There are a lot of things Kamala Harris gets predictably wrong; in fact, the Queen of Word Salads is a safe bet to be wrong on almost any given issue. But there are few things in which Her Wrongness is more wrong than energy policy, especially if we take a look back at her stances before she was Joe Biden’s VP pick.
However, during her brief 2019 presidential run before joining the Biden ticket, Harris said during a CNN town hall that she was “in favor of banning fracking” – a position that she said after becoming Biden’s runningmate did not represent Biden’s platform. Biden ran on halting fracking on federal lands, which is a small subset of overall fracking. In office, the Biden administration has slowed leasing for drilling on federal lands, but has not ended it altogether.
This is the least offensive of Kamala Harris’s many offensive positions on energy development,…