According to the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris, the claims made by former President Donald Trump that she would outlaw fracking if elected president were deemed “false” by the campaign.
Details: Trump brought up remarks Harris made during her 2019 primary run pledging to ban fracking at a campaign rally in Minnesota on Saturday, prompting the Harris team to respond.
“Trump’s misleading statements regarding fracking bans are a clear effort to divert attention from his agenda of benefiting oil and gas companies’ executives at the cost of the middle class,” stated the Harris campaign. “The United States now has the highest ever domestic energy production,” the Biden-Harris administration said, adding that they had also approved the biggest ever climate change legislation.
U.S. drillers have achieved record-breaking oil and gas output thanks to fracking technology. Among the statistics emphasized by the campaign was the fact that in 2023, American oil production reached a record high of over 13 million barrels per day, according to the Energy Information Administration.
During the campaign event, Trump accused Harris of attempting to conceal her position on the matter.
“She said, ‘I’d never said [that] about fracking,'” Trump remarked at the event. “There will be no fracking.” was one of the 90 tapes played thereafter.
Among Trump’s many misstatements on Biden’s energy policy is the idea that the government mandated that all Americans purchase electric automobiles. A regulation by the EPA seeks to encourage more widespread use of electric vehicles, but no such requirement currently exists.
Context: Trump’s accusations surface just as Harris is anticipated to soften her stance on energy problems, following her run for the party nomination in 2020, when she was one of the more liberal candidates.
