Biden's fossil fuel debacle

 Marc Thiessen:

Approaching his 500th day in office this week, Joe Biden is the least popular U.S. president at this point in his first term in the modern polling era. His approval rating might drop even further now that Americans are home from their Memorial Day weekend travels. According to AAA, this was one of the most expensive Memorial Day travel periods on record, with gas prices hitting $4.62 — the highest average price at the pump ever recorded.Sign up for a weekly roundup of thought-provoking ideas and debates

But as Americans were struggling to put gas in the tank, President Biden appeared to praise high gas prices as a necessary part of our historic shift away from fossil fuels. “Here’s the situation,” Biden said at a Tokyo news conference on May 23, “when it comes to the gas prices, we’re going through an incredible transition that is taking place that, God willing, when it’s over, we’ll be stronger and the world will be stronger and less reliant on fossil fuels.”

An “incredible transition?” For Americans barely making ends meet, the only thing incredible about gas prices is how high they are.

But this was not just another Biden gaffe; it is administration policy. Testifying before Congress on May 19, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland repeatedly refused to say that gas prices are too high. Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) asked her point blank: “Do you believe that gas prices are too high?” The obvious answer was: “Yes, senator, of course they are.” But instead, Haaland hemmed and hawed. When Barrasso asked again, “It sounds [like] you’re unwilling to say that gas prices are too high,” she still refused to say they were. The message was unmistakable.

If the Biden administration cared about high gas prices, they would be doing everything in their power to increase domestic production. After a federal judge invalidated an offshore oil and gas lease sale in January, the administration chose not to appeal and has since canceled three transactions in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Alaska — taking millions of acres off the auction block. The Post called the move “a victory for climate activists intent on curbing U.S. fossil fuel leasing,” which “effectively ends the possibility of the federal government holding a lease sale in coastal waters this year.” Worse, the administration is about to let the nationwide offshore drilling program expire next month without a new plan in place.
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This is one of the main reasons why Biden is polling in the 30s and deserves to lose as well as the Democrats who support this policy.  I recommend that Americans vote against every Democrat on the ballot and replace them with someone who wants to produce American energy.  The Biden energy policies have enriched Putin and paid for his war in Ukraine, which is also costing the US billions. 

If you are going to have a policy of transitioning to a different energy source, you have to have one that is already available and reasonably priced.  Biden has utterly failed in that regard.  All he is doing is inflicting financial pain on American energy consumers.