@loril.bsky.social
Executive Director of Climate Power
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
03.06.2025 00:45 — 👍 23705 🔁 9574 💬 849 📌 1340
Excerpt from the Center for American Progress piece published at https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-house-republican-plan-to-increase-gas-and-electricity-prices/ The House Republican bill would: Raise gasoline prices by 25 cents to 37 cents per gallon by 2035 as demand for oil increases due to the termination of federal electric vehicle affordability programs, fuel economy standards, and tailpipe emission standards. Repeal the financial support for buying new, used, or leased electric vehicles, which would keep between 22 million and 40 million more gasoline-powered cars and trucks on the road through 2035, as roughly one-third of families who would have tried to switch to an electric vehicle can no longer afford one. Increase electricity prices for households and industry as roughly two-thirds of the wind and solar that was previously expected to be deployed this decade is not built. This would cause annual home electric bills to jump $70 by 2031. This corroborates other analysts who found, in some cases even higher electricity price increases. The Clean Energy Buyers Association forecasts an increase of $110 in household electricity spending by 2026. Force Americans to pay the oil and gas industry an additional $339 billion for gasoline and $75 billion for electricity by 2035.
Wow, the House Republican tax bill would increase gas prices. By a lot. Up to 37¢ per gallon!
New numbers published by CAP show how ending clean energy investment props up demand for fossil fuels, raises prices, and makes households pay an extra $400b over the next decade to Big Oil and Gas.
@repstevenhorsford.bsky.social is right: Republicans' "big, beautiful bill" is the "Screw America Plan."
YOU could have to pay more for utilities while Elon Musk gets a giant tax cut.
Oh, twenty something minutes in he's ready to start talking about costs -- but he won't talk about how energy costs are spiking BECAUSE of his policies.
05.03.2025 02:41 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Trump funding freeze puts $1 billion investment in Georgia power grid on ice
Startup cancels $2.6B battery plant, ending one of Georgia's largest projects
Georgia’s economy has been on fire thanks to big investments in clean energy.
In the last 24 hours, Georgia has lost a battery factory and there’s another billion in limbo to upgrade Georgia’s power grid.
Hearing that Trump has fired all the attorneys from the Law and Policy Section of DOJ’s Environment & Natural Resources Division.
Reassignments already have been reported from the division that enforces our clean air and clean water laws, but this seems to go even further.
Jennifer Jacobs & @JenniferJJacobs Follow back BREAKING: Trump officials are putting a pause on most federal government websites. They are expected to go dark at 5 p.m., Trump officials told me. @CBSNews 4:49 PM • 1/31/25 • 487K Views
I oversaw HealthCare.gov, Medicare.gov sites 2014-2016 .
Gov’t websites do more than provide critical information to help people — they connect people to life-saving services.
Families and kids will pay a steep price for Trump dismantling the gov’t.
The Texas grid operators are going to be shocked to find out that nearly 30% of their grid power for tomorrow isn’t even energy
21.01.2025 03:05 — 👍 49 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 1
Sec. 8. Definitions. For purposes of this order, the following definitions shall apply: (a) The term "energy" or "energy resources" means crude oil, natural gas, lease condensates, natural gas liquids, refined petroleum products, uranium, coal, biofuels, geothermal heat, the kinetic movement of flowing water, and critical minerals, as defined by 30 U.S.C. 1606 (a) (3).
Donald Trump does not consider wind and solar, the cheapest forms of energy, to be energy.
21.01.2025 02:42 — 👍 17 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 3
