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Rick Perry, the former Texas governor, appeared on Fox News on Friday to point blame at renewable energy. “Thank God we had fossil fuels in this state, because if all we had had was the AOC Green New Deal plan, wind and solar, we would have had a massive disaster on our hands.” — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 24, 2021 Hibernated

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The crisis in Texas has indeed sparked a debate over the role of fossil fuels, with some prominent Republicans taking to the air to disingenuously blame only wind and solar energy rather than the failure of the grid as a whole. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 24, 2021 Hibernated

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A follow-up story on the Fox News website, published after Perry’s appearance, noted that “natural gas, coal and nuclear energy systems were responsible for nearly twice as many outages as frozen wind turbines and solar panels combined.” — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 24, 2021 Hibernated