Posted on 02/27/2022 10:13:15 AM PST by george76
The White House moved last weekend to freeze, indefinitely, new federal oil and gas drilling. Why? Because a judge ruled the $51-per-ton figure it was using to calculate the “social impact of carbon” from fossil fuels “artificially” boosted cost estimates for new drilling.
Instead of following the judge’s ruling and lowering its estimate, the resident simply turned everything off at the tap.
It couldn’t have come at a worse moment. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is threatening to impact global energy supplies — and prices.
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Yet turning off the federal oil spigot will do just the opposite, putting America at the mercy of other nations.
In 2020, for the first time in decades, the US became energy independent, producing more oil than we consumed. Our economy was far less affected by oil- and gas-price surges.
We were also more secure. We didn’t have to get involved with despotic regimes and Mideast unrest. We didn’t have to beg autocrat-infested organizations like OPEC for help with supply problems.
Energy independence made us richer and safer. Yet Biden has ended that.
He’s waged a War on Energy since his first day in office. He scrapped the Keystone XL pipeline, created uncertainty for fossil-fuel companies
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The climate alarmists driving Dem policy here don’t care about the hardships all this will impose on ordinary Americans. Or about national security. Yet Biden is pandering to them all the same, making the nation poorer and less safe.
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I believe that Biden is being BLACKMAILED by both Putin and China.
And helps fund Putin.
Actually, I think he is just ON SALARY.
Democrats never do anything just ban and stop people from doing things
I detest this man.
Every day, my disgust with him grows.
“And helps fund Putin.”
When oil prices go up, Putin invades.
Crimea, Georgia, Ukraine
Drill Baby Drill!
ROFL! He was bought off by both.
The Left is the handmaiden to America’s enemies. Poorer and less safe are features, not bugs. If Biden were to take the actions a patriot would take: approve all pipelines, federal land leases, cancel expensive and failed Green initiatives...the Left would be outraged. That would be the opposite of “getting out the vote.” When it comes down to it, Leftist politicians feel it’s better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven.
President Retard wants us to finance the Russians and build solar panels 🤪
He’s being controlled by Russia and China.🙄
“social impact of carbon”
Oh do shove it!
The headline is all you need, I like that.
Closing down any channels to be energy independent. Biden buying Russian oil while claiming to be in opposition of the war against Ukraine, so hypocritical and pretentious. His sanctions are slow and useless. Just virtue signaling from the left if you ask me.
You believe right, and then some.
Biden administration is still fighting tooth and nail to freeze new oil and gas drilling leases – even after a court ruled against the administration for using a metric to estimate “social cost of carbon” to justify their ..
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4041280/posts
Just as likely is that the folks who put Biden in office are the ones who provided Putin and China with the evidence they use. For globalists, the politics of the matter are at a lower level.
Using extortion to impose a carbon tax
Every action Biden has taken makes us poorer and lass safe. And less free.
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