Energy matters more to Pennsylvania — where polling shows Donald Trump and Kamala Harris tied — than almost any other state.
We’re the second-largest producer of natural gas, with 2022 production totaling a staggering 7.5 trillion cubic feet.
Likewise, Pennsylvania is the No. 1 state for exporting electricity — powering our neighbors like New York.
The biggest reason we’re able to produce so much is because of hydraulic fracturing, best known as fracking. Revolutionary advances in energy exploration have made it possible for Pennsylvania to not only produce enough natural gas to keep energy costs low in our homes and businesses but have plenty left over to ship around the world.
No surprise, Keystone State voters want candidates who’ll defend our way of life and unleash our tremendous energy resources.
We don’t want candidates who attack the energy that underpins our economy and is essential to our future.
It’s no surprise then to see Kamala Harris flip-flop on fracking.
Five years ago, before she was vice president, Harris unequivocally stated she wanted to ban fracking. For Pennsylvania, few things could be more harmful or less appealing in a potential president.
So fast forward to today, and the now-nominee says she doesn’t support a fracking ban.
But does she really mean it?
In recent days, her campaign has walked back her newfound support of fracking, with a top aide declaring, “She is not promoting expansion.”
And as a Biden-Harris administration leader, she’s backed a slew of policies that’ve undermined natural-gas production and risk driving the industry into the ground.
We’re talking painful one-size-fits-all mandates, a ban on liquified-natural-gas exports and massive taxpayer subsidies to unreliable “green” energy sources, which unfairly boost them at the expense of fracking.
And as a Biden-Harris administration leader, she’s backed a slew of policies that’ve undermined natural-gas production and risk driving the industry into the ground.
Pennsylvania voters are starting to realize this truth, as my organization’s polling shows.
Nearly eight in 10 voters believe natural-gas drilling is important to the state’s economy. This puts Harris between a rock and a hard place — defending the administration’s policies or delivering for Pennsylvania voters.
The last thing our state needs is more of the same from the vice president.
Only 23% of voters here support her administration’s controversial LNG-export ban.
This policy is so unpopular that even our state’s two Democratic senators and Democratic governor have spoken out against it — but Harris has fully embraced it.
Pennsylvanians are perfectly clear about what policies they want. Nearly three-quarters of voters want to build more natural-gas infrastructure, especially pipelines.
Yet as vice president, Harris is part of an administration that’s unilaterally blocked the development of pipelines.