Essay by Eric Worrall
“No more drilling. There is no more drilling! I haven’t formed any new drilling.” Is there any doubt remaining, about why Americans are experiencing gasoline pump price pain?
Biden Shouts “No More Drilling. There is no more drilling!” at New York Rally
For months, President Joe Biden and members of his cabinet have claimed that they are no obstacle to expanded oil and gas production in the United States. On June 21 Biden said, “This idea that they don’t have oil to drill and to bring up is simply not true. This piece of the Republicans talking about Biden shutting down fields is wrong.” On June 22, Biden said, I know my Republican friends claim, we’re not producing enough oil and I’m limiting oil production. Quite frankly, that’s nonsense.”
And on November 2, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm tweeted, “Disinfo about @POTUS’ energy agenda is being used to scare/mislead Americans while industry cashes in. The facts are clear: This Admin outpaced the previous Admin on crude oil production + oil/gas well approvals while also making historic investments in a clean energy transition.”
But a little over two hours ago, at a rally for New York Governor Kathy Hochul, President Biden shouted, “No more drilling. There is no more drilling! I haven’t formed any new drilling.” (Timestamp: 1:32:03)
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Read more: https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/biden-shouts-no-more-drilling-there
This “no more drilling” announcement comes fresh on the heels of Biden’s end of coal announcement. Michael Shellenberger’s article links to a more complete video of Biden’s speech.
Surely nobody in their right mind can believe the USA could abruptly shut down all coal, and all oil and gas exploration and drilling, and hope to maintain prosperity and survive as a nation.
The White House staff appear to have been covering for President Biden’s apparent mental deterioration, by issuing press releases which accuse critics of maliciously misinterpreting or twisting Biden’s words.
All I can say is, try talking your way out of this one, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
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He can’t have it both ways. He can’t strangle the oil and coal industry and claim it’s someone else,s fault. And claim there is no problem.
Mr. Olen: Here in USA, we’re in the process of finding out. PRes. Brandon and his advisers evidently believe that he can have it both ways, and they know the press will not notice the contradiction. The White House clearly does not care if it is pointed out, so long as the press stays in.
In Biden’s mind he can have it both ways,
Democrats are experts in doublethink.
No fair judging Jumpin’ Joe Biden by the actual words he says. They must be filtered through a Joe Biden magic decoder ring to find out what he meant to say. If you do not have such a ring, you must wait for his affirmative action spokeswoman to be asked about what Jumpin; Joe actually meant by Peter Doocy — no one else will ask. Then the spokeswoman will sidestep the question or tap dance instead of answering,
She will also call Peter Doocy names–that is part of the script, along with the hemming, hawing and dancing.
Bidet has to be the nastiest, grouchiest POTUS we have ever had! People complained about Trump’s mean tweets but I can’t recall Trump ever attacking half of this country’s electorate and calling them enemies. He attacked other politicians and public figures, but never called people who vote and support Dems enemies. Obama had his “bitter clingers” speech, and vowed to skyrocket electricity prices and kill coal. But, those were campaign speeches and at least he had the sense to not do that sort of thing while he was POTUS. I am no fan of Obama, but at least he acted a bit more presidential that what is in the White House right now! Trump wasn’t always presidential either, but hey, his policies worked.
This senile old goat (and yes, dementia can cause a person to pop off with all sorts of nasty insults and digs that said person would have never said before they had dementia) is up there at the top of the list of worst POTUS’s ever!
What kind of leader tells his people that he is determined to return their standard of living back to the 18th century? That he wants the US to be a third world country? That he wants US citizens (and everyone else living here who aren’t citizens….if there’s no electricity they will also be sitting in the dark with everyone else!) to suffer and possibly die?
All I have to say is I hope that when tomorrow begins, in the pre-dawn light, the blood red moon of the lunar eclipse will truly be a symbolic bad omen to the Democratic party. Blood red for the (hopefully) red tsunami that has been building for the last couple of years….
You forgot about Hillary and her “deplorables” comment during an interview.
Joe Biden is the best campaigner for the GOP!!!!
I hope he keeps talking likethis for the next 2 years, or until he’s removed anyway.
I still think the Democrats are waiting till after January so that they can invoke the 25th amendment so that Harris will still have a shot at two full terms.
I thought that from thr very beginning, and predicted it, too.
If all they need to do is get Biden out of the way, they can always hire some of Hillary’s people.
I think the 25th amendment requires action by the Congress. If it is republican, the republicans have control over that, they may decide it is in the country’s best interest to keep Biden in office with the legislative stalemate, until after 2024.
Reckless declaration: Probably tomorrow the democrats will lose their Congress majority and the Republicans will oblige Biden to eat and swallow his hat.
Turn off the natural gas supply line to the Capitol Mall and don’t restock motor fuel supplies in that area for the 40 plus vehicle motorcade, helicopters, and fleet of Congressional jets.
Is he announcing his acquisition of a full set of false teeth?
“Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm tweeted, “Disinfo about @POTUS’ energy agenda is being used to scare/mislead Americans while industry cashes in.”
Industry will sell at a price to make a profit.
If the government deliberately enforces a reduction in the supply of an essential product with a very inelastic demand curve then prices will rise. Sharply. Oil companies are happy to sell less product for the same, or increased, profits. Their behavior is predicted by simple economics text books.
That the same politicians are publicly committing to making an essential industry extinct, is the paradise of financial speculators and/or those with good inside industry knowledge.
Of course many of them will be wholly innocent, but I’m sure it doesn’t take much of a cynic to expect Nancy Pelosi’s husband will still maintain an outstanding investment performance.
Wow, just hilarious. He is not hiding in the basement, he is saying moronic caca all the time, still fondling and sniffing children, and will win again in 2024, with 90 million votes!
You left off a trailing zero … … …
No doubt Biden and all the other dream world-occupying enviro-activists have a number of viable alternatives to fossil fuels. Evidently, he’s forgotten that as the US started closing old coal plants, it didn’t replace them with undependable wind and solar, but with high-efficiency low-emissions gas plants. Likewise with Japan when it started abandoning its nuclear plants after the Fukushima disaster. Once again, it bypassed wind and solar and went back to coal-fired generation stations, 22 of which are currently under construction. Meanwhile China isn’t giving a second thought to the unrealistic demands of COP-27 and is building 43 new coal plants. India plans to double its coal consumption by 2040, while Vietnam plans to increase its coal imports for at least the next 13 years, and on and on. So if Biden and the rest of the climate activists were half-awake they’d note all this and stop being foolish about energy-generation sources.