Post-Climate Bill, GQP Reveals Strategy For Mid-Terms: "Inflation!!! Inflation!!! Inflation!!"
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GOP energy consultants are also going after Biden’s plan to make the grid more reliant on renewable resources such as wind and solar. “Americans are concerned about a couple things right now,” David Bernhardt, Trump’s former Interior secretary, said in an interview. “And certainly one of those things is high energy prices. I think it’s very bad to have policies where you suggest an alternative without having that alternative currently available. And so I think that’s what they’re struggling with, and they’ll figure it out, but that’s the consequence of heading in that direction.”Since the beginning of the year, GOP lawmakers have blamed energy price spikes on Biden’s executive order that killed the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have brought oil from Canada to American refineries. The pipeline would not have been in service until next year, at the earliest.
The Republican Party has yet to endorse any climate policy that would reduce emissions at a rate that scientists say is necessary to avoid some of the worst effects of climate change. That hasn’t hurt Republican candidates during elections, however, since polling shows most GOP voters rank climate near the bottom of their electoral priorities. Despite that, the party’s opposition to climate policies could expose candidates to risk in tight races in swing states, some polls suggest.
Surveys show that young voters, including a portion of conservatives, increasingly want lawmakers to do more on climate. Almost half of 18- to 29-year-old Republicans want the government to do more to address climate change, according to a Pew Research survey released last month. As a result, Republicans in the House have crafted policies centered around planting more trees and investing in technological advances to reduce emissions, as well as increase domestic oil and gas production, arguing that it has fewer emissions than fuels produced by other countries. The Republican Party has not proposed ideas to cut reliance on fossil fuels, the primary driver of climate change.
It remains to be seen if Democrats can pass the “Inflation Reduction Act.” But early polling shows it has wide support, including among independents who could play an important role in a number of swing states this fall. Americans support the climate provisions of the “Inflation Reduction Act” by a wide margin, 47 percent to 30 percent, according to a Yahoo News/YouGov survey of 1,600 adults conducted July 28 to Aug. 1. That gap increased — 61 percent to 14 percent — when respondents were informed of other provisions, such as a reduction in prescription drug costs for Medicare recipients.
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