Biden’s energy transition flops like a fish on dry land
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
Watching Biden’s “energy transition” plan flop around like a fish on dry land, is unsettling.
Remember Biden’s pre-election promises of no new drilling for oil?
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“During his campaign for president in 2020, Biden said, if elected, there would be “no more drilling” for oil, “period, ends.”
He also stressed that government policy should be “taking millions of automobiles off the road.”
During the Democratic presidential primary debate on March 15, CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Biden what he would do to combat climate change.
● Biden said, “Number one, no more subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, no more drilling on federal lands, no more drilling, including offshore, no ability for the oil industry to continue to drill. Period, ends.”
In a back-and-forth with Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), a self-described socialist, Biden said,
● “My plan takes on the fossil fuel industry and it unites the world.”
In reference to Sanders’ desire to end all fracking in the U.S., Biden agreed, saying, “no more, no new fracking.” …
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Meanwhile, the current scenario:
“Gas prices have soared to unprecedented levels, with the national average sitting above $5 per gallon. This after the Biden administration has been shutting down US pipelines, and trying to shift the economy away from fossil fuels and onto renewable energies.
To help bring costs down, the Biden administration has called on US oil producers to ramp up drilling, but experts warn they can’t simply flip a switch and return to pre-pandemic levels. …”