• About Us
  • Activity
  • Advertising
  • Books
  • Business
  • Contact
  • Dashboard
  • EB5
  • Entertainment
  • feedback
  • Forgot Your Password?
  • Government
  • Home
  • Home 20723
  • Interviews
  • Login
  • Members
  • Meme generator
  • National
  • Nevada
  • Nevada News and Views
  • Newsmax
  • NN&V Ads
  • Opinion
  • Pick a New Password
  • Politics
  • Polls
  • Privacy Policy
  • Profile
  • Recent comments by me
  • Recent comments on my posts
  • Register
  • Submit post
  • Subscribe
  • Subscription Confirmation
  • Survey
  • Survey
  • Terms of Service
  • Today’s Top 10
  • Travel
  • Travel
  • Travel
  • Welcome!
  • Yop Poll Archive
Nevada News and Views
  • About Us
  • Contact
  • More
    • Opinion
  • Facebook

  • Twitter

  • Pinterest

  • RSS

Opinion

Obama-Reid energy policies continue hurting Nevadans

Obama-Reid energy policies continue hurting Nevadans
Chuck Muth
August 25, 2015

Priorities Nevada Logo(Priorities Nevada) – LAS VEGAS – As government-funded clean energy projects around the country continue to prove wasteful and ineffective, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and President Obama are preparing once again to deny the reality of their ill-conceived energy agenda at the eighth annual Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas Monday, August 24, 2015.

“The Obama-Reid energy policy has been an abject failure for Nevadans,” said Ciara Matthews, executive director of Priorities Nevada, a limited-government, issue advocacy organization. “Beginning with the Stimulus Package, Reid and his liberal allies in the Senate have a long track record of waste, fraud and abuse when it comes to America’s energy policy.”

The Obama-Reid record on clean energy includes:

  • A lack of any real or meaningful job creation -The $1.3 billion in federal funding for Nevada clean energy projects since 2009 has resulted in a measly 288 permanent, full time jobs, according to a Nevada Journal report.
  • Increase costs to Nevada energy consumers – Nevada’s electricity rates are 26 percent higher than those of other Intermountain West states and 7 percent higher than the national average, according to the same study.
  • Blatant cronyism, which has only helped to boost the interests of Reid campaign contributors– Reid ushered in the Searchlight Wind Project, which will be developed by Reid donor Duke Energy Corporation.

“For too long, Nevadans have been reeling from an energy policy that ignores the needs of our state and serves only to boost Harry Reid and the special interests with whom he is aligned,” Matthews concluded.

 

Priorities Nevada is 501(c)(4) nonprofit coalition of concerned citizens, community leaders and other stakeholders interested in promoting a strong economy and an environment of opportunity for Nevada families and businesses. For more information, please visit www.PrioritiesNevada.org.

Prev postNext post

Related Items
Opinion
August 25, 2015
Chuck Muth

Related Items

More in Opinion

Amodei Statement on Debt Ceiling Bill

Chuck MuthJune 1, 2023
Read More

Tark: Trans “Rights” … and Wrongs

Chuck MuthMay 26, 2023
Read More

Stone: The Truth About AB 250: Will Patients Really Benefit?

NN&V StaffMay 26, 2023
Read More

“Ungrateful Miscreants”: Miller, Segerblom Insult Local Small Business Owners

NN&V StaffMay 24, 2023
Read More

Quarter-Million Dollar Ad Campaign Targets Nevada Legislators for Trapping Hispanic Families in Unsafe Schools

NN&V StaffMay 22, 2023
Read More

Nevada News & Views: May 20, 2023

NN&V StaffMay 20, 2023
Read More
Scroll for more
Tap

Subscribe Free By Email

Looking for the best in breaking news and conservative views? Let Chuck do all the work for you! Subscribe to his FREE "Muth's Truths" e-newsletter.

* indicates required
Nevada News and Views
Nevada News & Views is an educational project of Citizen Outreach Foundation, a non-partisan IRS-approved 501(c)(3) organization. It is not associated or affiliated with any political party or group. Nevada News & Views is accessible by the public at no cost. It funds its operations through tax-deductible contributions from donors and supporters and does not accept government money or grants.

TAGS

Featured Article Muths truth

Copyright © 2023 Citizen Outreach | Maintained by VirtualAlly

Attorney General Laxalt files Friend of the Court brief in support of the Free Exercise of Religion
Obama announces new loans for projects Nevada has halted