First 2020 Presidential Debate: on Energy & Oil

Donald Trump: Rolled back Clean Power Plan; it increased energy prices

TRUMP: If you look at the Paris Accord, it was a disaster from our standpoint. And people are actually very happy about what's going on because our businesses are doing well.

Q: Do you believe that human greenhouse gas emissions contribute to the global warming of this planet?

TRUMP: I think a lot of things do, but I think to an extent, yes. But I also think we have to do better management of our forest. Every year I get the call, "California's burning!" If you had good forest management, you wouldn't be getting those calls.

Q: If you believe in the science of climate change, why have you rolled back the Obama Clean Power Plan which limited carbon emissions?

TRUMP: Because it was driving energy prices through the sky.

Joe Biden: No one's building another coal- or gas-fired power plant

We're going to take the federal fleet and turn it into a fleet of electric vehicles. Making sure that we can do that, we're going to put 500,000 charging stations in all of the highways that we're going to be building in the future.

We're going to build an economy with the ability to take 4 million buildings and make sure that they are weatherized in a way that they'll emit significantly less gas and oil because the heat will not be going out.

There's so many things that we can do now to create thousands and thousands of jobs. We can get to net zero, in terms of energy production, by 2035. Not only not costing people jobs, but creating millions of good-paying jobs.

Joe Biden: I support the Biden Plan, not the Green New Deal

BIDEN: This is a guy who says that you don't have to have mileage standards for automobiles that exist now.

TRUMP: Not true.

BIDEN: It's all true. And here's the deal--

TRUMP: He's talking about the Green New Deal.

BIDEN: I'm talking about the Biden plan.

Q: Is it going to cost a lot of money and hurt the economy?

BIDEN: What it's going to do, it's going to create millions of jobs.

TRUMP: This is a 100 trillion dollars.

BIDEN: The fact is, it's going to create millions of good paying jobs, and these tax incentives for people to weatherize, is going to make the economy much safer. Look how much we're paying now to deal with the hurricanes. We're going to be in a position where we can create good jobs by making sure the environment is clean, and we all are in better shape. We spend billions of dollars now, on floods, hurricanes, rising seas.