Marianne Williamson on Energy & Oil Author & Democratic Presidential Challenger

Invest in renewable energy, both in US and abroad

Ban fracking

The rise of fracking has enabled energy companies to produce vast amounts of oil and gas from shale rock formations, but the process remains controversial because of the use of chemicals to crack the rock.

Nuclear energy may be part of "green" mix

Broad-based federal carbon tax at $60 per ton

Williamson: "Yes."

Q: Do you support a federal carbon tax?

Williamson: "I feel a federal carbon tax is important and is only one tool that we will need to address this imminent threat. The challenge, of course, is how to implement such a tool without irreparably damaging the economy. Many scholars think that a tax should be about $49 or $50 per ton of CO2 -- not more than $60 per ton. Any federal carbon tax should be spread across a broad sector as to not cause the effect to be carried by the consumer at the gas pump or electric meter. Natural gas production that produces methane, which is even worse than CO2 environmentally, should carry some of the burden. The agriculture sector that produces large amounts of methane should carry some of the burden. Funds should be used to retire inefficient equipment, to incentivize zero-carbon-producing technologies and to spur a green economy."

Transfer subsidies for dirty energy to develop clean energy

Williamson: "The Obama regulations are too incremental to turn things around in ways that are necessary. I am a supporter of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal, which seeks to meet 100 percent of the power demand in the United States through clean, renewable and zero-emission energy sources within the next 10 years. I would end all subsidies for dirty energy and transfer them to subsidies for clean energy. I would prevent coal companies from using misleading marketing terms like 'clean coal,' and look for ways to move coal jobs to clean jobs, while closing coal plants & opening clean energy plants. I would start a phase-out of production of fossil-fuel-related vehicles. I would require zero-deforestation supply chains--that's one of the more effective ways to help encourage healthy practices in other countries.

Climate change biggest crisis of our time

Supports Green New Deal

Green energy instead of coal, fracking, and nuclear

When it comes to energy, we must:
• Expand investments in clean, green energy.
• This Nation needs to set a goal to transition to cleaner energy as quickly as possible. This will send a message to the US market, large businesses, and utilities.
• Reinstate and expand energy and mileage efficiency investments.
• Extend federal incentives and rebates for renewable energy.
• Transition away from fossil fuel energy and halt all new fossil fuel projects.
• Restart the Clean Power Plan to protect our health and clean air, while moving away from coal, which is costly, harmful to the air we breathe and to the land and water where it is mined and burned.
• Put a moratorium on all new fracking operations (oil and gas) while we study the best way to transition away from and phase out these hazardous and extreme extraction techniques.
• Transition away from the domestic use of nuclear energy. We do not need nuclear energy to fulfill our energy needs.

Put a price on carbon to send a sustained market signal

Supports Green New Deal and green jobs program

Massive effort to combat effects of climate change