Most presidential campaigns feature a familiar refrain: Each candidate promises to create millions of new jobs.
The 2020 primaries are unusual in that nearly all the Democratic candidates, including Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Michael Bloomberg are solemnly pledging to destroy millions of jobs by ending the shale oil and gas revolution.
The Democrats’ war on fossil fuels was on full display at the debate in Los Angeles last month, where Joe Biden, the supposed moderate, was asked if he would rein in America’s shale oil and gas production even if it meant “thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands” would lose their jobs.
He unhesitatingly responded “yes,” to cheers from the audience of college students and professors.
He then recited the familiar liberal riff about how investment in wind and solar power will save the economy. (Soon afterward he told a New Hampshire audience that unemployed energy workers should “learn how to program.”)
The gaffe evokes the moment in 1984 when Walter Mondale pledged during a presidential debate with President Reagan that he would raise everyone’s taxes. Mr. Mondale went on to win one state and the District of Columbia.
Curtailing U.S. oil and gas production would be economically disastrous. At least $1 trillion of U.S. economic output is related to the shale revolution, and more than 1.5 million Americans are employed in the industry.
A PricewaterhouseCoopers study for the American Petroleum Institute found that at least four million American jobs are tied to the shale oil and gas revolution in areas like auto production, construction, petroleum engineering, pipe fitting, service stations, steel production, and trucking.
Democrats’ quest to eliminate these jobs would hurt them in the swing states they’ll need to win to unseat President Trump.
Ohio and Michigan have a combined total of more than 400,000 workers in the shale industry. Pennsylvania has another 320,000. Colorado and Florida each have more than 200,000 workers in oil and gas.
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Behind those little Podiums those democrats remind me of a Game Show lets just call it ROBBER BARONS
By saying “learn how to program” Biden might as well be telling fossil fuel workers to F*** Off. My son is software engineer and I’m very familiar with the profession. Many people just do not have the mental ability to do that kind of work. Learning how to program would mean taking on tens of thousands of dollars of dept and would take time. Fossil fuel professionals don’t have that time. They have to make mortgage payments and buy food for their families right now.
Right off the cliff run the democrat Lemmings the gulls and sharks will feast
“Right now, there are over TWO DOZEN peer reviewed scientific studies prepared by reputable universities & government agencies over the past 10 years that all have the same top line findings.”
I agree with you that there is no credible evidence. Could you please provide references to these studies?
For “googling” purposes, on the agency side, I’d suggest these:
U.S EPA Comprehensive Groundwater Study (2016), Wyoming DEQ- Pavillion Report, USGS Study of Fayetteville & Haynesville Shales & Colorado Oil & Gas Commission “White Paper” on Gasland findings (2012?). Amongst the University studies, you have U. of Texas Austin (2015?), Yale University, Duke University & U. of Cincinnati (NRDC funded) which all cover Marcellus are 2016-17 vintage, as I recall. Another is Penn State, which I believe was last year. That Penn State study included 11,000 water samples in western PA as part of the analysis, the most extensive I have seen. I think that covers some of the major ones…
For any interested readers, I believe you can find a list of groundwater studies at http://www.ipaa.org/fracking. There is plenty of legitimate scientific data out there and the vast majority of it does not support the environmental NGO’s claims.
What I learned, early on, during my (former) career as a regulatory operative in the oil & gas industry is that you cannot rebut an environmental extremist position with an economic argument. So, the folks who are proposing to ban fracing and collapse domestic oil & gas production don’t really CARE how many jobs are lost or how much economic opportunity are destroyed. Instead, you have to defeat their FALSE narrative. Right now, there are over TWO DOZEN peer reviewed scientific studies prepared by reputable universities & government agencies over the past 10 years that all have the same top line findings. That is: There is no creditable evidence that fracing has caused systematic groundwater contamination. PERIOD. Not ONE of these studies, to my knowledge, has been refuted by ANY environmental activist group. Scoreboard! This has to be one of the most intensely studied industrial processes in U.S history. The MOUNTAIN of evidence clearly supports it as a safe & well regulated process. Just FACT. Even Obama’s EPA in their 2016 comprehensive study agrees. These Democratic candidates need to start having their staffers do some independent research and STOP buying into the environmental NGO propaganda campaign. Energy policy is too important to be guided by these extremists who understand little about energy imperatives & attendant environmental protection. The debate, somehow, needs to drastically change…
The dems are wiping themselves of the face of the planet.. their plan is nothing less then economical suicide and kicking humanity back to the middle ages..