Trump vows to unleash energy in key swing state: Pumping, fracking, drilling and producing like never before

INDIANA, Pa.– Former President Donald Trump vowed Monday to unleash Pennsylvania’s energy sector if elected to a second term in the White House, pledging to get workers in the key swing state “pumping, fracking, drilling and producing like never before.” Trump, 78, made the promise at a raucous rally in energy-rich western Pennsylvania, where he was flanked by dozens of supporters donning hard hats as he outlined his plan for slashing energy and electricity prices nationwide. “If you vote for me, I will cut your energy and electricity prices in half within 12 months,” the GOP nominee said of the skyrocketing cost of energy and electricity — the latter of which has soared nearly 30% under the Harris-Biden administration, according to a recent Wall Street Journal analysis. “I will terminate the natural gas export ban, which makes it impossible for you to sell your product to a lot of countries that want it desperately,” Trump pledged. “We have all of this stuff – more than anybody – [and] we don’t use it,” the former president said of the country’s untapped oil and natural gas reserves.

“I will get Pennsylvania energy workers pumping, fracking, drilling and producing like never before.” In his latest pitch to Keystone State voters, Trump attacked Vice President Kamala Harris as “the candidate of the tax collectors and the Washington bureaucrats” while calling himself “the candidate of the American worker.” He railed against the Democratic nominee’s various proposals to raise taxes and said her “biggest tax hike of all is her vicious attack on Pennsylvania energy.”“Just a few months ago, Kamala imposed a natural gas export ban,” Trump told the crowd, referring to the Harris-Biden administration’s January pause on certain exports of liquefied natural gas over climate change concerns. “That is brutalizing Pennsylvania energy jobs,” he said of the policy. Trump also dismissed Harris’ recent flip-flop on ...