Mark Mills Testifies On the Rush to Green Energy Policies

NEW YORK, NY – Today, Manhattan Institute senior fellow Mark Mills testified before the Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials in the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce. The title of the session was "Exposing the Environmental, Human Rights, and National Security Risks of the Biden Administration’s Rush to Green Policies." Parts of his full testimony are excerpted below:

"The Biden Administration has a stated policy goal to see America powered increasingly, eventually entirely by renewable energy. I should like to stipulate that the future will doubtless see far greater use of wind and solar technologies, and electric cars, if for no other reason than the sheer scale of future energy needs, and because developed countries are wealthy enough to pay higher costs.
 

"However, there are many misconceptions about the realities of renewable energy technologies at scale, especially if the goal is to replace rather than supplement hydrocarbons. It begins with the core reality that renewables aren’t green. In fact, nor are renewable technologies inherently cheaper, nor more geopolitically secure."

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"There is, however, one common claim for renewables that’s true: they create more jobs. That emerges directly from the excess land, materials and machinery needed to deliver the same energy. The problem is that much of that work isn’t in America. And, to the extent it can be, any new jobs come at a time when our nation doesn’t necessarily need more jobs, as much as it needs more people willing and able to fill the jobs we have, especially in skilled trade."

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