AP falsely claims that Biden has not threatened to stop fracking

AP/Fuel Fix:
President Donald Trump took sweeping digs at “crazy left radical Democrats” on a trip Wednesday to the fracking fields of West Texas, launching unsubstantiated claims that a Democratic administration would destroy everything from the country's suburbs to the U.S. energy industry.

Trump, speaking in front of stacked oil barrels, also played down the difficulties of the U.S. oil and gas industry, which is still struggling with the pandemic economic downturn and global oversupply that briefly drove oil prices into negative territory this spring. Prices have rebounded to around $40 a barrel, still below what some producers here need to break even.

“We’re OK now. We’re back, we’re back,” Trump said to a crowd scattered with people wearing cowboy hats and face masks. He sought to contrast his support for oil and gas with Democratic rival Joe Biden's more climate-friendly energy plan, though Biden himself has stopped short of calling for a ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the production method that spurred U.S. oil and gas to a yearslong boom that started under President Barack Obama.
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This story is just false on several levels.  Biden has specifically said he would stop fracking and he has come out with and energy plan to do away with fossil fuels completely in a few years.  The Biden energy policy would not only destroy the fossil fuel business it would defund public education in Texas schools and universities.  The results of the Biden plan would do great harm to the Texas economy and to US national security.

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