Posted on 09/26/2019 6:12:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
With the 2020 presidential election around the corner, Democrat candidates are laying out what they hope is a winning platform on energy. Climate change is playing a leading role with both MSNBC and CNN hosting major climate forums.
In their zeal to cater to the radical wing of the party’s base, many candidates – Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris among them – are calling for a total ban on the use of hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas production on public and private lands.
While a fracking ban might win some votes among environmental activists, it’s a guaranteed loser for America’s economy, energy security – and for efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Climate policies that reject the benefits of natural gas will do more harm than good
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We have become energy independent. We have become a net exporter of energy. Largely thanks to fracking. Yet the anti-frackers want to stop that. And why? I don’t know. There must be something in human nature that causes a certain percentage of the population to be Luddites.
Funny how Sander and Warren are far leftists, you wouldn't think they had anything to do with Russia would you? Na, Sanders only had his Honeymoon there and hob knobed with the Soviets.
Move along folks, nothing to see here with the DemocRATS!
The left ain’t woke... There just on Meth and Coke and stuff.
So they are all for the downtrodden working man....
Who will suffer the most if fracking is eliminated and gas and heating oil prices rise?
And so will electricity because of the demand brought about by forcing users who would otherwise be using petroleum products.
The very working people the dims claim to love.
Wealthy people don’t care what a gallon of gas costs. It is a very minor number on their budget.
Warren is a fool and anyone who votes for her is also a fool.
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