Posted on 07/16/2022 1:08:45 PM PDT by karpov
With congressional legislation to address climate change in jeopardy, President Biden is coming under pressure to curb greenhouse-gas emissions by using his own executive powers.
The Biden administration could toughen regulations on power utilities, block new oil and gas drilling on federal land and raise auto fuel-efficiency standards, among other things, according to environmental groups and progressives in Congress.
For more-extreme actions pitched by some environmental groups—such as a halt to offshore-oil production or a ban on U.S. crude-oil exports—Mr. Biden could declare a national climate emergency under federal laws that give presidents expanded powers in times of crisis.
Some of those measures could raise gasoline prices and other energy costs for consumers, something Mr. Biden wants to avoid as his Democratic Party faces crucial midterm elections.
Other options could help consumers but lead to painful consequences elsewhere.
An oil-export ban could reduce America’s prices, but it would be a gut punch to allies around the world reliant on U.S. supply as they try to wean themselves off Russian oil and gas, said Bob McNally, who served as an energy adviser to former President George W. Bush and is now an analyst at Rapidan Energy Group.
“For the world, it would be a heart attack,” he added. “Whatever he does would lead to a collapse in investment in U.S. oil and gas,” Mr. McNally said.
Mr. Biden, who was in Saudi Arabia on Friday on a mission aimed in part at improving relations with the world’s largest crude exporter, issued a statement saying he would take “strong executive action to meet this moment.” Mr. Biden didn’t give any specifics.
Mr. Biden’s latest dilemma was triggered late Thursday, when Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) said he couldn’t support a plan to fund climate measures with tax increases
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He will probably do it after the Midterms.
He will probably do it after the Midterms.“
Yes he probably will, win or lose.
Ordinary Americans are favoring action that leads to Xi-Putin environmental puppets decorating trees and lamp-posts all over this great country.
When the wind blows, the dangling puppet show will make America great again.
They’ll never be satisfied until the economy crashed back to the stone age.
Thats entertainment!
As bad as it may be in the short term this increases the chances our next President will be a Republican.
Why do we have a Congress if the president can just order something when his legislation fails?
I don’t think Biden can get everything he wants solely through executive action. Otherwise, he would have already done it.
You would think they wouldn’t want to piss off all of those Americans who own assault riffles.,?
They write this stuff omitting the other side of the argument entirely.
EnvironMENTALISTS, are idiots.
They don’t care about anything but their fantasies.
The linked article is all about executive orders and how to cancel them. The short of it is, mostly, they can’t be cancelled due to the partisan nature of politics. It takes a two thirds vote of the Senate and House. (Come on! What are the odds of that?) I can’t count the number of times when some RINO wouldn’t back something because he had a bee up his bum for something totally unrelated. (Like the hate-Trump-no matter-if-it-cuts-my-nose-off-Republicans.) Then, there’s the much rarer “principled” Democrat who really wants some face time as there’s no such thing as bad publicity for a Democrat. Honestly, I’m shocked they don’t barbeque kittens just for the publicity. (Gosh, I hope no one picks up on that.)
https://www.thefreemanonline.org/can-congress-overturn-executive-orders/
Exactly. Legislating by “executive order” has gotten out of hand.
Joe Biden as manipulated by extreme environmentalists who want him to take action on Climate Change thru executive orders. Only so much he can do and not risk have them get overturned by the Supreme Court.
“...ALLEGED climate change......” Henceforth, any discussion on this topic should include the correction to these assclowns of: “Certainly you mean ‘alleged’ climate change.” 😊🙌
Now we have KING Joey Crappy Pants.
F U Joey!!!!
Climate has been changing since the beginning of time. Man did it?? Ridiculous...
NO STATE IS BOUND, by any EO.
He can take his EOs and stuff them right up his stinky, filthy, scum sucking ass!
Moreover, if any governor had any balls, they would build NEW refinerys within their state and refine oil for distribution and use in that state.
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