Affordable Energy Summit Counters Obama-Reid Event

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Heartlander:

A coalition of Republicans, Democrats, and Libertarians rallied today in Las Vegas to call for affordable energy and an end to government favoritism toward so-called “clean” energy sources. Speakers at the Affordable Energy Summit 8.0 explained wind and solar power championed by Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and renewable power activists at the rival Clean Energy Summit 8.0 are prohibitively expensive, yet producing few if any net environmental benefits.

 

Obama is keynoted Reid’s annual Clean Energy Summit at the Mandalay Bay hotel on August 24. The Affordable Energy Summit, co-sponsored by The Heartland Institute, the National Black Chamber of Commerce, the Nevada Policy Research Institute, and the Libertarian Party of Nevada, served as a counterpoint to Reid’s summit.

 

“Energy is the lifeblood of our economy,” noted Heartland Institute senior fellow for environment and energy policy James Taylor. “Government programs that force expensive wind and solar power on energy consumers reduce living standards and drive people into poverty.”

 

“Tragically, the unnecessarily high electricity prices caused by poor political choices inflict their greatest harms on people living in poverty, who spend a disproportionately high percentage of their budgets on energy,” said Taylor.