Democrats’ Opposition to Fossil Fuels is Political: Grover Norquist

Environmental damage: A large flame and dark smoke rising from a flare stack at Grangemouth oil refinery and petrochemical plant in Scotland.

Political activist Grover Norquist is not convinced that Democrats’ opposition to fossil fuels is about the environment.
“It’s completely political because if you look at it, it’s not just that they don’t like fossil fuels, meaning gasoline,” he said. “They also don’t like nuclear power. Well, nuclear power has no carbon in it.”

Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, discussed a wide range of topics with NTD Business in an April 20 interview and was critical of Democrats’ claim that they oppose fossil fuel production because of carbon emissions. He suggested that if Democrats were really concerned about carbon emissions, they would be in favor of nuclear power and would not allow importing of oil, gas, and other products from countries that are greater emitters of carbon dioxide.
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