As Energy Crisis Looms, Biden Crows ‘There Is No More Drilling!’

On Sunday, Biden appeared in Yonkers, a suburb of New York City, to campaign alongside embattled Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul. At the end of his prepared remarks (at the 34:45 mark), Biden’s attention was drawn to an audience member who said something about drilling for oil.

“No more drilling,” Biden assured the speaker, waving his hand definitively. When she seemed unconvinced, Biden shouted angrily, “There is no more drilling.” He assured her that “I haven’t, uh, formed any new, new drilling.”

Unconvinced, the audience member can be heard protesting, “…five more years of offshore drilling! Not in the Atlantic or the Pacific, but in the Antarctic and off the Gulf of Mexico.”

“That was before I was president,” asserts Biden. “We’re trying to work on that, get that done.”

Get that done? Good God, get what done? Ending the paltry bit of oil drilling Americans are still allowed to perform for our own resources? Is he insane?

 

Over on his Substack, author Michael Shellenberger reproduces a chart of federal land leased to gas and oil producers at this point in each president’s first 19 months. The Biden Collective’s performance is simply terrifying:

This insanity comes on top of Biden’s promise at a Friday rally in California to shut down all of America’s coal-fired power plants: