President Joe Biden and the White House have said that oil production is higher in the first year of Biden’s presidency than in the first year of former President Donald Trump’s. According to the Energy Information Administration, the U.S. was producing 8.8 million barrels of oil a day in November of 2016. By December of 2019, that increased to 12.9 million barrels a day.
President Biden inherited a thriving oil industry and, through poor policy decisions, now has us in the situation we are in and is blaming Vladimir Putin for high gas prices. According to AAA, the average gas price went from $2.10 on Dec. 12 to $3.57 a gallon on Feb. 18. That is a $1.47-a-gallon increase before Putin invaded Ukraine.
The energy secretary smugly stated that people wouldn’t have to pay the higher prices for gas if they had an electric car. It is obvious to me that the administration has policies in place to force us into electric cars, and President Biden said that he was going to phase out gas and oil. The EIA states that 20% of our electricity is generated by renewable sources, 20% by nuclear and 60% by fossil fuels. If we are charging electric cars with electricity generated primarily by fossil fuels, what are we gaining? Can our electric grid handle the increased load with everyone having electric cars? Common sense tells me it probably wouldn’t, since we currently have brownouts during the summer without electric cars. Are we going to have to choose between air conditioning or charging our car?
This current path the Biden administration and Democrats have us on has not been thought through and is devastating families.
Thomas Hoever
Magnolia
