Marc Morano Appears on ‘The Bottom Line’ Harris’ Energy Policies
The Bottom Line – Fox Business – Broadcast October 21, 2024
Rough Transcript:
Dagen: Harris’ energy policy gets murkier and murkier, but one thing is clear, she’s a climate crusader through and through. ClimateDepot.com Executive Editor Marc Morano is going to join us next.
Sean Duffy: Kamala Harris talking out of both sides of her mouth when it comes to oil production. One minute she’s for banning fracking, the next she’s boasting about plans to boost American energy production. Dagen: so if you’re confused on where she stands, her campaign is here to set the record straight telling Politico, quote, just to be clear, vice president Harris has not, has not, has not said anything that the administration hasn’t already said. She is not promoting expansion of fossil fuel drilling. She’s just said that they wouldn’t ban fracking.
Joining us now is ClimateDepot.com executive editor Marc Morano. Well, there you go, Marc, but she’s been on the campaign trail bragging repeatedly, including all the Democrats, about the largest increase in domestic oil production in history, trying to lay claim to that. Well, that’s because that drilling has a hand on private land and state land, particularly in the Permian basin and text Texas. And they have — and Texas. They have restricted drilling leases to the most in history when it comes to offshore leases.
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Marc Morano: Kamala Harris really thinks the people of Pennsylvania are stupid. That’s the only explanation here. To tell them to one hand, one side of her mouth brags about record fossil fuel production and ‘aren’t we great, we’re pro-fossil fuel’, and then claim ‘oh, we’re actually not going to expand it.’ You see what they’ve done, at least 250 separate actions to suppress energy. But you’re exactly right, Dagen, on private land — the majority of this energy development is on private land, so the federal policy doesn’t even affect it. But on federal lands, the biggest jump in permits was 2019-2020, and the biggest crushing of these leases for oil and gas was from 2021-2023. There’s a lag. And so what’s happened is, yes, we’re at historic highs at the moment — but that’s very simply because it took a few years lag from the Trump policies to kick in, which Harris is taking credit for on one hand and on the other she’s sort of saying, well, it’s all going to come to an end and, of course, I don’t want to wan fracking.
Morano: It technically won’t be banned, but it’ll be unprofitable and severely restricted. She’s taking credit for Donald Trump’s drill, baby, drill policy. And let’s be clear: the Biden-Harris Administration is not the drill, baby, drill presidency. They are riding the coattails of the presidency that was — the Trump presidency.
Sean Duffy: you know, Marc, I think it’s an important energy policy. And you would think that with a topic that’s so important, that the candidates would be asked, they’d talk about it. But, oh, no, no, no, we have to have campaign staffers have conversations with the media to clarify a candidate’s record. We have living in la-la, bizarre land that the media’s not asking them those questions themselves.
Morano: Yeah, when they do, I think it was a CNN interview, when Harris said, well, we have to have timetables by which we need to adhere to. She just talks gibberish and word salads.
To even talk in any way about fracking like she’s done in the past, and how she’s being not clear today — fracking — if you actually cared and believed that carbon dioxide was the control knob of the climate — about 10 years ago, there was a whole movement to rescind the Nobel Prize for Al Gore and give it to the US fracking industry. It was solely due to fracking that the United States led the world in reducing carbon dioxide emissions. If that’s your big concern, you would be pro-fracking, not out there talking about banning it and then maybe not banning it, and then bragging about the historical production of oil and gas, and then saying you’re not going to keep that policy. None of it makes sense.
This is a problem, and I think this is an opportunity for the Trump campaign to exploit what she is saying. What does this mean? She says Pennsylvania is the key because they’re not stupid, and she’s treating them like they’re idiots.
Dagen: right. Ban fracking and ban your gasoline-powered automobile. Marc Morano. Thank you so much.
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“Harris really thinks the people of Pennsylvania are stupid.” @ClimateDepot exposes Kamala Harris’ flip-flops as she can’t seem to make up her mind on energy policy. | @dagenmcdowell @SeanDuffyWI pic.twitter.com/YiYyQUhF5W
— The Bottom Line (@BottomLineFBN) October 21, 2024
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