Energy policy is among the most polarizing issues up and down 2024 ballots, with candidates toeing distinct party lines, including those laid out in Vice President Kamala Harris’s and former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign platforms.
Democrats generally support the Biden administration’s emphasis on renewable energy. Harris is among those who say modernizing energy infrastructure from fossil fuels to carbon-free generation is key to slowing climate change and staying competitive in an electrified 21st-century economy.
Trump’s platform reflects Republicans’ general claim that Biden’s “green energy push” has handicapped more affordable oil and gas development, disrupted electricity and fuel markets, aggravated inflation, and increased reliance on China-made materials. They say the abrupt “forced transition” is based on ideology, not economics.
There is little common ground in broad party positions, but one component of the energy mix has bipartisan support: nuclear power.
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The One Energy Policy That Trump and Harris Agree On
- by: John Haughey
- 09.08.24
- Source:
The Epoch Times
- 09/09/2024
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