The Harris campaign released an explanation of her stance on energy on Monday, using tactful language that suggested she hasn't really moderated her views, according to energy experts who spoke to the Daily Caller News Foundation. [emphasis, links added]
After Vice President Kamala Harris and her team largely avoided revealing details about their policy positions for weeks, the campaign website launched a “question” the day before the only scheduled debate in the 2024 presidential race page.
The energy section of her Issues page does not contain any specific policy positions, but instead uses a lot of vague, euphemistic language designed to disguise her views on energy and environmental issues as more moderate than they actually are.“, energy experts told DCNF.
The campaign’s explanation for Harris’ energy views is “The kind of political mumbo jumbo designed to obfuscate history.“, Energy Research Institute senior fellow Dan Kish told DCNF.
“Instead of trying to please everyone by being obtuse, she should be honest with voters about her record and Her record is on making energy more expensive and less reliable, and pushing for bans on the energy we use the most because it meets people's needs and household budgets.
“No matter what she says, her energy plan won't work in Europe, California or anywhere else politicians are pushing it.”
In a section of her issue page describing her plans to “lower energy costs and combat the climate crisis,” the campaign noted that Harris wants to “unite Americans to fight the climate crisis” while building on President Joe Biden's energy agenda based.
“As attorney general, Kamala Harris won tens of millions of dollars in settlements against oil majors and held polluters accountable. As vice president, she cast the decisive vote to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, the largest investment in climate action in history,” the website reads. “This historic work is lowering home energy costs, creating hundreds of thousands of high-quality clean energy jobs, and building a prosperous clean energy economy while ensuring America’s energy security and independence with record energy production.”
The energy component of the Harris campaign conspicuously failed to mention fracking.
“As president, she will unite Americans to confront the climate crisis, building on this historic work to advance environmental justice, protect public lands and public health, build resilience to climate disasters, lower energy costs for families, and create hundreds of millions of million new jobs and continue to hold polluters accountable to ensure clean air and water for all,” the website continues.
“As the Vice President said at the international climate conference COP28, she knows that addressing this global challenge requires global cooperation and She is committed to continuing and solidifying U.S. leadership on international climate. She and Governor Walz will always fight for the freedom to breathe clean air, drink clean water, and live free from the pollution that is fueling the climate crisis.
The energy component of the Harris campaign conspicuously failed to mention fracking. Harris supported a fracking ban during her 2019 presidential campaign It was her first interview with CNN host Dana Bash and her first and only interview since becoming the de facto Democratic nominee in late July Shi said she no longer wanted to outlaw the technology.
“I think that really fits with the first thing she said there, 'This historic work is lowering home energy costs.' Nowhere in the Inflation Reduction Act is there an example of any cost reduction,Steve Milloy, senior legal fellow at the Energy and Environmental Law Institute, told DCNF.
“Wind and solar don't lower the cost of electricity. They just raise the cost of electricity, and that's just one [historical] fact… Where does she stand on fracking? Because it's not here.“
Other specific left-wing positions she has taken [concerning] Environmental and energy issues leading up to her second run for the Oval Office include: Co-sponsored the Green New Deal as a Senator,call Waste plastic strawsindicating that she is Willing to adjust dietary guidelines to try to get Americans to eat less red meat and support a carbon tax.
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