An intelligent U.S. president assessing the current energy situation would conclude that now might be a good time to loosen regulations on oil and gas drilling, rethink the Keystone XL Pipeline project and maybe open up drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. After all, the world has suddenly become a more dangerous place, and energy independence is essential to national security.
Nope.
With oil prices at record highs, and likely heading higher, the Biden administration refuses to put the brakes on its anti-fossil-fuels agenda. President Joe Biden and his minions have made it clear they’re not about to let a little old war in Ukraine get in the way of their green dreams.
Brian Deese is the director of the president’s National Economic Council. As he commented on the path to energy independence outside the White House on Tuesday afternoon, Deese’s words recalled the old slogan, “If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, then baffle them with mind-numbing, incomprehensible, hogwash.”
“The only viable path to energy independence for the American economy is to reduce the energy intensity of our economy overall. And ultimately to reduce it to zero and get ourselves to a position where we’re no longer reliant on fossil fuels,” he told Bloomberg.
“That’s a long-term project. But what we’re seeing today, and the geopolitics and the economic pain, should only reinforce our efforts to try to move there more quickly,” Deese said.
Deese was, of course, parroting a Democratic talking point that we’ve heard frequently in recent years.
Biden himself made that point during the presidential campaign and doubled down on it Tuesday during his announcement of the U.S. ban on Russian oil imports, saying our present situation “should motivate us to accelerate a transition to clean energy.”
Authored by Elizabeth Stauffer via Western Journal
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