Posted on 03/08/2022 2:34:42 PM PST by MarvinStinson
President Joe Biden adamantly condemned calls for loosening restrictions on domestic energy prices on Tuesday, arguing it would not help lower gas prices.
“Loosening environmental regulations or pulling back clean energy investment won’t — let me expand. Won’t. Will not lower energy prices for families,” he said during a speech at the White House announcing his decision to ban oil imports from Russia to punish Russian President Vladimir Putin for escalating his war in Ukraine.
Republicans excoriated the president’s efforts to restrict domestic oil production, as the average cost of gas reached record highs over the weekend.
The president argued for more electric cars and other policies promoted by the left’s Green New Deal as the solution.
U.S. President Joe Biden test drives an electric hummer at the General Motors Factory ZERO electric vehicle assembly plant in Detroit, Michigan on November 17, 2021. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty)
“But transforming our economy to run on electric vehicles powered by clean energy with tax credits to help American families winterize their homes and use less energy — that will,” he said. “That will help.”
Biden spoke of a global consensus together with key leaders in Europe on reducing their use of oil, and said he was working with them on “long term strategies” to do so.
“They have to wean themselves off of Russian oil. It’s just not tenable,” he said.
Biden shared his dream of a future where Americans did not have to worry about the price of gas, if they pursued his “green” energy future.
“If we do what we can, it will mean that no one will have to worry about price of gas pump in the future,” he said, complaining that “tyrants like Putin” were “weaponizing” their natural resources.
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Can you imagine the political ads we will see in coming years? they write them for us.
They’ve been calling for this for years. Environmentalists. Joe is paying off his base.
Dementia patients don’t like anything contradicting the narrative they have built in their head.
I’ve seen it firsthand.
A dementia-ridden Idiot along with his Leftist idiotic handlers are going to do what they always do, continue with the spewage of idiocy.
He is SO stupid and wicked. Winning combo
Keep that thought Joe until 2024 and the American people will decide your sorry fate
Not enough EVs out there for everyone to get one and don’t you think it would drive the price of EVs SKY HIGH like Oil , LOL
Electic power magically produced.
Average people can’t afford electric vehicles and they know it. It’s all part of the globalist plan to get everyone on public transit. Everyone but them.
Wind and Solar ae NOT going to save the world.
Frankly I would be fine with Nuke power...surely we have learned things over the years...and about making it safer.
But no....the stupid people think electricity comes from wind and solar.
Idiots all!
Biden the Moron is surrounded by MORONS
So more oil production will not affect prices...got it. This must be one of the famous democrat “you’re too stupid to understand so shut up” statements.
The only way this fktard and all his lemmings do not go down in flames is if this country has indeed come to be completely controlled by a tyrannical form of gov’t and all elections from 2020 on are fraudulent. I fear that a call to arms is not far off.
Using December 2019 (picked as last real month of pre-scandemic economy) as a baseline to February 2020 (don’t have my next electric bill yet), my cost of incremental electricity is up 28% and it is just getting started. Gasoline is up 36% and it is just getting started also.
I have no use of battery powered cars. If they work for someone else, great, they don’t work for me. For me, I can’t identify as cost advantage for battery powered cars, they are an added cost compared to gasoline.
Nice collection of graphics, directly to the point!
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