Oil & Gas association rebuts Biden's energy BS

 Brandon Morse:

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The associations point out Biden’s hostility toward their companies and associations going back to 2019 when he campaigned on their companies being no longer welcomed in America by his administration and kept that promise with the cancelation of the Keystone XL pipeline on day one and an executive order enacting a moratorium on new leasing on public lands and waters.

They spelled it out for Biden and any readers:

There should be no confusion: since the time you first began campaigning for, and since becoming, President, you have expressed deep hostility toward the oil and natural gas business – and by extension, the thousands of very hard-working men and women – union and non – in very good paying jobs, who bring energy to the nation.

Given all we have described above, combined with the repeated distortions and half-truths that have been expressed by White House officials, we believe it’s important to set the record straight and provide a bit of context on statements that have been made regarding energy production on federal lands and elsewhere.

To make sure he and any readers also get the confusion surrounding Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s statement about oil and gas companies not using the leases, the associations point out that there are multiple factors still holding them back from drilling and producing.

For instance, leases are going unutilized due to multiple factors including litigation by environmental groups, governmental red tape, and lack of sufficient oil and gas to begin drilling. They also cite that there are currently 4,621 permits awaiting approval by the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management that Biden’s administration could approve now, but haven’t.

“So, yes Mr. President, your administration is “holding the industry back” in direct contradiction to your statements last week when you said your administration was not,” reads the letter.

Just to put the icing on the cake, it also lists the ways Biden’s government is holding up drilling and production by working with environmental activists to grief producers, laws that stop companies with active leases from drilling, and trouble gathering the necessary capital to drill on land, especially for smaller companies that are spending too much just trying to cut through the red tape.

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Biden is making bad-faith arguments because the polling has turned against his anti-energy policies.  He deliberately drove up the price of oil and gas by limiting the supply but cutting off certain government-controlled sites, but apparently not New Mexico, where the Secretary of Energy is from.  He has actively tried to get the finance community not to lend money to energy developers.  At the same time, he has gone hat in hand to enemies of the US to try to get them to increase production.  Imported oil is certainly not cleaner than domestic oil.  The only reason to do what he is doing is to deliberately hurt domestic production.