GOP House Rep Took $315,000 Climate Grant He Voted Against To Install Solar Panels At His PA Car Dealership

The Huffington Post reports:

Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.), an outspoken critic of President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, used the law to receive a grant to install solar panels at one of his car dealership locations. The U.S. Department of Agriculture gave a Uniontown dealership owned by Mike Kelly Automotive Group a nearly $315,000 grant to install a 261.9-kilowatt solar panel array. The grant is set to save the firm $23,700 per year in energy costs, according to the USDA.

In his official statement following the bill’s passage, Kelly derided the legislation that made those grants possible. His office singled out the bill’s climate provisions as damaging in bullet points accompanying the statement. “The bill provides $375 billion in so-called ‘climate change’ legislation, which include $7,500 tax credits for wealthy Americans to purchase electric vehicles (EV),” his office said.

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