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Texas Lawmakers Have a New Scheme to Punish Renewables and Prop Up Fossil Fuels

Author:     Molly Taft
Source:     Gizmodo
Publication Date:     March 14, 2023
 Link: Texas Lawmakers Have a New Scheme to Punish Renewables and Prop Up Fossil Fuels
Stephan:  

Texas has become a very weird state, in my opinion. Its elected state officials do one thing after another to harm the wellbeing of the people who voted them into office. Degraded schools, Degraded healthcare for women and children. Degraded childcare. Degraded elder care. Degraded preparation for the impact of climate change. The only people getting any benefit are rich White men, and the corporations they control. And yet the voters of Texas will probably vote for more of the same. 

MAGAt Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick of Texas waves to a crowd at a Trump rally. Credit:Nick Wagner / AP

Texas Republicans are at it again. Last week, Republican politicians in the state legislature introduced a package of bills intended to punish renewable energy and boost fossil fuels, despite the fact that Texas is currently one of the nation’s top generators of renewable power.

On Thursday, Texas state senators Charles Schwertner and Phil King introduced nine bills that they said would help solve issues with Texas’s beleaguered power grid. According to the Dallas Morning News, the bills include one that would create up to 10,000 megawatts of natural gas-fueled generation; one to smooth out what Schwertner said were pro-wind and solar “market distortions” that federal tax breaks create; one to get rid of any remaining state tax credits for renewables; and one that would limit new renewable energy facilities being built based on how much natural gas facilities are also being built, in an attempt to keep natural gas competitive.

The bills are an echo of some of the […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Sunday, April 2, 2023 at 2:08 pm

    Texas has always been a weird state.The people who live there should have a better education, so they could know what their votes really mean toward their future, and their children’s future.