For Americans who want their lights, heat and A/C to keep working and to keep driving normal cars with gasoline available and affordable, the choice for president is a no-brainer.
Donald Trump is pushing a “drill, baby, drill” approach that will surge US oil and gas production and keep power plants healthy and energy supplies plentiful — holding down prices.
Kamala Harris will continue her war on fossil fuels, banning gas appliances and gas-driven cars, imperiling the nation’s electric grid — and driving prices up, up and up.
“I will be the American energy president,” Trump vows. He’s promising to cut energy costs in half.
That’s not just talk: In his first term, Trump made America energy-independent and kept prices low. Now he has a hyper-aggressive plan to boost US production, and keep prices low, again.
For starters, Trump would slash red tape, speed up approvals for new power plants, spur nuclear energy and scrap countless Biden-Harris anti-fossil-fuel rules.
Pennsylvania voters needn’t worry — as they must with Harris — that he’d ban fracking, which has supported hundreds of thousands of jobs in that state and generated enormous revenue.
Yes, Harris now claims she wouldn’t ban fracking either, but in her failed 2020 presidential bid, she said bluntly: “There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking.”
And there’s plenty she could do to restrict fracking in pursuit of the overall anti-carbon agenda she still has.
The differences go further.
Trump would push nuclear energy, particularly from “small modular reactors,” new tech that offers great promise for future electric production. He’d oppose EV mandates, speed up pipeline approvals and again withdraw from the sham Paris Climate Accord.
Harris was a sponsor of the Green New Deal and provided the tie-breaking vote for the Inflation Reduction Act, which funneled hundreds of billions into the green industrial complex.
As California’s attorney general, she buffed up her anti-fossil-fuel bona fides by targeting oil companies for investigation.
Make no mistake: The Biden-Harris hits on energy came with a steep price for Americans — and little benefit.
Gasoline averaged $2.58 a gallon under Trump, never once topping $3; under Biden-Harris, it shot up to an average $3.61 a gallon — a 40% spike — failing to dip below $3 for any single month.
In June 2022, it hit a whopping $5.03. Ouch.
A big part of the problem: the mountain of new regulations and restrictions under Biden-Harris. That’s limited US oil production to about 13 million barrels a day, instead of 16 million — the amount projected if Trump policies had remained, per a study by Committee to Unleash Prosperity.
That translates to a loss of $150 billion.
Americans need and want fossil-fuel energy: It’s vital to the economy. Americans who care about their energy future, and the economy, need to back Trump.
