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3. Says the MVP of the Senate: "This place today seems like a crime scene. Put a yellow tape around this chamber."
Mon Jun 30, 2025, 09:15 PM
Jun 30

"Your individual electrical cost will go up…the people behind this bill are counting on you not to know how that works… so I’m gonna tell ya how that works. There are some rules for the grid…the price setter for the whole grid is almost always a fossil fuel plant…

... that's the theory. That's how the system works. Let's see how clean energy fits in a specific area... in Texas last year, 95% of the energy on the grid came from clean energy. If this bill kills clean energy growth, which is its intention, then it's gonna kill off the power source that provided 95% of what was added to the power grid last year... the Texas grid is a standalone grid...without that solar energy each magawatt hour would have cost more than 40% more and gone right into the pockets of the fossil fuel owners... after flooding that side (Republican) with money, they're going to make a fortune off of this.... ”

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