Joe has made his position on fracking very clear --Not exactly. This is from the March 15, 2020 Democratic debate transcript:
Biden’s actual position, which he frequently states, is that he would ban new gas and oil permits — including fracking — on federal lands only. The vast majority of oil and gas does not come from federal lands.
https://apnews.com/article/election-...65739e36f4f82b Originally Posted by SpeedRacerXXX
Bernie Sanders: You cannot continue, as I understand Joe believes, to continue fracking, correct me if I’m wrong....
Joe Biden: No more, no new fracking. And by the way, on the Recovery Act, I was able to make sure we invested $90 billion in making sure we brought down the price of solar and wind, that is lower than the price of coal. That’s why not another new coal plant will be built.
Now, Biden's people went back later and said Biden only wants to ban fracking on federal lands. But that doesn't make sense, because his position is that no new drilling permits will be issued on federal lands. You frack wells after you drill them. If you don't drill wells, you don't frack.
I suspect, unlike the other top Democratic candidates, Biden and his team were forward thinking enough to recognize a fracking ban would hurt his chances in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Obama and Biden used to trumpet how oil and gas production had increased on their watch. This was the result of fracking. The increase in oil production reduced our trade deficit -- we didn't have to import as much from places like Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. And the increase in natural gas production, and its use in power plants in place of coal, reduced carbon emissions much more than solar and wind did. In fact, ironically, if Biden's right when he says we won't build another coal fired power plant, the main reason's not the $90 billion in taxpayer money which was in part squandered on boondoggles like Solyndra. The reason is that project economics for gas fired plants are much better than coal fired plants because fracking brought down the cost of natural gas. This is something Biden intends to undo in part by banning new natural gas wells on onshore federal lands and federal offshore leases.
In reading up a little on this, I got really pissed off about what Biden's intending to do with federal lands. I may start another thread on that, to avoid hijacking Why Yes I Do's poll.