Two years ago, President Biden signed into law the world’s biggest climate change spending plan named the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)—at the time estimated to provide $370 billion in support for emissions reducing programs.
On Tuesday’s presidential debate stage, Vice President Kamala Harris touted the law for a completely different claim: it paved the way for more oil and gas drilling.
On Tuesday’s presidential debate stage, Vice President Kamala Harris touted the law for a completely different claim: it paved the way for more oil and gas drilling.
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00:00I made that very clear in 2020.
00:02I will not ban fracking.
00:04I have not banned fracking as Vice President
00:06of the United States, and in fact, I was
00:08the tie-breaking vote on the
00:10Inflation Reduction Act, which
00:12opened new leases for fracking.
00:14My position is
00:16that we have got to
00:18invest in diverse
00:20sources of energy so we reduce
00:22our reliance on foreign oil.
00:24We have had the
00:26largest increase in
00:28domestic oil production
00:30in history because of an
00:32approach that recognizes that
00:34we cannot over-rely on foreign oil.
00:36And she will never allow fracking in
00:38Pennsylvania. If she won the election,
00:40fracking in Pennsylvania
00:42will end on day one.
00:44I got the oil business going like nobody has
00:46ever done before.
00:48When they took over, they got
00:50rid of it, started getting rid of it, and
00:52the prices were going up
00:54the roof. But if she won the election,
00:56the day after that election,
00:58they'll go back to destroying our country,
01:00and oil will be dead, fossil fuel will
01:02be dead. We'll go back to windmills, and we'll go back
01:04to solar, where they need
01:06a whole desert to get some energy
01:08to come out of it.