U.S. Now Dependent On Our Enemies For Oil

There were celebrations yesterday among the sheiks who rule Saudi Arabia and in Putin’s Russia.

Biden, worried that rising gasoline prices could hurt him politically, just begged these two countries to increase their oil production so that the U.S. can import more of it.

Just a couple of years ago under President Trump, we were producing so much oil that we became net oil exporters. We weren’t dependent on any other country for our energy. Trump encouraged the new drilling technology and defended the energy industry from its left-wing critics.

When Biden and Harris took office, they declared war on our American energy industry. Biden shut down the Keystone pipeline, costing thousands of jobs. He canceled drilling leases on federal property. He is threatening much higher taxes on our own energy industry.

Earlier this week, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm even attacked our natural gas industry, which is the cleaner alternative to coal and oil.

Meanwhile, Americans are feeling the pain at the gas pump. That reality has Biden and Democrat political operatives worried about a backlash at the polls in November 2022.

There is an easy solution available, but Biden is too weak and afraid of the left to do it. He could simply take his foot off the neck of our domestic energy industry. He could reduce regulations on our energy industry and ask it to gear up and drill for more oil. This would be the logical way to ensure that America is not dependent on our enemies for our energy.

But Biden is doing the exact opposite. The White House actually went out of their way yesterday to assure reporters that they don’t want more domestic drilling. They’d rather rely on Putin than on the patriotic, hardworking men and women in Texas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and other states who produce America’s energy that keeps this country’s economy moving.

I suspect the Saudis and Russians will supply more oil. But there will be a price to be paid. And when it is, I guarantee you the Biden administration won’t announce it from the White House podium. Meanwhile, they will keep pushing solar and wind power, two industries dominated by communist China.