Biden Tells the Most Shameful Lie During His Russian Oil Remarks – Opinion

We’re in the middle of crushing inflation with rising gas prices, skyrocketing higher because of the instability with the war by Russia on Ukraine.

Joe Biden responded on Tuesday with a speech that was filled with lies about cutting off Russian oil. Cutting off Russian oil only makes sense if you are increasing our production or at least have a source from someone who doesn’t want to kill us. We can be more energy independent — and we were under President Donald Trump. We now see the importance of this independence. We never should have increased the reliance on Russia, to begin with — which happened under Biden. What sense would that make if you take it off, and go to Iran, who wants us dead, or support the Venezuelan government? As we noted on Monday, the Biden team is indeed considering getting oil from places like Venezuela and Iran — just not doing anything at all to increase our production.

Biden claimed during his remarks, “It’s simply not true that my administration or policies are holding back domestic energy production.”

BIDEN: “It’s simply not true that my administration or policies are holding back domestic energy production.” pic.twitter.com/mLHvXNUiM0

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 8, 2022

Does he really think he is joking It is shameful and contrary to all reality. His campaign was filled with threats to U.S.-energy, such as this moment, when he claimed he would eliminate fossil fuels.

Biden in 2019: “I guarantee you we’re going to end fossil fuel.”

You are only there for the pain.pic.twitter.com/p3oA65vWJD

— Tommy Pigott (@TommyPigott) March 8, 2022

Biden, his first day as president, stopped Keystone XL’s pipeline. This threw people out of their jobs and banned any leases that would allow drilling on public lands. It was clear that he wanted to stop more American production. Biden also stopped work on the Willow Project in Alaska. Two weeks earlier, he had already stopped oil and gaz leases.

Two weeks ago https://t.co/1s40Jm8cap pic.twitter.com/xXVVHUFxEa

— Kyle Martinsen (@KyleMartinsen_) March 8, 2022

We reported previously that we produced about 1 million and a 1/2 fewer oil barrels per day under Biden in 2021 than under Trump in 2019.

Biden and his team have a new line that they’ve been using to suggest that it’s not them who are cutting back on energy — that companies have 9,000 federal drilling leases so somehow it’s the companies’ fault. This is unhinged, like his claim that cars are more expensive and that’s 1/3 of the reason for inflation.

Mike Sommers of the American Petroleum Institute said Biden’s claim about the leases is deceptive.

“There’s a fundamental misunderstanding of the administration as to how the process actually works,” Sommers said in an interview on the sidelines of the conference.

“Just because you have a lease doesn’t mean there’s actually oil and gas in that lease, and there has to be a lot of development that occurs between the leasing and then ultimately permitting for that acreage to be productive,” he said. “I think that they’re purposefully misusing the facts here to advantage their position.”

Sommers stated that the Biden administration should promote U.S. oil production and not OPEC+ which also includes Russian oil.

In 2020, there were almost 40,000 subleases to oil companies & it has been cut down last year to less than 9,000 leases. Also, not all those “9000 permits” are active or that oil companies can go right ahead & start drilling due to the regulations making it difficult to start https://t.co/qCn0GxP85N

— Mona Salama (@MonaSalama_) March 8, 2022

“But there will be cost as well here in the U.S.,” Biden said. No kidding.

It is possible to cut the Russian oil purchases without increasing production. You also drive up prices, making everything more expensive. He isn’t even talking with American energy producers while trying to use them as scapegoats. If he truly thought they could be producing oil, wouldn’t his first thought be to talk with them rather than Iran?

Had he not taken the anti-energy position he had and increased the buying of Russian oil, we wouldn’t be in this position now. But even now, he still refuses to do what needs to be done for our independence because he’s so owned by the left and their anti-energy aims that are now endangering national security. It will be extremely harmful for many Americans and it is likely to cause great harm.