Joe Biden’s 50-year political career is coming to a disgraceful conclusion.
He’s spending his final days in office creating obstacles for his successor.
And Joe Biden left behind a nasty surprise to make Donald Trump’s life hell.
Biden tries to stop Donald Trump from achieving energy dominance
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to unleash American energy production when he takes office.
Lowering energy prices is the key to Trump’s plan to lessen the impact of inflation on consumers.
President Joe Biden threw up a roadblock to expanding energy production under the incoming Trump administration.
Biden paused the authorization for new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities in January as a favor to the climate change lobby.
The Department of Energy released a new study that could be used in legal challenges against new LNG plants under the incoming Trump administration.
Using tortured logic designed to fuel lawsuits the study claims that new LNG exports could be a national security risk and hurt consumers.
The United States would be an energy superpower from LNG exports if every proposed project was approved by the 2030s.
Center for Biological Diversity attorney Lauren Parker told Politico that the report will be used by environmental activist groups in legal challenges to new LNG facilities approved by the Trump administration.
“The DOE will use the study to determine whether LNG exports are in the public interest, a legal requirement under the Natural Gas Act,” Parker said. “This new study should bolster arguments that any public interest analysis is flawed if it doesn’t recommend denying LNG export licenses, because the harms from these exports clearly outweigh the benefits.”
Biden’s Energy Department made up the harms to give legal ammunition for environmental activists.
Trump administration doesn’t back down from lowering energy costs
Democrats are using flawed logic to claim that exporting natural gas overseas hurts American consumers and drives up prices.
Representative Sean Casten (D-IL) drove home the report’s phony message to environmental activist groups.
“If you are a U.S. gas producer or investor and you have the opportunity to sell it to people in the United States at one price, or sell it to people overseas at a higher price, you’re going to take the higher price because you want to make more money — nothing wrong with that,” Casten ranted. “But if you’re exporting gas overseas to take a higher price by definition you are raising the price in the United States.”
Natural gas is a global market.
The United States exporting more LNG would drive down prices globally even if it’s sold for more overseas.
“Families have suffered under the past four years’ war on American energy, which prompted the worst inflation crisis in a generation,” Trump transition spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said. “When he takes office, President Trump will make America energy dominant again, protect our energy jobs, and bring down the cost of living for working families.”
S&P Global Commodity Insights Eric Eyberg noted the Energy Department’s report was nonsense.
“U.S. gas production has more than tripled compared to the amount of LNG that the country exports,” Eyberg explained. “That abundant supply has allowed LNG exports to support more than 270,000 jobs annually and contribute more than $400 Billion to GDP to date with no major impact to domestic prices.”
Joe Biden wants his war on American energy production to outlast his Presidency.
