Rick Perry: Biden's electric vehicle push will drive up costs for Americans
Former Texas Governor Rick Perry argues solar and wind power alone can't support the power grid.
Former Energy Secretary Rick Perry warned the Biden administration's push for electric vehicles will drive up costs for Americans who can't afford high electricity bills. On "Fox & Friends" Wednesday, Perry argued the U.S. needs fossil fuels to support the power grid.
RICK PERRY: And driving the cost of electricity up because he's going to push more and more subsidies into solar and wind, which at the end of the day cannot keep the grid up. You've got to have a baseload power supply, either fossil fuels or nuclear, to keep your grid going. So pushing more incentives into electric cars, into solar, into wind, all that's going to do at the end of the day is drive up the cost of electricity. And who gets hurt worst? The people that can't afford it.
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