Posted on 04/20/2022 12:31:52 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
President Biden entered office triumphantly rejoining the Paris climate accord. He created powerful new climate positions, including one for former secretary of state John F. Kerry. He reversed Trump-era policies, revoking a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. And he declared the threat of climate change the “number one issue facing humanity.”
But over the past few weeks, he has authorized a historically large release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, resumed selling leases to drill on federal land and announced he is waiving an environmental restriction to allow summer sales of ethanol-based gasoline — all moves that are anathema to climate activists.
Some advocates are increasingly frustrated over the discordant approach, arguing that Biden is sacrificing some of his long-term goal of combating climate change — and a presidential legacy of helping steer the nation away from fossil fuels — in exchange for the short-term aim of lowering prices at the pump.
Beyond that, some contend the moves will barely affect gas prices.
But this year’s abruptly rising gas prices posed a political risk to the president and vulnerable Democrats, prompting the administration to shift to a more nuanced message that calls for an immediate increase in fossil fuel production coupled with long-term investments in cleaner energy sources.
Acknowledging the political peril, climate advocates mostly refrained from criticizing Biden’s decision.
Biden declared in no uncertain terms during the campaign that he was committed to halting the leasing of new federal land.
“No more drilling on federal lands, period. Period, period, period,” he said during a February 2020 campaign event in New Hampshire.
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He never increased drilling, he closed more Federal land.
Climate conspiracy theorists strike again.
“But over the past few weeks, he has authorized a historically large release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve”, which he’s sending to Europe.
“and a presidential legacy of helping steer the nation away from fossil fuels” by forcing the delay of current orders and the halt of all future orders of grain and fertilizer by railroads, driving grain-made food and starving animals to increase all food prices by 4-5X.
FWIW: fertilizer cannot be economically shipped by truck, even if there were no shortages of truck drivers. Rail is the only way to ship mass quantities of what is essentially rock economically.
“immediate increase in fossil fuel production coupled with long-term investments in cleaner energy sources.” But pricing those leases with significant new and additional costs and environmental restrictions, while not approving any pipelines to move the stuff off the drill site.
It’s OK - they’re shipping our strategic reserve oil to Europe, so we won’t have pollution here.
Its all empty words. We still are not getting any drilling permits out of the Bureau of Land Management approvals. Just. Does. Not. Happen.
No permit, no well drilling.
If you were an oil company would you try to drill here or another country like Russia or Brazil?
...all moves that are anathema to climate activists
And all totally useless for improving fuel supply. Absolutely F#%KING USELESS and won't reduce prices a penny.
Anything "anathema to climate activists" is GOOD for America. How did the minuscule number of "climate activists" ever get any political power?
It is not at all necessary to ever actually DO anything, as long as a lot of motions that LOOK like something is being done or is in the works are widely publicized to the voters. That is “getting the message out”. Regardless of whatever promises are made, they shall be immediately rescinded when the election is concluded and the legislative representation is properly “adjusted”.
When you're flying by the seat of your pants, and you have NO REAL PLAN, other than crashing the economy, then this kind of $HIT HAPPENS often.
Yeah, “urgent” moves that don’t solve a thing.
Well...while SloJo Biden and his puppet masters continue to attack and destroy USA energy production, the rest of the world knows that the next Ice Age will eventually return, and they are using coal.
Green New Deal?
Just look at this information on coal-burning electric power production plants:
The EU has 468 - building 27 more... Total 495
Turkey has 56 - building 93 more... Total 149
South Africa has 79 - building 24 more... Total 103
India has 589 - building 446 more... Total 1035
Philippines has 19 - building 60 more... Total 79
South Korea has 58 - building 26 more... Total 84
Japan has 90 - building 45 more... Total 135
Saved the BEST for last:
China has 2,363 - building 1,171 more... Total = 3,534
Furthermore, France gets 70% of its energy from 56 nuclear power plants, and is planning to build many more. The western world knows how to build and use nuclear safely.
In the end, the leftist creepozoids do not want anyone to have inexpensive power, for that leads to more freedom. We have only drilled a few miles into the Earth. We keep finding more and more oil, gas, and coal. There are oceans of hydrocarbons on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Whether out in the cosmos, or here on Earth, these are not all fossil fuels.
As Trump demonstrated, let the USA energy industry seek out the resources, we will have inexpensive energy at home, and export energy to the world.
Well, I do work for the oil industry, and have worked all over the world. The way things are in the USA, the political risk is simply too high to work outside of private lands. So, most of TX, OK, LA, part of NM, maybe ok, on privately owned lands, but that is all. No Alaska, no offshore.
I really like the undeveloped potential of Egypt and of Colombia. They both have a lot of future potential in onshore projects.
Russia - it is impossible to make money there, even if they let you in and you produce a lot of oil. Brazil - the terms are mighty tough there, not much onshore potential, offshore frightfully expensive. Argentina maybe still has some possibilities.
Republicans don’t fight hard enough and they didn’t fight hard enough a generation ago when leftism was attacking everything from education to civil rights
Pick a Bush, any Bush.
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