AOC Slams GOP for Using ‘Statistics and Studies’ to Oppose Her Green Agenda

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) celebrated Earth Day by accusing Republicans of using “statistics and studies” to fear-monger about the potential nightmares associated with abandoning fossil fuels in favor of so-called “green energy” produced by windmills.

Ocasio-Cortez blames this year’s freeze-prompted blackout in Texas, in which windmills were rendered useless by the cold, on the state’s “inadequate and unprepared” fossil fuel infrastructure:

“Let’s take, for example, electricity bills.

“While there’s all this fear-mongering about if we switch to solar, if we commit to wind, that our costs will go up a lot, that fails to acknowledge what we just saw in February, when Texas had a freeze and their fossil fuel infrastructure was so inadequate and unprepared – thanks to both climate-denying politicians who refuse to invest in infrastructure to adapt to our future and acknowledge that we will be experiencing climate events in regions that have never experienced such events before, and also from industry, who doesn’t want to invest and actually take the cost of preparing for our future.”

As a result, $16,000 electricity bills are an “everyday” experience for “everyday people” in Texas:

“So, what does that yield? It yields, like, $16,000 electricity bills – oil and gas, electricity bills, electricity bills, oil and gas infrastructure – on everyday people in the state of Texas. $16,000: that is just the everyday, what we are seeing for everyday people.”
In the video, Ocasio-Cortez says Republicans are using “statistics and studies” as evidence that Democrats’ attack on carbon emissions and fossil fuels is “a socialist conspiracy takeover” that will cause Americans’ electricity costs to skyrocket:

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