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Barrasso: Democrats Want to Use Tax Code to Destroy American Energy Jobs
At a Senate Committee on Finance markup on “The Clean Energy for America Act” Wednesday, U.S. Senator John Barrasso criticized Democrats for choosing to use the tax code to intentionally destroy America’s fossil energy industries and jobs. Senator Barrasso said energy is the backbone of America.
Barrasso said picking winners and losers is not good tax policy, especially when the winners are our country’s rivals. He said when the losers are hard working Americans who lose their jobs, their financial security, and pay more to heat and cool their homes, this is not the direction in which we should head.
According to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, the Clean Energy for America Act would consolidate current energy tax incentives into emissions-based provisions that incentivize clean electricity, clean transportation and energy efficiency. The incentives would be available to all energy technologies as long as they meet emissions reduction goals.
Mitch Smith
May 26, 2021 at 9:44 pm
Well said John! The price at the pump and Coal production tells the story. biden admin is hurting Wyoming in a BIG way…… Keep fighting John!
Fred Osborn
May 27, 2021 at 2:05 pm
Put away the kool aid…you have had too much.
dennis West
May 26, 2021 at 10:03 pm
Don’t believe what this dishonorable self-serving hollow man says. He has turned his back on his oath to support the constitution, which he swore upon taking office. He is just interested in being a toady for the national repubs, who are only interested in power, access to money, and status – forget governing. Barrasso and his repub cronies won’t even speak to their attempt to overturn a legitimate election, and try to keep anyone from finding out what really went on by sabotaging any attempt to look into it. They are worried, and should be. The fossil fuels industries (oil, natural gas, coal) certainly were picked as winners by the US Government – for over 100 years got to use federal resources AND tax breaks. But the chickens have come home to roost and now mostly the ordinary citizen is paying the price – changing climate, loss of public land access, increased fees and decreased service, and changing job opportunities. If only someone had seen it coming and proposed retraining for the next energy technologies – the repubs sure didn’t! Barrasso and the repubs only want to tell us we’re victims so they’ll get votes and regain access to money, power and status. The repubs don’t do anything to address problems. I say don’t be so gullible.
Charles Cole
May 27, 2021 at 7:31 am
As to the future of the energy industry, Senator, the biggest threat to that sector of the economy is the Green New Deal being pumped by the lunatics of the American left. Sorry to have to say this, but you had a wonderful opportunity when you were Chairman of the Senate committee dealing with energy and environment to have called for a public, nationwide debate on the entire issue of “human induced global climate change” (the left’s new version of Al Gore’s man-made global warming). I know that your office was given this idea along with a suggestion as to possible participants in such a debate — scientists with doctoral degrees in climate-relevant disciplines such as the physics involved in Thermodynamics. Sadly, you were too busy standing around with Mitch McConnell getting photo ops to have picked up the gauntlet and gone to battle to at least try to provide the American people with both sides of an issue the Democrats have been pumping since the 1990s. Again, sorry to say, it’s a little too late for you to now start bemoaning the fact that due to leftwing Democrat policies and programs many, many people in the energy sector have already lost their jobs and many, many more will likely follow them to the unemployment line — all because the GOP can’t seem to muster he intestinal fortitude to stand up to the ludicrous pronouncements the Democrats have made concerning this issue over the past 20+ years!
Fred Osborn
May 27, 2021 at 7:45 am
The propaganda machine speaks again. Term limits needed badly.
Thomas Jones
May 27, 2021 at 1:29 pm
Agreed. Pelosi, schumer, durbin, waters, hoyer, and host of other dinosaurs have been grifting in office for way too long. Career politicians are corrupt politicians.
Fred Osborn
May 27, 2021 at 2:04 pm
Don’t leave out the many repubs that have been milking their way to a fat pension…and free health care at the expense of the common worker,especially in Wyoming.
Ross Holter
May 27, 2021 at 9:26 am
This man is a buffoon. He supported the crippling Trump/Ryan tax cuts which are now being paid for by the middle and lower classes and he has the audacity to blame the stagnant economy on the left. Wyoming could and should be in the forefront in energy diversification and experimentation, but we are stuck in technologies that were developed 150 years ago. The world is passing us bye and Barrasso is definitely to blame for his head in the sand mentality and willful ignorance.
Mark Steingass
May 27, 2021 at 9:40 am
A $10,000.00 tax credit for buying the new electric FORD F150 might be a good incentive for potential buyers…”the good doctor” needs to consider the mega trend toward clean energy and figure out how to diversify the state economy
Thomas Jones
May 27, 2021 at 1:27 pm
That still leaves a $30,000 bill left over for the buyer. How many people can afford that? And what happens when the Li ion batteries give up the ghost? Shall they be buried next to the hundreds of wind turbine blades near Casper?
Mark Steingass
May 27, 2021 at 2:24 pm
very thought provoking Thomas…you should write letters to each and every EV manufacturer here in the USA and abroad and ask these same questions…let us all know what their reply is regarding your questions will you?…as for shutting down rare earth metal mining as you state below…fascinating…you are just fascinating…keep writing will you?
Thomas Jones
May 28, 2021 at 10:22 am
I already know the answer: green above everything else, even if it becomes anti-green. The biden admin is set to close many US mines. Dont wait for cnn to tell you, the internet is your friend.
biden owes Xi, and the CCP.
Thomas Jones
May 27, 2021 at 1:20 pm
Not just energy jobs, team biden wants to shut down rare earth metal mines too….and guess who benefits? China.
Its all part of the agenda from bidens oligarch puppet masters at the WEF in order to implement the great reset.