The Biden administration’s environmental crowd-pleasing crusade against carbon emissions is obscuring a very inconvenient truth about U.S. energy policy: oil and gas production are way up.
Why it matters: President Biden’s assertive environmental policy is helping to fortify his (vulnerable) left flank with restive environmental activists, and drawing pushback from critics.
Still, it’s taking place against a backdrop of soaring fossil fuel production that’s made the U.S. a global leader on the energy market league tables.
Driving the news: The White House began 2024 with a bang, initiating carbon dioxide counter-offensives on multiple fronts like natural gas, automobiles and industrial emissions.
The irony (or dichotomy?) is what led geopolitical analyst Ian Bremmer to call it a “hush-hush” oil boom, fueled by a shale bounty that’s made the world’s largest economy increasingly energy independent — a policy goal that was elusive for decades.
By the numbers: U.S. crude output closed out 2023 at a record, topping 13 million barrels per day.
And that figure only tells part of the story; S&P Global Insights noted in December that America is producing more oil than any other nation in history.
In fact, total domestic liquids production is north of 21 million barrels per day, S&P estimates, with the non-crude and condensate portion churning out massive quantities of natural gas and biofuels.
The other side: Republicans have bemoaned Biden’s environmentally-friendly approach, pushing back on everything from permitting policy for oil drilling, carbon emissions, and the controversial decision to pause liquefied natural gas exports.
At a CERAWeek press conference on Thursday, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy hit out at policy “uncertainty” hampering resource development in his energy-intensive state, while endorsing another term for presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump.
Still, the numbers don’t lie, even if Biden’s political opponents don’t like them — and the president himself is reluctant to claim ownership.
What they’re saying: In a post last week, Bremmer pointed out the “greatest energy boom you’ve never heard of” has transformed America into “the world’s top energy superpower.”
While it’s not good news for fossil fuel emissions, the analyst backed the energy surge as undeniable leverage in an increasingly unstable world.
“If this all seems like tremendous news for America, that’s because it is. And yet, you probably haven’t heard anything about it. It’s just too politically inconvenient a feat for either party to acknowledge (let alone celebrate),” the analyst wrote.
Yes, but: Prodigious domestic production is expected to take a breather this year, and there are big questions swirling around global demand as China’s economy struggles to rebound.
The bottom line: As awkward as it may be for Biden to embrace — and a near-certain headwind for the fight against climate change — the U.S. energy surge is more positive than negative.
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Especially – don’t tell the left – climate changers. Is he lying to them?
Breitbart News recently released an analysis of the “RealClearPolitics” polling averages showing that Biden’s reelection poll numbers are worse than former Presidents Trump, Obama, and Bush. At this point during the 2024 presidential campaign, SlowJoe’s approval rating is the lowest across the board, with numbers that are worse than the three previous presidents’ during the fourth year of their first terms. His approval rating is lower than Trump: 47%, Obama: 46% and Bush 51%. Breitbart reports that Biden is at 40.3% approval, while 56.3% disapprove of the president. Any number under 50% is the end!!
In a recent poll, 56% of all voters think Biden really wants to stop Trump from winning by putting him in jail. The national poll of 1,000 likely voters with +/- 3.1% was completed between March 9 and March 14. Only 30% say it’s not true that Biden is trying to jail Trump. An overwhelming majority of Republicans, 86%, agree that Biden has weaponized the justice system against Trump. These poll numbers clearly indicate that the Biden DOJ has been weaponized to deal with the current president’s political opponents and those who don’t favor his agenda…in other words: election interference in a banana republic.
The following poll numbers are clear indicators of selective prosecution and double standards conducted by the Biden administration, as reported by Newsmax:
• 67% say that politics has played a role in the indictments of Trump.
• 58% say that Biden has played a role in the indictments of Trump.
• 56% to 31% say there is a double standard and bias at Biden’s Department of Justice and IRS, where they target Trump but Biden and his family received sweetheart deals without any type of prosecution, while blocking investigations.
• 52% to 38% say the indictments against Trump were done because he leads in the polls and the Democrats want him stopped.
• 58% to 34% say that Biden should stop targeting Trump and interfering in the election, letting voters decide the next president reflecting the means of the Constitutional Republic.
This guy really makes you wonder!
It is interesting that all the allegations against former President Donald John Trump are being manipulated by the Biden DOJ and the IRS, in conjunction with state level Attorneys General(New York and Georgia) and the New York County(Manhattan) DA Alvin Bragg are exactly what the Biden syndicate ARE guilty of. Since DementiaJoe was at first a US Senator from Delaware, followed by Obama’s vice president and then unbelievably the most corrupt, most incompetent, most inept, most racist worst POTUS in American history…hands down! Additionally, attorneys general and the district attorneys in New York County, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Chicago for example, had their campaigns funded by George Soros’ Open Society Foundation.
Why was James in court day after day instead of actually doing her job? Because getting Trump was her only agenda! And why is she smirking? Because she thought she would bankrupt Trump! Not!!
New York State Attorney General Letitia James had already placed liens on former President Donald John Trump’s New York properties and will attempt to freeze his bank accounts in order to cover the $454 million bond in the ridiculous civil trial and victimless crime. None of the banks from which the Trump Organization borrowed has zero complaints financially. It’s fascinating taking into account the overall political impact the cases filed against Trump. In other words, the attacks driven by the Biden administration clearly reflects that DementiaJoe is scared to death about losing his job and will leave no stone unturned to screw Trump over any way he can. And while we openly acknowledge Biden’s obvious cognitive decline, this guy definitely is aware of what is going on with the current political situation revolving around Trump. As his underwater poll numbers continue to worsen, SlowJoe continues to push the narrative that the poll numbers are both wrong or mean nothing…but they do reflect the nation’s political climate. There is a possibility that the NYS Supreme Court will step in and declare that the bond amount is excessive. Trump stated that he will take this “fraud case” to the SCOTUS. By attempting to tie up Trump’s money, this was a blatant case of election interference so that he cannot fund his campaign. Banana republic strategy in every sense of the word.
And let’s reference Jen Psaki’s “Let’s circle back…” In this case NYAG James’ excessive civil fraud bond would not only target The Trump Organization, Donald John Trump, Donald Trump, Jr. and Eric Trump, but the $454 million bond would have affected the employment and welfare of the thousands of hard working people that are gainfully unemployed by the organization. Again, not one of the lenders filed a complaint regarding repayment of the bank loans. Does James understand that New York State will become a landlord? A political biased attack on Biden’s main opposition.
And thankfully, a New York State appeals court saw the excessive amount that James wanted screw Trump with, regarding her civil fraud case against the Trump Organization, cut the bond from $454 million to $175 million, and he has ten days to pay. If he does, it will stop the clock on collection and prevent the state from seizing his assets while he appeals. The development came just before James was expected to initiate efforts to collect the judgment delivered by Judge Arthur Engoron, a progressive Democratic devoted anti-Trumper.
One smug judge…and the victim of New York politics!! Not only was the bond reduced drastically, but the appeals court also threw out some of the Judge Engoron’s fraudulent judgements, including a 3-year ban on Trump or his sons serving as a director for a New York company.
In a recent post on “Truth-Social,” Trump wrote: “At what point are the actions of a sitting President, using LAWFARE against his opponent for purposes of Election Interference, considered ILLEGAL? I believe, as do various highly respected legal scholars, that Crooked Joe Biden has long since crossed over that very sacred threshold!!!” Lawfare is defined as the use of legal systems and institutions to damage or delegitimize an opponent, or to deter an individual’s usage of their legal rights. Sounds like a current event!
President Truman holding the morning edition of the Chicago Tribune. Guess they were a bit wrong!!
The 1948 presidential election was the 41st presidential election since President George Washington’s Oath of Allegiance was executed on April 30th, 1789. The 41st election was held on Tuesday, November 2, 1948. The polls had the incumbent President Harry S.Truman(D-MS) so far underwater and behind Governor Thomas E. Dewey(R-NY), that the media wasn’t really covering the president’s “Whistle Stops.” In one of the greatest election upsets in American History, Truman defeated the heavily favored leader, Dewey, and the third-party candidate, Governor Strom Thurmand(Dixiecrat-SC). Thurmond was an avowed racist and good friends with Biden. On a side note, nine times in the history of the republic, a vice-president has ascended to the office of president due to the death or resignation of the president. Here’s a list of these men: 1-John Tyler/William Henry Harrison(pneumonia & pleurisy); 2-Millard Fillmore/Zachary Taylor(stomach disease); 3-Andrew Johnson/Abraham Lincoln(assassinated); 4-Chester Arthur/James Garfield(assassinated); 5-Theodore Roosevelt/William McKinley(assassinated); 6-Calvin Coolidge/Warren Harding(heart attack?); 7-Harry S. Truman/Franklin Roosevelt(cerebral hemorrhage); 8-Lyndon Johnson /John F. Kennedy(assassinated); 9-Gerald Ford/Richard Nixon(resignation).
The most recent political upset occurred during the 2016 presidential campaign when then candidate, and political neophyte, Donald John Trump stomped, and I mean stomped, the politically experienced, former FLOTUS, former US Senator from NYS and Secretary of State, the greedy, scandal ridden, corrupt and treasonous Hillary Clinton. The final electoral college count showed: Trump 306 Clinton 232. From the pure historical context, Clinton not only cheated during the debates by receiving the questions ahead of time from Donna Brazile, who was the acting DNC chair and longtime CNN political commentator, it was just a bit rigged!
Furthermore, Clinton funded the fraudulent “Trump-Russian” collusion that included former FBI Director James Comey; former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe; former DOJ Associate Deputy Bruce Ohr and his wife Nellie Ohr, who was gainfully employed by FusionGPS, an open source political opposition strategic firm who worked with the FBI; former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper; former Director of the CIA, and avowed Communist, John Brennan and finally former Special FBI Agent Peter Strozk and former FBI attorney Lisa Page, who were not only having an affair, but communicated their hate for Trump and promised to any lengths to stop him. And let’s not forget the author of the fraudulent salacious dossier written by former MI-6 agent Christopher Steele. The poll numbers were so far off with the final results…and the invent of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
And lastly, in regard to the Clinton funded Trump-Russian collusion, the odds are pretty good that in 2016 both Obama and Biden knew what was happening. Why? Because Obama wanted Clinton for Obama 3.0. Trump really upset Obama’s goal to “fundamentally change” America. So, in 2020, the radical, progressive socialist left pulled out all the election fraud and shenanigans to get Trump out of the White House. And we see the results of the damage Biden has done to the country with his woke, liberal and socialist progressive policies.
In a remarkable twist towards actually telling the truth, the Clown News Network, AKA CNN, reported that Trump is performing strongly with Hispanic voters on the issue of immigration, stronger than anyone anticipated. Hispanics who came here legally through Customs and Border Protection ports of entry, and have adhered to immigration laws and the process, view the Biden administration allowing the illegal aliens to move to the front of the citizenship line, despite waiting years and spending thousands of dollars to not only get a green card, but realize the actuality of becoming American citizens. The radical, indoctrinated, progressive socialist Democrats are harvesting a future voting base, with the long range goal of one party control!
CNN political analyst Harry Enten stated: “Overwhelmingly, they trust Donald Trump more.”
And let’s not overlook the reality that the Black Community is only valuable to the Democrats, and Biden, during election years when they return to their districts, or states, and repeat the same empty campaign promises that were never fulfilled! And the members of the Black Community who live in the lower socioeconomic areas are faced with the challenges and consequences of employment competition from the illegal aliens that have been placed in their neighborhoods by the Biden administration and are hired to do the same jobs, but at lower wages.
Border Patrol chief Jason Owens said the US government needs to implement tougher immigration policies, including the jailing of migrants, to deter unlawful crossings along the southern border.”I think we need to take a look at the asylum laws and make it where only people that have a legitimate claim can claim asylum,” Owens said in his first sit-down interview since assuming the top role at Border Patrol in June 2023. “I think that we need to be able to enforce the immigration laws that are on the books and hold people accountable whenever they choose to break the law.” It seems that a large number of illegal aliens come here for financial asylum, not political asylum. And Biden doesn’t need more money, he needs to follow the immigration laws already on the books! Will he? At this point not a chance!
Is this the Joker? Nope, it’s just the worst VPOTUS in our history. And let’s not forget that her Jewish stepdaughter is raising money for Gaza!
And the “Border Czar” is back on the road attempting to determine the cause of illegal migration. Harris, easily the worst, and most useless vice president, couldn’t solve the issue three years ago, so what is going to change? Yet, Mexico’s president warns that the migrant crisis will worsen if the US doesn’t adhere to his demands…take the sanctions off Cuba and Venezuela. But he did say that it was easier to deal with Trump, because he was more clear and more direct. You think?
As he defends Biden’s border policy, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has repeatedly lied that the immigration system has been broken for decades, while the administration has been trying to fix it from Day One, and that there is a magical “bipartisan solution” in Congress that Republicans are refusing to pass. The illegal alien invasion is a national security threat and border security is a big piece of national security. And does DHS fully know who is coming into the country and what their intent is, which that a threat. The illegal aliens are exploiting a vulnerability on border right now, but who opened the border floodgates in 2021?
Hard at work, without brain freeze!
Finally, as the Democrats attempt to employ a campaign strategy regarding cover for Biden’s age, his feebleness, his gait, talking to the dead or absent people, the obvious cognitive decline and his inability to speak in coherent sentences, they still have to deal with his his gaffes, especially when Joe goes rouge from the script. Recently, we got two gaffes for the price of one during a Pennsylvania campaign speech: “Pennsylvania, I have a message for you: Send me to Congress!” Biden shouted at one point, appearing to mix up the office he’s running for. He was a six-term US senator representing Delaware in Congress before he became vice president in 2008. Later in his remarks, Biden said, “we cut the deficit and we added more to the national debt than any president in his term in all of history, than under Donald Trump.”
If anyone truly believes that Biden is doing a good job…Trump defeated Biden in a hypothetical rematch, yet, the bootlicking dregs of the corporate mainstream media seem to be purposely ignoring his undeniable popularity, while covering up Biden’s hideous performance and poll numbers. Well, the numbers don’t lie!!
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There are people that still support Biden which in the equation is hard to understand; but, if you can’t read or write that tells you everything – you don’t know what the true story is in the public arena.
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., discusses the Biden administration’s green agenda and his exchange with an Olympic skier at a hearing about climate change on ‘Hannity.’
From the looks of the stupidity shown at the highest level – Senate – why wasn’t this “EXPERT” guy vetted before appearing before the whole world and continues to prove that with his non-answers about climate change – that there is nothing to see here. He better stick to his slipping and a sliding down the slopes. His brain was certainly not in gear.
The entire world order is collapsing, the United States is an economic basket case, and the American people are more divided at any other time since the Civil War.
Had this situation existed under the much-maligned former President Donald J. Trump, the media coverage over these last three awful years would have centered on stories about how insane Trump is, how unfit for office he is, and the Left would be doing everything in its power to impeach him.
But since these catastrophic failures are occurring under (non) leadership of Joe Biden, the media spends its time reporting on Biden’s favorite ice cream flavor and attacking the House Republicans for daring to investigate the forty-sixth president for the allegedly criminal actions of his son, Hunter. We’re at banana republic-level politics here.
It’s one thing to have a favorable media environment, as most Democratic Party presidents have enjoyed since FDR. It’s an entirely different matter to have such a sycophantic media that the president himself starts to buy the hype and lies about his presidency.
When are we going to start listening to scientists who know something instead of a bunch of uninformed UN politicians trying to create a new world order. Those very people are not educated and are ignorant in world affairs.
Climate change is UN-led hoax to create ‘new world order’ – Australian PM’s adviser
“This is not about facts or logic. It’s about a new world order under the control of the UN.”
RT.com – May 8, 2015
Climate change is UN-led hoax to create ‘new world order’ – Australian PM’s adviser The Australian prime minister’s chief business adviser says that climate change is a ruse led by the United Nations to create a new world order under the agency’s control. The statement coincided with a visit from the UN’s top climate negotiator.
Maurice Newman, chairman of Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s business advisory council, said the UN is using false models which show sustained temperature increases because it wants to end democracy and impose authoritarian rule.
“It’s a well-kept secret, but 95 percent of the climate models we are told prove the link between human CO2 emissions and catastrophic global warming have been found, after nearly two decades of temperature stasis, to be in error,” he wrote in an opinion piece published in The Australian newspaper on Friday, without providing evidence.
“The real agenda is concentrated political authority. Global warming is the hook,” he said, adding that the UN is against capitalism and freedom and wants to create a “new world order.”
The adviser’s inflammatory comments coincided with a visit from UN climate chief Christiana Figueres.
According to Newman, Figueres is “on record saying democracy is a poor political system for fighting global warming. Communist China, she says, is the best model.”
Figueres was in Australia to discuss practical climate change action, urging the country to move away from heavily polluting coal production. She also urged Australia to play a leading role at the climate summit in Paris in December.
But that call is unlikely to be heeded. During November’s G20 meeting in Brisbane, Abbott warned that the Paris summit would fail if world leaders decided prioritize the cutting of carbon emissions over economic growth.
Abbott, who called the science behind climate change “crap” in 2009, also repealed a tax on carbon pricing and abolished the independent Climate Commission advisory body in Australia.
The prime minister has been reluctant to take part in climate change politics, trying but failing to keep it off the agenda at last year’s G20 summit.
Both Abbott’s office and the United Nations have so far declined to comment on Newman’s statements.
A well-known climate change skeptic, Newman has made similar provocative comments in the past, calling the notion a “myth” and a “delusion.”
In February, he criticized renewable energy policies. Citing British charity Age UK, he stated that elderly citizens in Britain often die of “winter deaths” because they can’t afford power. He blamed renewable energy policies which drive up the price of energy.
However, when asked about his claim by The Guardian, the charity sent back a statement which referenced high energy costs, but failed to mention anything about renewable energy.
Just a few months earlier, in November 2014, Newman cited a Scottish government-commissioned study which allegedly said that for every job in the renewable sector, 3.7 jobs were lost elsewhere. However, the report itself made no mention that it was commissioned by the government. In fact, the government called the study “misleading,” adding that the industry would actually have the opposite effect on jobs.
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Thank you for listening to a scientist who knows what he is talking about.
