Former President Donald Trump, speaking in Erie, Pennsylvania, Sunday, promised that the state's oil workers will be "fracking, drilling, pumping, and producing like they never have produced before."
He said that his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, has vowed repeatedly to ban the use of fracking to produce energy, and that is "starving your state right now of your wealth."
"She imposed a ban on natural gas," said Trump. "Her insane electric vehicle mandate is where everybody is going to have an electric car within a very short period of time. But maybe not everybody wants an electric car."
And for the most part, he claimed that electric vehicles will be made in China.
"Now you saw the Teamsters overwhelmingly supported me," he said. "And the autoworkers are overwhelmingly supporting me. It's pretty amazing. But the insane electric vehicle mandate, they want everybody to have an electric car, but they don't go far. They cost much more. There are a lot of problems and they don't work well. You know, in Iowa it was 20 degrees below zero. And I always heard the cars don't work well in the cold."
The electric vehicle mandate, he added, "will decimate Pennsylvania's economy by abolishing gas-powered cars and trucks for American roads and destroying your fossil fuel industry ... with all of that power, all of that liquid gold under your feet, you're getting screwed."
But Trump promised that within one year of taking the oath of office, "I will cut your energy prices by 50% and it's not going to be hard."
"We were energy independent four years ago," he said. "Now we're not. But more importantly, we were going to be energy-dominant. I would have been producing today three to four times what I was doing four years ago. I will repeal the insane electric vehicle mandate and we will drill, baby, drill."
Harris, he added, "wants to impose the largest capital gains tax in history and even a brand new wealth confiscation tax, or as they call it, unrealized capital gain, where you have to pay a capital gain even if you keep your business or keep whatever it is that you want to keep."
And that, he said is a "communist" tax.
"Kamala Harris is a tax queen," he said. "She's known as the tax queen. She loves taxing people. This is the only election I've ever seen where somebody brags about we're going to raise your taxes."
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