There is no "rational" explanation for doing this.
Biden's Administration is filled with "activists"; not your generic Democrat. They are true believers that oil and gas are evil, that America is evil, that Americans are evil; so, they do everything they can to hurt us.
Look at the economy, look at our disasterous pull out from Afghanistan, look at what they have done to our election process.
Making everyone freeze all winter will make them happy. It won't affect them, they have connections.
There is always the adage that they have the real reason and the ‘stated reason’ - meaning the cover story as it were.
Seems like they aren’t even bothering with that.
They are screwing everyone over without even bothering to come up with a good story.