Biden's Green New Deal policies sell us out to China -- literally

It’s true that the Biden Administration is not the sole cause of high energy prices. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine rightly led President Biden in March to ban Russian oil and natural gas imports into the US. But the main reason for expensive energy prices is President Biden’s suppression of oil and gas production.

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It would have been easy for Biden to make up for loss of Russian oil imports through expanded domestic drilling. Where the US imported around 18 million barrels of Russian oil per month, we produce 19 million barrels of oil domestically per day. Instead, Biden has leased less public land for oil and gas production during his first 19 months in office than any other administration since World War II, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.

But all this is a prelude to the main way Democrats plan to make energy more expensive, which is by spending $370 billion of taxpayer money through the new (and misnamed) “Inflation Reduction Act” to subsidize solar panels and wind turbines made in China. …

Worst of all, our need for these materials means we become increasingly reliant on China. China’s market share of renewables and EV minerals is already twice OPEC’s share of oil. The US depends on imports for 100% of 17 renewables and EV-critical minerals. For 28 others, we import more than 50% of domestic demand.

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