Julian Castro joins Democrats' war against Texas

Fuel Fix:
Presidential candidate and former San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro said he wants hydraulic fracturing to be phased out as part of climate plan that calls for the United States to get all its power from renewables by 2035.

The Democratic Party presidential hopeful made the remarks during a Thursday evening event hosted by the San Antonio Association of Hispanic Journalists in San Antonio.

Party nomination rivals Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris are calling for a nationwide ban on hydraulic fracturing, an oil & gas industry practice known as "fracking" that when paired with horizontal drilling, uses water, sand and chemicals to fracture shale geological formations.

As the former mayor of a city that serves as a gateway and service hub for the oil and natural gas-rich Eagle Ford Shale of South Texas, Castro has a more moderate view.

"I would not immediately ban fracking but I do think that it will eventually get phased out," Castro said. "We've always seen natural gas as a bridge fuel but we're already coming to the end of that bridge."

Under his proposed climate plan, Castro said his first executive action would be for the United States to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord, a global treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that was brokered by the Obama administration but rejected by the Trump administration.

The former San Antonio mayor and Obama administration Housing & Urban Development secretary wants the United States to get all of its power from renewables by 2035 and push the international community to achieve worldwide net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
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This is a really bad idea.  He wants the US to rely on unreliable alternative energy which shts down when it is needed most in extreme weather, be it freezing conditions or wind storms.  His plan would destroy the Texas economy.  It would put millions of jobs at risk and put households and businesses at risk because of the unreliable nature of alternatives.  Any Texans who vote for these guys are putting their future at risk.

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