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Jake Auchincloss: “Australia is just much cheaper to install solar than…”

Featuring: Jake Auchincloss, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, District 4

One SouthCoast Chamber Breakfast with Congressman Jake Auchincloss

Published July 29, 2026 | Video Starts at 42:42

It's really getting very affordable now. I think one thing that we have to do here in Massachusetts is take on what the Australia, the Australia model, which is Australia is just much cheaper to install solar than Massachusetts is, despite comparable rates paid for wages for the installation. And a big part of it is just bureaucracy and red tape. Australia has a very easy kind of one stop shop, get it permitted, go and do it here … (42:42–42:57)

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Asserts that solar installation is cheaper in Australia than in Massachusetts, despite similar wage rates.

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“40% of kids in Massachusetts are covered by Medicaid.”
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“The average American child now spends less time outdoors than a federal inmate.”
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“Bay Staters pay roughly twice as much for utilities as comparable states do.”
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“Our swing supply, summer and winter, is liquefied natural gas from Yemen.”
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“20% of the world's oil and other critical commodities like fertilizer and helium transit [through the Strait of Hormuz].”
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“About a third of Americans vote by mail.”
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“165 to 170 million Americans get health insurance from their employer.”
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“Something like $100 billion being spent annually on drugs that could have a competitor but don't.”
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“40% of wages paid in Massachusetts are directly or indirectly supported by R and D.”
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“You are more likely as of the 24 election in America to get bitten by a shark than you are to commit voter fraud.”
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“The 340B program...is increasing employer health insurance premiums and is weakening Medicaid.”
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“Republicans cut Medicaid and added a bunch of red tape.”
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“Since 2012, when social media apps on smartphones became ubiquitous, we have seen an alarming decline in mental health.”
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“Social media corporations have become the wealthiest, most powerful corporations in the history of the world.”
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“We have no regulations to protect young kids' brains as they are being affected on these applications.”
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“I have legislation that would make clear that AI bots can be held liable for harms caused.”
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“I have legislation that would tax the digital advertising revenue of these social media corporations.”
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“The big tech lobby in Washington, they, it's the NFL. They hit hard, they spend big.”
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“Their algorithms suppress or amplify content editorially.”
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“They really operate more like online gambling apps than they do like town squares because they're playing with your dopamine system.”
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“We need science based regulations around that exploitation of young people's brains.”
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“Now the wealthier parents are the ones who don't let their kids have screen time.”
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“Congress has passed the first step of reforms on pharmacy benefit managers to end that price gouging.”
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“Congress just passed the 21st century road to Housing act, which is the first major housing legislation that Congress has passed in my…”
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“We've put forward bipartisan, comprehensive reforms to 340B.”
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“Massachusetts needs to build 250,000 more units of housing.”
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“I've supported them with some federal earmarks for horizontal infrastructure.”
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“Tariffs are taxes, and they're taxes that are disproportionately paid by small businesses and importers.”
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“Massachusetts is subject to global energy prices.”
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“I am a big proponent of offshore wind.”
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“Big supporter of the transmission line to Canada so we can tap into their hydropower.”
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“Solar is going down a cost curve faster than any other technology.”
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“Massachusetts needs to get rid of its moratorium on nuclear power.”
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“Meta will be in the 21st century what the tobacco companies were in the 20th century.”
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“Meta wanted to preempt state laws against them.”
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“Meta wanted to make it impossible to sue them through knowledge standards that were impossible for parents to meet.”
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“America's not fighting in Ukraine against Russia.”
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“We are supporting the eastern flank of NATO to defend against Russian revanchism.”
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“Russia under Vladimir Putin is trying to take back territory illegally.”
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“Donald Trump is the first president in American history to start and lose a war by himself.”
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“He started a war illegally. There was no authorization from Congress.”
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“We've handed new hardened, hard lined Ayatollah choke point control over the Strait of Hormuz.”
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“The regime in Iran was teetering because its people were immiserated.”
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“Deployment of ICE or the National Guard to polling locations is illegal.”
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“The President is trying to get the USPS to not deliver mail in ballots.”
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“If it were up to [RFK Jr.] right now, you wouldn't get the MMR vaccine.”
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“There's bipartisan legislation to expedite the production and distribution of biosimilars.”
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“I've delivered tens of millions of dollars for the Massachusetts fourth inside of 495 in the inner suburbs.”
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“Outside of 495 has tended to be more water infrastructure.”
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“In the Fall river area, it's been particularly focused on waterfront and Flint redevelopment opportunities.”
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“The voter ID requirements as proposed by the president in the Save America act are unworkable and unfair.”
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“The bill that he is putting forward...would disproportionately affect married women.”
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“It would also require states to send their voter rolls to the Department of Homeland Security to be run through an algorithm.”
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“Secretary of State Bill Galvin, when Homeland Security asked him to do it, said no.”
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