{"id":1704748,"date":"2022-10-20T18:02:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T22:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704748"},"modified":"2022-10-20T18:03:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T22:03:26","slug":"destroying-americas-energy-advantage-to-save-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/destroying-americas-energy-advantage-to-save-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Destroying America\u2019s Energy Advantage To \u2018Save Democracy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdestroying-americas-energy-advantage-to-save-democracy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704748&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Engaging in cynically self-serving partisan behavior to win elections sounds profoundly corrupt. Engaging in cynically self-serving partisan destructive behavior to \u201csave democracy\u201d \u2026 well, that sounds profoundly rational. And so it goes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe find ourselves in a situation, where keeping gas prices low is key to preserving and strengthening the future of our democracy,\u201d MSNBC\u2019s Chris Hayes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/allinwithchris\/status\/1582887592277991425\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">admitted<\/a> last night. \u201cAnd so here we are. Hence, Biden releasing oil from the reserves today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is no policy justification for emptying the emergency strategic oil reserve right now. Just as there is no reason to use emergency powers to force taxpayers to foot the bill for graduate student loans. Just as there is no foreign policy justification for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/10\/13\/biden-admin-asked-saudi-arabia-to-postpone-opec-cut-by-a-month-saudis-say.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">threatening<\/a> the Saudis to keep production high until the midterms when you keep undercutting domestic production and capacity. <\/p>\n<p>The crass partisanship is even worse than Hayes lets on, since emptying the strategic reserve is a little more than political kabuki theater. The Energy Department is going to release 15 million barrels this week so that families will have some \u201cbreathing room,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/10\/19\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-actions-to-strengthen-energy-security-and-lower-costs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">says<\/a> the president. But the United States uses nearly <em>20 million barrels <\/em>every day. Fifteen million barrels might be useful in a national disaster \u2014 which we would be unprepared for right now \u2014 but in this environment, it does nothing but give Democrats \u201cbreathing room\u201d to pretend they\u2019re doing something.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been doing everything in my power to reduce gas prices since Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine caused these price hikes \u2014 these prices to spike and rattled international oil markets,\u201d Biden said Wednesday. When Biden told a town hall audience in September 2019 that he would end all new drilling on federal lands, the national average for a gallon of gas was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/dnav\/pet\/hist\/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&#038;s=emm_epmr_pte_nus_dpg&#038;f=w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$2.56<\/a>. That was more than two years before Putin invaded Ukraine. When Biden was inaugurated, long before the Russian invasion, the price of a gallon was $2.38. It was one cent higher when he signed an executive order pausing all new government leases on public lands \u2014 where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/pressreleases\/fact-sheet-president-biden-take-action-uphold-commitment-restore-balance-public-lands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nearly a quarter<\/a> of American oil extraction takes place. Since then, Biden has handed out the fewest new leases for a president early in his administration since World War II. <\/p>\n<p>Putin hadn\u2019t invaded Ukraine the day Biden killed the Keystone pipeline, and with it 830,000 barrels per day \u2013 around 25 million a month \u2014which was scheduled to open in only a few months. Nor had he invaded Ukraine when the Interior Department stopped pursuing drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. All these actions put us in a precarious position when the inevitable international event shook the market. <\/p>\n<p>Biden can\u2019t control prices, of course, but there are plenty of things he could do to mitigate the pain outside of incentivizing production. Instead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/10\/20\/lawmakers-cry-foul-as-biden-mulls-lifting-some-sanctions-00062611\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">easing sanctions<\/a> on the socialist kleptocracy in Venezuela, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/10\/13\/biden-admin-asked-saudi-arabia-to-postpone-opec-cut-by-a-month-saudis-say.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">begging<\/a> authoritarian cartels to drill more until the midterms, Biden could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2013\/07\/24\/how-can-gas-prices-be-slashed-repeal-this-act.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">repeal<\/a> the Jones Act and lower costs. He won\u2019t because Democrats need union cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emptying the strategic reserve is at best stupid and at worst corrupt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":1704751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1704751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}