As he prepares for his December 6 runoff against incumbent Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock following the nation’s most intense Senatorial campaign, Republican nominee Herschel Walker continues to make strange and confusing statements on the campaign trail.
Walker, who survived the initial election to make it this far in spite of myriad scandals, bizarre statements, and outright lies, continues to say strange things about the environment as part of his push to get Georgia’s voters to consider him once more.
The former Georgia Bulldogs star spoke to supporters over the weekend, saying that the United States is not ready for environmentally friendly policies such as the Green New Deal and that we need to continue to buy “gas-guzzling cars.”
“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 at a campaign stop in Peachtree City. “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.”
Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker (R): "If we was ready for the green agenda, I'd raise my hand right now. But 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." pic.twitter.com/KwEIEpdg8C
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Scientifically speaking, Walker couldn’t be more wrong in terms of the impact of “gas-guzzling cars” and their emissions. In 2021, over 99.9% of climate scientists agreed that the burning of fossil fuels is a huge cause of global warming.
Walker has made quite a few bizarre comments about the environment and climate change during his campaign. In July, he accused China of…something related to air quality.
“Since we don’t control the air our good air decided to float over to China’s bad air so when China gets our good air, their bad air got to move,” said Walker. “So it moves over to our good air space. Then now we got we to clean that back up.”
In August, Walker reacted to a provision in the Inflation Reduction Act that allocates $1.5 billion to the U.S. Forest Service’s Urban and Community Forestry Program by pondering if we really needed any more trees.
“They continue to try to fool you that they are helping you out. But they’re not,” Walker said. “Because a lot of money, it’s going to trees. Don’t we have enough trees around here?”
