DeSantis: Make EVs More Expensive, Drill/Dig/Burn, And He'll "Lower" Gas To $2.00/Gallon

[hatrack]

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said humans are “safer than ever” from the threat of climate change, and he blasted the Biden administration’s effort to address the phenomenon as he unveiled an oil- and gas-first energy plan on Wednesday. DeSantis, who is vying for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, made the comments during a speech in Midland, Texas. He pledged to enact a slew of policies to roll back efforts to address climate change, including proposals to make electric vehicles more expensive, ramp up domestic production of fossil fuels and remove the U.S. from the landmark Paris climate agreement.

“We’ve seen a concerted effort to ramp up the fear when it comes to things like global warming and climate change,” he said Wednesday, claiming Democrats were trying to “circumscribe your ambitions.” “They are even telling our younger generations to have fewer children, or not to even have children, on the grounds that somehow children are going to make our climate and planet unlivable — and that’s wrong to say.”

DeSantis’ comments come just weeks after a Category 3 hurricane slammed into Florida, bringing record-high floodwaters and warnings from scientists that climate change is fueling more dangerous and more frequent storms. The secretary-general of the United Nations warned this week that humanity has “opened the gates to hell” and that even under current commitments, has not done nearly enough to limit planet-warming emissions.

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The lectern in front of the governor held a sign reading “$2 in 2025,” pointing to his campaign promise to lower gas prices to $2 a gallon should he be elected to the White House. The Biden campaign took umbrage with DeSantis’ attacks, calling his plans “deeply unserious and impractical” and “chock-full of the climate denialism that defines the MAGA Republican Party.”

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ron-desantis-climate-change-safer_n_650bb87ae4b0e190a3a7e445

[riversedge]

1. As I started to read this, I wondered if this was a FAKE-Joke article. This is so horrible that

DeSantis is telling people that climate change is nothing--not to worry and is actually working AGAINST all efforts that are being made to slow climate change. It is almost unbelievable--almost.

I have say--there will be so many that will believe the $2 in 2025 slogan. damn.

[Shermann]

2. He'd just unload the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in the first year

As soon as gas prices bounce off the $2 mark, campaign promise fulfilled!

[snowybirdie]

3. With this position

is he even fit to be governor of Florida? Amazing and disturbing stance from the country's most vulnerable state officer.

[Chainfire]

4. He must have a lot of pull with the Saudis...

Hey, Florida Chief Executive, show us $2.00 gas today.

[radical noodle]

5. I'm not particularly religious

but I thank God every day that his campaign is tanking. DeSantis is just evil.

[hunter]

6. He's just asking for a climate change spawned tornado to drop a house on him.

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[keithbvadu2]

7. Summer 2008, gas even higher. Dubya got it under $2... by ruining the economy.

Summer 2008, gas even higher. Dubya got it under $2... by ruining the economy.