Posted on 03/02/2022 10:47:06 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — As Russian troops move deeper into Ukraine, President Joe Biden is taking steps to rein in rising energy costs even if those moves run counter to his agenda for addressing climate change.
The focus on high gas prices and increased oil flow is a far cry from Biden’s pledge to wean Americans off oil and other fossil fuels and cut planet-warming emissions in half by 2030.
Still, it reflects political realities.
Biden’s hourlong speech Tuesday night touched only lightly on climate and he offered no new policy initiatives to address global warming.
Republicans, seizing the political advantage, clamored for Biden to immediately reverse policies that they said have slowed U.S. energy production — including cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada and a moratorium on new oil and gas leases on public lands and waters.
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In response to the Russian/Ukraine crisis, Biden announces crippling sanctions... on the United States.
The milk-fed veal in the Democratic Party are shocked that mere events have cracked their delicate policy eggs.
Then Putin did us a favor.
Who the hell are they kidding?!? He was hiding in a basement in Delaware at least until they set up the broken animatronic doll for the horror of the SOTU speech last night.
Ass Press at it again. This time it’s an attempt to spin the blatant futility of Biden’s domestic policies as a consequence of outside forces not under his control, and the Republicans as villains for pointing out the obvious.
100% agree.
They should have tested him for drugs like they do with race horses! He was propped up by something!
“He was propped up by something!”
Yeh, it was called Pelosi. She, dressed in 1920 couch material, clapping like a trained seal and with her dentures slipping out, added to the Freudian surrealism of the rapidly collapsing deep state.
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