(The Center Square) – A group of liberal Democrats reintroduced the Green New Deal Thursday, the controversial environmental legislation that experts say would spike energy costs in the U.S. and cost taxpayers tens of trillions of dollars.
Advocates, though, argue the changes are needed to prevent worsening climate change and get ahead of an inevitable renewable energy transition.
“For so long, our movement towards a sustainable future has been divided with really just this false notion that we have to choose between our planet and our economy,” U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said at a news conference Thursday.
Ocasio-Cortez has largely become the face of the legislation, which she called “enormous legislation, huge in scope” and emphasizing the 20 million union jobs and investments in mass transit and electrical vehicle infrastructure such as charging ports.
“We refuse to allow, for example, an economy that goes from oil barons to solar barons,” she said. “That’s what we are not going to do because what we are going to do is we are going to transition to a 100% carbon free economy that is more unionized, more just, more dignified, and guarantees more health care and housing than we ever have before.”
“That’s the goal of the Green New Deal,” she added.
As Ocasio-Cortez noted, the Green New Deal is sweeping legislation that would invest trillions in a green economy. Cost estimates vary widely on the legislation, which has changed since its initial unveiling years ago. The right-leaning American Action Forum estimated after its release that the legislation could cost between $51 trillion and $93 trillion over 10 years.
Critics have raised an array of concerns, saying the bill is too expensive, pointing to national security concerns, and arguing the renewable energy technology is not yet reliable or advanced enough to replace fossil fuels.
They also point to energy costs, which have soared since President Joe Biden took office.
“Last year Democrats hid most of their green agenda inside the so-called ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ which will add trillions to federal debt,” Daniel Turner, executive director of the energy workers advocacy group, Power the Future, told The Center Square. “They know there’s no appetite for this radical green plan and it is why they never introduced it when they had control of both chambers.
“While Americans pay $1.70 more per gallon of gas since Biden took office and deal with high food prices and empty shelves, we get this kind of DC political gamesmanship, and the American people are sick of it,” he added.
Critics also point to concerns over how federal spending on the green energy transition has fared so far. House Republicans this week were quick to point to a newly released analysis of the Inflation Reduction Act from the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation, which found that more than 90% of green energy tax subsidies went to huge corporations with more than $1 billion in sales.
Republicans also pointed out the Inflation Reduction Act favors “woke” companies with ESG investments and also expressed concerns about reliance on China, which owns the market on the production of green energy technology.
“Many of the same companies getting a green corporate welfare check have shed their American identity to do business with the Chinese Communist Party, and as a result our tax dollars are being funneled to Chinese entities that manipulate our key supply chains,” House Ways and Means Chair Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., said.
It’s as big of a dud now as it was before.
And Alexandria Obviously Communist is just as stupid now as she was before as well.
IT SHOULD BE doa. SHOULD is the operative word.
“As Ocasio-Cortez noted, the Green New Deal is sweeping legislation that would invest trillions in a green economy. Cost estimates vary widely on the legislation, which has changed since its initial unveiling years ago. The right-leaning American Action Forum estimated after its release that the legislation could cost between $51 trillion and $93 trillion over 10 years.”
“Last year Democrats hid most of their green agenda inside the so-called ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ which will add trillions to federal debt,”
“Republicans also pointed out the Inflation Reduction Act favors “woke” companies with ESG investments and also expressed concerns about reliance on China, which owns the market on the production of green energy technology.”
Again we see the treasonous, corrupt, puppet president No Joe Biden and his administration abandoning our U.S. best interest and supporting his Chinese masters best interest. 🙁 🙁 🙁
This green new deal is just the color of money and the color of the green molds that now grow on the brains of disoriented AOCs who are working hand in hand with the Chinese to de-energize the American economy which energizes our American military. This is so obvious a child could figure it out, unless that person is a Traitorous Democrat child hiding within an adult body, elected with bought votes of promises that will not, and economically cannot be fulfilled, always beginning with the Deception of the American elections, often preceded by the media dumbing down of the Democrat city indoctrinated voting population, where if there are not enough indoctrinated and promise bought voters, then just import 3-4 million more socially uneducated or miseducated illegals from other countries to overwhelm a once workable supporting American social system, now being robbed by people who never contributed a dime to sustain it, determined to crash the USA down into a 3rd world country, just like the hell holes they came from. Only fools or traitors would recommend killing our petroleum based energy soures that drive the very electric cars they seek to shove down our throats, benifitting the Chinese who have bought these Dem politicians by the dozens.
Alexandria Obviously Communist is living proof that it’s possible for a human being to function without a single operational brain cell.
mother earth is the religion of the left.
CULT of the left. For once you get in, you ain’t getting out.
She needs to go back to doing what she does best, once it is found out what that is but then why not just whoop and holler about everything and make at least 3 times more than before
This “New Green Deal” is still and always will be BS, plain and simple.
It’s amazing how so many Americans fall prey to the climate hustlers. This is a scam that has no end. Regardless of how much money, freedom, and rights we relinquish years from now people like AOC will still be saying we must do more.
Because everything is NEVER EVER enough.
And of course the government will run all the programs since they are so good at it. Just ask them