From January 1, 2022 post
While it makes sense to advocate conservation and environment-friendly policies, we must reject utopian, statist, big government schemes that drive up oil/gas/electricity prices as is currently in vogue with the Democrats running our state and national governments. Democratic policies of limiting fracking, closing down pipelines, and ending exploration for new fossil fuel reserves have driven energy costs through the roof in the past year. This hurts real people, real families, and the economy, as we’ve all seen first-hand.
Living in one of the most beautiful places on earth, Coloradans are rightly concerned about our environment. We have much to cherish and protect in Colorado. As we protect our environment, we must move carefully and sustainably, incentivizing private industry to go green, not seeking to achieve greener outcomes via government fiat as is the fashion on the left. Yes to viable alternative, economically viable energy (solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, even nuclear), but no to policies inducing high oil/energy prices and to utopian schemes that hurt humans alive today. Yes to electric cars, but no to dependency on Chinese batteries and solar panels. For example, China controls 80-90% of global supplies of rare earths like lithium, nickel, and cobalt, which are needed to produced car batteries! The US must be more proactive at exploiting sources in the US as well as getting more aggressive in sourcing in places like the Democratic Republic of Congo, the world’s lead supplier of cobalt, where China dominates cobalt operations. Republicans should advocate a pragmatic, well-thought-out, entrepreneurial, green future for real people, not for yet more big government programs. This is good for both our state and our nation.
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