Canada provides more evidence of Biden's idiotic energy policies

 Chris Queen:

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The administration knows exactly what it’s doing. The White House has acquiesced to the environmental lobby, and the end game is a push for “green energy” that’s both infeasible and expensive, at least right now. But that hasn’t stopped the drive to punish Americans who haven’t followed the administration’s flippant advice to buy an expensive electric vehicle.

In the meantime, until all you rubes go electric, the administration is looking to nations that are hostile to American values like Venezuela and Iran. If we must import our oil, why not get it from North America? I’ve written before about one Canadian official who has invited the U.S. to buy oil from our friendly northern neighbors, and this week the premier of one Canadian province (like the governor of a state) spoke to a U.S. Senate committee to make the same offer.
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And Kenney didn’t just make the case for oil imports from Canada; he also slammed the Biden administration’s energy policies when he spoke to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on Monday.

“I am proud to say that Alberta is home to the world’s third-largest proven and probable oil reserves, about 180 billion barrels; and one of the world’s largest reserves of natural gas,” Kenney boasted to senators about what his province can offer. “The Province of Alberta owns those resources, and has the exclusive constitutional power to regulate their production.”

“After the United States has spent hundreds of billions of dollars securing Persian Gulf energy over the last fifty years, it turns out that the solution to the challenge of energy security is your closest friend and ally!” he added.

Kenney reminded senators of the painful reality that the invasion of Ukraine has brought to mind: that dictators in charge of vast stores of energy are dangerous for everyone. Then he turned his sights on the White House.

That’s why we were so taken aback when President Biden vetoed the Keystone XL Pipeline.

It would have safely delivered 830,000 barrels a day of responsibly produced Canadian energy to the United States, more than displacing the 670,000 barrels a day that you bought from Putin’s Russia last year.

We were also perplexed when the Administration’s response to sky high gas prices was to plead with OPEC to produce and sell more oil, while working to lift sanctions on Iranian and Venezuelan exports.

White House officials have reportedly discussed a Presidential visit to Saudi Arabia to press for more production of their oil, and exports to the US.

Senators, Calgary is a lot closer to Washington than Riyadh.

And you don’t need the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet to patrol the Great Lakes.

To quote former Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer, “we don’t have to send the National Guard into Alberta.”

It was a brutal takedown of the ridiculous Biden administration policy of looking for oil from nations that should be our enemies. Kenney then went on to describe how Alberta is drilling for and transporting oil in the most environmentally-friendly way possible.
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Biden's energy policies are inexplicable.  He acts as if he thinks getting production from hostile states and paying for it somehow punishes them instead of us.  By reducing the production of US and Canadian oil Biden drove up the price of crude enriching Putin and making his invasion of Ukraine possible.  What he should have been doing was encouraging more US and Canadian production and persuading the Europeans to use North American oil rather than oil from a brutal dictator. 

Biden's energy policies have cost the US billions and led to the killings of thousands by Russia while enriching the killers.  It would be hard to think of a more idiotic and counterproductive energy policy.