Harold Hamm on Clinton's Energy Plan: Silliest Thing You've Ever Heard of

The topic of energy policy did come up during the first presidential debate between Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump but energy policy and U.S. energy independence was not a major focus of the debate.  Continental Resources (NYSE:CLR) CEO Harold Hamm weighed in what was discussed and his concerns over Hillary Clinton’s energy plan.

“Let’s talk about her [Hillary Clinton] energy plan.  This is no surprise to anybody.  She wants to come out with a solar energy plan that’s 500 million solar panels, okay?  Let’s look first of all [at] where those are made.  They’re not made here in the U.S.  So all these jobs she is going to create is going somewhere else.  And the primary place they are going is to China who builds 56% of them, 75% of them is made outside the U.S. The cost of this is $205 billion,” Hamm told the FOX Business Network’s Stuart Varney.

Hamm had a theory for what is driving solar panel production overseas.

“The reason they are located somewhere else, they don’t have the largest gas field in the world, Marcellus and Utica Shale, they don’t have that.  That’s being developed in America.”

When Varney asked, “Are you saying that Hillary Clinton has a totally un-workable energy plan?”

“Yes, in fact I’m calling it silly.  You know, it’s the silliest thing you’ve ever heard of. That we’re gonna, we’re trading good American jobs here in the U.S., high-paid jobs, for those in China, Japan and around the world cause we’re not creating those solar panels here.  We’ve been outbid by all these foreign countries for all the solar panels, okay, because they need them.”

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According to Hamm fossil fuels will continue to be a part of U.S. energy policy for the foreseeable future.

“We’re going to be as part of transportation fuels.  I don’t see solar panels on her new airplane that she’s flying around, I don’t see solar panels on these 18-wheelers going down the road.  We’re going to be for transportation fuels for the next 50 years."