But Common Dreams did, demonstrating again that the future of relevant news gathering lies in alternate, independent media. Perusing almost all of the corporate media, however, you’d never know that last week Democrats released a report entitled “The Billion Dollar Deal: How the Fossil Fuel Industry Brought the Trump Administration, Cashed In, and Left Americans to Pay the Price.”
“A thuggish government and a desperate industry. . .is squeezing every last dollar out of Americans’ pocketbooks while they still can. . . The regulatory architecture built over decades to protect American families from pollution and climate change. . .Those captured agencies delivered for the fossil fuel industry.”
The report is blunt about the financial and health costs thus imposed on the American consumer. “Canceled and delayed wind and solar projects are also raising electricity prices for consumers in multiple states, sending billions to fossil fuel plants. And the EPA itself has estimated that the elimination of tailpipe emission standards will cost Americans a minimum of $580 billion in added fuel costs alone over the next three decades. Hundreds of thousands of jobs are being lost as the United States cedes its industrial competitiveness in clean energy technologies to China and Europe.”
Democrats have been running away from environmental concerns because their idiot consultants told them it didn’t help them in the 2024 election. If it didn’t help them, it’s because they didn’t message effectively–the entire 2024 Democratic campaign was a lesson in what not to do. It’s up to them to learn how to message effectively, and they have to go directly to the public, since most of the media won’t offer any assistance.
Again, why aren’t there daily press briefings by the Democrats to inform Americans and refute the lies Trump and the Republicans?