Last week, we watched Donald Trump and Kamala Harris debate the issues, and they showed us two very different paths for the future of America. No issue shows that contrast like energy policy.

When it comes to Harris’ stance on energy, it is more about what she hasn’t said. Debating in Pennsylvania where many jobs are created by the natural gas industry, she was forceful in saying she would not ban fracking. However, she didn’t explain how she came to that abrupt change in her stance.

Just a few short years ago, Harris said she’d ‘absolutely’ ban fracking—a practice that has established America as the top producer of natural gas in the world while also lowering emissions. She also hasn’t explained her sponsorship of the Green New Deal as a U.S. Senator or her role in the policies of the Biden administration that have propped up so-called green energy while strangling U.S. oil and gas producers.

Donald Trump on the other hand has a record and a plan that has supported and grown American energy security and affordability. Trump rightfully pointed out that the Biden-Harris energy agenda, like killing the Keystone XL pipeline that would have brought affordable energy to Americans while supporting a pipeline that transports Russian natural gas in Europe, has compromised American energy security and dominance.

Those policies have also destroyed America’s energy affordability. Under the Biden-Harris administration the cost of electricity has gone up 30.7%, gasoline up 45.8% and household energy prices have risen nearly 30%. And, those spikes in energy costs are a primary driver of inflation that soared to a 40-year high in 2022.

Trump’s agenda of supporting American energy producers and encouraging them to increase production even more—“Drill, baby, drill” as he puts it—is the simple and proven energy policy that America needs—not more taxpayer-funded subsidies for unreliable “green” energy projects.

It’s nice to hear both candidates recognize that traditional energy like American oil and natural gas is what fuels our nation. But, everyday Americans know that it takes more than a flip-flop in political rhetoric to keep prices low at the pump and keep Americans safe from dependency on foreign energy.

For more information about the affordable, reliable and clean energy plan for America’s future, check out TEA’s Energy Security ARC.