Energy expert Dan Kish tells Fox News Digital: 'Americans are
taking it in the shorts' under Biden

President Joe Biden has taken a number of steps to curb domestic
fossil fuel production since taking office but has still turned
to foreign dictators for oil as prices have ticked up.

The Biden administration has aggressively pushed its climate
agenda, which includes a transition from fossil fuels to green
energy, over its first 20 months in office. For example, it has
taken aim at oil and natural gas pipelines, restrained leasing
on federal lands and waters, moved forward with stringent
climate disclosure rules for the private sector and introduced
burdensome environmental regulations.

"Americans are taking it in the shorts because the Biden
administration has basically declared war on American
affordable, abundant energy," Dan Kish, a senior fellow at free-
market think tank Institute for Energy Research, told Fox News
Digital in an interview.

The average price of gasoline nationwide increased to $3.87 a
gallon on Thursday, extending a multi-week streak of price
increases, according to AAA data. Oil prices in the U.S. and
worldwide have also moved upward in recent days.

US EMERGENCY OIL SUPPLY SHRINKS TO 40-YEAR LOW AS BIDEN KEEPS
TAPPING RESERVE

And the National Energy Assistance Directors Association
projected in September that the average cost of U.S. home
heating across all fuels � including gas, heating oil and
propane � will spike 17.2% this winter compared to last year,
forcing millions of lower-income families to choose between
paying for heat, food, medicine and rent. Natural gas prices
have increased to levels far higher than historic trends over
the last several months.

While the administration has sought to restrict domestic oil and
gas production, it has also turned to foreign regimes led by
dictators, including Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. After the Saudi-
led Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
announced a major 2-million-barrel-per-day output cut Wednesday,
Biden expressed disappointment.

"The President is disappointed by the shortsighted decision by
OPEC+ to cut production quotas while the global economy is
dealing with the continued negative impact of Putin�s invasion
of Ukraine," the White House said in a statement after the
announcement.

"At a time when maintaining a global supply of energy is of
paramount importance, this decision will have the most negative
impact on lower- and middle-income countries that are already
reeling from elevated energy prices," the statement added.

OPEC OIL CUTOFF SHOWS 'FAILURE' OF BIDEN�S �FIST BUMP
DIPLOMACY�, WILL AFFECT MIDTERMS: NEW YORK TIMES REPORT

The White House urged OPEC to increase production multiple times
over the last year.

In addition, Biden told reporters Thursday that he was
considering "alternatives" to OPEC and didn't rule out lifting
sanctions on Venezuela's once-booming oil industry as part of
that plan. He didn't mention domestic production as an
alternative. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that the
administration was moving closer to announcing a deal with the
South American communist government involving oil drilling.

Overall, the president has taken multiple steps throughout his
tenure to follow through on his 2019 campaign pledge to "end
fossil fuel" in the U.S.

"The administration continues to look elsewhere when the
solution has always been here at home," Emily Haggstrom, the
vice president of communications for the Consumer Energy
Alliance, told reporters during a call Thursday. "This should be
a no-brainer in economics, national security and environmental
terms, and we urge the Biden administration to seize this
moment."

Hours after his January 2021 inauguration, Biden issued an
executive order canceling the federal permit for the Keystone XL
pipeline, the proposed extension of an existing pipeline that
would have transported an additional 830,000 barrels of oil from
western Canada into the U.S., according to its operator, TC
Energy. In the order, Biden wrote that the U.S. must "prioritize
the development of a clean energy economy."

DEMS TURN TO HOSTILE DICTATORS FOR OIL PRODUCTION AS GAS PRICES
TICK UP, GOP BLAMES 'WAR ON AMERICAN ENERGY'

The Biden administration has also introduced a new pipeline
approval process that it said would factor in downstream
greenhouse gas emissions, a rule that could represent a major
hurdle for future energy infrastructure development.

Led by Biden-nominated chairman Rich Glick, the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced in February that it had
updated its process for green-lighting pipelines. Under the
proposal, which was heavily criticized by Republicans, FERC
would consider the direct and indirect impacts of greenhouse gas
emissions produced by future pipelines under review.

"These policies are going to make it next to impossible to build
any new natural gas infrastructure or upgrade our existing
facilities in the United States," Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo.,
the top GOP member of the Senate Energy Committee, said in
March. "These orders are going to increase the costs for
American families to heat and power their homes. And they are
going to undermine the reliability of our electric grid."

Also, shortly after he took office, Biden ordered the Department
of the Interior (DOI) to pause oil and gas leasing on federal
lands and waters. While a federal judge nixed the moratorium
last year, the Biden administration has repeatedly delayed
holding onshore lease sales.

The administration ultimately held its first sales in June, 18
months after taking office in 2021, leasing just 71,251 acres of
public land for oil and gas drilling. By comparison, the Trump
administration leased 478,420 acres of public land for drilling
during its first 12 months, according to an analysis of federal
data.

Domestic oil production, meanwhile, has remained level at around
12 million barrels per day, more than a million barrels less
than its March 2020 pre-pandemic level, according to federal
data.

AMERICANS SHOULD PREPARE FOR GAS PRICES TO KEEP RISING, ANALYSTS
WARN

"He is the worst oil and gas-leasing president in history," Kish
told Fox News Digital. "He sits around complaining about the
price of oil and the price of gasoline and neglects the one
thing that he could do that would have a demonstrated effect."

The DOI has also proposed an offshore leasing plan that could
include at most 11 lease sales but which may also include no new
lease sales through 2028. The Trump administration's version of
the plan included nearly 50 sales.

The agency has canceled a number of previously scheduled
offshore lease sales in recent months.

BIDEN LOOKS EVERYWHERE TO LOWER GAS PRICES � EXCEPT BOOSTING OIL
PRODUCTION

In June 2021, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland ordered a pause on
all oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge,
reversing the previous administration's efforts to allow some
drilling in the federal refuge located in northern Alaska.

Also in Alaska, the administration backed off a drilling project
last year that would have produced 100,000 barrels of oil per
day, led to $10 billion in government revenue and create 2,000
construction jobs and 300 permanent jobs. The Bureau of Land
Management issued a revised environmental analysis that factored
in potential climate impacts of the project in July.

In another executive order, Biden ordered federal agencies to
factor in the "social cost" of carbon and methane emissions when
initiating environmental analysis on proposed projects. After he
issued the order, 10 Republican states filed a lawsuit
challenging the rule, arguing it was "an act of executive
overreach that will kill thousands of jobs throughout the
country [and] threatens to impose more burdens and harms on the
American people."

The Securities and Exchange Commission unveiled a rule in March
that would require private corporations to disclose a wide swath
of carbon emissions data and other climate information.
Republicans, energy industry groups and business groups have
opposed the rule, saying it would cost the private sector
billions of dollars.

"We have abundant resources in America to be energy independent,
secure, and to protect people['s] quality of life," Rep. Cathy
McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., the top Republican on the House
Energy and Commerce Committee, said in a statement Thursday.

"Turning to Venezuela or any other dictator is not acceptable to
freedom-loving Americans who are suffering already under Biden�s
energy and spending crises that are increasing their cost of
living," she continued. "It�s time for the President of the
United States to show some leadership, and get serious about
flipping the switch for more American energy production."

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On 10/8/2022 2:22 AM, Nobody Fucks With A Biden wrote:
> Energy expert Dan Kish tells Fox News Digital: 'Americans are
> taking it in the shorts' under Biden
>
Thanks, Igor.

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