Sleeping on America's energy potential.
The Hill (4/10/20) column: "In the midst of an international pandemic, and on a debate stage eerily surrounded by empty seats, Joe Biden couldn’t resist revealing his true feelings about America’s energy future. For the second time during the Democratic debate series, Biden recently told the television audience that if he’s elected president he will move to ban fracking. With an economy staggered by the virus outbreak, most Americans are looking for ways to strengthen our economy, keep people in good-paying jobs, and bolster national security. In his zest to fit in with the elite cool kids and grab a headline, Biden apparently forgot fracking has delivered all those things for us. The natural gas and oil industry supports roughly 10 million American jobs, provides $714 billion in labor income and contributes more than a $1 trillion to our GDP. The industry has innovated with disruptive technology at warp speed."
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Biden's insane plan to ban natural gas is still not good enough for today's 'woke' crowd.
E&E News (4/13/20) reports: "The Sunrise Movement is turning its organizing muscle to down-ballot primary races now that former Vice President Joe Biden is the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. The youth-led climate organization has not committed to working on behalf of Biden, whose climate plan it scored as an F-minus. Sunrise is keeping the option open if Biden moves to the left on climate. But in the meantime, the group is reaching into its outsider's toolbox by organizing campaigns against centrist Democrats and waging protests, which first catapulted the Sunrise Movement onto the national stage. 'When we laid out our strategy earlier this year, we said that no matter who wins this fall, in 2021 it is essential that we ignite a series of mass action — and not cooperation — to enact a decade of the Green New Deal,' said Sunrise's co-founder and executive director, Varshini Prakash, last week on a conference call. 'We knew this was never going to be one bill or one moment; it was going to be a period of prolonged struggle,' she said. 'That hasn't changed.'"
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"The goal should be to use America’s indigenous energy to the advantage of the production economies of the Midwest, the Great Plains, Texas and the mid-south that are critical to American competitiveness and security and to every American’s standard of living."
– Joel Kotin,
The Urban Reform Institute
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