OPINION:
President Biden, in a speech at a rally for New York Gov. Kathy Hochul just two days before Americans head to the ballot box, promised “no more drilling” — a remark that came about a week after he vowed the next generation will be powered by wind.
This guy, this president, this Biden presidency will have us living in caves and hunkering over fire pits for warmth. And walking everywhere — except for the carefully selected elites, that is, who will still fly private jets to spots around the world to lecture the peon class about the need to walk everywhere.
If there ever was a need to vote Republican and vote Republican across the board, this is it.
The context of Biden’s comments, seemingly made off-script, was a heckler calling out from the Hochul supporting crowd and raising a sign that read, “5 more years of drilling is a lose lose!” Biden cut off her yelling to say, “No more drilling. There is no more drilling. I haven’t formed any new drilling.”
He also said in an apparent answer to the heckler’s reference to “offshore drilling” in the Gulf of Mexico and the Antarctic: “That was before I was president” and “We’re trying to work on that to get that done.”
A week or so ago, Biden said in public remarks that coal plants were too expensive and that “we’re going to be shutting these plants down all across America” and forcing a shift to wind power. The White House downplayed that statement, saying via press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre that the comment had been “twisted to suggest a meaning that was not intended.”
But there wasn’t any twisting taking place.
This is the playbook of the Biden administration — and it’s one that was announced during his campaign days.
In his “9 Key Elements of Joe Biden’s Plan for a Clean Energy Revolution,” then-Campaign Joe promised to completely overhaul how America is powered, beginning with executive orders that reversed all-things-energy Donald Trump had done during his presidency.
Biden vowed mandates for zero-emission vehicles.
Biden vowed to ban all new oil and gas leasing on public lands and waters.
Biden vowed to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement.
Biden vowed to reduce “the carbon footprint of the U.S. building stock 50% by 2035.”
Biden vowed to “make environmental justice a priority across all federal agencies,” even stating in Point Number 6 this scientifically shaky bit of nonsense: “The coronavirus pandemic, which early data suggests is linked to air pollution that disproportionately affects communities of color and low-income communities, is shining new light on this reality.”
Biden vowed to “hold polluters accountable; … create 10 million good-paying, middle-class, union jobs; … [and use] every federal dollar spent on rebuilding our infrastructure … to prevent, reduce and withstand the impacts of this climate crisis.”
That’s his energy plan.
That’s what he promised to do to America’s energy — and now fast-forward to today, with his call to shut down coal, his call to stop drilling, his call to turn the country toward all wind, all the time — this is exactly what he’s doing.
Promise made. Promise kept.
Only voters can stop America from becoming a nation of cave dwellers.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” is available by clicking HERE or clicking HERE or CLICKING HERE.
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