Gem State Wire

Washington, D.C.--In an interview with the hosts of the Big Money Show on Fox Business, U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) discussed the Biden Administration’s overreaching policy to drive carbon-based fuels out of the economy regardless of cost to Americans.  Between forty and sixty percent of the current residential furnaces on the market would be prohibited under proposed U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) regulations. 

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On the Biden Administration’s irresponsible energy policy eating into the household budgets of Americans: “This is clearly overreach.  It’s just another step in the President’s agenda to drive carbon-based fuels out of our economy. . . .  People who go to the gas pump know what his attack on gasoline has done to the price of gas.  Now the Administration is turning its attention to the very source of fuel for so many homes in America. . . .  Those people who choose to have a gas-fired furnace in their home save about a thousand dollars per home, per year today over the price of different kinds of furnaces.  The Administration is simply pushing an agenda.  The President said it very clearly, he was going to drive carbon-based fuels out of our economy.  This shouldn’t come as any surprise to anybody as he now turns his attention to our very homes.”

On planning for the needs of rural Americans facing harsh winters:

“There are not only gas-fired furnaces and heating sources, but wood-fired sources, and those are also coming under attack.  The bottom line here is the Administration does not have a plan for people who will go without power, and they don’t care about the increase in cost, either.  They are set on one target only and that is to drive carbon-based fuels out of our economy regardless of the cost.”

On what can be done to combat the Biden Administration’s overreaching energy policies:

“There is legislation in Congress, I’m a co-sponsor of it, and this legislation would stop the Administration from banning gas-fired furnaces.  The problem with that legislation is that even if we could get it past the filibuster in the Democratically-controlled Senate, the President would veto it.  Right now, what we depend on is for the people across America to speak up and to tell the President they do not support his attack on carbon-based fuels.”

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