Posted on 02/23/2022 4:30:56 AM PST by george76
The upcoming polar plunge will cause temperatures across the northern United States to drop by as much as 50 degrees, during a time when war may break out in Europe. This is a reminder of how important affordable American energy sources are.
Europe is weak because it is in the grip of an energy crisis with some prices soaring tenfold in the last two years. Europe depends for nearly 30% of its oil and gas supplies on Russia, while German manufacturing is particularly dependent for energy on Russia after environmentalists forced Germany to dismantle all 17 of its nuclear power plants that did not even contribute to any climate change.
So the announcement this weekend that there would be no pre-invasion sanctions against Russia was not a surprise. If Russia further rations its energy shipments, Europe may struggle to survive a harsh winter.
Trump achieved oil independence for the United States for the first time in more than a half-century, but Biden has tried to make us dependent on foreign oil again. Biden reinstated Obama’s phony “social cost of carbon” that places a prohibitively high estimated cost on each ton of carbon dioxide released by an energy-related activity.
There is no credible evidence supporting such a “social cost of carbon,” which the good Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry has appropriately referred to as “voodoo economics.” He points out that Congress has never authorized the Environmental Protection Agency to issue regulations based on such an arbitrary estimate.
Louisiana prevailed on February 11 by persuading a federal court there to order the Biden Administration to stop using this imaginary concept to interfere with oil and gas drilling. Our country depends on new drilling to ensure our continued energy independence, and to supply our allies so that they are not dependent on Russia.
Louisiana was joined by Attorneys General representing the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia, and Wyoming. Other states that are not big energy suppliers, such as Missouri, probably also agree with this legal challenge.
Trump-appointed federal district judge James Cain sided with the states, and the Biden Administration vowed to appeal. But the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans is unlikely to reverse this good decision.
Indeed, this is the second federal judge to rule against the interference with energy production by the Biden Administration. Last year another federal judge in Louisiana ordered Biden to allow gas and oil drilling to move forward.
With gasoline prices skyrocketing to $5 per gallon in some parts of our country, and more than $7.50 per gallon in England, environmentalists’ interference with energy production is causing poverty and inflation. As Trump mocked liberals at one of his rallies this year, a debatable slight future rise in sea levels is not a valid reason to block American energy production and use now.
But rather than comply with the court ruling on Friday, the Biden Administration responded by suspending all new permits and leases for oil and gas drilling on all federal lands. As the federal government owns nearly half of all the land in 11 energy-rich western states, Biden’s moratorium on drilling essentially halts new energy production.
Overall, the federal government purports to own 640 million acres of land in our country, and its interference with energy development on that land is what drives up our energy costs and dependency on foreign suppliers. We can survive without foreign energy, thanks to Trump, but our allies cannot.
Biden’s suspension of all new drilling on federal land is as shocking as if Biden were to block the midterm elections because he did not like a judge’s ruling about it. The federal judge in Louisiana should respond by holding Biden in contempt of court.
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Immediately a U.S. Senator from Wyoming, Cynthia Lummis, criticized Biden for interfering with the economy in her energy-producing state. Liz Cheney (R-WY) purports to be the congresswoman representing that same state, but she failed to speak out as Sen. Lummis did.
Sen. Lummis pointed out that Biden “has prioritized the agenda of radical environmentalists in his administration over the needs of people in Wyoming and the rest of the country.” She added that the Biden Administration made “a conscious decision to continue to attack Wyoming and our domestic energy industry in favor of progressive, unrealistic climate policies.”
Gasoline prices have increased 18 times in the last 20 days in San Diego County, California. But rather than address that by allowing new drilling, Biden blusters that NATO will inflict tremendous hardship on energy exporter Russia despite Europe’s dependency on it for energy.
The real “social cost of carbon” is an unnecessary dependency on foreign countries for energy. A NATO that has run out of gas is useless to protect America’s values and interests.
Climate Change is real and Mother Nature will continue to rule as she has since the beginning of time. Man is so vain and sometimes, they get stuck on stupid.
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Can th country recall a President? I know, I know. It would never happen and then there’s Kameltoes! She would be a total disaster.
I was promised me a Peace Dividend, and I want it!
The money quote.
(Brandon) begs other countries to increase oil production, forbids drilling, cancels pipelines, blames Putin.
It’s simple.
All we had to do to end the scourge of drug addiction and the associated trafficking and violence was outlaw drugs.
If only we would outlaw guns the same thing would happen.
When, oh when, will we ever learn?
nato is a useless redundant organization.
The agenda really is quite transparent when you stop and look at it overall. Riddle me this…
Why would the Biden administration announce yesterday they were cancelling new oil and gas leases if they were worried about the Russia-Ukraine impact on oil and gas prices?
The short answer is, they wouldn’t.
If the Biden team were worried about gas prices, they would be doing everything possible to lower gas prices as the Russia-Ukraine crisis unfolds…. but they are not. They are doing the exact opposite. Why? Because the Biden administration wants high gas prices as part of the Green New Deal as executed within their energy and regulatory policy.
High gas prices and high energy prices are a feature, not a flaw of Biden policy. The goal is to achieve approximately $10/gal gasoline at which point the economics of the climate change agenda find parity over fossil fuels for the average person.
So far, it looks like gasoline will easily reach $10/gal in Biden’s term as the disposable front man for the larger agenda. By the end of this year, we are on track to see the first $7/gal rate for gasoline in the U.S. From there they only need increases of $1/gal per year for a few years.
In the U.S. it was previously called “The Green New Deal.” However, the wording was shifted to “Build Back Better” upon the instructions of the global leaders who engineer the narratives. Both plans are versions of climate change policy as deployed by the World Economic Forum. Build Back Better is the program to push climate change policy in the aftermath of the pandemic.
Overall, the global climate change agenda is a system of new economics. Climate change gets us to the global carbon trading system that is the holy grail of the World Economic Forum. Carbon trading, when triggered, would automatically supersede financial market trading in scope and scale. Again, we repeat the baseline, there are trillions at stake, and everything is about the economics.
The Biden administration and western leaders of the G7 are all chasing the same objective. However, they do not want their citizens to realize the pain they feel is an intentional construct of their political leadership. That’s where Vladimir Putin and the Russia-Ukraine crisis come into play as a useful tool for blame-casting.
Check out this article from today: “Ukraine-Russia crisis could lead to highest gas prices in California history, expert says.”
(VIA ABC) – SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) — California’s already record-high gas prices are expected to get even more expensive in the coming months, according to experts, and it’s all being fueled by the crisis between Russia and Ukraine.
[…] “If Western countries come after Russia with sanctions, Russia could just say, ‘Hey, we’re just going to cut off oil,'” explained Patrick De Haan of GasBuddy. “And that could cause oil prices to spike at a time that gasoline demand is continuing to recover as COVID numbers decline.” (read more)
None of the current gas price increases have anything to do with Russia or Ukraine. The U.S. government has completely shut down our own oil and gas industry development as intended by Joe Biden policy. It was the very first executive order signed on the very first day in office.
YESTERDAY – “Biden revived the social cost of carbon on his first day in office, setting it at $51 per ton of CO2 emissions — the same level as set by the Obama administration. The administration was expected to release an updated figure this February” (LINK)
The climate change agenda is at the heart of the collective world order push for a global carbon trading system. That system is what the Paris Climate Treaty was intended to facilitate.
However, when you chase climate change policy to its logical conclusion, there was always going to be a time when the financial pain felt by the citizens was considered a major hurdle to achieve the carbon trade exchanges. Gas prices and energy prices are going to hurt people, working families especially. That’s why they need Vladimir Putin portrayed in the role of the bad guy who the G7 can blame for gas price increases.
Global oil demand about to surge, U.S. shale development and growth is over (Biden policy), and OPEC’s spare capacity is set to be exhausted.
All of the western leaders just need to keep the average person blaming the Russia-Ukraine crisis for the rising cost of gasoline, and all will be well.
Gas will reach $7/gal.
Putin will be blamed.
Watch:
President Biden acknowledges US gas prices may keep rising due to his sanctions:
"Defending freedom will have costs for us as well, and here at home. We need to be honest about that." pic.twitter.com/fuGH7gdc8d— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) February 22, 2022
And of course, nuclear power
The oil and gas producers don’t like the nuclear competitor but nucs are needed
They allowed the Israeli pipeline to be suspended, they stopped the Russian pipeline.
They can rot.
And I’ll be damned if I’ll willingly permit exports which will further raise prices here.
These policies are CRIMINAL.
If the Oil companies would just Halt All Sales and Deliveries to DC and anywhere within 100 miles for 2 weeks, this crap would end as they froze to death in the name of Global Warming
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"Willkommen in meiner Welt!"
“Europe depends for nearly 30% of its oil and gas supplies on Russia, while German manufacturing is particularly dependent for energy on Russia after environmentalists forced Germany to dismantle all 17 of its nuclear power...”
Meanwhile, Europe has done next to nothing to bring in Israeli natural gas supplies. The Israeli Leviathon natural gas fields were certified in 2011, so Europe has had 10 years to tap into that supply.
Relating to the first paragraph of the article, yes our temp dropped from 63 to 13, exactly 50 degrees.
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