In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, Vance wrote that the policies of the Democratic Party's presumptive presidential nominee will hurt Americans:
A Harris administration would be worse than the Biden administration. Ms. Harris's running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, is yet more extreme. Mr. Walz actually signed a bill that would end all sources of electricity other than wind and solar in his state by 2040.
Kathleen Sgamma of the Western Energy Alliance says regardless of Vance's political motivation in pointing this out, Harris does have it out for energy.
"She was an original co-sponsor of the Green New Deal," Sgamma notes. "That hasn't gone away; the fact that she's now saying fracking is OK for Pennsylvania so she can win votes doesn't erase that record. We have seen overregulation; we've seen the subsidies and the Inflation Acceleration Act and so many things that will make energy more expensive and less reliable for average Americans."
While Dan Kish of the Institute for Energy Research recognizes that some Americans do not care where energy comes from, as long as they get it, he says the cost and reliability still matter because energy affects everything.
"It goes into our food prices that we pay at the grocery store – for the farmers to farm it, for the trucks to move it to market, to manufacture and process it," he asserts. "It affects our electric bills."
"If you can keep energy down by not creating an artificial scarcity, it just makes life easier for people across the board," Kish adds.
Harris and Walz say steps need to be taken to reduce America's dependency on oil in order to help the climate.
