Rick Perry was on the Brian Kilmeade show today and absolutely torched the Green New Deal put forth by Democrats Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ed Markey.
Here’s what he told Kilmeade when asked about it:
"This is a bunch of kids who've never been on the playground before, they've never even been on the field of play before they're sitting on the sidelines and they’re saying here’s what I can do.
'Let’s do this, zero emissions in 10 years. Alright let’s go do that.' Not having any idea the cost of that. The Green News Deal: 93 trillion dollars. This on it’s face makes it a fantasy.
Perry goes on to point out how America has been drastically reducing emissions in the last 20 years and how we should be celebrated by the left:
The good news is America's reducing emissions... America's leading the world in emissions! Texas is now producing more renewable energy percentage-wise than the European Union. We oughta be getting celebrated, instead of these cockamamie ideas that are coming out of left field. It seems like a bunch of kids that are [saying] 'I'm gonna one up ya and come up with even a crazier idea!'"
He goes on to explain why the US needs to continue down the road of civil nuclear energy, the cleanest energy of all, which oddly enough Democrats hate.
Here’s the full audio of his comments on the “fantasy” Green New Deal:
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