{"id":1916860,"date":"2023-04-19T23:41:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T03:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-energy-independence-key-to-national-security-us-military-strength\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T23:41:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T03:41:18","slug":"pence-energy-independence-key-to-national-security-us-military-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-energy-independence-key-to-national-security-us-military-strength\/","title":{"rendered":"Pence: Energy Independence Key to National Security, US Military Strength"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fpence-energy-independence-key-to-national-security-us-military-strength%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=1916860&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--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0420\/1f6e2806-939c-4005-8d07-339f9995364a\/audio.mp3?length=6521517&#038;duration=543\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Former Vice President Mike Pence told supporters gathered at a conference in Orange County, California, today, that America\u2019s national security hinges and military strength hinges on domestic oil and gas production and on energy independence.<\/p>\n<p>Energy is more than a domestic issue. It affects foreign policy, Pence said at the Nixon National Energy Conference at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Trump administration, a strong economy helped the United States rebuild its military to serve as a deterrent to would-be foreign threats. But the Biden administration has put a stop to domestic oil and gas production, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA vibrant energy sector powers American strength and independence on the world stage. And with that renewed economic strength during our administration, we were able to not only rebuild our economy but we rebuilt our military after years of reckless budget cuts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Pence said the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-energy\">energy<\/a> policies that the Trump administration proposed were based on ideas Nixon proposed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truth is we didn\u2019t invent the energy playbook,\u201d he said. \u201cIn fact, it looked an awful lot like the Nixon playbook that was ignored by the Congress of his time 50 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then as now, he said, the energy crisis that Nixon faced in the early 1970s was \u201cgovernment induced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the Trump administration\u2019s first actions was to withdraw the United States from \u201cthe unfair, one-sided\u201d Paris Climate Agreement, which punished American industry while allowing China \u201cto continue polluting with impunity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration replaced the Obama administrations Clean Power Plan with affordable free market clean energy rules, approved the Keystone and Dakota pipelines, expedited the approval of the Burgos pipeline, and opened the Alaska National Wildlife region to responsible oil and gas leasing, Pence said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an extraordinary record of success,\u201d he said. \u201cWithin months of unleashing American Energy \u2026 our economy took off like a jack rabbit as we say in Indiana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The United States became the top producer of oil and natural gas in the world, and for the first time in three quarters of a century, became a net exporter of natural gas, with energy imports falling to the lowest level in 60 years, Pence said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe fueled economic growth\u20147 million good paying jobs\u2014unemployment plummeted to a 50-year-low, we moved 10 million people from welfare to work,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was the largest poverty reduction in American history. That\u2019s what happens when you unleash American energy: America prospers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under Trump, the United States withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, and renewed American strength and independence, as well as achieving first new peace deal in the Arab World in 25 years in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/\">Abraham Accords<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe made history,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>But, for more than two years, the \u201cwar on energy\u201d is back with a vengeance under the Biden administration, and the United States is \u201cweaker on the world stage than ever before,\u201d Pence said.<\/p>\n<p>Criticizing Biden for saying he wanted to \u201cend fossil fuels\u201d during his campaign, Pence blasted Democrats for claiming efforts to increase domestic oil and gas production is \u201cpartisan\u201d politics.<\/p>\n<p>With the support of the Democrat majority, Biden cancelled the Keystone and XL pipelines, imposed drilling moratoriums, refused to auction oil and gas leases on federal lands, and \u201cnow, he wants to weaponize the SEC to choke out financing for traditional energy sources through capricious ESG regulations,\u201d\u00a0Pence said.<\/p>\n<p>Environmental Social Governance, or ESG, supported by the World Economic Forum, is a complex and highly politicized system of credits given to corporations who support and promote government policies.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has failed to protect hardworking Americans from woke ideology in corporate boardrooms and is now trying to force two-thirds of all gasoline vehicles off the road with draconian new standards, according to Pence.<\/p>\n<p>Unrealistic demands to drive gas-powered vehicles off the road in California and replace them with electric vehicles is \u201cbeing done to appease the radical left in America\u201d and will increase U.S. dependence on China, the world\u2019s dominant battery maker, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder their policies, American consumers will lose and China will win,\u201d Pence said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden has turned a surplus of American oil and gas into a deficit in the name of environmental extremism, and all at the expense of American workers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"morearticles\"><strong>Read More<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"post_list\">\n<div class=\"article\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/coal-powering-china-as-equivalent-of-two-large-coal-power-plants-permitted-to-open-each-week_5094841.html\">Coal Powering China as \u2018Equivalent of Two Large Coal Power Plants\u2019 Permitted to Open Each Week<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pence also blasted Biden for depleting half of the national strategic petroleum reserve intended for emergencies instead of increasing domestic energy production.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, he said, then \u201cwent hat in hand to OPEC\u201d asking it to increase production, and \u201cas evidence of America\u2019s waning influence on the world stage, OPEC turned him down, and now Middle Eastern countries are drawn closer to China and Russia by the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truth is President Joe Biden has weakened America at home <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President Mike Pence told supporters gathered at a conference in Orange County, California, today, that America\u2019s national security hinges and military strength hinges on domestic oil and gas production and on energy independence. Energy is more than a domestic issue. 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