Presidential candidate Kamala Harris' claim that she no longer supports a ban on fracking is a stark contrast to what she said five years ago.
Just before dropping out of the 2020 presidential race in 2019 and joining incumbent President Joe Biden's ticket, he made it clear during a CNN town hall that he strongly supports a ban on fracking, or fracking.
“There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking and starting with what we can do on day one around public lands, right?” she said “And then there has to be legislation, but yes, that's something that I've taken on in California. I have a history of working on this issue. [W]We just have to recognize that the residual impact of fracking is huge in terms of the health and safety of communities.”
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That same year, he co-sponsored radical Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal, which also includes a ban on fracking.
“Climate change is real and it poses an existential threat to us as human beings, and it is within our power to do something about it,” he said at the time. “I'm supporting the Green New Deal.”
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Kamala Harris in 2019.
“I'm supporting the Green New Deal” pic.twitter.com/XDIcjKJ8jr
— Sunrise Movement (@sunrisemvmt) July 21, 2024
However, now that she is running for president against former President Donald Trump, a staunch supporter of fracking who leads her in most polls, she has suddenly changed her tune, even though Trump isn't buying it.
“She doesn't want fracking,” he said during a rally in Charlotte this week. “You're going to pay a lot of money. You're going to be paying a lot. You're going to say 'Bring Trump back.'”
“He co-sponsored the new $100 trillion green scam, with the goal of completely abolishing the oil, coal and natural gas industries, which would reduce the United States to a third world country,” he added.
Bob Casey just endorsed the most liberal candidate in American history. pic.twitter.com/J0V6W7CUlh
— Dave McCormick (@DaveMcCormickPA) July 23, 2024
In a subsequent statement made to the hillthe Harris campaign rejected some of Trump's claims.
“Trump's false claims about fracking bans are an obvious attempt to distract from his own plans to enrich oil and gas executives at the expense of the middle class,” they said. “The Biden-Harris administration passed the biggest climate change legislation and under their leadership, America now has the highest domestic energy production.”
“This Administration created 300,000 energy jobs, while Trump lost nearly a million, and his 2025 blueprint would undo the tremendous progress we've made over the past four years,” they added.
What they said about “the highest domestic energy production ever” was a misleading lie.
According to the DC station SO“domestic production peaked in early 2020 while President Donald Trump was in office, with more than 13 million barrels of oil produced per day.”
However, due to the COVID crisis, which was beyond Trump's control, oil production fell later in his presidency, making the rate of “average oil production” throughout his entire presidency was slightly lower than that of Biden and Harris.
'POLITICS WORLD': CNBC blasts Biden administration for lying about domestic oil production.
“We are nowhere near record oil production.” pic.twitter.com/S72dAiy6lQ
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 24, 2022
Back to the fracking issue, Republicans are sticking with it despite Harris' ostensibly changed position.
“Kamala Harris is the most far-left progressive presidential candidate in history, and extreme Democrats in the Rust Belt now have every policy she supports,” said Mike Marinella, a spokesman for the Republican National Congressional Committee. Fox News.
“A fracking ban would be disastrous for workers and families, and the mission of extreme Democrats to force Biden to step aside and replace him with San Francisco radical Kamala Harris shows exactly how out of touch they are with their voters,” he added.
In accordance with E&E news, Harris has also previously said he wants the Justice Department to prosecute fossil fuel companies over climate change, which of course would send gas/electricity prices skyrocketing. He also once called for a ban on plastic straws.
Speaking to the outlet, some Democrats tried to defend Harris, particularly for his past support of the disastrous Green New Deal.
“I think the Green New Deal has proven to be largely symbolic… I always thought it made the mistakes of trying to remake the whole economy, which makes the climate problem even harder to solve,” he said Rep. Scott Peters. “So I don't think that's a problem.”
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