{"id":60461,"date":"2025-08-10T06:37:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T10:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=60461"},"modified":"2025-08-10T06:37:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T10:37:05","slug":"putting-the-blame-where-it-belongs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=60461","title":{"rendered":"Putting The Blame Where It Belongs"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, The Daily Caller<\/a> posted an article about the problem of rising energy prices under President Trump. As the expression goes, “Rome wasn’t built in a day.” President Trump has been in office for less than six months, he is still dealing with the multi-dimensional mess he walked into.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The corporate media is suggesting that President Donald Trump and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) are responsible for rising electricity prices rather than the aggressive green energy policies of Democrats and former President Joe Biden, who himself presided over a major spike in prices.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Several major<\/a> corporate<\/a> media<\/a> outlets<\/a> have linked<\/a> Trump\u2019s OBBBA<\/a> to climbing energy prices, despite data<\/a> from the Energy Information Administration (EIA<\/a>) showing that electricity bills were already<\/a> on the rise<\/a>, shooting up<\/a> during the middle<\/a> of the Biden administration. Energy experts<\/a>, grid watchdogs<\/a>\u00a0and operators<\/a>\u00a0have long warned that the Biden-era green energy push<\/a> threatens grid security and drives up electricity costs, as power demand also surges<\/a> from the booming<\/a> artificial intelligence (AI) sector<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cElectricity prices have been increasing since the grid became burdened with unreliable and expensive wind and solar. The problem has recently worsened as electricity demand has increased because of the explosion in AI-driven data center energy needs that wind and solar just can\u2019t meet,\u201d Steve Milloy, senior policy fellow at the Energy and Environment Legal Institute, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. \u201cDemand will likely continue to increase and will only be satisfied by more fossil fuel and nuclear baseload power. The BBB will make more baseload power possible by discouraging utilities from adding more unreliable and pointlessly expensive wind and solar.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

\u201cDemocrats committed arson on electricity prices and now they have the nerve to accuse Trump of playing with matches. In Trump\u2019s first term, electricity prices rose by less than 1% per year. Under Biden, electricity prices rose 22%. I think the American people will trust President Trump\u2019s energy policies more than hypocritical Democrat finger-pointing,\u201d James Taylor, president of The Heartland Institute and the founding director of Heartland\u2019s Arthur B. Robinson Center for Climate and Environmental Policy, told the DCNF.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Department of Energy (DOE) warned in its July 7 report that blackouts could increase<\/a> by a factor of 100 by 2030 if the U.S. keeps retiring power plants without adequate replacements, the grid will be unable to meet the soaring demand from energy-hungry data centers<\/a> in the coming years. It continued to single out wind and solar<\/a> as key contributors to declining grid stability and argued that dispatchable generation from sources like coal, oil, gas and nuclear are vital to meet American power needs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like it or not, the economy and infrastructure of the globe runs on fossil fuel. Until the free market invents something considerably more reliable and ecologically sound from start to finish, our reliance on fossil fuel will continue. Wind and solar at this time are simply not practical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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