Kamala Harris was against fracking before she was for it. She was for an EV mandate before she was against it. She was for the Green New Deal before she was against it.
Harris's energy policies are sphinx-like in their inscrutability. Perhaps it depends on the day of the week. Maybe it's the time of the month? (Yeah? So sue me.)
When it comes to fossil fuels and the companies that pull them out of the ground, Harris wishes she had more than two sides to her mouth.
“We have had the largest increase in domestic oil production in history because of an approach that recognizes that we cannot over-rely on foreign oil,” Harris said at a Philadelphia campaign event last month.
If that were true, you and your boss, Joe Biden, wouldn't have stopped distributing oil leases for public lands within days of taking office in 2021. Then, when a federal judge ordered the lease sales to continue, you found another way to stall them and another federal judge banned them again. You also halted drilling on public lands in Alaska.
In effect, you and Biden forced the United States to buy oil from foreign countries. Then, when foreign countries began to jack up the price of oil during the pandemic, you begged them to delay the oil production cut until after the 2022 midterms.
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Regardless of her position today, Harris was threatening to prosecute oil companies in 2019 for deliberately contributing to climate change
CNN:
As a presidential candidate in 2019, Harris pledged to eliminate the filibuster in order to pass a Green New Deal, with strict deadlines for reducing fossil fuel use. She also signed a pledge to hold all future energy projects accountable to a “climate test” and promised to cancel two pipeline construction projects opposed by environmental activists. She pledged to ban fracking and signed on to niche environmental proposals such as banning plastic straws. And she ran numerous ads on Facebook touting her plans to “take on” the oil lobby and pass a Green New Deal.
“You should be really prepared to look at a serious fine or be charged with a crime,” Harris said in November 2019 when a South Carolina town hall attendee asked whether she would investigate companies such as Chevron and Shell for their role in contributing to climate change.
After Biden dropped out, the champion of the Green New Deal and climate change warrior said she no longer supported the Green New Deal or a ban on fracking. Her radical green base was strangely silent, probably because they know that if she's elected, she'll flip her position again and attempt to prosecute oil companies.
Meanwhile, oil and gas industry execs don't believe for a minute that Harris is a born-again supporter of fossil fuels. The reason for her flip-flop is simple; fracking is a winning issue.
"If the VP is now endorsing a pro-fracking plan, we are the experts and would encourage a meeting with oil and gas producers," Jeff Eshelman, Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) President & CEO, told Fox News Digital. "However, Harris' endorsement of hydraulic fracturing shows how important energy issues are to voters who understand increased oil and natural gas development is key to bringing down gas prices and decreasing reliance on foreign oil."
He added, "Her shift makes it clear that unleashing abundant and affordable American energy resources through safe and responsible fracking technology is a winning issue."
Harris recognizes that — before the election. What she says about it after the election, no one who supports American energy independence wants to know.
