JD Vance on Energy & Oil

We should produce as much energy as possible in the USA

TW: Senator Vance has said that there's a climate problem in the past, Donald Trump called it a hoax and then joked that these things would make more beachfront property to be able to invest in. So the solution for us is to continue to move forward. Reducing our impact is absolutely critical. But this is not a false choice. You can do that at the same time you're creating the jobs that we're seeing all across the country.

Build more clean energy, like nukes and natural gas

VANCE: What the President has said is that if Kamala Harris believes that climate change is serious, they would be doing more manufacturing and more energy production in the US, and that's not what they're doing. The real issue is that if you're spending billions of dollars of American taxpayer money on solar panels that are made in China, you're going to make the economy dirtier. We should be making more of those solar panels here in the US. p>WALZ: We are. In Minnesota.

VANCE: Some of them are, Tim, but a lot of them are being made overseas in China, especially the components that go into those solar panels. So if you really want to make the environment cleaner, you've got to invest in more energy production. We built [only one] nuclear facility in the past 40 years. Natural gas--invest more in it. Kamala Harris has done the opposite.

WALZ: We are producing more natural gas and more oil at any time than we ever have. We're also producing more clean energy.

Scrap federal tax credits for Electric Vehicles

Drive American: Chinese-made EVs don't solve climate crisis

He has sought to put significant blame on China for greenhouse gas emissions. In a 2023 hearing, Vance dismissed carbon offsets in aviation as "climate reparations": "Why are we effectively penalizing the American aviation while we don't require, or even attempt, to force the Chinese to do the same to their aviation industry?"

Vance last year introduced the "Drive American Act," S. 2962, which would repeal the federal tax credit for electric vehicles and instead offer tax credits for U.S.-made vehicles powered only by gasoline or diesel.

Europe has become weaker pursuing a green energy agenda

The reason Europe has become weaker is because they've deindustrialized. And why have they deindustrialized? Because they've pursued a green energy agenda, following the lead of the Biden administration, and that necessarily empowers China and Russia. We need to acknowledge that it's our decisions that are making these countries stronger. We need to fix that, not whine at countries that have 10 million people.

Subsidizing electric vehicle technology helps China, not US