Harris courts swing voters with fracking reversal

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2. Hopefully the swing voters will see this as a weakness. Harris had a very strong environmental record.

3. Love to see this. I’d love to see Democrats take better, public positions on supporting US energy production. There’s room to say – “we are proud supporters of world-leading American energy production, and we can do it more efficiently and cleanly than the rest of the world.”

4. Harris has to win the election! Activist bans and mandates for climate change and a strong push to ban fossil fuels will be a polling disaster. At this point climate is the 19th issue in terms of importance to voters in the US. It’s not high on the list, folks! She has a good record on climate but must fight the fight another day.

5. We can build off the example of Norway – profit off fossil extraction and use those profits to build a ramp to the future.

6. More leaked methane, more climate change, increased fossil fuel dependence for longer. What a fucking nightmare that these are our two options.

7. The ONLY thing this says is that she no longer supports a ban on fracking. Trust me, she will do things via environmental regulation, boosting the IRA, etc. to encourage renewables more than ever. She will actively shift the total energy generation mix away from fossil fuels and towards renewables by providing incentives. It’s not a ban but her policies certainly will not encourage it any further. This is a classic but realistic political compromise on paper. It doesn’t fundamentally change her energy policy.

8. I’m an engineer that used to work in fracking and is super concerned about climate change. The solution is NOT to ban fracking. If you ban fracking all of the smaller oil companies will simply go out of business and leave hundreds of thousands of orphaned wells leaking methane for the taxpayers to deal with, while their billionaire ex-owners are laughing all the way to the bank.

   The solution is to implement tight regulations to monitor for leaks, and require immediate remediation of any leaks, all paid for by the oil companies themselves.

   Once that is implemented and working you disincentivize fracking in stages by removing the subsidies, banning it from public lands, etc… so that the industry has time to adapt, and you offer re-training for oil and gas workers to move into new industries, so you don’t suddenly make a whole industry worth of workers unemployed