The Republican climate plan forgets about the climate
The GOP is flashing just enough green to woo voters in vulnerable Democratic House districts.
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The GOP is flashing just enough green to woo voters in vulnerable Democratic House districts.
The national average for a gallon of gas this weekend was $4.84 — with California’s average at $6.32 and my home state of Louisiana at $4.43. President Joe Biden’s Energy Information Administration predicts that national average gas and diesel prices this summer will be the highest since 2014 — under then-Vice President Biden. This isn’t a coincidence, and unfortunately, what we predicted would happen at the beginning of the Biden administration is already coming true.
Lea County Commissioner Rebecca Long said oil and gas was critical to the local communities throughout the region.
It seems like a minor breakthrough when House Republicans grudgingly acknowledge that climate change warrants the unveiling of a plan at all.
President Joe Biden is invoking the Defense Production Act to support domestic solar panel component production. He’s also stabbing domestic manufacturers in the back by announcing a two-year “bridge” that will stop the Department of Commerce from imposing new tariffs on solar panel component imports.