{"id":51252,"date":"2022-04-18T12:57:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T12:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51252"},"modified":"2022-04-18T12:57:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T12:57:10","slug":"biden-energy-policy-undergoes-big-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51252","title":{"rendered":"Biden energy policy undergoes big shift"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wind-energy-realism.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28664\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wind-energy-realism-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wind-energy-realism-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wind-energy-realism.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It pains me to say this, but it appears that President Biden is flailing as he seeks to grapple with skyrocketing energy prices.<\/p>\n<p>The president made a vigorous pledge during the 2020 campaign that there would &#8220;never&#8221; be drilling for oil on federal land were he elected to the nation&#8217;s highest office. I applauded the pledge when he made it.<\/p>\n<p>Now he has changed his mind in a major fashion. The president now will allow that drilling to boost the supply of fossil fuel. He said times have changed since the 2020 campaign, requiring a pivot from that environmentally sound policy pronouncement.<\/p>\n<p>The price of gasoline, diesel and other petroleum products has zoomed skyward, causing considerable pain at the pump for millions of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Biden&#8217;s decision has angered environmental activists. I am not officially one of the &#8220;angry&#8221; Americans. I am just disappointed in the president&#8217;s policy reversal, which isn&#8217;t likely to have much of an impact on the price of fuel we are paying.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden has sought to steer the nation toward a more renewable energy posture. Critics suggest any diminishing of the fossil fuel industry deprives Americans of jobs. What they ignore, though, is that green-energy job creation can help soften such job losses.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, efforts to rely more on alternatives to fossil fuels free the nation of any dependence on foreign sources of oil &#8230; while creating a cleaner environment that helps stem the damage caused by climate change.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden is feeling the heat &#8212; no pun intended &#8212; from those who want relief from high fuel prices. If only he could stop flailing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It pains me to say this, but it appears that President Biden is flailing as he seeks to grapple with skyrocketing energy prices. The president made a vigorous pledge during the 2020 campaign that there would &#8220;never&#8221; be drilling for oil on federal land were he elected to the nation&#8217;s highest office. I applauded the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51252\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biden energy policy undergoes big shift<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7910,4],"tags":[1027,1591,9921,2505],"class_list":["post-51252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-news","category-environmental-news","tag-climate-change","tag-energy-policy","tag-fossil-fuel","tag-joe-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51253,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51252\/revisions\/51253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}