Biden's meandering energy message
GREAT MOMENTS IN CONSISTENT MESSAGING: Biden Boasts That Gas Cost ‘Over $5 When I Took Office’ – It Was Actually Only $2.39 a Gallon.
Flashbacks, before the midterms loomed large in what’s left of Joe’s brain:
● Biden seeks to make half of new U.S. auto fleet electric by 2030.
● Biden last year: “We will take, literally, millions of automobiles off the road — off the road, saving tens of millions of barrels of oil, dealing with cleaning up the air. This is not hyperbole; this is a fact.”
● Granholm: California’s New Gas Vehicle Sale Ban ‘Could Be’ a National Model. “Elex Michaelson [of Los Angeles’ Fox affiliate] asked [Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm], ‘California made national headlines by becoming the first state to say, by 2035, we’re not going to have any gas-powered vehicles that are new that are being sold. You can still drive your old ones, but you can’t sell new ones. Do you like this concept?’ Granholm responded, ‘Yeah, I do. I think California really is leaning in. And of course, the federal government has a goal of — the president has announced — by 2030 that half of the vehicles in the U.S., the new ones sold would be electric.’”
● Kinsley Gaffe: State Dept. official slammed for saying he prefers high gas prices.
● Buttigieg Whines About Americans Not Wanting Electric Cars.
And all of the games with gas prices:
More malarkey: “Let’s debunk some myths: My administration has not stopped or slowed U.S. oil production.”
Joe Biden, it’s time to meet Joe Biden!
● Biden’s plan to cancel Keystone pipeline signals a rocky start with Canada.
—The Washington Post, January 19th, 2021.
● Success: Biden Gets the High Gas Prices He Promised.
—The Pipeline, June 17th.
● Biden pulls 3 offshore oil lease sales, curbing new drilling this year.
—The Washington Post, May 12th.
● Biden administration won’t appeal judge’s ruling revoking Gulf of Mexico drilling leases.
—The Washington Post, February 28th.
Flashbacks: Why Aren’t Democrats Dancing for Joy About Sky-High Gas Prices?
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There is more.
Biden's incoherent energy messaging does have a theme. He wants to reduce the use of fossil fuels but tries to avoid the political consequences of his anti-energy policies. He wants to push Big Green until he reads the polling. That is when he starts draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve rather than drilling.
The bottom line is that the Democrats want the high prices but don't want the low poll numbers they produce.
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