Biden Sabotages Energy Production

Remember when Clinton staffers reportedly removed the W keys from White House keyboards before George W. Bush took office? If only Biden were that petty. The damage he is inflicting on his way out the door is more significant:

Biden will ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in more than 625 million acres of federal waters, the White House announced Monday, striking a final blow against domestic energy production…

The outgoing president is set to use his authority under the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to protect offshore areas along the East Coast, West Coast, eastern Gulf of Mexico, and additional portions of the Northern Bering Sea in Alaska from future oil and gas leasing.

As justification, Biden referenced the imaginary “climate crisis.” If we make do without the energy required to put food on the table, that will improve the allegedly problematic weather, according to leftist ideology.

Given Biden’s character, spite may be the actual motive:

The move comes on the same day that Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris is set to be certified by Congress. Trump has vowed to increase oil and gas production on a simple three-word energy policy: “Drill, baby, drill.” Biden’s latest action, however, poses an obstacle to the incoming president’s energy plans.

Democrats would love for the economy to flounder under Trump. Higher energy prices would make that more likely.

Then again, Biden has been at war with the energy industry from the beginning. He threw Americans out of work by crushing the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office.

Surely Trump can undo any malicious decrees issued by the conspicuously unfit Biden. Or maybe not:

Established 72 years ago, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act governs energy leasing activities in submerged lands under U.S. jurisdiction that extend three miles beyond the shoreline. An open-ended provision in federal law gives a president the authority to permanently withdraw portions of the Outer Continental Shelf without providing a way for a succeeding president to reverse course.

By attacking our capacity to generate energy, Democrats attack our economy. By attacking our economy, they attack us, as surely as any other enemy America has ever faced.

On a tip from Bluto.

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