House Democrats obliterated promising legislation to reclaim America’s energy independence on March 2nd hours before Joe Biden issued a rallying cry for his radical ‘green-new-deal’ inspired climate policies.
The “American Energy Independencefrom Russia Act” presented by the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s ranking member Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, (R-WA)., was thrown out primarily along partisan lines 221 to 202. Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz was the single member of the lower chamber to cross the aisle, signing up with Democrats in resistance with arguments over new leases along his state’s coastline.
“America, not Russia, is the world’s number one energy producer,” Rodgers stated on the Home floor arguing for her legislation. “We should act like it and lead. President Biden must restore American energy dominance and use energy resources to help Ukraine and Europe fight back.”
The bill’s demise at Democrat hands comes less than a week after Russia, a worldwide energy producer providing about 10 percent of the world’s oil, began its illegal invasion of Ukraine. In 2021, the USA increased its imports of Russian crude and brought in more than 400,000 barrels on average day-to-day in December, the last month for which information is readily available from the Energy Information Administration.
A Partisan Democrat Spite-Move Spikes America’s Energy Independence — And Helps Russia
Oil and gas incomes, at the same time, fund Moscow’s war equipment as Russia’s largest exports, allowing President Vladimir Putin to weaponize his nation’s monopoly on Western energy. Last year, Russia produced $119 billion from its energy resources, according to reporting by Reuters citing Russia’s Money Ministry.
The United States must replace Russian energy with American energy independence & accelerating energy exports to our allies.
American strength deters our adversaries, and our response to Putin's unprovoked war against Ukraine demands American leadership.
— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) February 25, 2022
The USA is forecast by the Department of Energy to remain a net importer of oil under Biden as the White House works to annihilate the American oil and gas industries in the name of “climate change”. Biden restated his commitment to phase out nonrenewable fuel sources with unreliable types of renewable resources in his prime-time address to Congress on Tuesday night despite driving energy prices to seven-year highs.
The passionate forfeit of American energy independence has actually removed a vital financial lever to pivot against Russia for its unwarranted strike into Ukraine, which has actually led to a humanitarian crisis as hundreds of thousands of displaced refugees have actually fled the war zone.
Tuesday’s rebuffed legislation sought to respond to Russia’s energy influence as well as Ukrainian aggression by releasing American production to lower oil rates and also displace Russian imports. The bill reauthorized the Keystone XL Pipe axed by Biden on his initial day in office, which carried greater than double the oil imported from Russia in December. The legislation additionally mandated the resumption of leases for oil and gas exploration on government land. Biden silently stopped leases once again last month via an obscure legal maneuver, opposing rules controlling the social cost of carbon calculations.
If it had actually passed, the Republican bill additionally would have needed the Biden regime to launch a plan on energy safety within 30 days as well as replace oil reserves taken out from the emergency stock. On Tuesday, Biden introduced the United States would push out 30 million of its 590 million barrels of strategic petroleum reserves held for emergency situations. The reserves are permitted to hold up to 714 million barrels. In November, Biden authorized the release of 60 million barrels ahead of the Thanksgiving vacation, which has to do with three days’ well worth of everyday oil usage, according to the Energy Information Administration.
H/T The Federalist
