by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder
As appearing in the Daily Caller
Now that the debate over the Big Beautiful Bill has moved to the Senate, the New York Times is trying to scare voters and Senators that the bill’s passage will raise electricity prices. That’s simply not true, especially if the GOP members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee can help it.
In “Electricity Prices Are Surging. The G.O.P. Megabill Could Push Them Higher,” the Times claimed that ending wind and solar subsidies will make the electricity produced from them more expensive. That price increase, in turn, will increase demand for natural gas and the cost of electricity generated from it.
The Times is certainly correct that electricity prices are surging. But they’ve been surging for years and the reason for that surge is the Democrat war on natural gas and coal in favor of wind and solar.
Democrats, climate activists and their supporters in the wind and solar industries have claimed since the mid-2010s that wind and solar are cheaper than coal and natural gas and that electricity prices will decrease with more wind and solar production. That has not been true anywhere in the world. The real-world proof is in the Times own admission – “electricity prices are surging” despite significant adoption of wind and solar by rich countries.
