Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to E&E News, most of the members of the new Democrat dominated House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis are either invested in or take donations from fossil fuel companies.
Select committee Dems still rely on fossil fuels
Corbin Hiar, E&E News reporter
Published: Friday, February 8, 2019The panel that House Democrats created to combat global warming is called the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, but the fossil fuel connections of the members named yesterday suggest to some environmentalists a certain lack of urgency.
Industry advocates, however, support the watered-down aims of the panel and defend the campaign and pocketbook ties its nine Democratic members have to fossil fuel companies (Greenwire, Feb. 7).
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Many of the committee members — including Chairwoman Kathy Castor (D-Fla.), Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) — also have investments in fossil fuel assets, E&E News found during a review of their financial disclosures.
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So far, just 41 of the House’s 435 members have pledged “to not take contributions from the oil, gas, and coal industry and instead prioritize the health of our families, climate, and democracy over fossil fuel industry profits.” No Republicans have made that commitment (E&E Daily, Jan. 30).
The only current pledge-taker on the climate crisis committee is Rep. Mike Levin, a freshman Democrat from California.
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I actually feel a little sorry for Democrat voters. Stuffing a committee called the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis with people who invest in fossil fuels is probably not what Democrat voters expected.
I don’t agree with the Democrat public position on climate change, I think genuine action to shut down fossil fuel would be terrible for the US economy, which is currently booming thanks to the flood of cheap energy unleashed by President Trump and the previous Republican Congress and current Republican dominated Senate.
But promising action then letting voters down can undermine Democracy. If voters feel betrayed by their elected representatives, sometimes they turn to political extremists like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Democrat voters in Alexandria’s district might not agree with a lot of what she stands for, but in a horrible way her extremism is a form of political integrity; she probably intends to do exactly what she promised to do.
Maybe the members of the committee have had a change of heart, and all intend to crack down on their former fossil fuel industry friends. But if I was a climate concerned Democrat voter, right now I would be feeling very let down by the party to whom I entrusted my vote.
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It’s called “diversification” and proves that the people they hired aren’t retarded.
We need to encourage all of our green friends to vote for the Green party, since the Democrat party has no intention of doing anything real regarding climate change.
We can also point out to them how effective the green/socialist parties have been in Europe.
(Make sure not to mention to them the difference between our system of government and the parliamentary system found in Europe.)
May 2 2020
Energy Workers Mobilization (could be better)
Coming off the May 1st Labor day weekend all non-emergency workers in the massive coal, gas, oil, nuclear energy, transportation and power generation sector of the US economy calls in sick . Everyone who’s livelihood has been targeted for elimination.
Why not
Ha ha. Nevermind the oil, whatabout feet of clay?
What’s up with the choice of Democrat House members to show photos of? Neither Pelosi nor Ocasio-Cortez are on the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Select_Committee_on_the_Climate_Crisis#Members,_116th_Congress
My guess why the photos is because the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis is Democrat-dominated, Pelosi is a Democrat and Speaker of the Democrat-dominated House, while Ocasio-Cortez, also Democrat, is the House sponsor of the Green New Deal bill. So, you’ve got a Democrat house speaker for a Democrat-dominated House and a House sponsor of the Green New Deal as poster children for a Democrat-dominated House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis.
What better figure heads could there be? (^_^)
This is nothing new, Democrats have always been invested in fossil fuel and always will be. Pointing out to their voters that they are simply makes Democrat Party voters angry at you for “lying” about Democrat Party politicians, the truth never intrudes on their “reality”.
Perhaps the “Select Committee on the Climate Crisis” would be better suited with a different name, like “Committee on the Climate Crisis Policies”, or CCCP 🙂
Our “Leaders” are frequently not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but the slighter brighter one know that is what Ädvisers” are for..
My only life experience shows that being a CEO is one of the easiest jobs, just as long as you know how to pick people who know what they are doing. Then you jut have to keep a gentle eye” on them, and things usually work out very well.
This appears to be Trumps problem., not so much the picking of bright people, they seem very well qualified, but his inability to then “Gently keep a eye on them” He thinks that he is still on TV. “Your fired”.
MJE
MJE.
Now that is an inconvenient truth.
What you have to remember is this is special cleaner than clean money and shares not like the dirty bad money that the “Den’s” are getting (A’s the cheque’s in the post somewhere I’m sure).
It can’t have anything to do with selling yourself to the highest bidder?
James Bull
‘Hypocrisy’ simply doesn’t register with a hypocrite.
To put it in computerese, it is a feature not a bug.
Well if they own shares in PGE they are screwed .
Demo-Greens want no walls and to eliminate all fossil fuels,as well as associated jobs .
One would think Hillary want to be’s would have learned what happens when you threaten workers .
Now it’s airlines , ranchers , farmers and the entire energy sector . This is better than more Wikileaks .