Inflation Reduction Act's $300 billion climate spending would benefit mostly red districts

[TexasTowelie]

Now that the Inflation Reduction Act has cleared the U.S. Senate – despite unanimous Republican opposition – the climate and energy spending bill heads to the House. There, it's expected that Democrats will again pass the bill with little to no GOP support. But a new study shows it delivers big benefits to mostly Republican rural congressional districts in states like Texas.

“Most of the wind in the U.S. is built where the best wind is…through Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Kansas,” said Jeff Davies, co-founder of Enersection, a Houston based company that specializes in date driven analysis of the U.S. energy system.

The bill would invest more than $300 billion in energy in climate reform – the largest federal clean energy investment in U.S. history.

Working with Bloomberg CityLab, Davies found that 70 percent of the spending to build out of wind, solar and large scale energy storage will be in Republican congressional districts in rural and semi-rural areas. Not because of political pork barrel spending but because it makes sense.

Read more: https://www.tpr.org/environment/2022-08-07/inflation-reduction-acts-300-billion-climate-spending-would-benefit-mostly-red-districts
(Texas Public Radio)

[Beachnutt]

1. And the rethugs will get on TV and take credit for it

and the interviewer won't call them out as liars that voted against it..

[marble falls]

2. To be fair - most climate outrage is authored out of and occurs in Red states, like most social ...

... ills do.