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Related: About this forumYoungkin sends letter to Biden Administration over rooftop solar panels at Pentagon
Tyler Englander
1 day ago
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) Governor Glenn Youngkin is crying foul over solar panels set to be installed at the Pentagon. In January, the U.S. Department of Energy announced that the Pentagon would be getting $21 million, with some of the money going toward installing rooftop solar panels.
Youngkin sending a letter to U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin saying the program the money comes from, created by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law doesnt have any stated requirement that such panels be made in America using American technology.
Youngkin goes on to say, This decision brings into question whether American taxpayer dollars will be used to purchase solar equipment from the Chinese Communist Party.
However, the program requirements tell a different story. According to documentation on the Department of Energys website, the program in question is affected by an executive order signed by President Joe Biden in 2021 saying federal agencies shall adhere to requirements of the Made in America Laws in making clean energy, energy efficiency, and clean energy procurement decisions.
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riversedge
(71,919 posts)GB_RN
(2,857 posts)Hes counting on 1) the average Faux Spews viewer to be ignorant of the entire bill; 2) the Democrats seemingly permanent inability to fight back and message appropriately; and 3) the sure fire knowledge that the librul media wont cover this and/or play the both sides game.
This is nothing but a chance for him to look like hes on the side of Real Muricans️ and hint that the Democrats are China-appeasing traitors*.
*Pick your favorite insult out of the GOPQ bucket, if you like.
onecaliberal
(34,932 posts)GB_RN
(2,857 posts)The GOPQ has it mastered: They message with shit that will fit in a bumper sticker. While we give college-level
lectures, for lack of a better word (not quite the word Im looking for, but you get the idea).
I not attacking the Democrats. Were just more cerebral. Granted, a lot of what were for wont fit on a bumper sticker, but when we do stuff like not defend ourselves (the Affordable Care Act, for example). We let the Repukes frame issue and the attitude was the news media should tell the truth. I think it was Tim Russert, Chucky Toad or Dancin David Gregory who basically said that wasnt their job; IOW, saying that theyre stenographers. So, we also have that barrier to deal with.
And here I am being
cerebral. lol. Point being, they use the KISS principle. We
dont.
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onecaliberal
(34,932 posts)You cant really think they are going to get our message out. If tv networks are fascist what exactly do you suggest they do? That theyre not already doing?
Youngkin knew good and well. He also knew that the MAGAts did not know - or much care.
COL Mustard
(6,534 posts)The solar panels were recycled from Hunter Bidens laptop and funded by Soros!!!
brush
(56,167 posts)at the Pentagon?
Come on guv, you can do better.
erronis
(16,311 posts)Many may be to the right but most are not stupid. This could actually piss off a few younkin/trumpkins.
Think. Again.
(14,902 posts)...about their sugar daddie's fossil fuel profits drying up.
Traildogbob
(9,488 posts)Take your gripe to South Florida about now. Just opposing solar panels and outlawing the use of the word climate change, aint getting through to ole Mamma Nature. Maybe Texas, Idaho, Arkansas, and all the red tornado ally states will sign up with your bitching letter. Thatll fix it all.
Not enough paper towels from your Messiah down there at Mardi Lardo to help south Florida right now either.
Damn why cant that shit hole golf course take a fucking hit? Hes the one shitting all over Gods rep, and being compared to Jesus as a felon.
Gods acting like a Scared republican, just let Trump run all over him and his rules.Has to be a him, no female God would allow this shit.
MAGA repubs wake the fuck up. This is no hoax.
Arne
(3,329 posts)on massive damages from the storm that didn't come
near mar lagoo.
Is never gonna end. The criminal GQP cancer has Metastasized so deep into every nook, the country is terminal. Hospice cant even help ease the pain and despair of facing the end.
Every day more is found.
Climate apocalypse may be the only way to end it all, and we all go with it.
The earth will thrive after. Everything is Gods plan right.
He is cleansing the world of his biggest mistake. Like before.
Maraya1969
(22,893 posts)And the devastation that so many experienced from it was just awful. They are right when they call him a sadist - he has been diagnosed a sociopath which includes sadism.
erronis
(16,311 posts)HUAJIAO
(2,508 posts)GreenWave
(8,384 posts)oldsoftie
(13,339 posts)How is that wrong.
Bev54
(11,282 posts)liberal N proud
(60,706 posts)Warpy
(112,690 posts)Because of Republican intransigence, the Chinese were pretty much able to make off with that industry too.
Iff your bunch hadn't been bitching about the inconvenience of trethinking energy sources, maybe every single building in DC would have panels by now and most of them would be made here.
So shut your hypocritical trap and move on, asshole, and may your next run for office end not in defeat, but in utter humiliation.
mopinko
(71,350 posts)this in on a rental. have them on my home, 3 yrs old, and the new 1s r about 30% more efficient.
we shd b putting them on every possible govt bldg. start w schools. they need the money.
slightlv
(3,561 posts)Youngkin can't read English? Or, at the very least, has no verbal comprehension.
Martin68
(23,961 posts)they are confronted with improvements in green energy because they are opposed to it in principle, being wedded to the idea of the superiority of the hydrocarbon extraction industry which shares a little of their obscene profits with sympathetic politicians like Youngkin. Solar panels on the Pentagon!!!! Horrors!!!! Must be a communist plot!!!!