Kamala’s Fracking Salad Vinaigrette

GOP critics say Kamala Harris is going to run from every unpopular Biden policy she can & voila, she flip-flopped on Joe’s fracking ban to get Pa’s electoral votes. Yet, VP doesn’t say she’ll dump the even more stifling regulatory war on fossil fuels. Hmm.

As the WSJ editorial board recalled, while running for president in 2019, Ms. Harris blurted, “there’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking.”  And, after Joe got elected president, he (and by association his VP) used “every regulatory tool to curtail oil & gas production.” For instance, “days after taking office Mr. Biden imposed a moratorium on new lease sales on federal lands. After this was blocked in court, his Administration slow-walked drilling permits & auctions … At the same time the Administration has sought to reduce demand for oil & gas with rules that effectively mandate more electric vehicles & bar new natural gas plants.” The list of anti-brown rule making goes on in an attempt to squeeze the life out of fossil fuels needed to sustain Trump’s “energy independent” policy & goal, but you get the drift.

The point the WSJ is making is this: Ms. Harris wants to win coal & electoral vote rich Pennsylvania in order to capture the White House so that explains her sudden love of fracking. Yet, the reality is she would have to go much further in squeezing fossil fuel production than even her old boss did to achieve their Administration’s stated goal of a “carbon-free electric grid by 2035.” Ms. Harris hasn’t disavowed THAT. At least, not yet. Pretending to suddenly love fracking is one thing to get elected president, stomaching it in the WH dining room is another. What if Trump were to toss her latest word salad with the simple Q: “So, Ms. I Suddenly Love Fracking, why haven’t you also promised to cancel your freaking regulatory war on fossil fuels?”

Davd Soul