Black Activist Testifies Before House Committee About Damage Biden’s Energy Policies Have Caused Black Families

OPINION (PROJECT 21) – On Thursday, September 19, Donna Jackson, Director of Membership Development for Project 21 — the black leadership network of the National Center for Public Policy Research — testified before the U.S. House Committee on the Budget in a public hearing titled “The Cost of the Biden Energy Crisis.”Black communities suffer disproportionately from the Biden administration’s Green New Deal policies and its attacks on affordable, clean and reliable fossil fuels. These policies have exacerbated, if not created, the inflationary pressures increasingly felt by all Americans — especially black Americans at the lower end of the economic ladder.“Green New Deal-style policies like those in the Inflation Reduction Act cost Americans twice,” states Jackson in her& prepared remarks. “First, we pay billions and quite possibly trillions in tax dollars to subsidize these alternative energy sources and technologies. And since green energy usually costs more, we end up with higher utility bills as well as rising prices for everything from housing to cars to food. At the same time, this agenda prevents us from getting the full benefit from the abundance of more reliable fossil fuels like affordable coal, oil and natural gas that this nation is blessed with. Overall,...