In the Friday edition of Fox Business Network's “Maria Bartiromo's Wall Street,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) declared that the effort to shift towards renewable energy in order to reduce dependence on Russian gas and oil is basically trading Russia's oppression for China's dictatorial regime, since “at the core of the renewables energy industry is China producing the batteries, the wind turbines, the solar panels, and all of the raw materials that it takes to have a green economy” and China “is the OPEC of the renewable industry.”
Waltz declared, “What the progressives won't say out loud right now is — but have said in the past, is that high oil and gas prices, high gas prices at the pump is an opportunity to accelerate the drive towards renewables…You're trading one dictatorship for another. Because at the core of the [renewable] energy industry is China producing the batteries, the wind turbines, the solar panels, and all of the raw materials that it takes to have a green economy. China is the OPEC of green. It has cornered the market and is the OPEC of the renewable industry. Again, you're trading Russia for Iran, for China, all dependency models.”
