The Biden administration wants it both ways: The U.S. is pumping more oil than ever, it says, and greedy old oil companies could pump more but they won’t.
So you can’t blame us for high energy costs, President Joe Biden and his team say.
Except in their efforts to talk out of both sides of their mouth, they can’t even get their propaganda right.
And who was president at that time? Exactly — Donald J. Trump, who made it a concerted goal to achieve energy independence. Which he did in a very short time.
Biden, of course, barely had pictures of his family set up on his desk in the Oval Office when he more than symbolically declared war on fossil fuels by canceling the Keystone XL Pipeline (putting perhaps 11,000 people out of work at the same time) and issuing an executive order that halted new oil and gas leases on public lands.
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Yet Biden says it’s not his fault gas pumps have become one-armed robbers worse than slot machines.
“It’s simply not true that my administration or policies are holding back domestic energy production,” Biden said Tuesday. “That’s simply not true.”
Not true? The oil industry has a different view.
Federal agencies under Biden “have introduced significant uncertainty that will negatively impact American energy investments,” Mike Sommers, president and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute, wrote to Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm on Feb. 28.