Wind and solar power are not nearly efficient enough to replace U.S. fossil-fuel consumption.
Energy
American prosperity and national security depends on affordable, abundant, reliable, low-carbon energy. Instead of making energy scarcer or less reliable—which primarily harms lower- and middle-income Americans—we should dramatically expand the role of nuclear energy in the United States. Natural gas has a constructive role to play in the low-carbon transition, as do emerging technologies.
All Energy
Policymakers must work to ensure that decarbonization doesn’t harm low- and middle-income Americans.
California’s poverty rate is the highest in the nation. New restrictions on natural gas will increase electricity costs, making the problem worse.