From: Institute for Energy Research
By: Thomas J. Pyle
Date: May 23, 2023
150 Ways the Biden Administration and Democrats Have Made it Harder to Produce Oil & Gas
President Biden and the Democrats in Congress have a plan for American energy: make it harder to produce and more expensive to purchase. Since Mr. Biden took office, his administration and its allies have taken over 150 actions deliberately designed to make it harder to produce energy here in America. A list of those actions, which includes a few high-profile actions taken in states like New York and California, appears below. A list of those actions appears below. A PDF of the full list is available to download here.
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On January 20, 2021,
- Besides canceling the Keystone XL pipeline,
- President Biden restricted domestic production by issuing a moratorium on all oil and natural gas leasing activities in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
- He also restored and expanded the use of the government-created social cost of carbon metric to artificially increase the regulatory costs of energy production of fossil fuels when performing analyses, as well as artificially increase the so-called “benefits” of decreasing production.
- Biden continued to revoke Trump administration executive orders, including those related to the Waters of the United States rule and the Antiquities Act. The Trump-era actions decreased regulations on Federal land and expanded the ability to produce energy domestically.
On January 27, 2021, (continue reading)
150 Ways the Biden Administration and Democrats Have Made it Harder to Produce Oil & Gas