GOP’s frightening plan to melt the planet: Koch $, burning fossil fuel, and junk science

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GOP’s frightening plan to melt the planet: Koch $, burning fossil fuel, and junk science
"We need to embrace the energy revolution," Mitch McConnell declared this week. Here's what that really means
Marcy Wheeler


The GOP had barely declared victory after its shellacking of Democrats on Tuesday before they started rolling out plans to melt the Earth.

It was already clear that a Republican victory would doom efforts to do something about climate change. After all, Oklahoma’s Jim Inhofe, a climate change denier, is expected to chair the Environment and Public Works Committee.

Moreover, the way the GOP won should have predicted that a victory would accelerate the burning of fossil fuel. After all, the oil magnate and climate change denying Koch brothers provided huge dark money backing for GOP candidates.

But in a press conference on Wednesday, Mitch McConnell — who will become majority leader in January — made it clear how central plans to burn more fossil fuels are to the Republicans. McConnell explicitly mentioned forcing the president to approve the Keystone pipeline. But he also envisioned something more. “We haven’t had an energy bill in seven years,” McConnell said, “we need to embrace the energy revolution that’s going on in our country, promote it.”

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However McConnell plans to force the hand of the market, Republicans will just be competing over which oligarchs get to sell the fossil fuels we’ll all burn.

The voters in Tuesday’s election were – as midterm races usually are — comparatively old, with 37% of voters older than 60, according to an NBC exit poll. Those voters won’t be around when the full effect of the policies the Republicans are about to implement will be felt.

But make no mistake. This Republican congressional majority will kill our planet.