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Joe Biden stated on January 27, 2021 in remarks when signing climate change executive orders:
“84% of all new electric capacity planned to come onto the electric grid this year is clean energy.”
By Jon Greenberg• January 29, 2021
Bill Clinton stated on November 08, 2011 in an interview on The Daily Show:
Solar and wind energy are "both cheaper than nuclear right now."
By Louis Jacobson• November 11, 2011
Robert Hurt stated on March 25, 2011 in a newsletter.:
A cap-and-trade bill would "destroy over 50,000 jobs in Virginia."
By Jacob Geiger• April 12, 2011
Charlie Crist stated on November 18, 2013 in an interview on MSNBC's "The Ed Show":
"We’re the Sunshine State, and we’re hardly doing any solar energy production."
By Rochelle Koff• December 3, 2013
Barack Obama stated on March 12, 2016 in remarks in Dallas at a Democratic National Committee reception:
"Right now, here in Texas, wind power is already cheaper than dirty fossil fuels."
By W. Gardner Selby• April 12, 2016
Jeffrey Grybowski stated on August 04, 2013 in a television interview:
Offshore wind power is "significantly less expensive than solar energy."
By Gregory Smith• August 31, 2013
Facebook posts stated on September 29, 2020 in a text post:
Says Joe Biden “made it clear..No More Coal Fired Power Plants!! So, No More Coal!! Wake Up WV, PA,OH, KY”
By Hayat Norimine• October 2, 2020
Institute for Energy Research stated on April 16, 2021 in an article:
“Conventional generators are very thin right now because Texas has gone to so many renewables.”
By Brandon Mulder• May 10, 2021
Dan Crenshaw stated on February 16, 2021 in a tweet:
“Subsidizing investment in wind has pushed gas and nuclear out. Now we live with the consequences.”
By Brandon Mulder• February 26, 2021
Brian Schweitzer stated on August 26, 2008 in :
McCain's energy plan is a "single-answer proposition" — new domestic oil drilling.
By Robert Farley• August 27, 2008
Tom Fanning stated on June 17, 2013 in a hearing:
Government subsidies for renewable energies such as wind and solar are 100 times greater than those given to gas and coal, and 50 times greater than what the nuclear industry enjoys.
By Eric Stirgus• July 31, 2013
Jeanne Ives stated on December 01, 2016 in a floor speech:
"Germany managed to increase its use of renewables and its output of carbon dioxide at the same time -- because it resorted to cheap coal to keep the lights on at a price its people could afford."
By Kevin Hoffman• December 16, 2016
Environmental Protection Agency stated on June 13, 2018 in a statement to Bloomberg:
"The science is clear, under President Trump greenhouse gas emissions are down."
By Louis Jacobson• June 18, 2018
Greg Abbott stated on February 16, 2021 in an interview:
"Our wind and our solar got shut down ... and that thrust Texas into this situation where it was lacking power at a statewide basis.”
By Brandon Mulder• February 19, 2021
Facebook posts stated on September 26, 2022 in a video:
2018 interview shows Bill Gates has changed his position on clean energy
By Jill Terreri Ramos• October 4, 2022
Shelley Moore Capito stated on July 29, 2014 in a campaign ad:
"What (the Obama administration is) going to come out with in the next several months is you're not even going to be able to burn coal very limitedly in the existing plants."
By Steve Contorno• August 7, 2014
James O'Neil stated on September 01, 2013 in an appearance on "10 News Conference.":
"Wind power is the most undependable form of renewable energy."
By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• September 8, 2013
Randy Forbes stated on April 21, 2016 in a radio interview.:
China is "going to have twice the number of submarines we have in just over a decade."
By Sean Gorman• May 2, 2016
Sheldon Whitehouse stated on December 13, 2011 in a Senate hearing:
"[Renewable energy] projects . . . get us off foreign oil and away, step by step, from these foreign entanglements that we have to get into to defend our oil supply."
By Alex Kuffner• January 8, 2012
Juan Williams stated on June 03, 2018 in on a panel:
North Korea's history of international negotiations shows "they'll take the concessions, they'll keep them in their pocket and then they won't deliver."
By John Kruzel• June 7, 2018

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