Texas becomes front line of GOP civil war over energy

AUSTIN — Texas has become ground zero in a GOP battle over energy, pitting a suburban populist right that seeks to throttle the state’s renewables program against the mainline Republican business establishment.

A similar red-on-red fight is taking place at the federal level, where Texas Rep. Chip Roy (R) has emerged as a leading voice calling for the full repeal of renewable energy tax credits established in 2022 under President Biden — setting himself against a group of Republican defenders of the subsidies.

But the conflict has roots in Texas, where it reflects a more fundamental struggle over the core principles of the state GOP and the legacy of establishment Republicans such as former President and Gov. George W. Bush — an unlikely godfather of the Texas and U.S. renewables programs.

‘Another attack on renewables’

The divisions are front and center in Austin as the legislative session reaches its last frenetic weeks, with largely rural GOP lawmakers pitted against those from the suburbs and exurbs.

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Guess Roy thinks everyone should be rolling coal in big pickup trucks with plastic testicles attached to them.