Biden's 'wartime' oil decisions rattle green energy activists

[SugarDaddy1]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...e-oil-decisions-rattle-green-energy-activists

President Joe Biden's efforts to stabilize the global oil market while simultaneously decreasing gas prices for drivers have baffled and infuriated some green energy activists.

Biden announced Thursday that the United States would release 180 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve over the next six months, use the revenue from the sales to refill the stockpile, and called on Congress to pass legislation fining oil companies with unused federal drilling permits or dormant wells on federally leased land. The president also utilized the Defense Production Act to surge domestic procurement of critical minerals the administration says are essential to achieving clean energy independence.

Biden's announcement came just days after the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Evergreen Action, Common Defense, Win Without War, Indivisible, Sierra Club, and a coalition of nearly 100 "climate, veteran, foreign policy, and progressive organizations" launched a campaign to pressure Biden and Democrats to make "swift investments in clean energy to reduce our dependence on foreign authoritarian leaders like Vladimir Putin and oil companies that are price-gouging Americans at the pump."

Meanwhile, a number of activists reacted to Biden's announcement by claiming that the administration was rewarding the "greed" of oil companies.

 

[Sean Renaud]

This is one of those things where I don't think he is making the right move here from a policy manner. However if he wants November to be less of a bloodbath he can do nothing less.

 

[ll74]

He's doing the only thing he can do, besides bullying Congress to repeal gas taxes