Despite Vice President Kamala Harris' recent campaign bragging about domestic oil production under the Biden administration, she has not supported expanding fossil fuel drilling.
“Just to be clear, Vice President Harris hasn't said anything that the administration hasn't already said. She's not pushing for expansion.” [of fossil fuel drilling]. She just said she wouldn’t ban fracking,” Camilla Thorndike, Harris’ climate change chief, said in an interview with Politico.
The comments come as Harris faces questions about her stance on energy production, from supporting a ban on fracking just five years ago to touting the “largest increase in domestic oil production in history” while vice president. This was published during the ongoing process.
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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks about the murder of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar during a statement to the press at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, October 17, 2024. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
In a debate with former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, where the issue of hydraulic fracturing could become an issue, Harris said, “Thanks to an approach that recognizes that we cannot be overly dependent on foreign oil, “Oil production has experienced the largest increase in history.” An issue of vital importance to voters.
“As Vice President, I am proud to have invested $1 trillion in the clean energy economy over the past four years while increasing domestic gas production to historic levels,” Harris said.
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign event at Riverside Park on Friday, October 18, 2024 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Martin)
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Democratic vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz struck a similar tone, claiming in a recent interview with WGAL 8 that the United States “produces more natural gas and oil than at any time in our nation's history.” .
However, some critics argue that the energy industry was able to achieve record numbers not despite the Biden administration's policies, and that the campaign's recent production He vehemently criticized the issue.
Vice President Kamala Harris campaigns at UAW Local 652 on Friday, October 18, 2024 in Lansing, Michigan. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Martin)
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“In just four years, you and the president have created the worst regulatory and legislative environment in the 160-year history of our industry. We have introduced a separate action: You have tried to put our CEO in jail and confiscate our capital and prevent our investors from making a profit.'' said in a post to X last week. “And yet we worked around you, above you, and beat your team. Now you take credit for what we did in spite of you.” Do you want to? I’m not going to allow that.”
The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
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