Does Joe Biden think the American people are stupid?
When he said: “It’s simply not true that my administration or policies are holding back domestic energy production,” he’s not telling the truth. For one, his anti-U.S. energy policies cost the average American family $1,000 BEFORE Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
In addition, Biden has spent YEARS saying he will “eliminate” oil, and that’s exactly what he set out to do when he entered office. We have the receipts:
- Biden, July 2019: “We would work [fossil fuels] out. We would make sure it's eliminated."
- Biden, September 2019: “I guarantee you we’re going to end fossil fuel.”
- Biden, September 2019: “I’ve argued against any more oil drilling or gas drilling on federal lands...we should, in fact, be looking at what exists now…I would not allow any more."
- Biden, February 2020: “a transition [from fossil fuels]…it’s going to have to happen.”
- Biden, October 2020: “I would transition from the oil industry, yes.”
- Biden, March 2020: “No more subsidies for 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.”
- Biden, January 2021 while announcing new efforts to limit oil and gas production: “Climate change will be at the center of our national security and foreign policy.”
- Biden, March 9, 2022: “We are moving in the direction that we don’t need” fossil fuels to drive a car.
And it wasn’t just Joe Biden promising to eliminate fossil fuels and restrict drilling, it was his whole administration:
- Kamala Harris, September 2019: “There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking.”
- Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, February 2020: We must “graduate from gas.”
- Buttigieg, February 2022: “We are in the middle of a long-term transformation”
- Energy Secretary Granholm, November 2021: “The reality is, we have to take some time to get off of oil and gas, we recognize this. This is a transition.”
- Granholm, November 2021: “We are in a transition.”
- Granholm, May 2021, “If you drive an electric car, this would not be affecting you, clearly ha ha ha.”
- Press Secretary Jen Psaki when asked why Biden won’t expand U.S. drilling, February, 2022: “The president’s view is that it is a huge advantage to us to be a leader in the clean energy transition.”
- Now-Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, June 2018: “Always working” to make the number of oil production projects on federal land “decline.”
Even since Russia’s invasion, the administration has doubled down on the exact same radical climate policies that helped send gas prices surging in the first place:
- Harris , March 7, 2022: “Our transportation sector has reached a turning point” to make a "transition.”
- Biden, March 8, 2022: “[the invasion] should motivate us to accelerate a transition to clean energy.”
- Biden economic advisor Brian Deese, March 8, 2022: “The only viable path to energy independence” is to reduce fossil fuel use to “zero.”
- Granholm, March 9, 2022: "The clean energy transition is not just coming, it's here.”
- Psaki when asked if Biden will reverse his position on Keystone XL, March 9, 2022: “There’s no plans for that.”
- Biden’s Deputy National Security Advisor Daleep Singh, March 9, 2022: “Even if we drilled as much as we could” it wouldn't affect the price of oil.
- Deese, March 9, 2022: “No amount of domestic production” would make us energy independent, we need to shift away from fossil fuels.
The WHOLE POINT of Biden’s climate agenda was to eliminate oil. That’s what he wanted to do, that’s what he set out to do as president.
