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Last Thursday, Senator Manchin announced that he was unwilling to move forward on the Democrats' climate legislation until he saw the next round of inflation numbers. Even though his statement explicitly left open the possibility of Manchin agreeing to some climate-related funding in the fall, Democrats and environmental activists descended into fury and sadness.   

Senator Ed Markey tweeted, “Rage keeps me from tears.” 

Senator Martin Heinrich tweeted , “Senator Manchin’s...

Has anyone told President Biden that fossil fuels made up 82 percent of the world’s energy and 79 percent of U.S. energy in 2021? Has anyone told him that Europe is using more coal because Russia is reducing its natural gas supplies to Europe? Has anyone told him that Europe’s energy crisis first started with low levels of wind, requiring more fossil fuels to meet electricity demand? Does he care that there are riots in the world due to escalating inflation , caused in part due to high...

President Biden wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post to stress that he isn’t going to beg for oil. In fact, the op-ed hardly mentions energy at all. The Biden White House, however, has begged OPEC+ for more oil for the last year, the high price of gasoline is the number one issue for likely voters, and voters are blaming Biden for high gasoline prices. Of course, energy is an important part, or even the most important part, of Biden’s trip to the Middle East.

Reading Biden’s op-ed...

It is not enough that China is buying Russian oil at a discount due to western sanctions put on Russia because of its invasion of Ukraine, but now President Biden’s Department of Energy is selling China oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR)—a source that is meant for national emergencies that Biden has been depleting since last November in hopes to lower gasoline prices that have been escalating due to his energy policies.

The SPR was established by the 1975 Energy...

As talks intensify on the once ambitious “Build Back Better” reconciliation measure, the conversation has shifted towards how to pay for a slimmer, but no less disruptive package of subsidies for wind, solar, electric vehicles, and other non-energy related measures. The Democrats would be satisfied to raise corporate taxes.  Some in the business community, however, are rumored to be lobbying the Democrats to tax energy instead. Enter S. 2378, a proposal  by Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) to...

The Biden administration has recently called on America's natural gas and oil companies to invest billions of dollars into increasing production, BUT at the same time, President Biden and his cronies are promising to run them out of business in the next few years!

It's time for Biden to get his story straight on American energy production.

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President Biden’s Department of Interior released its draft offshore lease plan late on  July 1—just before the Fourth of July holiday, as American families were paying historically-high gasoline prices for their travels.  The plan is required by law and a final plan was due by June 30, when the current plan ended. The draft plan lays out several options for public input regarding the number of offshore oil and gas lease sales that should be held over the next five years, ranging from ...

Russian natural gas supply to Europe via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline capacity fell to 40 percent recently as Russia cut flows awaiting the return of equipment sent to Canada for repair and warns that more delays in repairs could lead to cutting all flows, putting additional strain on Europe’s ability to refill its natural gas inventories and raising prices by 40 percent . Gazprom, the state-controlled gas company, indicated that Western sanctions made it impossible to secure the return...

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that nine new fields will come online in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico this year, which will account for 5 percent of natural gas production and 14 percent of oil production in U.S. federal Gulf of Mexico waters by the end of 2023 . However, EIA expects that the additional capacity from these new fields will not sustain oil production at levels similar to the end of 2021 in offshore fields. According to EIA, declining production...

Between August 2021 and February 2022, President Biden’s Bureau of Land Management’s approval of drilling permits was low, averaging about 200 per month. After Russia invaded Ukraine, however, the approvals picked up with 473 approved in March and 357 approved in April. Those approvals were still much less than the 600+ approved in April and May 2021. And, there is still a large number of pending permits: over 4,400. Biden’s call on U.S. oil and gas producers to drill more — and his...