Green Activists Want to Blame Trump for Rising Electric Prices They Produced by Pushing Intermittent Energy Onto the Grid

September 16, 2025

Green activists and their political allies are working overtime to try to blame rising electricity bills on President Trump — his One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), his tighter scrutiny of wind and solar, and even emergency reliability orders. The data tell a different story: prices climbed sharply before the OBBBA could plausibly matter, demand is rising fast, the “renewables are cheap” sales pitch is still history, and the system-wide costs land on ratepayers.

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