While the Biden administration is busy shopping the oil market of terrorist-sponsoring states to make up for banned Russian oil imports, the rest of the country is looking at the oil in our own backyard and wondering why we’re not producing more domestically.
It’s a bald-faced lie put forth by the White House that Biden has done nothing to stand in the way of domestic energy production.
Canards like claiming that there are thousands of unused oil permits or leases do not provide context as to why those specific areas are unused, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki simply tosses it out there to the clapping seals to further misinform the public.
This specific claim about “9,000 oil leases” not being used to drill was already fact-checked and shot down:
The Biden administration also points to the 9,000 unused gas and oil leases as a major reason why the U.S. can’t increase energy production.
Members of the administration have been promoting the idea that companies are free to simply start using these leases if they’d like to. However, these statements can be misleading.
According to a Department of Interior report, the U.S. had more than 37,000 oil and gas leases just last year — so 9,000 is a small number comparatively — and just because an oil company has a lease doesn’t mean they can just start drilling.
Why lie to the American people? The breaking news here is that Joe Biden does not care about the working class or middle class. Period.
Biden touts his Scranton roots, then looks straight into the camera and lies about domestic oil production and lies about his role in slowing it down, cutting off the Keystone XL pipeline, and cutting off leases on federal lands the day he took office.
Instead, Biden is now working to buy oil from Iran, Saudi Arabia, or Venezuela, three of the evilest and most filthy regimes on the planet to deal with.
Polling out days ago shows that Biden and his green energy backers are severely out of step with the American people on this issue.
Yes, everyone agrees that the United States should not buy oil from Russia. What we disagree on is whether we should return to a state of energy independence as seen under former President Trump as polling finds over two-thirds of the country screaming to “drill here and drill now”:
The HarrisX poll asked voters, “In light of Russia’s attack on Ukraine and soaring gasoline prices, should the Biden administration ease its focus on climate change and allow more oil and natural gas exploration in the U.S. or not?”
Sixty-nine percent answered “yes” to the question while 31 percent said “no.” Even members of Biden’s party, the Democrats, answered “yes”more often than “no,” 53 percent to 47 percent. Only 14 percent of Republicans did not want more exploration while just 30 percent of independents said “no.”
That’s even 53% of Democrats saying that the Green New Deal is an economic catastrophe and that maybe we should focus on a safe, secure, and domestic supply of energy to help ease costs rather than worry about anything related to climate change.
It’s difficult to get 70% of the country to agree on anything, yet here’s the proof that Americans are more united in a belief that we should be producing energy at home to help ourselves and our allies avoid being dependent on bad actors like Russia.
The electric car market is taking care of itself thanks to brands like Tesla, and now a deluge of others, making cars people actually want to drive. The government can’t force or cajole people into buying something way outside their price range in the name of saving polar bears, only the free market can make that happen.
Speaking of Tesla, what does Elon Musk, the world’s foremost export and proponent of electric vehicles think about the current situation?
Hate to say it, but we need to increase oil & gas output immediately.
Extraordinary times demand extraordinary measures.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 5, 2022
It simply cannot be overstated how badly the American people are being treated by this administration which refuses to throw off the green lobby and let domestic energy production soar. They are so ingrained and indebted to lobbyist money on green energy deals that they cannot allow more domestic oil production or oil pipelines since that would validate Trump’s policies.
The ultimate irony, of denying Americans the right to use and drill our own oil to become energy independent, is that importing oil overseas from other countries is dirtier and creates a larger carbon footprint than simply drilling domestically or importing from Canada via pipeline.
This opening monologue from former Trump economic advisor Larry Kudlow on Tuesday sums up the situation precisely along with a good dose of fact-checking along the way:
Make no mistake, the middle class will pay for Biden’s failures yet again despite Biden’s claims that it’s Vladimir Putin causing the gas price hike.
Biden is in the minority, even among his own party, in thinking that it’s acceptable to buy oil from countries that hate us and chant “death to America,” but here we are.
Do not believe the lie that Putin is directly responsible for high gas prices. The cost of a gallon of gas has been climbing steadily since Biden took office and started gutting domestic oil production:
Biden shut down our production when he was installed and this gas price chart from @GasBuddy shows you the result of that. pic.twitter.com/kxn4xFuDHf
— Stephanie ?? (@StephHoover8) March 5, 2022
Voters will see through this smokescreen and punish Democrats in November. The wealthy political class in Washington won’t feel the pain of paying $5 a gallon for gas but millions of Americans will, and they already aren’t happy.
