2019 Texas Statewide Clean Energy Survey

“Support for clean energy tests very well with GOP and Independent women, two groups Republican candidates need to do well with in 2020. Republican candidates in Texas will help themselves with these groups by including more messaging and support for clean energy innovation and production,” Bolger continued.

CTEI is a non-profit clean energy education and advocacy organization launched to promote energy innovation and clean energy policies grounded in the conservative principle of common sense, market-based solutions that allow fair competition and provide greater access to clean, affordable and reliable energy.

The organization is being led by Matt Welch and Kevin Brannon, longtime Republican veterans who have a combined 50-plus years as consultants in the Texas political and public affairs arena.  They have advised numerous political campaigns, conservative organizations and grassroots efforts across Texas.

Brannon said, “Ronald Reagan said it best when he said a superior natural resources policy is one that favors those institutions by which new resources are substituted for old ones: individual enterprise, guided by the price signals of the market, and technological advances that conserve resources and permit them to be used more efficiently.”

Welch added, “As conservatives, we fundamentally believe free markets are the key to job creation, continued innovation and technological advancements in energy production, distribution, storage and efficiency.  In contrast, the proposed massive ‘Green New Deal,’ would wreck the national economy and erode our personal freedoms in the process.   Draconian, unworkable proposals underscore the need for conservatives to lead on clean energy.  When we fail to offer constructive solutions to our challenges, it makes big-government outcomes more likely.”