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Ed Perry
Boalsburg
It's unfortunate that moderators during the debate between Senator Casey and Dave McCormick were not permitted to fact check their claims because McCormick told some whoppers.
For example, he used the standard Republican lie that Casey and the Biden administration were hindering development of energy sources. In fact, Pennsylvania's natural gas production is 43 times higher today than when Casey was elected to the Senate in 2006. Senator Casey has never supported a ban on fracking, but has demanded that fracking be done in an environmentally responsible manner.
What is especially unfortunate is that McCormick continues to toe the party lie that support for clean energy harms our country.
Good grief! Is the rich man's bubble he lives in preventing him from understanding that these extreme weather events are causing horrific, catastrophic losses for our fellow Americans and costing us billions of dollars? Scientists have warned us for decades (including Exxon's scientists) that climate change would wreak havoc on our planet's natural systems.
And unfortunately, that day has arrived.
The fossil fuel industry has received subsidies in the form of tax breaks since the early 1900s, and still receives those tax benefits today. If we're to slow the pace of climate change, we need to go all-in on clean energy and the only way to do that is for our government to help us move to a clean energy future.
The main impediment to us getting there is Dave McCormick and his Republican party.