(FreedomWire.org) – As the oil crisis reaches a tipping point, the Biden administration is refusing to renew domestic oil production. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is claiming the responsibility falls on oil companies, and oil companies have pointed to Biden’s policies and campaign promise to destroy the oil industry.
Americans are facing the highest energy prices seen in decades, with the American Automobile Association (AAA) reporting that the national average price for a gallon of gas stood at almost $5 as of Saturday.
President Joe Biden has responded with a letter telling oil companies to boost production. Yet as the Federalist contributor David Harsanyi recently pointed out, the hypocrisy of that demand is infuriating.
“You can’t spend decades working to undercut production and campaign on the promise of destroying an industry and then demand it turn on a dime when it’s politically convenient,” he wrote.
He then linked to footage from the 2020 presidential campaign in which Biden could be seen promising to all but cripple the energy industry.
“Number one, no more subsidies for fossil fuel industries,” Biden declared. “No more drilling on federal lands. No more drilling, including offshore. No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period, ends, number one.”
Harsanyi also noted how upon taking office, Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipeline and “signed a slew of executive orders prioritizing climate change over energy production, halting oil and natural gas leases on all public lands.”
