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Grassley says Texas power outages epitomize why Green New Deal won’t work
During his weekly call with ag reporters Tuesday, the Iowa Republican says the crippling winter storm emphasized what he’s been saying about energy policy the past 20 years.
“It has to have four components (and) one is continued existence of fossil fuel until they phase out and something else phases in.”
But for that to happen, he says there must be dependable alternative energy sources.
“And snow on solar panels, or frozen windmills aren’t very satisfactory and responsible alternatives to fossil fuels.”
Why doesn’t Senator Grassley put the blame where it belongs, on the shoulders of the power companies, and maybe politicians, in Texas who want their state disconnected from the national grids available elsewhere in the U.S. and the failure to winterize their equipment. Look no farther than El Paso which had only a small fraction of the disruptions suffered in the rest of the state. They are connected with external grid sources and winterized their equipment. Some of the natural-gas fired plants in Texas couldn’t keep their equipment operating because they weren’t winterized.