Please Don’t freeze out renewable energy.

This is ridiculous. Every energy expert says fossil fuels are nearing the end of their usefulness. Other countries around the world have proven renewable works. But here you are giving in to the fossil fuel lobby trying to save a dying industry. Lawmakers in Texas are having a busy week: Both chambers of the legislature are weighing in on a slate of bills that are, in theory, designed to address the problems that led to February’s deadly blackouts. But the ideas regurgitated in some of these bills, which would boost up fossil fuels while harming renewables, weren’t conceived wholesale in response to what actually happened in February. In fact, they appear to be exclusively items that have long been on the fossil fuel industry’s wish list, and lawmakers seem determined to check them off regardless of reality. If passed into law, they could prop up fossil fuels and kneecap renewables, all while doing nothing to ensure the Texas grid is ready for the next calamity. Please consider that renewable energy is our future, please don’t try to keep us in the 19th century.