What to know: President Joe Biden is selling off more of our fuel reserves in an effort to lower gasoline prices, ABC is reporting.
The TPPF take: Selling off our fuel reserves won’t fix what the Biden administration has broken.
“Painful gas and diesel price hikes are a direct result of President Biden’s publicly avowed crusade to end fossil fuels,” says TPPF’s Robert Henneke. “He told us as much: ‘I guarantee you we’re going to end fossil fuels.’ He’s let the Strategic Petroleum Reserve dip to precarious levels and engaged in egregious executive overreach to promote the climate agenda without the hassle of the legislative process.”
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School Choice
What to know: Runoff elections for the Texas House of Representatives could boost Gov. Greg Abbott’s plans for school choice legislation in the upcoming legislative session.
The TPPF take: Runoff election results could put Texas one step closer to empowering parents.
“While voters still mostly prioritize border security, public safety, and the economy/inflation, school choice became a defining issue of contrast in many contests—especially in the ones where challengers won or pushed incumbents into runoffs,” says TPPF’s Brian Phillips. “With everything going on—pandemic-related school closures, racial and gender indoctrination, inappropriate materials in libraries—perhaps it is an idea whose time has come in Texas.”
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Get Ready for Summer
What to know: Summer is approaching, and the Texas electrical grid is already under significant strain.
The TPPF take: Demand for electricity is growing rapidly in Texas, but reliable generation is not growing enough to keep up.
“ Despite adding copious amounts of wind and solar to the Texas grid, those resources aren’t even able to keep up with demand growth, and additional dispatchable generation is still needed,” says TPPF’s Brent Bennett. “More than $100 billion in private investment and tens of billions in taxpayer subsidies have been spent on wind and solar infrastructure in Texas, and that investment is not entirely displacing the need for additional natural gas generation.”
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