Watch: Morano on Fox debates warmist over EPA regs: ‘The government is now further centrally planning our energy economy’

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Fox Business: Neil Cavuto: ‘Coast To Coast’ – August 3, 2015

Marc Morano vs. Howard Gould, Renewal Energy Advocate

Selected Excerpts:

MORANO: “The government is now further centrally planning our energy economy. We have already retired more than 200 coal plants. This is gong to hit our energy sector hard and not just in the coal regions.”

MORANO: “It’s going to make energy more expensive across the board. Families are going to suffer. People on fixed incomes. We’ve already had an African-American civil rights leader protesting some of these policies. Some of them have gone after Robert Redford for his supporting policies that would hurt minorities, the poor, seniors on fixed incomes. On the other side, there is no positive climate benefit.
CAVUTO:  “Whatever jobs are lost in the traditional energy sector coal, are being made up for in wind and solar. Do you buy that Marc?”
MORANO: “The EIA (U.S. Energy Information Agency – 2013) estimates that wind is about 4% of our energy and solar is about .25 of one percent! So you are asking for less than 5% of energy to somehow cover all of these carbon based regulations. We have Obama administration officials like White House Science Czar John Holdren who openly talk about cheap energy being a threat or a hazard to a free society.”
MORANO: “We do know one thing that there will be no climate impact form these bills.”
GOULD: “That is completely false. That is completely false.”
MORANO: “The EPA administrator admitted that.” See: EPA Chief Admits Obama Regs Have No Measurable Climate Impact: ‘One one-hundredth of a degree?’ EPA Chief McCarthy defends regs as ‘enormously beneficial’ – Symbolic impact
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Warmist Media Matters lamented Morano’s appearance on Fox: “On the August 3 edition of Fox Business’ Cavuto: Coast to Coast, frequent guest and “Merchant of Doubt” Marc Morano claimed that the Clean Power Plan ‘will make energy more expensive across the board'”
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