{"id":446419,"date":"2021-04-23T16:06:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T20:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=446419"},"modified":"2021-04-23T16:06:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T20:06:42","slug":"aoc-slams-republicans-for-using-statistics-and-studies-to-debunk-her-green-new-deal-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-slams-republicans-for-using-statistics-and-studies-to-debunk-her-green-new-deal-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC Slams Republicans For Using \u2018Statistics\u2019 And \u2018Studies\u2019 To Debunk Her Green New Deal Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faoc-slams-republicans-for-using-statistics-and-studies-to-debunk-her-green-new-deal-claims%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=446419&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3488.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>Celebrating \u201cEarth Day,\u201d Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed Republicans for using \u201cstatistics and studies\u201d in their opposition to her Green New Deal proposals, which included the widespread abandonment of fossil fuels in favor of \u201cgreen\u201d energy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHappy Earth Day!\u201d Rep. Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. \u201c<\/span><span>Here\u2019s a friendly reminder from this morning\u2019s committee hearing that investing in sustainable energy sources now makes more financial sense than spending billions to repair fossil fuel infrastructure after each climate disaster.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.5329341317365\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EarthDay?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EarthDay<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a friendly reminder from this morning\u2019s committee hearing that investing in sustainable energy sources now makes more financial sense than spending billions to repair fossil fuel infrastructure after each climate disaster. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EsLoNqlQ2K\">pic.twitter.com\/EsLoNqlQ2K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@RepAOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepAOC\/status\/1385360236375126018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>In the attached video, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez begins, \u201cWe\u2019ve heard a lot of, frankly, fantastic stories about what we would do if we actually commit to saving our planet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe have heard that it is a socialist conspiracy takeover to bring down climate emissions below the IPCC report of 1.5 degrees Celsius,\u201d the congresswoman continued. \u201cWe have heard that it will cause electricity bills to skyrocket and prompt families to pay hundreds of dollars a month in their normal electricity bills.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Rep. Ocasio-Cortez then continued to reject the conservative use of \u201cstatistics\u201d and \u201cstudies\u201d to criticize her proposals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBut that doesn\u2019t actually compare, you know, while we see these statistics and these studies by Republican and conservative and pro-lobbyist think tanks develop these theoretical ideas of what nightmares could potentially await us if we actually stewarded our future, they fail to acknowledge what\u2019s happening right now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ocasio-Cortez then presented the admitted failure of general power-related infrastructure in Texas during the winter storms in February as evidence that her proposals are correct.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cLet\u2019s take, for example, electricity bills. While there\u2019s all this fear-mongering about if we switch to solar, if we commit to wind, that our costs will go up a lot. That fails to acknowledge what we just saw in February when Texas had a freeze and their fossil fuel infrastructure was so inadequate and unprepared thanks to both climate-denying politicians who refuse to invest in infrastructure to adapt to our future and acknowledge that we will be experiencing climate events in regions that have never experienced such events before, and also from industry, who doesn\u2019t want to invest and actually take the cost of preparing for our future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSo what does that yield?\u201d Ocasio-Cortez asked. \u201cIt yielded $16,000 electricity bills, oil and gas electricity bills, electricity bills from an oil and gas infrastructure on everyday people in the state of Texas. $16,000. That is just the everyday what we are seeing for everyday people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Throughout her statement, Ocasio-Cortez did not explain how her Green New Deal proposals, such as the use of wind and solar power, would have prevented what happened in Texas, or that high costs of power outside of rare weather events would not become the norm under her proposed system. She also presented the Texas storm event as an \u201ceveryday\u201d occurrence, which it simply is not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Her criticism of the use of \u201cstatistics\u201d is eerily similar to Rep. Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s 2019 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2019\/01\/06\/ocasio-cortez_people_being_more_concerned_about_me_being_factually_correct_than_morally_right.html\"><span>claim<\/span><\/a><span> that \u201c<\/span><span>there\u2019s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIf people want to really blow up one figure here or one word there, I would argue that they\u2019re missing the forest for the trees,\u201d Rep. Ocasio-Cortez told CNN\u2019s Anderson Cooper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrating \u201cEarth Day,\u201d Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed Republicans for using \u201cstatistics and studies\u201d in their opposition to her Green New Deal proposals, which included the widespread abandonment of fossil fuels &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276579,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3488.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"AOC Slams Republicans For Using \u2018Statistics\u2019 And \u2018Studies\u2019 To Debunk Her Green New Deal Claims","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3488.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"AOC Slams Republicans For Using \u2018Statistics\u2019 And \u2018Studies\u2019 To Debunk Her Green New Deal Claims","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}