As seen in Forbes
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Now that Joe Biden has withdrawn from his re-election bid and Kamala Harris is the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party, it is important to examine what a Harris-led set of energy policies would look like. The vice president has never really been involved in formulating and enacting energy policy, but her public utterances on the topic through her years in public office in California and Washington, D.C. make clear that she holds views that run to the left of even Joe Biden.
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Thomas Pyle, President of the Institute for Energy Research, a pro-energy think tank based in Washington, D.C., is not optimistic. “She is and has always been squarely in the camp of the fringe green left of the Democratic Party,” he told me Tuesday in an email. “If she is indeed coronated and goes on to win, you can bet she will double down on the disastrous Green New Deal. No more leases on federal lands, no more natural gas pipelines, and more green subsidies for big corporations. On top of that, I wouldn’t be surprised if she directed her Department of Justice to go after oil and natural gas companies for ‘climate crimes’ as well.”
Noting that “The Biden Administration has been the most hostile to the oil and gas industry of any Administration in history,” U.S. Oil and Gas Association President Tim Stewart added Monday that, “The vice president is on record opposing hydraulic fracturing to offshore production and everything in between. If she is as successful on energy policy as she was on border policy, we will see the Californication of the entire US energy policy. If there is continuity in the transition, it will be ‘How can we make something that is already bad even worse.’”
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