Congressman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., praising the Green New Deal after Texas infrastructure failed after a winter storm is “nonsense,” Fox & Friends co-host Will Cain said Thursday -market.
Cain responded to a tweet from Democratic Congresswoman from New York claiming that the lack of a search for the New Deal Green resulted in Texas infrastructure failures.
“This is absurd. What I just said is what happened in Texas last week and what led to it, Texas unprepared for this event that occurs once in 30 years. But then you ask yourself, how can we prepare ? How can we be ready for something like this in the future? “Cain told” The Faulkner Focus “.
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Cain said the government has been “subsidizing billions of dollars for wind energy” for some time.
An opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal argued that “overconfidence in wind power” led to the collapse of the Lone Star State when temperatures dropped to single digits, leading to a massive increase in demand that overwhelmed the system.
“The problem is Texas’ over-reliance on wind power that has left the grid more vulnerable to bad weather,” the article said.
“Half of the wind turbines froze last week, causing the share of wind in electricity to drop from 42% to 8%. Energy prices in the wholesale market skyrocketed and network regulators on Friday warned of blackouts. natural gas and coal increased to fill the supply gap, but failed to meet the growing demand for electricity – on which half of households depend for heating – even with so many families fueling their gas ovens, so some gas wells and pipelines froze . “
The article stated that “there was not enough base energy from coal and nuclear to sustain the network, while base energy is needed to stabilize the network.”
Cain said Texas should boost its coal and nuclear power supply, as well as other forms of energy, rather than prioritizing Ocasio-Cortez’s New Deal Green solutions.
“So, if you are going to prepare for the future and are going to prepare for a cataclysmic event, what do you need to invest in? Do you invest in subsidizing the wind or subsidizing the insulation of your natural gas pipelines? do you subsidize storage on site facilities?
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“The question is … help what you know you can count on: basic energy, natural gas, oil and gas. We are subsidizing the wrong things. And then AOC, let’s end this with her, wants to rely on that. “