Biden administration accused of lying about LNG

 PJ Media:

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The Daily Caller News Foundation reports that the Biden administration "deliberately buried a final draft version of a study that would have undermined its January 2024 decision to pause approvals for liquefied natural gas." 

Moreover, according to sources at the Department of Energy, "The Biden DOE finalized a draft of the study in 2023 and subsequently buried it because the initial version’s findings would have contradicted the administration’s rationale for the LNG freeze." 

The Biden DOE had essentially completed the final draft version of the LNG impacts study by the end of September 2023, and that version was ready to be presented to top Biden officials shortly thereafter, Trump DOE sources told the DCNF. That particular iteration of the study, DOE sources told the DCNF, found that increasing U.S. LNG exports would actually bring about a reduction in global emissions relative to other scenarios. [Emphasis added]

The September 2023 version of the study "was never released publicly," and the Biden DOE "appears to have deleted numerous pages that appeared in the September 2023 draft version from what became the final version of the report released to the public at the end of 2024," the sources told DCNF. 

The deception gets even worse when you consider that then-President Joe Biden may not have even known what he was signing at the time. My colleague Matt Margolis wrote in January about House Speaker Mike Johnson's recollection of a meeting he had with Biden to discuss LNG. 

According to Johnson, in Jan. 2024, he met with Biden in the Oval Office to discuss national security, but Johnson was specifically eager to address a recent executive order that had halted liquefied natural gas exports to Europe. This decision, which has far-reaching implications for both national security and economic interests, is particularly critical given Europe’s dependence on LNG, especially in the context of the ongoing Russian conflict. However, when Johnson raised the issue, Biden insisted he had not signed any such order.

The speaker recalled, “I said, Mr. President, why did you pause LNG exports to Europe? You understand you’re fueling Vladimir Putin’s war machine because they’ve got to get their gas from him.” 

“I didn’t do that,” Biden insisted.

But, in fact, the executive order had been signed just weeks earlier.

Moreover, as we recently learned, Biden was relying heavily on the autopen during that time period. Someone was signing orders left and right, but it may not have been the president. 

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LNG is a relatively clean source of energy compared to coal which the US burns a lot of.   At this point we do not know who was actually making these decisions in the Biden administration.  It probably was not Joe Biden, or if it was he does not recall making the decision.  Biden's dementia could be the reason for his lack of memory.  But you should not have to be an energy expert to know that LNG produces less pollution than some other forms of energy.

See also:

Biden Admin Hid Inconvenient Natural Gas Study in Favor of Climate Change Agenda

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