Biden hurts America with his war on domestic energy production

 Washington Examiner:

President Joe Biden continues his fight against domestic fossil fuel production while bolstering foreign energy efforts that will harm the environment far more than American activity does.

Worse, now he is doing so in ways that may prove illegal, and that could leave taxpayers on the hook for tens or hundreds of billions of dollars. His actions are clearly harmful to United States's interests.

On June 1, Biden’s Interior Department said it is suspending all oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, despite a 2017 law directing the federal government to open the territory to drilling. The putative reason for suspending the property rights of the leaseholders, who paid the U.S. government good money for the drilling rights, is to conduct additional environmental and legal/anti-trust reviews. The excuse is nonsense: U.S. law directs the government to allow the drilling, and the environmental regulations governing it are already stringent.

The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that ANWR contains 10.4 billion barrels of crude oil. This oil can provide energy for Alaskans and all the Western states, keeping prices low and avoiding shortages. Oil can keep the Trans-Alaska Pipeline operational, which now runs at 75% less than peak production, resulting in slower delivery times and a worse quality of oil due to chemical processes caused by low flow in freezing weather.

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The man is a clear and present danger to the US and its energy development.  He apparently believes in the fantasy of alternative energy and that US energy workers can compete with Chicom slave labor in producing solar panels.