GOP In Hearing To Big Oil CEOs: Stop Aligning W. Libtards With Your Silly Renewables & Solar Panels

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Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) noted during the hearing that global energy demand is forecast to increase 50% by 2050 and declared that “renewables will never meet that demand — never.” He then rattled off a list of metals and other resources that would have to be mined and secured to transition from fossil fuels to renewables. And he touted the greenhouse gas emission reductions that could result if all coal-generated power were replaced with natural gas. “That’s the argument you should be making instead of behaving like you have Stockholm syndrome, like your civility to the radical environmentalists in Congress and this administration will one day get them to like you,” Crenshaw told the oil industry executives. “They will never like you.”

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Rep. Bill Johnson (R-Ohio), another huge beneficiary of industry campaign cash, gave an equally obsequious lecture, telling the executives they deserve thanks and praise for what they do “to keep the lights on” and “quite literally to fuel modern life as we know it in America.”

“But there’s a problem,” Johnson said. “Many of you have big advertising budgets. Why won’t you tell that story? I’m not going to name names, but we’ve all seen the TV commercials from Big Oil, filled with solar panels, green climate messaging about how you’re diversifying your portfolio and how you’re embracing liberal, progressive values.” “What’s been your return on investment with that effort?” Johnson continued. “You’ve taken a shellacking today from the Democrats. Do they seem impressed by your efforts to show your allegiance to their anti-fossil fuel agenda?”

Johnson fired off a series of yes-or-no questions about whether the executives are proud of the products and jobs they produce. After getting a series of yes answers, he called on the executives to use his line of questioning as a template for telling their story. He accused the industry of “chasing radical green progressive values.” The oil and gas sector has given Johnson $725,609 over his political career, more than any other industry.

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oil-executives-testify-republicans-energy-committee_n_624f4b7fe4b0587dee74cb92

[AllaN01Bear]

1. whine to me when your florida property is under water .

[CrispyQ]

2. I guess republicans don't have children or grandchildren, huh?

Or are they really so depraved as to not give a shit about the kind of planet we leave our children? Yeah, I know, they are.

[LakeArenal]

3. FTR: Costa Rica is 90% off fossil fuels.

As cars turn electric that percentage will rise.

Yes CR is state sized compared to US but every state can do the same.

Also FTR: There is no cancer or piles of dead birds from wind generation.

As we speak I can see 100+ generators “from my house”!!!!

[hunter]

5. Most of Costa Rica's electricity comes from hydroelectric plants.

It's easy to integrate wind energy into such a system. When the wind is blowing less water is released to the turbines in the dams. When the wind is not blowing more water is released. This creates some very unnatural river flows but the technology is not complicated.

Most of the world doesn't have these hydroelectric resources so natural gas backs up wind and solar schemes.

At this moment California is getting about 68% of its electricity from renewables, and 22% from natural gas.

California's has a very large hydroelectric capacity, but this is diminished in times of increasingly common droughts.

Wind and solar energy will only prolong our dependence on natural gas and for that reason I frequently say those are the best thing that ever happened to gas industry. Of course the petroleum/gas industry promotes it. That's why you see wind turbines in Texas.

The most serious threat to the fossil fuel industry is nuclear power. Nuclear power is the only energy source capable of displacing fossil fuels entirely.

That explains a lot.

Coal will be the first fossil fuel displaced. That's what happened in France. Nuclear powered France closed its last coal mine twenty years ago.

That's also what caused the current catastrophe in Germany. Their aggressive renewable energy schemes and anti-nuclear policies forced them to import increasing amounts of Russian natural gas and prevented them from quitting coal. That didn't end well, as many had predicted, and it was sooner than expected.

[LakeArenal]

6. We have plenty of wind. At least where we live.

[Mickju]

4. They really don't think the climate is changing.

My 83 year old Fox News watching sister insists that climate change isn't happening. Anything that threatens their way of life isn't happening as far as they are concerned. It drives me nuts!

[LakeArenal]

7. That is the prerogative of a 83 civilian.

Not so much our 80 year Legislators.