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Politicians' issue positions are scribbled in sand, not granite, right? But here's one that shouldn't shift one bit whether you're a Democrat, Republican, an Independent or whatever: support for domestic natural gas and the hydraulic fracturing that's producing record volumes of it. Below, the green and brown areas of the chart show natural gas being produced with fracking:

Thanks to fracked natural gas the United States leads the world in reducing carbon emissions, we're more energy secure and consumers are benefiting.

No issue is more bipartisan than American-made energy the natural gas and oil that primarily fuel our economy and our modern lifestyles, brought to us all by safe, responsible fracking.

We say that because politics being politics, things are said, and positions may stretch, bend or wobble. But not on natural gas and hydraulic fracturing, they shouldn't.

The United States' energy-related emissions of carbon dioxide in 2015 were 12 percent lower than they were in 2005, even though the U.S. economy was 15 percent larger last year than it was a decade earlier. As Kaine noted in the Senate hearing clip above, emissions have fallen not because of international accords or congressional action. They have declined because of increasing use of cleaner-burning natural gas, abundant and available because of fracking. U.S. Energy Information Administration chief Adam Sieminski:

The drop in CO2 emissions is largely the result of low natural gas prices, which have contributed to natural gas disp...