Ted Cruz tweeted about the Green New Deal, a bill that would - among other things - create federally funded green energy projects. He’s clinging to old technology in the face of new.

Senator Ted Cruz @SenTedCruz

The Green New Deal will destroy the American energy industry as we know it.

7:04 PM ∙ Apr 21, 2021

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We found an interesting comparison from 1938 of an energy industry rep complaining about (mostly federal) hydro electric energy projects. The piece essentially makes the same argument as Cruz:

“Developing of hyrdo-electric power in a country with adequate coal reserves is ‘suicidal folly.'” "Such a development is a modern Frankenstein. Hydro is our worst employer."

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