- In November 2022, Hovde said that if people think an economy can transition from its existing fuel sources “in a matter of a decade,” they are smoking crack cocaine.
- In this remark and others, Hovde is casting doubt on the pace of the clean energy transition, not saying anyone who thinks it can happen at all is kidding themselves. That’s a key distinction.
- Hovde has derided clean energy initiatives in the past, and energy experts critiqued the usefulness of his overall point here. But that doesn’t change that he didn’t say what the group claims he did.
U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde has an evolving relationship with clean energy.
The Republican businessman, who will face incumbent Democrat U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin on Nov. 5, 2024, has embraced solar energy tax credits for his Sunwest Bank clients in recent years. That’s a flip from his 2012 campaign for the Senate, during which he said he was “wholeheartedly” opposed…
