Tillis goes to mat to stop Trump cuts to solar+wind energy subsidies
There are actually a few things our senior US senator will fight for — things that generate larger than average donations to his campaign.
Thom Tillis went to bat early in his state legislature career for *alternative energy* subsidies. As House speaker, Tillis fought to extend the life of said subsidies over the objections of conservatives.
In the US Senate, Tillis is flexing what muscle he has to stop Trump administration efforts to choke the life out of so-called *clean-energy* credits:
[…] Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), John Curtis (R-Utah), Murkowski and Moran wrote a letter to Senate Thune last month to “emphasize the importance of maintaining a stable and predictable tax framework to promote domestic energy development.”
“We caution against the full-sale repeal of current credits, which could lead to significant disruptions for the American people and weaken our position as a global energy leader,” they warned.
Tillis said Thursday that the House bill would need to be changed to avoid stranding billions of dollars of private-sector investment in clean energy projects. […]
A lot of that “investment” — especially in North Carolina — came about as a result of Tillis and his cronies in the legislature ramming solar and wind energy mandates down the throats of the state’s utilities and, of course, their customers. (The only real disruptions that would be detected would be the flow of cash from special interests into Thom’s wallet.)
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“If millions or billions of dollars have been deployed, we’ve got to give those businesses some offramp,” he said.
He said suddenly cutting off renewable energy subsidies would “have the same sort of effect” as what the oil industry suffered when former President Biden “just arbitrarily canceled the [Keystone] XL pipeline” in 2021. […]
Solar and wind energy are being propped up by statist politicians like Thom Tillis. They’re not as widely in use as oil and natural gas are. They’re not as dependable as oil or natural gas. Oil and natural gas don’t leave you in a bind — high and dry — on cloudy and /or windless days.
At best, solar and wind are backup sources of energy. We’d be in huge trouble if we tried to make do with them as our primary sources of power.
This effort is not for the benefit or the good of the American taxpayers. It’s all about protecting the government benefits Tillis has been growing and nurturing for his contributors since his arrival in big-time politics. THIS is all about Thommy’s wallet — making it fatter.
Is this more of that alleged *Trump loyalty* nonsense the drive-by media keeps trying to wrap Tillis in?
Solar and wind energy are outrageously expensive for those who produce it as well as for those forced to consume it. That’s why proponents have to dangle subsidies out there.
For the benefit of those who forget easily, here is a great real-time tracker of our ever-growing national economic nightmare.
Tillis is a political whore turning tricks for the Climate Industrial Complex. Nevermind that wind and solar increase the electric rates of American citizens, makes our electric grid unreliable (ask Spain and Portugal about their recent nationwide blackout caused by unreliable wind and solar), and massively kills our wildlife from birds to whales. Tillis’ despicable boondoggling on wind and solar is just one of the major reasons why he simply has to be removed from office in 2026.
NEVER, NEVER, NEVER TILLIS
Reaganite: Well said. Thank you.
One thing I should have also mentioned is that Tillis is one of the Biden Republicans, which include Mitch McConnell, who are responsible for the Biden Green New Deal disguised as the “inflation Reduction Act”. Tillis and his sellout cohorts did this by providing the votes on cloture to allow Biden to pass his big spending fake “Infrastructure” bill through the normal process which left the “reconciliation” slot open to pass the Green New Deal through the reconciliation process. Tillis is a scoundrel of the worst order and MUST be removed from the Senate. Undocumented Democrats like Tillis are just as bad as real Democrats. If you liked Benedict Arnold, you will love Thom Tillis.
Just as appalling as Tillis’ behavior, it seems that the leadership in the state legislature (Hello, Senator Berger?) has also sold out to the same solar and wind interests, and state support for these industries remains on the books if it is not growing. Do any of them care in the slightest that our power grid is becoming more expensive and unreliable every day we plug in another field full of solar panels or wind turbines? Just a couple of weeks ago, the entire water system in Reidsville was blown out by a “surge” of current that took out the pumps — the kind of surge that is very characteristic of grids that are fed by in and out, up and down current from solar and wind. Even the local city hospital was crippled by the total loss of water — and a “boil water” alert once it came back in that lasted another 36 hours.