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Josh Hawley: AdWatch: Don't ban gas and diesel trucks

Sen. Josh Hawley criticized Lucas Kunce over his call to eliminate the country's reliance on fossil fuels. "If you drive a pickup truck, if you drive a tractor, if you drive a trailer or a combine," Hawley said. "Man, you just go and turn in your keys right now to Lucas Kunce, because he wants to shut it all down." It was a continuation of a claim Hawley made in his first attack ad on Kunce--that his opponent wanted to ban all gas and diesel trucks from the roads in Missouri. Kunce's campaign--which immediately responded with old photos of Kunce in pickup trucks during his military service--called the attack false.

Hawley's claim relies on an essay Kunce wrote in the American Prospect in 2021. "For our national security, we must adopt an industrial policy to rapidly and fully decarbonize our energy and transportation sectors," Kunce wrote. "We need to ditch all fossil fuels, not just oil, the same way we ditched whale oil for petroleum in the late 1800s."

Source: Kansas City Star AdWatch on 2024 Missouri Senate race Aug 21, 2024

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