{"id":442611,"date":"2026-05-04T11:06:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=442611"},"modified":"2026-05-04T11:06:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:06:50","slug":"republican-green-energy-fantasies-and-casualties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=442611","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Republican\u2019 Green energy fantasies and casualties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Craig Rucker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Trump has it dead right. Recently, he signed five executive orders<\/a> using the Defense Production Act to accelerate domestic fossil fuel development and electrical grid infrastructure. America needs no-holds-barred development of oil, natural gas, coal, critical minerals, metals, a nuclear renaissance<\/a>, and manufacturing of the technologies that keep our economy humming and our nation secure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s good to see a president who has zero patience for wind, solar, and giant battery schemes because he understands one simple truth: We must have reliable, affordable, dispatchable energy <\/strong>\u2014 not power that goes belly up when the wind dies, clouds roll in, or the sun sets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naturally, Democrats oppose any such logic \u2026 if for no other reason than Trump supports it. They want to bulldoze any notion of using fossil fuels while hypocritically fighting nuclear power and even reliable hydroelectric dams. Their green zealotry knows no bounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While that\u2019s no surprise, what\u2019s far more alarming (and bizarre) is that some Republicans are pushing a similar watered-down \u201clow-carb net-zero\u201d fantasy, just like the Democrats. They don\u2019t call it the \u201cGreen New Deal.\u201d That would be too much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, they brand it as embracing an \u201call-of-the-above\u201d energy strategy \u2014 one that gives a nod and a wink to nuclear and hydro, but undermines fossil fuels and keeps the mandates, subsidies, and tax credits flowing to wind, solar, and batteries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why the heck would they do this, especially since \u201cconservatives\u201d typically don\u2019t stay up late at night fretting about climate change<\/a> and are suspicious of taxpayer dollars flowing to seedy companies and special interests?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These folks worry about losing suburban \u201cgreen\u201d votes. They don\u2019t want to be called \u201cclimate deniers\u201d or enemies of \u201cclean\u201d energy. Some actually believe renewables are net job creators. Others envision easy money from wind and solar to fill coffers in their states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019ll find them among governors like Kim Reynolds of Iowa and Mark Gordon of Wyoming, senators like John Curtis (R-UT) and Lisa Murkowski R-AK), and RINO groups like the American Conservation Coalition, the Conservative Energy Network, and Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They call themselves \u201cfree-market conservatives,\u201d grounded in less regulation and sound science. Nice branding. Too bad their preferred \u201csolutions\u201d are loaded with massive, rarely discussed downsides, especially when it comes to the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look at the land grab. The SunZia Wind Project<\/a> is a poster child for net-zero madness: 916 enormous turbines sprawling across hundreds of thousands of acres in New Mexico. At 3.5-gigawatt nameplate capacity and an $11 billion cost, paired with a 550-mile transmission line to California<\/em>, it\u2019s the largest onshore industrial wind subsidy-grabber in the Western Hemisphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solar? California\u2019s Bellefield project<\/a> will carpet about 8,000 acres<\/a> with 1.2 million panels in the Mojave, while Indiana\u2019s Mammoth Solar<\/a> will swallow 20 square miles where winter sun is pathetic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These projects are industrial-scale devastation on ranchland and wildlife habitat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These aren\u2019t empty wastelands. They are prime croplands, ranchlands, and fragile desert and mountain ecosystems getting paved over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wildlife carnage is brutal. Turbine blade tips whip at speeds up to 200 mph<\/a>, slaughtering hundreds of thousands of birds and over a million bats every year in the U.S. alone. Estimates give rates of 4-11 birds and 12-19 bats<\/a> killed per megawatt. Eagles, hawks, migratory birds, and songbirds all pay the price. Scale this up for net-zero dreams, and the body count explodes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019re resource hogs. These projects demand insane amounts of steel, copper, concrete, rare earths, and hundreds of miles of transmission lines. Wind and solar require far more raw materials<\/a> per unit of actual electricity delivered than nuclear, gas, or coal plants. That means more global mining and pollution, at levels people and planet have never seen before. China owns the supply chain. Beijing dominates 80-90 percent<\/a> of solar manufacturing, major shares of wind components, 80 percent<\/a> or more of batteries, and 80-95 percent<\/a> of critical mineral processing like rare earths. Many systems come with remote \u201cmaintenance\u201d backdoors that could let adversaries mess with our grid. This isn\u2019t energy independence. It\u2019s a strategic surrender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Real conservatives, not \u201call-of-the-above\u201d pretenders, understand the importance of not only slashing the red tape strangling real energy projects, but also cutting back on the ecologically destructive, subsidy-sucking renewable energy industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They understand that even if America went full net-zero at trillions in costs, wrecked industries, lost jobs, and lower living standards, it wouldn\u2019t matter for emissions or the climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China pumps out over 13 billion tons<\/a> of CO2 yearly, about one-third of the global total. India adds over 3 billion. The two countries dwarf U.S. emissions (4.6 billion) and Europe\u2019s emissions (3.1 billion) combined. Our enormous sacrifices would be pointless symbolism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republicans who court an \u201call-of-the-above\u201d energy strategy must drop their green virtue-signaling and get on board with the Trump administration and Secretary Wright\u2019s train to prosperity and security. Unleash American energy \u2014 oil, gas, coal, nuclear, and domestic mining \u2014 and kill the mandates and subsidies that distort markets and enrich adversaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article originally appeared at Townhall<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

_____________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Craig Rucker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president. Widely heralded as a leader in the free market environmental, think tank community in Washington, D.C., Rucker is a frequent guest on radio talk shows, written extensively in numerous publications, and has appeared in such media outlets as Fox News, OANN, Washington Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Hill, among many others. Rucker is also the co-producer of the award-winning film \u201cClimate Hustle,\u201d which was the #1 box-office film in America during its one night showing in 2016, as well as the acclaimed “Climate Hustle 2” staring Hollywood actor Kevin Sorbo released in 2020. As an accredited observer to the United Nations, Rucker has also led CFACT delegations to some 30 major UN conferences, including those in Copenhagen, Istanbul, Kyoto, Bonn, Marrakesh, Rio de Janeiro, and Warsaw, to name a few.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Trump has it dead right. Recently, he signed five executive orders using the Defense Production Act to accelerate domestic fossil fuel development and electrical grid infrastructure. 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