Biden administration stuck on stupid in dealing with climate and inflation

 Red States:

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said it in a nutshell, “Joe Biden becoming president is the best thing to happen to Vladimir Putin.” He helped Russia get their Nord Stream 2 pipeline completed and he cut our energy production ability into the bargain, two things that Russia couldn’t want more. Meanwhile, our buying of Russian oil increased under Joe Biden, with us still reportedly buying 595,000 barrels a day, even now, after they’ve invaded.

So what did the administration say in response to this? Are they planning to do anything to change that? Nope.

As we reported before, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki indicated they weren’t planning on making any changes to increase American production and she reiterated that over the past couple of days on ABC “This Week” on Sunday and then on Fox. She just says that we should reduce our need for oil.

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Now, you wouldn’t want sanctions to affect Americans more than Russians, but she’s not saying they’re going to make any effort at all to move away from Russian oil and produce more of our own. That’s madness, especially given the stark reality of what that oil dependence can lead to.

But now, while the White House is still refusing delivery on reality and is going to try to spin some kind of tale to the American public tonight about how wonderful everything is, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) — the sane Democrat — isn’t buying it. Manchin is calling for Biden to ban all Russian crude oil imports.

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“It makes no sense at all for the United States to be buying millions of barrels of Russian oil and other petroleum products while Russia attacks the free and sovereign nation of Ukraine,” the West Virginia senator tweeted on Tuesday. [….]

Russia provided more oil to the U.S. than any other country except Canada last year, U.S. Energy Information Administration data showed. In total, the U.S. imported nearly 3 billion barrels of oil, or roughly 670,000 barrels per day, from Russia in 2021.

Manchin, who chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee said that this dependence posed a national security threat and he called for increasing domestic production.

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Biden's policy leads to more inflation and harms US national security and does zero to improve the climate.  If anything, burning US oil instead of Russian oil is less polluting because of US extraction methods.  Even if that were not the case, it would be a wash as far as the climate is concerned.  Biden is driving up the price in hopes that people will go to garbage alternatives like wind and solar.  It is clearly not happening.

What is happening is that Biden is financing Russian aggression by driving up the price for Russian oil and keeping US oil in the ground.  His energy policies are idiotic and conterproductive.

See, also:

Manchin Calls On Biden to Ramp Up Domestic Production, Cut Ties With Russian Oil 

The US is currently buying around 500,000 barrels of Russian oil per day.

There is at least on sane Democrat.