More than a year before the 2020 presidential election, then-candidate Joe Biden made an unequivocal promise.
At a campaign event on Sept. 6, 2019, Biden approached a woman who had questioned him and grabbed her hand.
“I want you to look in my eyes,” Biden said. “I guarantee you, I guarantee you, we’re going to end fossil fuel, and I am not going to cooperate with them.
This event should have been disturbing not only because of Biden’s propensity to get a bit too close to unsuspecting women, but also because of what he said. A president promising to “end fossil fuel” presented a serious threat to the country.
Many people assumed Biden was all bark and no bite when it came to punishing oil and gas companies. To be fair, he has broken plenty of promises during his career, and he had to know what kind of backlash he would receive when gas prices skyrocketed as a result of his own actions.
Sadly, Biden has dedicated the first year-plus of his presidency to keeping this promise, and now, he is trying to blame someone else for the consequences.
The Republican Study Committee (RSC) analyzed every action Biden took against energy in the first 15 months of his presidency, and they compared them with the average price per gallon of gas during the same week. The results showed just how detrimental Biden’s presidency has been to everyday Americans.
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When Biden took office on Jan. 20, 2021, gas was averaging $2.38 per gallon, the committee found. On that day, Biden issued a Climate Change Executive Order “requiring agencies to review and revoke Trump’s pro-American energy rules and actions throughout the executive branch.”
Biden also revoked the Keystone XL Pipeline, issued a moratorium on oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and revoked Trump-era policies that had decreased regulations on federal land.
During the next couple weeks, Biden took many more actions against oil and gas production in the U.S. They included calling on federal agencies to achieve “carbon neutrality” by 2025 and issuing a moratorium on new oil and gas leases on public lands, among other things.
Just over a month into Biden’s presidency during the week of Feb. 22, 2021, gas prices had risen 25 cents to $2.63 per gallon. But Biden wasn’t done yet.