Gotta respect a politician who honors his promises: Biden said he'd kill our oil industry, and now admits he's doing just that
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american oil was so yesterday
No, but we’re gonna have lots, and lots of renewable energy in a decade or two, and that will make us a superpower again.
Nick Arama, RedState:
MacCallum asked why didn’t Biden restart the Keystone XL pipeline and oil drilling leases, which the Administration had stopped because the U.S. had “energy independence which was large leverage for the U.S. over Russia.” But now, we didn’t have that anymore and we were even buying more oil from Russia, even in the face of these threats that Biden is waving a flag about regarding Ukraine.
Sullivan’s answer was a non-answer. He said we’re still a big producer, and we’re going to make sure that Russia doesn’t use oil as a weapon. We’re going to make sure Russia doesn’t use energy as a weapon — by buying more of their oil and reducing our ability? What kind of sense does that make? Why would we destroy our position and help Russia?
In addition to shutting down Keystone XL and oil drilling leases, Biden also waived sanctions on Nord Stream 2, helping Russia.
As I previously wrote:
How many Americans know that we are importing a lot of oil from Russia? Not only did Biden beg OPEC to produce more oil, he doubled the amount of oil imported from Saudi Arabia from December of 2020 and October of 2021 and we’ve also tripled the oil from Russia from what we were importing from February 2019 to September 2021.
In May of last year, Biden surged the Russian oil imports by 23 percent to 844,000 barrels a day from the prior month, which was almost 10 percent of all our oil imports for the month. The only country we import more oil from is Canada. Exactly why are we importing and dependant on such an adversary?
MacCallum pressed Sullivan, asking if he does concede we are no longer energy independent, “and we were before.” His answer is very revealing.
“What I would say is that the U.S. is investing massively in being a leader in an energy transition in which – yes, for now we continue to use fossil fuels – but over the course of years and decades, we become a clean energy superpower.” He claimed that’s where the “strategic advantage” would lie.
MacCallum had the best response. “Some people would look at that answer and say that Russia and China could feel like they were in a “pretty good position,” MacCallum said.
I (CF) would also point out that on Friday, Biden dropped the sanctions against Iran, freeing up $29b in cash for them to fund terrorism and keep their nuclear missile program going. Is it fair to ask whose side Biden’s handlers are on, and what their goal is?
