Low energy Biden

 Real Clear Energy:

Interruptions at State of the Union addresses are a tale as old as time. They are even used as a measure of the speech’s overall success. This year, President Joe Biden introduced a new measure: laughter. Not the gentle ribbing at a good-natured quip or political joke, but the belly laugh of half the chamber laughing at – not with – the President.

The GOP laughed at Biden when he said “we’re going to need oil for at least 10 more years,” and for good reason.

For starters, we need oil for the foreseeable future. One of the great lies the environmental left peddles to the American people is that we can get rid of fossil fuels if we “go green.” Last fall, Biden declared he is closing coal plants “all across America” and replacing them with wind and solar farms. The statement belies industry ignorance. Solar panels are made with coal. Just not in America, however. In China.

We often marvel that China is building a coal plant a week to support their electric grid. Coal works. It doesn’t freeze in the cold like wind farms. It doesn’t shut off like solar farms when this phenomenon called “sunset” happens. Coal works all the time. It makes reliable, cheap energy, and also forges the quartz used to make solar panels. We cannot make steel without coal. Or cement. Biden, who regularly praises the $1 trillion infrastructure bill, should understand that every road and bridge he drones needs a lot of coal.

As for oil, yes, about half of each barrel of oil is used for transportation fuel that Biden thinks we will replace with electric vehicles. The other half makes things like plastic and rubber and laundry detergent and pharmaceuticals and Velcro and cosmetics and clothing. If your love of animals has you buying faux-suede or “pleather” alternatives, you are buying oil. Quite literally millions of consumer goods come from oil, products that make our life healthy, hygienic, and convenient, and Biden thinks it will all be replaced, or eliminated, in 10 years.

Good luck with that.

Another reason Republicans were right to laugh at Biden’s ridiculous comment is his commentary on his energy policy. If you do believe we need oil for a decade, then it should be American oil. It raises the question why the Biden Administration is determined to increase oil production in Venezuela or take trips to Saudi Arabia to beg the man he denounced as a “pariah.” Ditto with Iran.
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Biden's energy policies have made no sense.  He apparently thinks we should be importing the energy we need rather than exploiting domestic energy production.  He has never explained why he thinks that, but it is clearly his policy.  The Trump policy made much more sense and cost American consumers and industry less which made for a stronger economy That was less dependent on imports and shipping of oil.  It is also clear that we will be needing oil and gas for the foreseeable future.  Wind and solar energy are at best supplemental and they are too intermittent to be the sole source of energy.