How Harris Reversed Her Previous Fracking Ban Support During the Debate
Two years ago, President Biden signed into law the world’s biggest climate change spending plan named the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)—at the time estimated to provide $370 billion in support for emissions reducing programs.
On Tuesday’s presidential debate stage, Vice President Kamala Harris touted the law for a completely different claim: it paved the way for more oil and gas drilling.
On Tuesday’s presidential debate stage, Vice President Kamala Harris touted the law for a completely different claim: it paved the way for more oil and gas drilling.
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00:00I made that very clear in 2020.
00:02I will not ban fracking.
00:04I have not banned fracking as Vice President
00:06of the United States, and in fact, I was
00:08the tie-breaking vote on the
00:10Inflation Reduction Act, which
00:12opened new leases for fracking.
00:14My position is
00:16that we have got to
00:18invest in diverse
00:20sources of energy so we reduce
00:22our reliance on foreign oil.
00:24We have had the
00:26largest increase in
00:28domestic oil production
00:30in history because of an
00:32approach that recognizes that
00:34we cannot over-rely on foreign oil.
00:36And she will never allow fracking in
00:38Pennsylvania. If she won the election,
00:40fracking in Pennsylvania
00:42will end on day one.
00:44I got the oil business going like nobody has
00:46ever done before.
00:48When they took over, they got
00:50rid of it, started getting rid of it, and
00:52the prices were going up
00:54the roof. But if she won the election,
00:56the day after that election,
00:58they'll go back to destroying our country,
01:00and oil will be dead, fossil fuel will
01:02be dead. We'll go back to windmills, and we'll go back
01:04to solar, where they need
01:06a whole desert to get some energy
01:08to come out of it.