Georgia GOP Senate candidate, Herschel Walker said the country needs “gas-guzzling cars” that produces “good emissions” during a campaign stop on Monday.
Speaking to supporters in Augusta Ga., Walker said the U.S. is not ready to shift to more green energy policies to address climate change.
“If we was ready for the green agenda, I’d raise my hand right now. But we’re not ready right now. So don’t let them fool you like this is a new agenda. This is not a new agenda,” Walker said. “We’re not prepared. We’re not ready right now. What we need to do is keep having those gas-guzzling cars, ’cause we got the good emissions under those cars. We’re doing the best thing that we can.”
Car emissions is one of the major sources of pollution as it contains greenhouse gases that cause climate change.
Earlier this year, Democrats passed a massive climate bill to reduce carbon emissions in an effort to fight climate change. Some Republicans, including Walker, have dismissed the idea of climate change and opposed efforts to fight it.
At a campaign event in July, Walker claimed the Green New Deal, is actually a ploy to clean China’s “bad air.”
“We in America have some of the cleanest air and cleanest water of anybody in the world,” he said. “So what we are going to do is put, from the Green New Deal, millions, billions of dollars cleaning our good air up. So all of the sudden China and India, they put nothing to clean that situation up. Since we don’t control the air, our good air decides to float over to China’s bad air. So when China gets our good air, their bad air got to move. So it moves over to our good airspace. Then, now, we got to clean that back up.”
Walker is facing Democrat Sen. Raphael Walker in a special runoff election on Dec. 6 after both candidates fail to reach 50% in the November midterm elections.
