{"id":1999868,"date":"2023-08-14T11:11:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T15:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-doubles-down-on-efforts-to-thwart-national-energy-independence-following-arizona-land-grab\/"},"modified":"2023-08-14T11:11:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T15:11:02","slug":"biden-doubles-down-on-efforts-to-thwart-national-energy-independence-following-arizona-land-grab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-doubles-down-on-efforts-to-thwart-national-energy-independence-following-arizona-land-grab\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Doubles Down on Efforts to Thwart National Energy Independence Following Arizona Land Grab"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fbiden-doubles-down-on-efforts-to-thwart-national-energy-independence-following-arizona-land-grab%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=1999868&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>Even as he was criticized for making more than 1,500 square miles off limits to potential oil drilling, President Joe Biden said he wished he could have done more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to stop all drilling on the East Coast and the West Coast and in the Gulf, but I lost in court. But we\u2019re still pushing. We\u2019re still pushing really very hard,\u201d Biden said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/news\/climate\/news\/2023-08-09-president-biden-the-weather-channel-climate-comments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Weather Channel<\/a> interview that aired Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cYou promised no new drilling on federal land or offshore. Can you tell Gen Z that you haven\u2019t broken your promise?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BIDEN: \u201cI wanted to stop ALL drilling \u2026 but I lost in court! But we\u2019re still pushing really very hard!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cvnK1d819g\">pic.twitter.com\/cvnK1d819g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1689223404908367872?\">August 9, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Tuesday, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2023\/08\/08\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-inflation-reduction-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> the creation of the Baaj Nwaavjo I\u2019tah Kukveni National Monument on land north and south of Arizona\u2019s Grand Canyon.<\/p>\n<p>The 1,562-square-mile section of land is now off-limits for drilling and grazing, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/grand-canyon-national-monument-biden-9382960f18408dce7aec52f103404e11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFolks, preserving these lands is good not only for Arizona but for the planet. It\u2019s good for the economy. It\u2019s good for the soul of the nation,\u201d the president said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Critics, however, said the words add up to nothing more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-energy-secs-message-americans-brazilians-paying-amount-gas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">political gloss<\/a> over the latest energy disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Rep. Eli Crane of Arizona said in a statement Tuesday the Biden administration had \u201cmade it apparent that national security, economic prosperity, and Tribal sovereignty are disposable to them. Biden is shamelessly politicizing the Grand Canyon to appease the radical left and distract from his dereliction of duty just a few hours south at the border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crane noted that the region <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ted-cruz-says-biden-shouldnt-just-impeached-go-prison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden<\/a> declared off-limits had been a source of uranium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUranium is critical to American energy and security, and this ridiculous political posturing only makes us more reliant on foreign nations such as China and Russia,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The congressman said Biden cared little for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/heartless-biden-energy-sec-chastises-working-class-drove-electric-car-gas-shortage-wouldnt-effect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">economic impact<\/a> of his grand gesture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApart from sabotaging national security and energy independence, Biden Administration policies trap Americans in poverty and undercut the economy. Northern Arizona\u2019s economy will lose billions because of this stifling land grab by the federal government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to this million-acre land grab, this Administration is also cruelly blocking Navajo Nation citizens from natural gas and oil development in New Mexico. Tribal sovereignty only matters to them if it suits their radical agenda. This type of woke government overreach that tramples over the American people is the embodiment of the America Last agenda,\u201d Crane said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lptTHDRdGF\">pic.twitter.com\/lptTHDRdGF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Eli Crane (@RepEliCrane) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepEliCrane\/status\/1689011613054164993?\">August 8, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Stephen Shadegg, state director for Americans for Prosperity-Arizona, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/americansforprosperity.org\/afp-az-calls-out-backwards-bidenomics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> Tuesday that Americans will suffer while Biden claims victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the President is celebrating his inflationary spending agenda and making it harder to produce safe and carbon-free nuclear energy, Arizonans are paying the price. Inflation is an invisible tax on government spending\u2014everything from groceries to school supplies and household goods is more expensive because of \u2018Bidenomics,\u2019\u201d Shadegg said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd by further restricting the mining of critical minerals like uranium, the President is making it that much harder to produce the cheap, carbon-free energy that would directly benefit his \u2018green energy\u2019 agenda,\u201d he said. \u201cArizonans can\u2019t afford this backwards economic and energy policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat the Copper State needs is less redistributive \u2018Bidenomics\u2019 and more of an \u2018all-of-the-above\u2019 approach to domestic energy \u2014 which must include nuclear power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republican Utah state Rep. Phil Lyman, whose district includes much of southern Utah, said Biden committed a power grab, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/politics\/2023\/08\/08\/bidens-new-arizona-national\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Salt Lake Daily Tribune<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a total abuse of the Antiquities Act,\u201d Lyman said. \u201cThe act was never meant to be a landscape-wide management tool, and that\u2019s what [the federal government] is using it as.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said Congress \u201cneeds to wipe out this ridiculous abuse of power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arizona Senate Majority Leader Sonny Borrelli said Biden\u2019s \u201cthinly veiled effort to appease his radical environmental base as he campaigns for re-election will have dire consequences for all Arizonans,\u201d according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonadailyindependent.com\/2023\/08\/08\/arizona-republicans-vow-to-fight-biden-over-land-grab-democrats-celebrate-unilateral-action\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arizona Daily Independent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe strongly condemn this dictator-style land grab that will greatly hurt Mohave County and further limit private and state land resources needed for our economic viability,\u201d the Republican senator said.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-doubles-efforts-thwart-national-energy-independence-following-arizona-land-grab\/\">Biden Doubles Down on Efforts to Thwart National Energy Independence Following Arizona Land Grab<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even as he was criticized for making more than 1,500 square miles off limits to potential oil drilling, President Joe Biden said he wished he could have done more. \u201cI wanted to stop all drilling on the East Coast and the West Coast and in the Gulf, but I lost in court. But we\u2019re still<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":1999869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1999868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"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\/1999868","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1999869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}