I’m going to get those gas prices down again, I promise you. – Joe Biden, September 14, 2023, speech on the economy.

The Biden administration announced Friday it would lease a handful of spots in the Gulf of Mexico to oil companies for drilling over the next five years, a move that angered Republicans, the fossil fuel industry and climate activists alike.

The administration said oil and gas companies would be able to drill in just three new areas in the Gulf between 2024 and 2029, the smallest number of lease sales offered since the federal drilling program began decades ago.

Under a new law, the government must offer leases for oil drilling before it can invite developers to build wind farms in federal waters. Producing clean electricity from wind turbines is one of President Biden’s top priorities as he tries to reduce the fossil fuel pollution that is dangerously heating the planet.

Note what The New York Times quotes in Interior Department secretary Deb Haaland’s statement (emphasis mine): [T]he plan sets a course for the department to support the growing offshore wind industry and protect against the potential for environmental damage and adverse impacts to coastal communities.

Not surprisingly, environmentalists are disappointed because they want all oil drilling stopped. Even analysts The Times interviewed agreed with a fossil fuel industry spokesman that restrictions could have a long term effect on energy prices.

Biden is doing this knowing the consequences and Haaland’s statement ultimately confirms it. The White House is intentionally ratcheting up oil prices by restricting oil and gas extraction in the U.S. giving energy dominance to OPEC while giving a kickback to the so-called renewable energy industry. It is part of a cynical ploy to push people into giving up their gas-powered cars for electric ones or to use transit systems in order to travel domestically.

No doubt His Fraudulency will go begging to the global oil cartel and OPEC will turn him down like all of the other times in the past. But Biden achieves gang green’s ends of destroying the use of fossil fuels using different means. Remember, ladies and gentlemen, the adults are back in charge.

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