While Kamala Harris and her surrogates remain vague about her flip flop on fracking and other key issues heading into the election, refusing to explain her position, rationale or plans, the oil and gas industry is in distress about what a Harris-Walz administration would mean for their industry and for the nation as a whole.
Despite claims made by environmental activists and their left-wing political allies, those in the industry insist that traditional methods that have been villainized can be done in a way that’s efficient and conscious of their surroundings, inflicting minimal damage.
Cameron Energy‘s environmental care coordinator Tyler Martin said, “We have the cleanest streams in our area. In the United States, within our borders, we can produce energy cleaner than they can in other countries. And if you’re an environmentalist, that should be important. We should produce it here. We work hard so that everybody around us can have an affordable, modern life-supporting energy that’s domestically produced and safely.”
Independent Women’s Forum Center for Energy and Conservation director Gabriella Hoffman said, “[Nuclear] uses the least amount of land. But you don’t see that rhetoric in that language deployed there… for the [Harris-Walz] administration to say we’re going to continue our work with the [Inflation Reduction Act], we’re going to continue our work with boosting and supercharging unreliable, intermittent solar and wind, it doesn’t leave energy experts and energy-conscious folks with a lot of confidence.”
Despite Kamala claiming to have changed her position on fracking, industry experts find it hard to believe, and have voiced concerns that she will only double down on anti oil and gas measures that her administration put in place, and revert to previous policy positions that she claims to have moved on from.
Cameron Energy founder Arthur Stewart said, “I still believe that what Kamala Harris said when she was running for president in 2019, that she wants to ban all fracking, is the real Kamala Harris… You want to know what a real climate crisis would be? If there wasn’t energy to run air conditioners in Arizona, if there wasn’t natural gas to heat homes in Maine or Massachusetts or Pennsylvania or in our hospitals, anywhere. A real crisis would be if you couldn’t make the plastics for hospitals. And I don’t think that her policy understands that remotely.”
Martin added, “It looks like another soundbite of word salad to me. Sounds like there’s a lot of feel-good terms in there for her base, [but] doesn’t really speak to any solutions. We’re not out here to pollute. We’re not out here to do something wrong for people. We’re just out here to make a living, to make our way and to provide affordable energy for all Americans.”
Fox Business reports:
On Trump’s campaign website, within his publicly listed platform stances, his first priority is to “defeat inflation and quickly bring down all prices.” The first step to that, his campaign writes, is to unleash American energy by “lifting restrictions on American energy production, terminating the Socialist Green New Deal, unleashing energy production from all sources, including nuclear, to immediately slash inflation.”
Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, “Oil and gas companies, like Cameron Energy, in Pennsylvania and across the country are suffering from Kamala Harris’ dangerously liberal environmental policies that put America’s cleaner energy on the backburner for energy from foreign countries. Kamala Harris proudly helped Joe Biden implement all of his disastrous policies, including his war on American energy that created the worst inflation crisis in a generation.”
