Biden panders to the climate kooks

 Wall Street Journal:

Biden Toys With an LNG Export Permitting Ban

How to hurt allies and the U.S. economy to please the climate-change lobby. 

Energy prices have retreated since Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, but America’s enemies haven’t. So it’s hard to believe the Biden Administration is considering an election-year gift to Russia and Iran: An embargo on permitting new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects.

Our sources say Biden adviser John Podesta is pushing the idea in the White House as a sop to the climate lobby, which is still furious over the Administration’s approval of ConocoPhillips ’ Willow oil project in Alaska. “We can help Gulf Coast residents stop the onslaught of LNG export terminals,” chief climate lobbyist Bill McKibben tweeted last week.
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I do not find it hard to believe because the Biden administration has been pandering to the climate kooks ever since it took office and started by restricting drilling and reversing the Trump policies.  The price of gas at the pump went up immediately and then he started emptying the petroleum reserve rather than going back to the more sane Trump policies.

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