Posted on 01/26/2024 8:32:17 AM PST by Red Badger
President Joe Biden’s latest energy policy decision may ultimately prove to be a major boon for former President Donald Trump and his bid to return to the White House.
The Biden administration is expected to announce formally on Friday that it is delaying its final determination on whether to approve Calcasieu Pass 2 (CP2), a massive liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal in Louisiana. The delay is a clear sign that the administration is thinking about effectively killing the project, and it appears that the Trump campaign will take advantage of the new opportunity to slam Biden’s energy agenda while contrasting it with Trump’s record on the issue.
Biden is under heavy pressure from the environmentalist left to kill CP2 and other proposed LNG export terminals, especially after his administration decided to allow ConocoPhillips to proceed with the Willow Project in Alaska over the vehement opposition of activist groups. The Willow Decision was a rare victory for fossil fuel interests during Biden’s first term, which has seen the federal government issue the most restrictive offshore oil and gas leasing schedule in American history and take millions of acres of federal land off the table for drilling.
Trump, meanwhile, is promising a simple energy strategy if he returns to the Oval Office: “Drill, baby, drill,” as he said after winning the Iowa caucus.
“Joe Biden has once again caved to the radical demands of the environmental extremists in his administration,” Karoline Leavitt, a spokeswoman for the Trump campaign, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “On day one, President Trump will unleash American Energy to lower the cost of living for all Americans, pay down debt, strengthen national security, and establish the United States as the manufacturing superpower of the world,” she continued, adding that the CP2 delay is a “disastrous self-inflicted wound that will further undermine America’s economic and national security.”
The Trump campaign will “absolutely” use the Biden administration’s choice to delay a determination on CP2 as fodder on the campaign trail going forward, Mike McKenna, a GOP strategist and former Trump administration energy adviser, told the DCNF.
From the Biden camp’s perspective, the CP2 delay, and especially a potential cancellation, are likely to buy goodwill with the environmentalist left, especially after the administration went ahead with the Willow Project last year.
“I get that they have to feed the progressives, but this looks like and is both a terrible idea and an illicit intrusion into the process of an independent regulatory agency,” McKenna told the DCNF.
Tom Pyle, the president of the American Energy Alliance, agrees with McKenna.
The decision “will harden support among those who support President Trump,” Pyle told the DCNF, adding that it is less clear “whether it helps President Biden, other than shoring up his left-wing base.”
“I guess the calculation is that it will help the greens find more of an excuse to spend even more on Biden’s reelection,” Pyle continued. “Average folks see this for what it is: a shortsighted political move that helps nobody besides the hardline special interests that support him.”
White House officials reportedly met with several activists, including a 25-year old TikTok influencer and members of the confrontational organization known as Climate Defiance, ahead of its decision to delay a final determination on CP2.
A recent poll found that most voters who are likely to participate in the 2024 election in eight swing states do not believe that climate change is the most serious issue facing the nation today, while a majority of respondents identified the economy as the most or second-most important issue. Vice President Kamala Harris recently estimated that the administration has spent about $1 trillion on its massive green energy and climate agenda.
The Biden campaign did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
Between the border, energy, and the lawfare, it feels like Biden is repeatedly shooting his own feet with a shotgun. During an election year.
I’ll say it again: if Biden gets 100 million ballots in November, the people will not stand for it.
Folks,
All this is a test, a test of who we are.
What is the purpose of a test?
There is nothing they can do....................
Not to worry, the Russians will make up the difference.
Kari Lake will soon become the next Linda Tripp. It’s timing.
Dictators do not care about such things as this.
Now the Biden Administration is cutting off those Natural Gas supplies, which will force Europe to either freeze or defy Russian sanctions and buy more Russian Natural Gas.
Our EU Allies will be so pleased Joe Biden is cutting back on supplying LNG. WEF in Davos really wants more green energy and this is a good start.
Linda’s “illegal” recordings are a textbook case of “what is legal is not necessarily moral, and what is moral is not necessarily legal.”
It won't change the minds of voters affected with Stage II (or higher) TDS, or those voters whose intellectual awareness is limited to seeing "D" next to the candidate's name or next to the lever on the voting machine.
Biden is doing what his handlers tell him to do. What his handlers are telling him to do will wreck the country. That is intentional.
Elections are not a concern for the cabal that is directing the Biden handlers. They clearly believe they can fix the "elections". Maybe they are wrong about that. We will find out this year.
The goal of the cabal is unrestrained power forever. That requires destruction of a prosperous middle class that might oppose the rulers. It requires the creation of an impoverished peasantry class which depends on favors from the rulers in order to survive.
This program is well underway. But, "predictions are hard, especially about the future" (Yogi Berra).
I like your approach of putting TDS on a scale.
It allows us to differentiate between who wants to just steal our stuff and who wants to kill us.
;-)
Biden is repeatedly shooting his own feet with a shotgun. “
That would be true except the MSM Biden protection fortress will kill this story like all the others. After he shuts this crucial project down you will not be able to find 3 people who know did it.
“What is the purpose of a test?”
To fail, of course, and fail miserably, if that is what it takes. If you get 100% of anything, you have not been tested.
But if there is just enough slippage to cause anxiety, you then know what you have to do to make up the lack and how to respond to the crisis the next time.
JMHO
We should be building natural gas fired power plants and using the gas ourselves rather than expending all that energy to freeze, transport and unfreeze it.
Wouldn’t want to do anything that might benefit the U.S.
Marko
the people will not stand for it.
What people?
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