PHILADELPHIA — Joe Biden’s plan to move to a clean energy economy isn't new to those who've been paying attention: For months, he's promised to put the country on a path to be carbon-neutral by 2050.
“We're not getting rid of fossil fuels,” Biden told reporters after the debate. “We're getting rid of the subsidies for fossil fuels, but we're not getting rid of fossil fuels for a long time.” Biden’s campaign has simultaneously embraced a liberal green jobs plan that is large enough to please progressive activists — and taken pains to express opposition to a fracking ban, including at debates and a campaign stop in Pittsburgh earlier this year. His team has said the country can achieve net zero-emissions by 2050 without eliminating fossil fuels by utilizing tools such as carbon-capture technology.
State Sen. John Yudichak, a former Democrat who registered as an independent last year in the wake of big GOP victories around his northeastern Pennsylvania district, urged Biden to further clarify his comments when he campaigns in the state’s Luzerne County on Saturday. Yudichak has endorsed Biden but also repeatedly pushed him to embrace the gas industry.
Still, Mikus said Biden “was not clear last night when he answered it, which is why he had to address it right before getting on the plane.”
Look, Biden promises he is going to give red and blue states what they want, something Trump hasn't been able to do the last 4 years causing states to fight over money. Texas will be a fossil state even when the oil dries up, so it's okay.
Hopefully, he did. Most wont hear of it though.
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Not botched. The man spoke the truth about what he was going to do exactly to the point. A biden administration will ruin the oil and gas industry and thousands upon thousands of families will be broken directly. Not to mention workers who will be put out of business indirectly.
He been a F up for 47 yrs. Are you surprized?
Yes those states need to be brought up!
The states need to be brought up! You can't power up your electric car by burning wood! But COVID-19 is pressing right now!
Told the truth 'botched his own strategy'. Joe finally told the truth.
Oh you just found out that God moves in mysterious ways. The mystery is that when you’re not even honest with yourself, mysteriously are placed on the path to tell the honest truth! That’s what happened. Joe’s lies, came right out of his Den (mouth), & via (bi) Bi-Den!😂😂😂😂😂
Hope in TX?!? 😂😂😂😂
Politico is trash
Liars eventually get caught. You should know plenty regarding lying!
I believe Biden to be quite moderate but his platform regarding energy and labor, which seeks to make California’s AB5 the law of the land, is progressive.
Oil is not sustainable. Sooner or later we are going to run out of it. We have to start now to find a replacement for it. Just go to Texas and get a whiff of the refineries, cannot be healthy. We have to think clean air.
He doesn’t mean like tomorrow. This transition will take time and is the right track!
Yeah, his strategy was to fool people to think he’s not gonna do anything drastic until AFTER the election, but let the cat out of the bag
Haha, yall really think Texas is in play! Yall cute.
REALLY ? 🙄
Running cover for a shaky candidate is not the work of journalism.
Just think has the industrial revolution not been developed we would still be stuck in the Stone Age so Mr. Trump if you want to keep the fossil fuels running fine stay in the Stone Age rest of us are moving on to better and bigger things such as renewable energy solar energy
We all already voted for Biden 😎
He couldn’t wait until Nov. 4th.
Yeah, the fox inadvertently showed its tail.
Who cares about Biden! He is corrupt. FBI and DOJ needs to investigate the hell out of the Hunter Biden’s laptop from Hell. This is a National Security Threat
Petroleum is a FINITE resource. As such – even if climate change wasn't an existential reality – we should be growing our use of alternative, renewable energies if we care about the future.
Isn’t a “fossil fuel” Joe’s breakfast?
Biden was never going to win Texas.
Wrong!! The vote is in. Trump’s history.
Cautious while talking? He wasn’t talking at all because this is what happens when he talks!!
Nice of Politico to note that telling the truth was a 'slip' for Biden. LOL.
No, he finally told the TRUTH. He will destroy our economy and pack the courts. The media continues to hide this from the voters. Biased, hacks.
Everyone in the O&G biz knows what’s feasible.The big players have been diversifying for years.
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Wasn’t a slip, he has said it more than once.
I don't think he botched it. He speaks the truth. At the turn of the 20th century, thousands of horse & buggy workers lost their jobs as the world transitioned to an automobile/oil economy. Change is hard at first. The transition is inevitable. It's the end of an era my friend..
I don't believe he did. Biden was right & even the fossil industry has been trying to meet the transition. The 4 leading wind generation states TX, IO, OK, KS – 4 red states. Which major company thrown out of the DOW replace by Salesforce – Exxon Mobile.
Rational people know what he meant and recognize what (in)action will result in his statement. How about making the story out of Covid, immigration, race relations, health care statements by Trump?
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The “oil” industry should be the “energy” industry and leading the way developing renewable energy sources. If they don’t they will become another dinosaur heading to extinction.
Preserving democracy is the most important thing in this election, Donald Trump must be defeated.
I live in PA, at frackings peak there were 18,000 jobs in this state. Politico is full of shit. Few people care about this nonsense.
He's right though, we will need to transition off fossil fuel it's not going to happen over night, that is exactly why we should have been doing this years ago when Gore and Bernie and Bill Nye and others warned us this was where we were headed. It's criminal they waited so long,
Irresponsible tweet by politico..BY the year 2035!!! If nothing is done the planet won’t be here by then
so by politico's estimation should he have said 'fossil fuels forever, for everyone!' ? cuuuuuz im pretty sure thats the nihilistic approach of his opponent
politico is really clutching at straws.....1 slip against 220,000 plus dead Americans...tens of thousands of lies, turning back hundreds of laws and regulations that keep Americans safe...etc., etc.,
'Hope' in Texas? You gotta be kidding me
KILLING OIL? Go drive a Tesla on insane mode. See the future. It's gasoline free and fun. Expand on it. Make it cheaper Green is just a bonus. Transition to Future takes years. Start now. Joe sees it. JoeBiden Or just set our watch to 1970 like Donald's.
They don’t have to get rid of fossil fuels consumers will. NextEra overtook ExxonMobil as the largest U.S. Energy Company
It won’t change any votes.
I don’t see a problem with what he said— we DO need to slowly and gradually move away from fossil fuels, over time. We’ve been dependent on big oil for far too long.
The market is the one who gradually has pushed out fossil fuels. Most pursuing higher MPG, less plastic and more renewable energy in younger segments. 👍🎉
We have a conman who owes foreigners $400 mil, encourages white supremacists, still hasn’t confronted Putin for BountyGate, called dead military members losers & suckers and lied about a virus that killed 220k Americans - & Biden talking about fossil fuels is the controversy?
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Imagine if he slipped with the nuke button!!!!
LucyKnows1 That’s because the Crime corrupt boss Joe Biden is a dope. Thank you Joe for being a dope
No he doesn’t. Just stop.
You mean a little glimmer of his true beliefs peeking through?
'cautious' is a way of saying he had been avoiding letting voters know his real plans until last Thursday.* That's how he survived 47 years in politics. *BTW, that's another reason not to vote early. BidenCrimeFamiily Trump2020Landslide
Yeah...he botched his strategy to never tell the truth and obfuscate issues with the voters.
Cos he told the truth you mean?
Where the trump botched his strategy article?
Which time was he lying?
Just imagine if he’d been out there everyday like Trump. He’d been in worse shape then he is now which is going down. “Scranton” won’t cut it this time. Trump2020Landslide
Jajaja! Nope.
He sure did. He, accidentally, told the truth. Democrats can’t afford to do that.
Yep, he told the truth.
Cautiously not taking questions or holed up in his basement
The US is one of the few countries in the world where declaring an intention to move away from dirty, polluting, finite fossil fuels and toward clean, renewable sources is considered a bad thing. 🙄
Botched the strategy of say whatever needed to win on campaign trail only to do all the things he promised he wouldn’t once in office 🤡🤡🤡
Why? Rump has done nothing in that direction.
It’s about corruption in long term politics
Disagree with this headline. There was nothing new in that debate comment and the points have been front and center in the campaign since July. Oil and gas are cratering and it’s Shell, BP, etc looking to be green now. They’re yrs into that strategy shift.
Fossil fuels come from the earth itself. They are all natural. Life is always evolving. Let energy evolve naturally w/out gov intervention. Gov screws up everything it touches
Biden, the Democrat, is at risk of losing Texas because of the debate. Sounds like he’s in big trouble!
Anyone stupid enough to believe that fossil fuel is a forever source of energy doesn’t understand the industry. Biden was not wrong on either point we have to transition away from oil and it will take a while. It’s not instant. It’s a process. One that started decades ago.
So, so let me get this straight. One guy makes on slip and two states become at play. The other guy who has been on the floor from so many slips for years gets the advantage?
Media thinks it’s ok for Democrats to hide their true policy intentions and goals and call revealing the truth a “botch.” Truly amazing to see.
It was a big mistake. He had a chance in Texas - May still win PA. look, the O&G industry is going to have transition, and it’s going to be painful. But that’s not the way to open the dialogue. Just stupid.
Replace the word cautious with evasive and your report would be accurate.
Wait. Trump is trading medicare apart, running a deficit of trillions of dollars, COVID is out of control. Biden wants to move forward with the environment is a positive way & your saying he blew it! The USA is fckd if you believe this.
He just told the truth.
BS! Only a few in SE Pa. care. The rest of Pa. cares about clean water and clean air as well as Social Security and healthcare.
Only short minded and close minded people think that it’s wrong. Biden plan is for the benefit of the coming generation . We need to heal our environment. The US should be open to better and cleaner energy option in the future. It’s a transition to a better world!
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Biden is nothing but one lie after another. He is master of the swamp, a crook. The other night he said he never took money. Probably technically true. He used his son to get the money. This is how they work. Hunter may sing.
Blah. Blah. Blah. You people in the media are the majority cause of issues. You people are the reason I can’t sleep at night. Always making drastic out of simple.
Fossil fuels are causing the planet to be unlivable. Climate change not only brings severe weather changes, and more disease, it brings hotter weather & more drought, which means less drinkable water. It's ludicrous to try to save an industry that is literally killing the planet.
Nope...he doesn’t. He said his goal is a transition from the polluting fossil fuels to creating way more jobs with clean energy. Americans agree🇺🇸
I really don't care. Do you? BidenHarris2020Landslide
Oil and gas will continue to play the central role in economies until recycling of the hazardous materials used in battery and solar panel manufacturing is overcome.
This quote sums up the Republican view of innovation. 'The horse is here today, but the automobile is only a novelty - a fad.' - (President of Michigan Savings Bank advising against investing in the Ford Motor Company)
He did botch his strategy..,..of DONT TELL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THE TRUTH!!! LOL. TOO STUPID
Only morons think he messed up.
You people are sickening. Your entire agenda is hidden Nominate a corpse then have the media get him elected.
This is the reason he can not be president. A President must be confident and strong in making decisions. This is proof positive JoeBiden is not presidential material. Pray for our leaders🤔🧐
Wait, I thought the debate was a tie because Joe didn’t revert to his gaffe prone self. Dueling narratives isn’t a good look.
By 'cautious' you mean he has been lying. Destroying or damaging oil/NG not only means lost jobs/taxes/higher gas prices, it also means higher prices for nearly all goods and services. Transportation just went up. Heating oil just went up. All your groceries just went up.
There is more money to be made and there are more opportunities in fossile free/ green energy than in old school fossile energy.
Right ... lol ... buh bye oil dependent jobs ...
Why is it that one slip up can cost Biden votes yet Trump says literally anything!
I mean, it sounds like YOU seem to think that. The comments and ratio beg to differ
We are powering the 21st century with 18th century technology, which has had disastrous effects on our environment that we have ignored for far too long.
You're basically amplifying Trump's misleading attack line with this tweet. Stop it.
You people are unbelievable.
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Botched. The new word for a democrat that lies!!!
He didn't watch anything of he just told the truth finally on one topic
I voted for Joe Biden💙😝💕
dope
Come on Man! Nobody's above the law, not even the Godfather of the Biden Crime Family!
“Biden, who’s been extraordinarily cautious” had a lapse and actually told the truth. There, fixed
If by botched you mean he finally let a truth out among all the lies then YES he botched it.
Yes he did. Media covers
We all know its in the future.
If TX , PA and Coal miners of W. VA. Refuse to retrain and look to the future then we will all die because the planet will die. How long must we suffer short sighted fools. They learned one job they can learn a clean energy job. It's time they man up (Part 1)
* who has been hiding in his basement for the entire campaign
He fucked up big time!! Bye bye PA, TX and WI...
It was the truth, not a miss-explanation. He 'screwed the pooch' by simply telling being honest...
Ridiculous headline !!! 220,000 dead. A pandemic out of control. Fossil fuels should have been changed years ago VoteBlueToSaveAmerica TrumpIsATraitor TrumpLied220KDied
Everybody who is worried about the poor oil industry is already in Trumps pocket.
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This is more pressing than any slip ups.
Is like the time ivanka’s daddy botched saying a pandemic would disappear. Or we have rounded the corner? And 223K Americans are dead? I’d say be better, Politico. But that’s seems to be Impossible.
Falling over themselves to demonstrate how bad they are on climate change is only making it harder for Dems who were already holding their noses to vote for Biden/Harris.
I don’t give a damn about oil the country is infected and sick with covid.
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'Extraordinarily cautious'.
You mean he accidentally said the truth
Come on, Politico, don’t try to let your need to create suspense cloud your judgment: This is s single issue race, created entirely by Trump’s incompetence and sociopathy, killing us left and right. No one cares about anything else, so don’t pretend they do.
Bullshit. Exxon runs clean energy commercials during the superbowl.
thank you Joe let's put an end to OIL
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“Oil slip.” You’re not afraid to call republicans liars, you might as well say what it is.
Who built the cages joe?
This is not the first time Biden has said this. The fossil fuel companies already knew they were expiring. Trump gave them temporary oxygen. It is time to move on pass the 19th Century. Biden wasn’t talking to old people he was talking to our young people TheFuture
So .. you are ok with the Politicians deception? Which is he is for the Green New Deal, but don’t let the People know?
His strategy was to pander to the environmentalists through the primaries then swing more to the general population for the general. He had to say two different thing to appeal to both groups and Trump forced him to pick one.
Fracking is clearly a necessary industry for the continued poisoning and killing off of Americans.
PA is a must win for Biden. Trump will narrowly win FL, NC, GA, TX and AZ. No other path than PA for Joe
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Campaign slip? You mean he actually said what he meant instead of lying. 🤔
Politico still stretching. Desperately trying to sway voters with fake buzz Its over
Biden is a progressive thinker 👍🏽
And there the media goes again. He said transitioning for crying out loud! American media get it together!
How is it a “slip” to say what should be just reasonable and obvious: we need, just like the rest of the world, to wean ourselves off fossil fuels, preferably before it’s too late, planet-wise, and that he intends to try to keep us on the right track for this goal as President?
Its the way he said it but hopefully people can look past that. 🤞
Nope, I’m from Pa. only a few are impacted by fracking.
Wth, TEXAS? Are you crazy? Get over yourselves!
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No. Most of US know we need to switch.
it was a terrible gaffe.
The market is making this happen. Electricity, besides being clean, is cheap and getting cheaper. Electric cars are (well, will be) more reliable, quieter, and faster. Government intervention won’t, and shouldn’t, try to stop that.
The dems have result mechanisms in place; I seriously doubt it’ll matter. This ‘election’s a farce from the get-go.
1. I hope ppl are more concerned about the democracy than they are their oil. Oil will still be there when trump has singlehanded took over our country. He’s going to take it anyway he can, he and the GOP have packed the SCOTUS in hope of taking the election b/c he knows he isn’t
The little chihuahua AOC has successfully entered his head. JoeBiden is doomed from winning the election.
Only because big oil ancient old white men have the most to lose and are among the most evil. They will fund anything, ANYTHING, to keep relying on fossil fuels.
He said it wrong, giving Trump the ability to distort the meaning. The message then got lost. Technology advances quickly. 135 years ago people were still using horses and steam ships. Who know what the future holds in the next 50 years,?
I hope and pray not....more important fish to fry.
Did Biden tell you that face to face?
How’s fossil fuel working out for the coal industry states Trump promised to rejuvenate? why penalize Biden for telling the truth? Plus, who is that fricking stupid to think that oil is going away in the next 4 years. Also, wtf are we still subsidizing big oil?
I’m thinking Biden’s corruption givers Trump the White House and Biden the Big House
Zigmanfreud Joe Biden is a Serial Liar. He will lie to the American people so long as it gets him elected. There's no other way to read this.
He did not botch his strategy, he just let the cat out of the bag. He is willing to destroy the economy and put millions out of work in a futile attempt to stop the climate from changing. There is nothing we can do, not one thing, that will prevent the climate from changing.
How silly. Americans understand progress. We roll with it. Remember pay phones? Remember libraries with card files? Remember when we thought the earth was flat and the moon was made out of cheese? Change happens constantly and people adjust.
Lol no
Russian oligarchs have been pegging your bottom line I gather
83,000 coronavirus cases today.
Trump has kids in cages, $420,000,000 in debt to whom? Has a secrete Chinese bank account and ignored Covid which has killed over 200,000 Americans. KKK and the TALIBAN endorse him. But go off on Biden for botching a debate.
God this publication
Oil is not the future! Bravo to Biden for having a platform that transitions slowly away from oil.
That is not correct. He has been clear on this issue from the beginning. Even big oil companies like Shell have been promoting moving toward Green energy. What is happening to POLITICO? Your recent reporting is so underwhelming and disappointing! It is time to change the channel.
I actually liked his response. IT WAS HONEST!
This is a poorly thought out article. You are so desperate to both sides this race. Trump said he didn't care about kids in cages.
I just keep thinking of the ex-coal miner that works in the clean energy field. He said his friends laughed at him but now they are calling him about a possible job. Or the families that lost their farms due to fracking.
Wow, this is some serious...like over the top...two sidism here. Honest to F-ing god, you had to find something? I will not be renewing my Politico subscription Seriously? You had to dig this deep to find something to sound 'balanced'?
You can't run from an issue and lead on it at the same time. REALITY - we need to move away from fossil fuels. Democrats have a plan on how to do that while also adding jobs. JoeBiden take the lead. “I never worry about action, but only inaction.” - Churchill ClimateCrisis
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He didn’t slip, he has been saying since he began his campaign. The republicans think that it the one thing that they grasp onto. Big oil has been working in the transition for years, ask them. Stop helping Trump, he has no plans
Biden's Presidency will be a disaster.
It’s hard to imagine someone undecided at this point...uses THIS as a reason to vote for Trump. There’s a pandemic killing 1000 Americans a day, thousands of people hospitalized many without insurance...bUt OH MY GOSH! He’s picking on the angelic oil industry
Personally, I hope JoeBiden sticks with 'going green, slowly'. Not like it will happen in 4 yrs. It will take decades, which will provide many, many jobs for solar, wind and whatever new comes up that has no carbon emission.
people Texas want health care and they don't want their land taken by Trump to build that wall that Trump said Mexico would pay for
CA has Fossil fuel we do OK Texas and PA and the rest as well west Virginia need to come to grips with a transitional economic policy particularly from dirty sources to clean ones Biden told the truth Mr Trump is lieing there's no easy fix but open discussion is 1st step
Not a big deal calm TFCK down politico.
Can everyone calm the f**k down about this. You don't think it might ADD voters to JoeBiden ? You know, progressives who were pissed off he didn't support the Green New Deal & were going to vote 3rd party
Because unlike all other human beings on earth, Pennsylvanians WANT to die excruciating deaths due to climate change - Trump wins!
So in telling the truth there's a chance he'll suffer at the polling place, huh? Well, that's just nifty.
Trump and his people are going to end up looking pretty damned tone-deaf and foolish obsessing over fracking while 1,000 Americans are dying of COVID-19 every day and we're hitting grim new records for daily infections.
The oil industry does need to move into the future. Fossil fuels will be depleted sooner than later & more industry is already looking to reduce their carbon footprint. Time to start looking forward instead of back to the robber baron days. FossilFuels TrumpIsNotAmerica
Oh, yeah, big slip-up. He’s following BP’s announced corporate strategy. So radical.
He is being realistic. Trump supporters have no grasp or concept of this.
Ugh. Get over it. Literally every major oil company is trying to rebrand as we speak and is touting their “renewable strategy.” Eg -
He spoke truth! Fossil fuels are on track to becoming extinct!
He lied publicly in a debate. Or simply forgot. Your headline is an honest as he is.
It’s 2020 why are we not moving towards green renewable energy? I don’t think it’s a slip and shouldn’t be anything to apologize for.
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Because he forgot what a liar he is
I wish a fucking candidate would just say 'yeah, we're gonna end fossil fuel and yeah we're gonna ban fracking.'
The US should be and will be the leader on renewable energy. Anyone who keeps wanting fossil fuels has not kept up with the scientific data and how harmful it is for us and the environment.
Do you have to declare this tweet and article as an inkind contribution to the Trump campaign? Or do you hide it under “both sides”
Definitely a senior moment for the VP.
I know you don’t want Biden to win so maybe keep reframing this story until it gives you the punch you’re looking for. Until then, it’s a nothing burger.
These single issue voters should lose their right to vote if they can’t think beyond one issue and look at the totality of each candidate’s honesty, character and values. Good lord, grow up.
Only two decades ago, were buying CDs and renting videos / DVDs for the weekend. In two decades from now - combustion powered vehicles will be a thing of the past. The will be collectables. I guess those firms in Texas are going to be going the way of Kodak, Blockbuster etc.
Nobody cares. The people support Biden. This is shit journalism.
Hiden can't be trusted, he has lied repeatedly about his stance on fracking. If elected oil and gas and related manufacturing will come under attack.
I’m tired of Politico. They post stupid headlines just to appear controversial.
“Clearly” stfu.
SHUT UP POLITICO !!!!!!!!!!
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