At our Congressional hearing on Wednesday, @AOC confidently said that a @Siemans report supports shutting down "tomorrow" the coal plant that provides 20% of Puerto Rico's power.
100% false. The report *does not even consider* a shutdown before 2027.
The smoking gun quote @AOC attributes to @Siemens is "No adverse impacts were identified on the transmission system with the retirement of AES coal." But I couldn't find any phrase like that in the report Siemens prepared for Puerto Rico.
In fact I can't find @AOC's "quote" of @Siemens--"No adverse impacts were identified on the transmission system with the retirement of AES coal"--anywhere on the Internet.
While @AOC claims that the @Siemens report supports a shutdown of Puerto Rico's coal plant "tomorrow," the report in its dozens of scenarios, *does not even consider a shutdown before 2027*. And all its shutdown scenarios involve *building new fossil fuel infrastructure*!
Not only does @Siemens not support @AOC in shutting down the PR coal plant "tomorrow," it has publicly clarified that it does supporting any shutdown even in 2027 and that a shutdown "is more costly than the option of continuing operations, resulting in higher costs"!
To give @AOC every benefit of the doubt, I made a 34-minute video refuting every single claim she and her energy witness (an environmental lawyer) made in support of the deadly closure of the reliable coal plant that provides 20% of PR's electricity.
I have now demonstrated definitively that @AOC's energy claims from our hearing Wednesday were 100% false--and that her advocacy for the immediate shutdown of PR's coal plant is deadly. If she truly cares about the people of PR she will publicly recant.
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The costs of Biden-Harris's "government-dictated green energy" policies have been enormous so far, would have been catastrophic if not for their opponents' resistance, and will be apocalyptic if not stopped in the future.
My testimony to the Budget Committee (video below) 🧵👇
Watch my testimony here:
My name is Alex Epstein. I am a non-partisan philosopher and energy expert. I am grateful to share with members of both parties my analysis of “government-dictated green energy,” which is the essential energy policy of the Biden-Harris administration and of much of today's world.
Media myth: Fossil fuels are making Texas, the capital of fossil fuels, more endangered by heat.
Truth: Fossil fuels have made Texas far safer than ever from climate, both from heat and the far more dangerous cold—but anti-fossil-fuel policies are stalling that progress. 🧵👇
A recent WSJ article portrays Texas as threatened by fossil-fueled climate warming. But as evidence, they point to just 200 additional heat deaths that can’t be traced back to climate change, while ignoring the overall decline in climate deaths that fossil fuels helped cause.
An objective account of climate danger and fossil fuels would look at what the general trend of climate danger is and what fossil fuels' role is in that trend. Globally and in Texas, the answer is clear: climate danger is lower than ever, and we have fossil fuels to thank for it.
Myth: @KamalaHarris used to be for banning fracking, but now she supports fracking.
Truth: Kamala Harris is still for banning fracking—because she is still for the *net-zero agenda that requires banning fracking* along with all other fossil fuel activities. 🧵👇
Kamala Harris, who in 2019 said, “There is no question I am in favor of banning fracking,” now tells voters in fracking-dependent states like PA that she is no longer wants to ban fracking.
They shouldn’t believe her, since Harris’s net-zero agenda *requires* banning fracking.
To know what to make of Harris’s reversal on a fracking ban, we need to first recognize that banning fracking would have been one of the most harmful policies in US history. It would have destroyed 60% of our oil production and 75% of our natural gas production.
Electricity rates have risen 47% faster than the CPI the last 12 months, and nearly 24% overall since the Biden-Harris administration began.
High electricity bills are the result of government-dictated green energy schemes. 🧵👇
As Americans struggle with rising summer electricity bills, it’s important to know that this struggle was 100% unnecessary and 100% preventable.
High electricity bills are the result of government-dictated schemes—such as the recent IRA—to build massive, wasteful, unreliable solar and wind infrastructure.
Warmer temperatures are less of a threat than cold ones, and fossil fuels make us safer from both. 🧵👇
Anti-fossil fuel politicians love summer because hot temperatures give them the opportunity to portray the world as “on fire”—and offering anti-fossil-fuel policies as a solution.
In reality, cold is a bigger problem than heat—and anti-fossil-fuel policies make both worse.
Anyone commentating responsibly on summer temperatures must acknowledge 3 facts:
1. Heat-related deaths are far less prevalent than cold-related deaths
2. Earth is warming slowly—especially in warm places
3. Fossil fuels make us safer from both cold and heat
Don’t blame the climate for unreliable power, blame climate policies that shut down reliable power. 🧵👇
In recent summers it’s become commonplace for Americans to experience electricity shortages, with calls to use less electricity and the frequent threat of brownouts or blackouts.
This is an embarrassment, and it was totally preventable.
Anti-fossil-fuel politicians will blame our grid’s reliability problems on “climate change,” which is supposedly making it too hot for a grid to operate.
This is absurd; countries with much hotter temperatures than ours, like Singapore, are easily able to have a reliable grid.