In a recent interview with WFIR Radio, Congressman Cline said a lot of ridiculous things– about the Virginia redistricting referendum, about the activities of ICE, about requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote, about health insurance.
But on the topic of energy, his comments stood out for their self-defeating stupidity.
Cline: “What we’re seeing right now is the greenification [!] of our energy grid, and it’s making costs skyrocket. Everybody’s seeing the impact of Democrats in Virginia putting a Green New Deal on our energy companies, Dominion, and then what’s happening at the federal level, what the Biden administration did. Trump is taking that off. But the Virginia legacy is still there. In fact, they’re doubling down in Richmond on making energy costs higher and making our energy bills worse. So we need to take more action in Washington to address that.”
Question: “But real quickly, is it part of the problem that the energy companies are putting too much of these green energy initiatives on the back of rate payers?”
Cline: “Well, they are the ones being ordered by the state government to shift to solar, to shift to wind, these inefficient means of producing electricity. And then they should be trying to make it as efficient as possible for ratepayers. But at the end of the day, when solar and wind are your sources of power, it’s going to cost a lot of money.”
Contrary to Cline’s assertion, solar and wind are cheaper in the long run than electricity from fossil fuel plants.
Aside from that: Although there is not a single oil well, natural gas well or coal mine in all of Cline’s Sixth District, there are at least 18 companies providing solar supply and installation. They include:
• SolShine Energy Alternatives
• Hurricane Wind Power (solar and wind power)
I’m sure the owners and employees of these companies will be interested to know that the congressman who purports to represent them considers their products and services too inefficient and too expensive.
Cline Watch 
Check out the very first sentence of his newsletter today. I’m talking about the one with a dot in front of it as a bullet point. It’s pretty hilarious.
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But remember, Cline is as much of a businessman as Dictator Trump, who is a shyster businessman with six bankruptcies and 34 felony convictions.
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