Volta Oil Co Blog Opinion: 2016 Presidential Election and the Issue of Energy and the Environment

By: Bill Clermont With little over a week to the 2016 Presidential Election, very little has been mentioned or debated about one of the major topics of this Election. The future of Energy. This election has focused on Lies, deceit, inappropriate comments / behavior and other such topics that are far more interesting than the real issues at hand. Few issue platforms have more closely mirrored each candidate's advances towards November than that of energy and the environment. For Hillary Clinton, she has been shifting more and more to the left and supporting the aggressive environmental agenda advocated by Bernie Sanders, while Donald Trump has embraced traditional Republican positions of expanding oil production and reversing climate regulations. Both candidates have not outlined specifics on how they are going to go forward with the future of energy and the environment. We do know this, Hillary Clinton's agenda is for clean energy, reducing the burning of coal, blocking the Keystone Pipeline and greater regulations on fracking. Donald Trump is for building, expanding the Keystone Pipeline and promoting fracking. Limiting fracking, or abolishing it all together along with the Pipeline could lead to oil prices higher as we would once again be held hostage by foreign oil. The two sides have grown further apart - the left spurred by a growing pressure toRead More;The post Opinion: 2016 Presidential Election and the Issue of Energy and the Environment appeared first on Volta Oil.