LEXINGTON, KY (February 24, 2023) — In comments to a homebuyer’s group at Bowie State University this past Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris made the astounding claim that the Biden Administration has “reduced heating and electricity bills, so folks will have more money in their pockets…” This is a claim that, frankly leaves us scratching our heads and asking ourselves whether the Vice President is speaking about some alternate universe.
“In the real world, electricity prices have gone up by almost 12 percent, fuel oil is up almost 30 percent and natural gas is up by almost 27 percent from this time last year,” KCA President Tucker Davis said. “I’m not sure where the Vice President is getting her information, but if it weren’t such a serious situation for Kentucky’s – and America’s – families, her claim would be laughable.
“But no one is laughing,” Davis continued. “Kentucky families know the reality of the situation all too well. They are the ones struggling to pay their utility bills every month. For Harris to even make such a claim leaves us with two choices – ignorance or intent. Either Vice President Harris has no clue that people’s electricity bills have skyrocketed as a result of the Biden Administration’s incompetence, or she knows and is so contemptuous of the average American voter she thinks her Orwellian ‘facts’ will be believed.
“But this isn’t Oceania, it is America in the 21st Century, where a five-minute Google session will clearly show the truth. The “Big Lie” doesn’t work here.”
“Sadly, over the next few months, the Biden Administration plans to implement a whole series of new regulations that will threaten every remaining coal-fired power plant in the country. If the Biden/Harris administration is successful in their stated goal of closing all coal-fired power plants by 2030, the current sky-high electric prices we are paying will be a fond memory. And hundreds of thousands of American households will face energy poverty, routine blackouts, brownouts and a stark choice between food on their table and paying their electric bills.
“This is a future we cannot allow to become reality,” Davis said. “We at KCA will fight this administration’s radical agenda every step of the way. And if you care about your family’s future, you will join us.”
For more information contact Tucker Davis at the Kentucky Coal Association at (859)233-4743 or via email at tdavis@kentuckycoal.co
