Biden's anti-fracking remarks rattle industry but fail to win over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Progressive Party: Biden failed to win over any Progressive, he would say anything for his fake Joe momentum. He wants to force new pro-Biden narrative. And we don buy it, we don't support fake Joe. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and former Vice President Joe Biden, participate in a Democratic presidential primary debate at CNN Studios, Sunday, March 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden’s unexpectedly strong anti-fracking comments at Sunday’s presidential primary debate rattled industry supporters but failed to win over Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The Green New Deal sponsor tweeted that the Biden campaign’s $1.7 trillion climate-change initiative was “not enough,” adding that “nadequate climate plans are a form of denialism over how bad this problem really is.” At the same time, she gave a shout-out to Sen. Bernie Sanders, who has released a $16.3 trillion climate plan, saying that he “takes climate change seriously. Other policies do not.” Mr. Biden prompted double-takes during the one-on-one CNN debate by declaring “no new fracking” after Mr. Sanders said that his primary opponent wanted to “continue fracking.” “No more subsidies for the fossil fuel industry,” Mr. Biden said. “No more drilling on federal lands. No more drilling, including offshore. No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period. Ends.” While Mr. Sanders has called for a ban on hydraulic fracturing, Mr. Biden has not, although he does support halting oil-and-gas production on federal lands. His campaign later indicated that his policy had not changed, but fossil-fuel advocates said voters should be skeptical. JunkScience’s Steve Milloy, part of the Trump EPA transition team, said that a fracking ban would “cause economic, social and geopolitical chaos.” “Although Biden’s campaign is trying to walk back his vow to ban fracking, voters should take the promised ban seriously,” Mr. Milloy said in a statement. “There is no question that the same radicals who destroyed the coal industry during the Obama Administration would target fracking for destruction under a Biden administration.” Biden is enfeebled & has little idea of what he is saying. The radicals who would actually control his administration would do to fracking what Obama did to coal. Any Democrat administration would certainly work to end fracking. Economic and geopolitical disaster would ensue. https://t.co/2Pxti1edMr — Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) March 16, 2020 $1.7T is not enough to tackle climate change. Inadequate climate plans are a form of denialism over how bad this problem really is. My generation & future ones will have to contend with the horrifying mess that the cowardly leadership of previous ones left us. It’s a betrayal. — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 16, 2020 Wow. @JoeBiden has been pushing #fracking across the world since 2008. One intense exchange with @BernieSanders and he reverses his position & says “no new Fracking”That’s why you vote for Bernie. That’s why leadership matters. That’s why a grassroots movement supports Bernie. — Josh Fox EndFossilFuels (@joshfoxfilm) March 16, 2020 Hydraulic fracturing, a 70-year-old oil-and-gas extraction process, is used in the production of nearly all U.S. natural gas, which has supplanted coal as the nation’s primary energy source for electricity generation.Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance, said that the United States has become the “number-one producer of oil and natural gas in the world,” This Piece Originally Appeared in www.washingtontimes.com Read the full article