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Plastic is all around us, quietly powering the technologies that help us care for the environment. It’s lightweight, durable, and versatile, making it essential for things like solar panels that capture the sun’s rays, wind turbines that dance with the breeze, and electric vehicles that hum along our roads. Without plastic, we wouldn’t have the insulation in our homes that keeps us cozy while saving energy, or the irrigation systems that help farmers use water wisely. These are the kinds of solutions that make me optimistic about the future, and plastic is at the heart of them.

New polling from the Rainey Center illustrates that voters support keeping domestic energy tax credits or limiting them to only US companies rather than eliminating them. Voters, including Republicans, oppose fully repealing domestic manufacturing credits. This unity underscores the shared commitment to policies prioritizing American manufacturing and economic security.

A recent study revealed that Bitcoin — just a single cryptocurrency — consumes nearly 175 terawatt hours per year. To put that into perspective, it’s roughly the same amount of energy the nation of Ireland consumes in a year. Whether it’s for your private wallet or a national reserve, transactions done on public blockchains, like Bitcoin, have to be mined. Mining is so energy intensive, any serious attempt at establishing a crypto reserve necessarily demands a strategy to exponentially increase energy consumption.