Senate Votes To Advance Remarkably Stupid and Harmful Tax Bill That Will Make Energy More Expensive, Increase Blackouts and Subsidize Dirty Energy
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate today will debate Republicans’ big,ugly budget and tax bill. The bill would provide $18 billion in new subsidies to Big Oil giants, while repealing programs to help families afford clean energy. The bill obliterates incentives for renewable energy, and slaps a new tax on solar and wind energy projects, and even provides a subsidy for coal exported to make steel, just months after Interior Secretary Doug Burgum visited an Alabama coal company that exports coal around the world.
In response, Tyson Slocum, director of Public Citizen’s Energy Program issued the following statement:
“These last-minute changes added in secret behind closed doors are breathtakingly stupid, as they would undermine thousands of energy projects under development, cause economic chaos and make electricity more expensive and less reliable for Americans. Senate Republicans have zero interest in pursuing measured, thoughtful policy, and instead are only interested in pleasing Trump and extreme oil and gas campaign donors with inane culture war nonsense. The American people deserve better from their Senators than this absurd, harmful charade. ”
“Trump’s oil and gas donors will be delighted but these cuts will hit America’s working families with more expensive energy bills and less reliable service”
Further reading: Families Over Big Oil campaign fact sheet on Big Oil giveaways in Senate bill
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