tesla for making technology. I am all…”

“I saw a photograph today that had a person who was driving a Tesla. And God bless Tesla for making technology. I am all for it. But the person in their virtue-signaling, self-congratulation of driving their Tesla is driving around with a license plate that says: ``NO FUEL,'' right? Does somebody want to go, ``Wait. Hold on,'' knock on the door and say: ``Excuse me, where do you think the power is coming from?'' Is it magic power? ``Well, we just get power from electricity,'' as if the electricity comes from nothing, as if the Tesla is just magically powered and suddenly just drives around without having abundant availability of energy. Is the gentleman aware and would he agree with me that China has about 70 percent of the world's rare-earth reserves, and that when we are going down the road of solar panels and other alternative forms of energy--and, again, Texas embraced wind power; Texas embraced solar power. We can have these as part of our grid, but then what happens on a windless, cloudy day? You have China being empowered. One more question for the gentleman: Is the gentleman aware that we just saw a report that China is producing more of the emissions and CO<INF>2</INF> than the rest of the world combined? My colleagues on the other side of the aisle want us to join the Paris Agreement, which we were outperforming without being a part of it.…”