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Greg Abbott: “This shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of America. Texas is blessed with…”

On the recordFebruary 17, 2021
This shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of America. Texas is blessed with multiple sources of energy such as natural gas and oil and nuclear as well as solar and wind. But you saw from what Troy said, and that is our wind and our solar got shut down and they were collectively more than 10% of our power grid. It just shows that fossil fuel is necessary for the State of Texas as well as other states to make sure that we were a will be able to heat our homes in the wintertime and cooler homes in the summertime.
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Greg Abbott
Republican · Texas
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msnbc.com

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Greg Abbott blames renewable energy for the power outages in Texas and argues for the necessity of fossil fuels.

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