Biden's energy screw-up

 Washington Examiner:

Joe Biden claims to be all for “energy independence.” As families and businesses face some of the highest energy prices in over a decade, the president has embraced the phrase as a banner over his own policies.

It’s a catchphrase normally associated with those vehemently opposed to the president’s energy agenda. But when Biden uses the term, he means something far different than “drill, baby, drill.” He means, in fact, its opposite. And that’s why Biden’s version of “energy independence” is a mirage, and Americans will pay dearly while he chases it.

There is no question that America faces an energy crisis. From January 2021 to January 2022, crude oil prices increased 45%, blowing past records set in 2008. Gasoline and diesel prices are the highest on record since the Energy Information Administration started keeping track in 1993. Natural gas prices are up 46%. Average household electricity prices haven’t grown this fast since 2008. Even coal prices have ticked upward after years of policy-driven decline.

Simple economics would argue that the way out of high prices and high demand is increased supply and innovation. Yet Biden persistently has rejected policy reforms that would allow U.S. producers to do this and has instead resorted to alternatives that have puzzled Americans and allies alike. The president’s decision to try to negotiate oil imports from Venezuela rather than hold, as required by law, lease sales for energy development on federal lands and waters has many asking why such obvious solutions are being rejected.

The answer can be found in his March 8 statement announcing a nationwide ban on Russian energy imports:

This crisis is a stark reminder: to protect our economy over the long term, we need to become energy independent. … It should motivate us to accelerate the transition to clean energy. … And if we can — if we do what we can, it will mean that no one has to worry about the price at the gas pump in the future. … This is the goal we should be racing toward.

When Biden speaks of energy independence, he means forcing a rapid transition to renewable energy technologies and aggressively phasing out conventional fuels. He has hijacked the phrase to rebrand his extremist climate agenda as a blueprint. To this end, the administration’s regulatory onslaught to force long-term transformation in both energy production and consumer demand has neither paused nor slowed.

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Biden is a first-class climate kook who would destroy the US and its economy to push a climate change fraud.  The absurdity of buying oil from US enemies instead of US producers makes zero sense.  The enemy producers actually pollute the planet more than US producers.  It is an idiotic policy on its face.  It is another reason Joe Biden should be removed from office and why Americans should vote against Democrats.

We already know that the alternative energy Biden favors is unreliable and inefficient while costing more.  They also have their own pollution problems.