In other words, under a Harris Administration, OPEC will still be in charge of oil prices.
While Harris is unlikely to make major shifts in the direction Biden charted on climate change, her opposition to offshore drilling and fracking suggests she’d be a fierce oil industry antagonist if she secures the Democratic nomination and wins the White House in November.
Analysts and environmental advocates say her stance on fossil fuel development puts her to the left of Biden. While he moved to temporarily halt offshore oil lease sales in his first week in office, he didn’t follow through on his campaign promise to completely ban new permitting for public lands and waters.
Of course, Harris’ role as California’s attorney general — a position she held for six years — put her in a naturally combative stance against companies alleged to have violated state laws. There’s no guarantee she’d be so pugilistic in the White House.
This isn’t the half of it. Bloomberg reports as California Attorney General, Harris filed lawsuits against fossil fuel companies, prosecuted a pipeline company over an oil leak and even investigated Exxon-Mobil accusing them of misleading the public about climate change. While serving in the U.S. Senate, Harris said she supported sacking the filibuster in order to pass the so-called Green New Deal. Forbes provides even more details about Harris’ climate communism:
Thomas Pyle, President of the Institute for Energy Research, a pro-energy think tank based in Washington, D.C., is not optimistic. “She is and has always been squarely in the camp of the fringe green left of the Democratic Party,” he told me Tuesday in an email. “If she is indeed coronated and goes on to win, you can bet she will double down on the disastrous Green New Deal. No more leases on federal lands, no more natural gas pipelines, and more green subsidies for big corporations. On top of that, I wouldn’t be surprised if she directed her Department of Justice to go after oil and natural gas companies for ‘climate crimes’ as well.”
Noting that “The Biden Administration has been the most hostile to the oil and gas industry of any Administration in history,” U.S. Oil and Gas Association President Tim Stewart added Monday that, “The vice president is on record opposing hydraulic fracturing to offshore production and everything in between. If she is as successful on energy policy as she was on border policy, we will see the Californication of the entire US energy policy. If there is continuity in the transition, it will be ‘How can we make something that is already bad even worse.’”
As a candidate in 2020, like Joe Biden (before he backtracked), Harris said during a CNN Town Hall that she supported banning fracking and even sued the Obama Administration for allowing the drilling method.
Worst of all, the mainstream media is trying to make Kamala Harris out to be some sort of moderate or centrist, but, thankfully, the internet never forgets.
But wait, there’s more!
If you thought Joe Biden was radical, you ain’t seen nothing yet with Kamala Harris. Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Right means ban drugs and medical care: left means ban energy. Libertarian means neither.
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