What an absolute joke!

I have no other way to describe how I felt after reading about Arizona's House Bill 2701.

Essentially this bill would allow nuclear and hydroelectric power to be included in the state's renewable energy standard, which requires 15 percent renewables by 2025.

Now I'm not here to bash nuclear, but this is Arizona folks. The state has some of the most impressive solar resources in the world! If there's any state in the U.S. that should embrace solar, it's Arizona.

Of course, all of this clearly smells of politics.

There's absolutely no reason any honest policy maker in the Grand Canyon state should want to deter solar progress. It's a job creator, it's a source of clean energy, and it helps alleviate the need for rapidly depleting fossil fuels.

The new bill would also get rid of the state's distributed energy standard, which requires 30 percent of all renewable power produced by utilities to come from rooftop systems. What a great way to kill even more jobs!

This is an absolute travesty, and those who have introduced and supported this bill should be held accountable for their actions. Especially Representative Debbie Lesko, who apparently objected to a $4 per month fee for residential customers that supports Arizona's renewable energy standard.

My question is, does Lesko object to the millions of dollars that hard-working Americans shell out to subsidize oil, coal, natural gas and nuclear?

Don't urinate on my leg and tell me it's raining!

This is bureaucratic bullshit at it's finest. Somebody's getting a kickback here, and it ain't the good people of Arizona.

Jeff

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