Political Quotes

“Another goal highlighted in the roadmap supports a transition to no-carbon fuels. Mr. Chairman, Americans see through these goals. The reality is that no-carbon fuels are not only no such thing--and only a charlatan would argue otherwise--but they receive four times the amount in Federal subsidies while producing less than one-fifth of the energy as compared to our legacy industries. These fuels are not only unreliable, even with the ridiculous amount of taxpayer subsidies, but environmentally destructive and require massive amounts of land per unit of energy produced. They kill birds and other wildlife by the millions. These unreliable projects simply cannot compete with our traditional and reliable energy resources, a fact borne out by their need for massive Federal subsidies to be viable at all. Figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration show that renewables received $15.6 billion in subsidies during fiscal year 2022 and an estimated $1.2 trillion from the so-called Inflation Reduction Act and are the largest recipient of such subsidies. It is thus entirely foreseeable that the second largest recipient of subsidies, according to the Energy Information Administration, are lower-income families who struggle to pay their utility bills, proving that this administration is hell-bent on imposing energy poverty on every sector of our society. Why are they struggling?…”