“Most of that infrastructure bill could have been written in the 1980s,” Huffman said, to explain why it was able to win some Republican support even though it contained funding for electric vehicle deployment and other initiatives that could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Huffman spoke to Yahoo Wednesday night after attending meetings and events as part of the 21-member Democratic House delegation at the U.N. Climate Change Conference. In addition to the hydrogen component, Huffman objects to a $25 billion loan guarantee for a new liquefied natural gas facility being constructed in Alaska. Liquefied natural gas is especially harmful to the climate because in addition to what it adds in emissions via burning, it requires an energy-intensive process of freezing, shipping and then re-gasifying the product.the loan guarantee at $18 billion.
“If you come to this conference and listen to the imperative of this climate crisis, you can’t do the things you have to do in the United States of America and have any Republican support in the Senate, and certainly no more than two or three members of the House,” Huffman said. “That’s sad, and it’s awful and all of us hate it, but it is the political reality.”
“You’ve got Brian Fitzpatrick [R-Pa.] and maybe [John] Katko [R-N.Y.], and you pretty quickly just run out of names,” Huffman said.
40% of every dollar in the deal is PURE PORK...Don't fall for the GREAT LIE!!
We had Reagan to deal with then, now it's the corporate-owned fascists. No true progress is ever made when hamstrung with corporate bribery in place, owning our 'representatives'.