Harris Tries To Walk Back Her Support for a Ban on Fracking — but Her Record Speaks for Itself

No matter what Vice President Harris’s campaign claims, she can’t ban her fracking ban.Over the weekend, a representative for Ms. Harris attacked President Trump over his criticism that the vice president supports a ban on fracking.The representative claims Ms. Harris no longer supports a ban on fracking. Or that she never supported one.Wait a minute, though, when she ran for President in 2019, here’s what she said: “There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking.” She added: “And starting with what we can do on day one around public lands, right?”That sounds a lot like no fracking, and perhaps even no leasing on public lands. So, now she’s changed her position.Hang on a moment, Madam Vice President, you haven’t actually publicly said you’ve changed your position. Press secretaries don’t count. You have got to say it.Now, whether this is literally true about a fracking ban or just supporting the Biden-Harris administration which killed the Keystone XL Pipeline and stopped fracking in ANWR or Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve, or greatly scaled-back offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico — those policies might as well be a ban on fracking. Same difference.I don’t mean to be personal, Madam Vice President. This is a policy issue. Whatever you may say, though, your war against fossil fuels policy is likely to be continued should you become president.Your foreign policy has essentially dropped the oil sanctions on Iran, but you have imposed strict oil sanctions on Alaska and elsewhere.America is producing about 13 million barrels of oil per day right now, roughly where we were at the end of 2019 pre-pandemic.Were it not for your war against fossils and your multi-trillion dollar various Green New Deal spending, American oil production today would be 15 to 16 million barrels per day.At that rate, world oil would be closer to $40 a barrel than around $85 — and if that were the case, Iran wouldn’t be financing the Hamas-Hezbollah war against Israel, nor would Russia have invaded Ukraine.And, if that were the case, gasoline prices would be closer to $2 a gallon instead of $3.50.And, if that were the case, then the cumulative rise of inflation during your term would’ve been closer to 10 percent instead of 20 percent.And, if that were the case, then real wages of a typical working family would be more than 5 percent higher during your term instead of 4 percent lower.And, if that were the case, then there would be no affordability crisis.So, you see Madam Vice President, even though you may not now be in favor of a ban on fracking, whereas such a ban dots every I, crosses every T, stops every rig, cancels every lease, postpones every investment, halts every single gas-powered car… I’d say you’ve come pretty close to that aforementioned fracking ban.And, in view of the unpopularity of your inflation, economic, and foreign war policies over the past nearly four years, don’t you wish you had banned that fracking ban?From Mr. Kudlow’s broadcast on Fox Business Network.

Harris Tries To Walk Back Her Support for a Ban on Fracking — but Her Record Speaks for Itself

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