Oil & gas industry leaders voice ‘unbelievable’ worries about the election and America’s ‘business killer’
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This time of year across the Allegheny National Forest in Northwest Pennsylvania, the white pine, maple, chestnut and black cherry trees scattered within the tall, hilly landscape turn deeper colors of orange and yellow.
To an unassuming eye, visitors of the forest may never know that numerous oil and gas wells are quietly and continually pumping out the resource. But the smaller companies who call this place home, like Cameron Energy, are worried the 2024 presidential election has put their livelihoods on the line.
“Some nights it’s hard to fall asleep,” lawyer-turned-Cameron Energy founder Arthur Stewart told Fox News Digital. “We have 55 employees. The pressures of worrying about the paycheck every two weeks are enormous. We’re suffering with inflation just like everybody else, and it’s a business killer. There’s just no other way to say it. And so the worries we have about this election are unbelievable.”
“We work hard so that everybody around us can have an affordable, modern life-supporting energy that’s domestically produced and safely,” Cameron’s environmental care coordinator Tyler Martin also said.
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“We have the cleanest streams in our area. In the United States, within our borders, we can produce energy cleaner than they can in other countries. And if you’re an environmentalist, that should be important,” Martin continued. “We should produce it here.”
Cameron Energy’s founder, spokesperson and an independent policy analyst compared and contrasted former President Donald Trump’s and Vice President Kamala Harris’ respective energy platforms as detailed on their campaign websites, and urged domestic oil production as the answer to getting U.S. prices down.
Democratic nominee Harris has proposed an “opportunity economy.” On her campaign website under the “Issues” tab, the economy is seemingly her top priority, but any oil and gas-related policies are found in the tenth and last subsection.
She will reportedly “tackle the climate crisis as she builds on this historic work, advance environmental justice, protect public lands and public health, increase resilience to climate disasters, lower household energy costs, create millions of new jobs, and continue to hold polluters accountable to secure clean air and water for all.”