Is Joe Biden proposing to eliminate the use of oil in the US?
Saturday, July 18, 2020
By Allegra Taylor
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The $2 trillion energy plan Joe Biden announced July 14 does not propose to eliminate the use of oil. It does outline a range of ideas to increase use of alternative energy sources to help eliminate net emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050.
The plan also proposes "aggressive methane pollution limits for new and existing oil and gas operations."
Biden has denied any plans to target the oil industry, which has rebounded in the U.S. in recent years thanks to hydraulic fracturing processes that extract oil and gas from rock. “Fracking is not going to be on the chopping block,” Biden said in a July 9 interview with a Scranton, Pennsylvania, TV station.
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