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Biden Economic Adviser: The Only Way to Become Energy Independent Is to Abandon Fossil Fuels
Western Journal ^ | 3/9/2022d | Elizabeth Stauffer

Posted on 03/09/2022 12:49:53 PM PST by Signalman

An intelligent U.S. president assessing the current energy situation would conclude that now might be a good time to loosen regulations on oil and gas drilling, rethink the Keystone XL Pipeline project and maybe open up drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. After all, the world has suddenly become a more dangerous place, and energy independence is essential to national security.

Nope.

With oil prices at record highs, and likely heading higher, the Biden administration refuses to put the brakes on its anti-fossil-fuels agenda. President Joe Biden and his minions have made it clear they’re not about to let a little old war in Ukraine get in the way of their green dreams.

Brian Deese is the director of the president’s National Economic Council. As he commented on the path to energy independence outside the White House on Tuesday afternoon, Deese’s words recalled the old slogan, “If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, then baffle them with mind-numbing, incomprehensible, hogwash.”

“The only viable path to energy independence for the American economy is to reduce the energy intensity of our economy overall. And ultimately to reduce it to zero and get ourselves to a position where we’re no longer reliant on fossil fuels,” he told Bloomberg.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: briandeese; energy; fossilfuels; treason; westernjournal
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To: SkyDancer

Unicorn farts.


41 posted on 03/09/2022 1:17:35 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Campion

The democrat party’s only true skill is misplacing blame for their idiocy. And they’re GREAT at it.


42 posted on 03/09/2022 1:18:17 PM PST by youngidiot (Race is irrelevant to everyone except the racists )
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To: pnut22

43 posted on 03/09/2022 1:19:31 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Signalman
Blithering imbecile clown and not the funny kind.


44 posted on 03/09/2022 1:25:29 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Signalman

These are hard core ideologues. They’ll NEVER correct themselves. They’ll NEVER change. And you won’t vote them out either, the way things are going.


45 posted on 03/09/2022 1:26:16 PM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: Republican in occupied CA

The main thing the Keystone XL pipeline does is to decrease the cost of gasoline in America by increasing the supply.


46 posted on 03/09/2022 1:27:45 PM PST by Prince of Space ( Let’s go, Brandon! )
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To: Republican in occupied CA
It would transport crude from Alberta's tar sands to refineries in IL & TX.

Because it was cancelled, a secondary option is to pipe it to the BC coast, load it on tankers and ship it to Asia.

47 posted on 03/09/2022 1:28:30 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Signalman
He does not know what independence means.
He should try some "food independence" and see how that works out.

48 posted on 03/09/2022 1:28:41 PM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Republican in occupied CA

Keystone XL would parallels an existing pipeline from Alberta Canada to Steele City Nebraska, where it would join another pipeline to Cushing Oklahoma, the major oil depot in the midwest. From there it would go to whoever buys it. Maybe exported, may be refined domestically.


49 posted on 03/09/2022 1:30:48 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Republican in occupied CA

But for the four year delay caused by Obama and the one year plus delay due to Biden, the pipeline would be operating right now.


50 posted on 03/09/2022 1:34:04 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Signalman

Is he a mental patient?


51 posted on 03/09/2022 1:34:37 PM PST by devere
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To: kiryandil

Better idea.


52 posted on 03/09/2022 1:35:47 PM PST by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Tell me so called independents are not going to vote again for these pieces of tchit. America lives in an alternate universe… and I live in an alternate America, so to speak.


53 posted on 03/09/2022 1:36:19 PM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hates:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Yeah we only have a few hundred yrs of fossil fuel left.


54 posted on 03/09/2022 1:36:48 PM PST by oldasrocks
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To: Signalman

The only way to become financially independent is to dump all your money in a pile and light it on fire!!!


55 posted on 03/09/2022 1:36:58 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Signalman
The only viable path to energy independence for the American economy is to reduce the energy intensity of our economy overall. And ultimately to reduce it to zero...

This is gibberish. And coming from the private jet and limousine set, it's worse than gibberish, it's class warfare.

56 posted on 03/09/2022 1:37:25 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Signalman

These people are insane!


57 posted on 03/09/2022 1:38:11 PM PST by Chgogal (Whatever Biden decides to do, do the opposite.)
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To: devere

He might be machiavelian psychopath more than mental patient, per say. On the other hand, the American voter, the independents, so called, not just liberals, seem to me to suffer from mental illness in not seeing through this bull sht every turn. What will it take? $100 a gallon and selling sex on the streets?


58 posted on 03/09/2022 1:39:17 PM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hates:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Signalman

Purely insane!


59 posted on 03/09/2022 1:50:20 PM PST by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA!)
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To: pnut22

And when the rest of us can’t afford anything we need, the liberal pols assume they’ll still be comfortable and safe.


60 posted on 03/09/2022 1:50:45 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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