Gentner Drummond May be against private schools getting public funds (good!) but he’s also in favor of a renewables moratorium (bad!) unlike Governor Kevin Stitt
Gentner Drummond May be against private schools getting public funds (good!) but he’s also in favor of a renewables moratorium (bad!) unlike Governor Kevin Stitt
Yeah. Mafia-esque mercantilism. To his credit, Stitt himself states that his tacit support for renewables is on “let the market decide” grounds, along with OK’s ample wind resources (like 50% of the state’s juice comes from wind now)
Hmmm. Fair enough. I’m basing this on an article I saw on Reddit the other day that suggested otherwise in terms of shutting down new wind and solar capacity, which would be dumb (especially with how many people the wind industry employs in OK)
Though that argument can be made against pretty much any industry. For instance, some years ago, a local pizza chain closed down after it came to light that they'd been engaged in truly massive wage theft and exploitation of immigrant workers. No one argued for a moratorium on new pizza restaurants.
Knee jerk bans are rarely good policy, though there are some circumstances where a hard pause is a reasonable partial response to an out of control process having outstripped its regulatory bounds. I think I remember the Obama Interior doing that with renewable permitting on federal lands, for instance.
Gentner Drummond May be against private schools getting public funds (good!) but he’s also in favor of a renewables moratorium (bad!) unlike Governor Kevin Stitt
This "idea" shows really and truly how anti-free market the modern GOP is.
Yeah. Mafia-esque mercantilism. To his credit, Stitt himself states that his tacit support for renewables is on “let the market decide” grounds, along with OK’s ample wind resources (like 50% of the state’s juice comes from wind now)
Not sure that's fair, he's not exactly in the pocket of O&G (see link), either, and despite the benefits of green power, there's no question energy developers tend to be lawless bad actors, whether they are gas or wind developers. https://nondoc.com/2024/04/10/drummond-files-two-winter-storm-uri-price-manipulation-lawsuits/
Hmmm. Fair enough. I’m basing this on an article I saw on Reddit the other day that suggested otherwise in terms of shutting down new wind and solar capacity, which would be dumb (especially with how many people the wind industry employs in OK)
Though that argument can be made against pretty much any industry. For instance, some years ago, a local pizza chain closed down after it came to light that they'd been engaged in truly massive wage theft and exploitation of immigrant workers. No one argued for a moratorium on new pizza restaurants.
Knee jerk bans are rarely good policy, though there are some circumstances where a hard pause is a reasonable partial response to an out of control process having outstripped its regulatory bounds. I think I remember the Obama Interior doing that with renewable permitting on federal lands, for instance.