Tilli$$$ goes to bat for solar goons
In 2014, we got promised all kinds of action to kill ObamaCare. Unfortunately, the man from Florida Tennessee Cornelius Huntersville has given us a whole lot of effort on stuff — illegal aliens and solar — that pleases his biggest donors. From Politico, here’s his latest bit of “crossing the aisle”:
[…] Reactions to the administration’s tariff announcement didn’t fall along the usual party lines in the Senate, where some Republicans bashed the tariffs as potentially costing jobs and harmful to the economy. “I think it’s going to be very hurtful to our products in South Carolina,” Sen. Lindsey Graham told reporters. “I hope I’m wrong, but I’m afraid it’s going to cost us jobs.”The bipartisan duo of Sens. Martin Heinrich and Thom Tillis, who led a letter from 16 senators opposing the imposition of tariffs, isexploring a legislative response. “We’re looking at all our options and trying to figure out what we can do to push back on this, but it’s an unmitigated disaster of the president’s own making,” Heinrich told reporters. Tillis was less critical: “We were glad that the extreme scenarios that were being floated didn’t occur,” but he said his staff is still looking at the potential impacts to “what has really become a very successful industry.” […]
Some background: The White House dropped a big ol’ tariff on imported solar panels. Here’s the letter Tilli$$$ and his Dem buddy sent to the International Trade Commission standing up for their special interest donors.
Um, successful ??? The industry is riddled with bankruptcies. It’s being propped up by local, state and federal government subsidies.
In North Carolina, thanks to Tilli$$$, utility providers are required to deal with the solar goons. The pitch for solar sounds nice. But you need something that works on cloudy days, too. (And doesn’t require gobs of government money to stay afloat.)
Solar and wind energy are two of the most corrupt crony capitalist industries around. Tillis is a part owner of a small bank in Mecklenburg County that specializes in financing solar and wind projects, so he is feathering his own nest in his position on this issue. That is corrupt in and of itself.
Going hog wild on solar and wind has caused electric rates to skyrocket for consumers in every country that has gone that route. In Australian states that went wild on wind and solar, rates doubled in three years, and they now face regular blackouts due to the unreliability of wind and solar.. Germany pays three times what we in NC do for electricity due to a heavy use of wind and solar.
Pushing solar and wind is an EXTREME anti-consumer position.
#RetireTillis2020
While the most corrupt crony capitalist industry is fossil fuels.
Buy American. Tax (the junk)
from China. The “fake feminists” that ran against Tillis & Burr would have been the same. #draintheswamp!
Oil, gas, and coal stand on their own two feet and can compete in a free market. It is wind and solar that are not competitive and would flounder if not for heavy government subsidies. Wind and solar are crony capitalism at its worst. Oil, gas, and coal are not.
One clue for you clueless liberals should be that only wind and solar have to be propped up by government mandates that utilities buy their overpriced and undependable product.