Commentary
“Look, kiddo, I want you to look at my eyes. I guarantee you. I guarantee you. We’re going to end fossil fuels.” Joe Biden, 2019
We energy realists knew that all this was inevitable, although it might have come about even faster than we expected.
A historic energy crisis is the only possible result of spurning our most important and irreplaceable fuels—oil and gas—which supply over 70 percent of America’s energy and are not replaceable at scale (wind and solar offer a combined 5 percent).
Blocking pipelines, refusing to hold federal lease auctions for exploration and production, canceling the Keystone XL oil pipeline, and looking to block oil and gas exports are just a few of the destructive energy policies that the Biden administration has adopted….