The energy bill that would bail out nuclear plants while repealing the state鈥檚 green energy standards on utilities is collecting a variety of opponents that don鈥檛 usually take the same side.
Conservative groups have joined environmental groups in voicing their objections to the energy bill, , albeit for different reasons.
Micah Derry with Americans for Prosperity Ohio says the bill, which could dole out more than $150 million to Ohio鈥檚 two nuclear plants, is an unfair bailout.
Derry goes on to say this bills like this one gives capitalism a bad name.
鈥淧olicies that have led to hundreds of thousands of students on university campuses across the United States to believe that capitalism is a fraud, a fake, and a failure. It is because they鈥檝e been told, and observed that such cronyism and corporate welfare is actually capitalism,鈥� Derry says.
The conservative Buckeye Institute and the Ohio Chamber of Commerce also have concerns with the nuclear subsidies but do support a repeal of the energy efficiency mandates.
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