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Thomas Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance, said in a statement. “Our energy producers have delivered the low cost, affordable and reliable energy that has fueled economic growth and opportunity for all Americans, no matter their race, sex, creed, or color.”

About the Green New Deal, Pyle said, “The plan would shut down virtually all coal, oil, and natural gas electric plants, eliminating millions of jobs in the process; spend unspecified billions on new ‘zero-emission vehicle infrastructure and manufacturing’ and green public transit projects, and it would eliminate as many gasoline-powered vehicles ‘as is technologically feasible,’” a press release sent by the Heartland Institute said.

The American Petroleum Institute (API), a national trade association for the natural gas and oil industry, which supports 10.3 million U.S. jobs and nearly eight percent of the U.S. economy, also issued a statement following the release of the climate change resolution, which, if it became law, would eradicate fossil fuels.

“The U.S. natural gas and oil industry is meeting the climate challenge head-on, investing billions in cleaner fuels, zero to low carbon technologies, and a smaller environmental footprint for operations to safely deliver energy from coast to coast,” the API statement said.

“Greater use of clean and affordable U.S. natural gas has driven America’s CO2 emissions to their lowest level in a generation, and EIA projects that the U.S. emissions reduction trend and strong U.S. demand for natural gas and oil will continue for decades to come,” the API statement said.

SOURCE: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/07/u-s-energy-sector-immoral-green-new-deal-advances-socialist-agenda/

But then what would you expect the coal and gas industry to say: 'take my job away.'

Nonetheless, they're right, the US and all industrialized nations are the lowest polluters in the world. The developing nations are the true polluters.

Will Powers