JD Vance & Climate Issues: Blowin’ With The Political Winds. He opposes solar power and wants to repeal legislation to promote electric vehicles (OV). Open Secrets calculates that he has received $340,289 from the oil and gas industry in campaign contributions since 2019.
by Wagamaga
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One of the worst things to happen to America is normaliizing graft.
Can’t you require some sort of scientifically-backed reason to not support solar? How can someone just be like, “I don’t like this, therefore, it’s gone.” What’s his reasoning? Petrol is better? Better for his bank account, I’m sure.
In 2017, Vance was touring the country, basking in the success of his novel, Hillbilly Elegy. “I think that the story of the American industry has been one where some industries go away and then some industries arise to take their place. It’s been this constant disruption/innovation cycle,” he told an audience at New York’s 92nd Street Y, the city’s renowned cultural and spiritual center. “I don’t think that we should be trying to just protect industries for the sake of protecting them.”
As Capital and Mainreported, as a venture capital investor, Vance invested in two microgrid developers, an EV charging technology startup, and a fund that invested $10 million in a renewable energy tech company, Heliogen, which says on its website that it’s “unlocking the power of sunlight to replace fossil fuels.” Vance also sat on the board of AppHarvest, a sustainable agriculture company that was committed to “seeking to accelerate a zero-carbon energy future,” which has since filed for bankruptcy. As his political trajectory rose, Vance seemed a different person. No longer was he an advocate of climate action.
A 2021 financial disclosure showed that Vance had between $100,001 and $250,000 parked in a mutual fund that invests in crude oil futures; by 2022, he had decreased that amount to between