With Joe Biden having dropped out of the presidential race in favor of Kamala Harris, it is critical to have a robust conversation about Kamala Harris and her public-policy views in a relatively short time, at least by the standards of American presidential campaigns. While Barack Obama is often seen as having been deeply influential in the Biden administration and having even greater influence over Kamala Harris, the reality is that it was Biden, not Obama, who turned Democrats against traditional sources of energy, including oil and gas. Obama was happy to take credit for falling CO2 emissions on his watch thanks to the growth of hydraulic fracturing, but Biden and now Kamala Harris have abandoned such pro-energy rhetoric.
Biden threatened to “shut down the oil and gas industry” and even signed an executive order banning new oil and gas leases on federal lands. Fortunately, those pledges ran up against economic and political reality and were largely abandoned, but the Democrats have a new sheriff, and Harris seems to be even further to the political left than Biden.
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