Former Vice President Joe Biden said that blue-collar workers might suffer in a shift to green energy sources such as solar and wind.
Amid a booming economy that has expanded in part because of a rise in natural gas production, a debate moderator on Dec. 19 asked Biden: “As president, would you be willing to sacrifice some of that growth, even knowing that potentially that it could displace thousands—maybe hundreds of thousands—of blue-collar workers, in the interest of transitioning to that greener economy?”
