Biden-EU Energy Policy Helped Putin Invade Ukraine
Never mind the rhetorical outrage and empty bluster from the Biden White House and the equally feckless “leaders” of Europe over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The truth is that their militant jihad against fossil fuels and their fanatical devotion to the religion of “renewable energy” not only greenlighted Moscow’s assault on Kiev but guaranteed that the United States and EU (and energy consumers the world over) would foot the bill for Putin’s military venture. The dirty secret is that Europe’s suicidal decision to kill their own nuclear, coal, oil, and natural gas options in the name of saving the world from “climate change” has not only made them politically impotent by increasing their dependence on Russian gas, coal, and oil, but has also emboldened Putin by running up his energy revenues beyond anything he could have done by simply increasing production.
Ditto for the actions of the Biden administration. As his first official act on his first day in the Oval Office, President Joe Biden declared war on U.S. fossil-fuel production and U.S. energy independence. As a payoff to his radical “green” allies, with the stroke of a pen he issued an executive order canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, a 1,200-mile-long project to bring 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Canada to the United States. “Leaving the Keystone XL pipeline permit in place would not be consistent with my Administration’s economic and climate imperatives,” he declared. (Ironically, in killing the Keystone XL, Biden stopped the world’s first zero-emission energy pipeline.)
But killing Keystone was only the opening salvo of Biden’s destructive attacks on U.S. energy production. He followed that up by rejoining the UN’s disastrous Paris climate accord, halting drilling leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), halting oil and gas leases and drilling permits on federal lands and waters (which account for nearly 25 percent of U.S. production), and placing a strict, new regulatory regime on energy production. On top of all that, Biden sent Vladimir Putin a bonus: Go ahead with Nord Stream 2, the huge (and hugely controversial) natural-gas pipeline owned by Russia’s state-backed energy giant Gazprom that provides a new mainline of energy addiction to Germany.
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