Biden's embarrassing energy policy

 Fox News:

Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., was among those who blasted President Biden for the dependent state of U.S. energy Tuesday, which she said has been exposed during the escalating Russia-Ukraine crisis.

"Last year was a record in the amount of Russian energy that was imported into the United States – that was under Joe Biden’s watch," Stefanik told Fox News Digital.

Reports show that the U.S. is buying 650,000 barrels a day from Russia, a major concern after President Vladimir Putin's deadly invasion of Ukraine, where hundreds of civilians have been killed after six days of violence. Now, the White House faces bipartisan calls for an increase in domestic energy production.

"What's happening in the Ukraine has really highlighted how influential Russian oil and gas is to global markets, and a lot of the volatility we're seeing is coming from that," Daniel Turner, Founder & Executive Director of Power The Future, told Fox News Digital.
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Both Stefanik and Turner argued that a resumption of the Keystone XL pipeline would help get America back on track, as the pipeline was expected to bring over 800,000 barrels of oil to market per day. President Biden halted construction of the project last year.

"Keystone is emblematic of just the punishment this administration has doled out to the energy industry at large," Turner said.

"This example of how this administration has punished the fossil fuel industry, punished the infrastructure, and it has also then scared off a lot of investment … This government is making it impossible to bring things to fruition," he continued.

Psaki told Fox News on Tuesday that the White House had no plans to pursue the pipeline because it would "take years" to have an impact. Stefanik and Turner challenged that notion.

"No, that's a terrible excuse," Turner said, saying that the pipeline "was almost finished" before it got nixed.

"It shows a real ignorance of the energy industry, but it also is kind of an alarming comment coming from an administration that emphasizes infrastructure projects," Turner added. "If Jen Psaki could show me one [infrastructure] project that is going to be online overnight, I'd be curious."

Turner noted that most of the infrastructure projects included in the president's Build Back Better bill could take months and even years.
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Neither Biden nor Psaki's excuses for his energy policy make any sense.  Their real objective is to punish Americans until they accept crappy Big Green alternatives.  Their energy policy is idiotic on its face.  US oil and gas is actually cleaner than that from Russia, yet that is where they are buying energy instead of from US producers.  Even if it were the same as US energy it is strategic nonsense to buy from Russia and fund Putin's war against Ukraine.  By reducing US production they have driven up the price of oil and given Putin a windfall that he is using to attack Ukraine.  Driving up the price of energy has also contributed to inflation.  It cost more just to get goods to market.

See, also:

Scalise: Biden Doesn’t Support the Ukrainians, ‘He’s Handed Putin the Checkbook’ on Energy

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