Oil And Gas Lobbyists Anticipating A New Republican Majority
Fossil fuel lobbyists are already working behind the scenes on Capitol Hill to work with a possible Republican majority against what they see as the Biden administration’s anti-fossil-fuel agenda. Via the New York Times:
The American Gas Association is helping to lead the charge, taking aim in particular at a program that encourages homeowners to replace furnaces and stoves that use natural gas with electric-powered devices in the name of fighting climate change.
Sure. Because what's more important -- fighting the extreme climate change that was covered up for decades by these same industries, or maintaining obscene profit margins? I think you know!
A top lobbyist at the powerful trade association told other gas industry executives at a conference late last month that the organization was preparing to team up with House Republicans to intensify oversight of the Energy Department, recalling Obama-era investigations by Republicans in Congress into a solar panel company named Solyndra that went bankrupt after receiving a federal loan guarantee.
Their hope is to undercut a $4.5 billion program that will give rebates worth as much as $14,000 per household to low- and moderate-income families to install electric-powered heat pumps, water heaters, induction stoves and other devices that would in many cases replace appliances that use natural gas.