Sheldon Whitehouse

Let me explain further. However Trump blocks clean energy — with corporate payoffs, clean energy bans, regulatory blockades — the effect is the same: costs go up for consumers. https://t.co/gxCbdKO59L

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…t clean energy, so that you pay more electricity consumer dollars. You lose at both ends; corrupt fossil fuel donors win. It’s a racket.

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…pensive fossil fuel units (which set the price for the whole grid btw, so it’s big bucks) go into THEIR fossil fuel pockets — yep, the pockets of Trump’s big fossil fuel donors. YOU pay off HIS donors.

This statement targets Trump and his donors, framing rising energy costs as a scheme that funnels ratepayer money into the pockets of the opposing party's leader's political donors.Show full reasoning