Election season means uncertainty, and businesses are worried about the future.
Vice President Kamala Harris claims on her campaign website that she will “tackle the climate crisis as she builds on this historic work, advance environmental justice, protect public lands and public health, increase resilience to climate disasters, lower household energy costs, create millions of new jobs, and continue to hold polluters accountable to secure clean air and water for all.”
That makes some people worried.
“It looks like another soundbite of word salad to me. Sounds like there’s a lot of feel-good terms in there for her base, [but] doesn’t really speak to any solutions,” Cameron Energy’s environmental care coordinator Tyler Martin told Fox News Digital.
Cameron’s founder, Arthur Stewart, doesn’t trust Harris, who has flip-flopped on so many issues since she ran in the Democratic presidential primary in 2020, where she failed to garner even a single vote.
“I still believe that what Kamala Harris said when she was running for president in 2019, that she wants to ban all fracking, is the real Kamala Harris … You want to know what a real climate crisis would be? If there wasn’t energy to run air conditioners in Arizona, if there wasn’t natural gas to heat homes in Maine or Massachusetts or Pennsylvania or in our hospitals, anywhere. A real crisis would be if you couldn’t make the plastics for hospitals. And I don’t think that her policy understands that remotely,” Stewart told Fox News Digital.
Former President Donald Trump, on the other hand, says his first priority is to “defeat inflation and quickly bring down all prices.” Trump plans for the U.S. to once again become the number one producer of oil and natural gas in the world by “lifting restrictions on American energy production, terminating the Socialist Green New Deal, unleashing energy production from all sources, including nuclear, to immediately slash inflation.”
Stewart sees promise in Trump’s words.
“That’s a statement by a man who’s in business and understands that energy is in everything, and we need all forms of energy. We shouldn’t do away with nuclear. We shouldn’t do away with wind or solar. We should respect and understand what their role is,” Stewart told Fox. “Sixty-six percent of our electricity around the world still comes from fossil fuels. So it’s not something that we can just wipe our hands and think we’re going to do away with it.”
Breitbart reports on a recent survey of business executives and their feelings about the future. Here’s the start of the story:
The rise of Kamala Harris in national political polls has come at a cost of deteriorating optimism among U.S. businesses.
A survey of business executives in September found a sharp deterioration about output in the year ahead, according to S&P Global. The survey’s future output index fell to its lowest since October 2022 and the second lowest since the end of the pandemic.
The deterioration was led by the services sector, an especially troubling development since economic growth in recent months has largely depended on services while he manufacturing sector has been in a slump.
“Business sentiment, demand, hiring and investment are being subdued by uncertainty surrounding the Presidential Election, casting a shadow over the outlook for the year ahead at many firms,” Chris Williamson, the chief business economist at S&P Global, said Monday.
The survey of executives referred to as purchasing managers is considered a key indicator for the economy. It showed that business activity lost some momentum in September but remains robust, thanks largely to strength in the services sector. The output of the manufacturing sector fell for a second straight month, according to the survey.