Bernie Moreno is a multi-millionaire former luxury car dealer who ran as an extreme-right candidate against JD Vance in the 2022 Senate primary. This time around, with Donald Trump’s endorsement, Moreno has made it crystal clear that he is fully on board with Trump’s dirty energy agenda.
When asked if there’s any issues on which he disagreed with Trump, Moreno said “we’re 100% aligned” and parrotted Trump’s “energy dominance” rhetoric, which is the MAGA codeword for an agenda that calls for massive rollbacks of environmental safeguards and handouts to Big Oil.
At a candidate forum in February, Moreno made his priorities clear when he said “This is Findlay, Ohio. This is the headquarters of Marathon Petroleum. We should be unleashing American energy and being an energy-dominant country. Instead, we have this move towards windmills, solar panels. We need coal, we need natural gas, we need oil. That’s gonna drive prices down.”
