https://www.maciverinstitute.com/2022/03/yes-biden-is-to-blame-for-the-energy-crisis-heres-why/This is absolutely a partisan piece, but there are some good points inside
And yes, Biden’s policies have made domestic energy production more difficult and less cost-efficient…just as he repeatedly promised he would while campaigning for the presidency.
“Would there be any place for fossil fuels, including coal and fracking, in a Biden Administration?” CNN’s Dana Bash asked during a primary debate in July 2019.
“No,” Biden flatly answered. “We would work it out; we would make sure it’s eliminated and no more subsidies for either of those. No more fossil fuels.”
In case that wasn’t clear enough, two months later he told a young supporter to look him in the eyes as he promised her he would “end fossil fuels.”
“Kiddo, I want you to just take a look,” Biden said to her as he (rather creepily) grabbed her hand and leaned into her. “I want you to look in my eyes. I guarantee you, I guarantee you we’re going to end fossil fuels.”
This promise formed a cornerstone of Biden’s primary campaign, and he repeated it often.
“What about, say, stopping fracking and stopping pipelines and…” a supporter in Iowa started to ask him a few days before the Iowa Caucuses.
“Yes, yes, no pipelines, exactly,” Biden jumped in before she could even finish her question.
Even as his primary win seemed inevitable in March 2020 and he no longer needed to court the far-left environmentalist vote, Biden was still promising to decimate America’s energy sector.
“No more subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, no more drilling on federal lands, no more drilling, including offshore, no ability for the industry to continue to drill,” he declared. “It ends.”
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Als some very good context on the "9000 unused permits"
“There are 9,000 approved drilling permits that are not being used,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters last week. “So the suggestion that we are not allowing companies to drill is inaccurate. The suggestion that that is what is hindering or preventing gas prices to come down is inaccurate.”
If that number is correct (and it may not be since Fiscal Year 2021 data is not yet available), it would mean that a record-high percentage of active drilling leases are being used. According to Western Energy Alliance, an energy industry trade association, there are 37,496 leases in effect. If only 9,000 are not being used, then a record 76% of them are. In other words, the American oil industry is using more approved leases than ever before.
One of the major reasons many are not being used is litigation by environmentalist groups trying to stop drilling. Western Energy Alliance alone is currently in court defending more than 2,200 leases—a full 24% of those that are not being used (because they obviously can’t be used while lawsuits against them are still pending).
Many of those that aren’t actively tied up in court are tied up in regulatory red tape. The Biden Administration has made a point to more stringently apply the National Energy Policy Act’s requirement of environmental analysis before any new lease can result in new drilling. This process can take years even when a presidential administration hasn’t made war on the energy industry one of its key policy initiatives.