How Biden’s energy policies enabled Putin’s invasion of Ukraine

President Joe Biden has pushed an aggressive anti-fossil fuels agenda since taking office, harming U.S. energy independence goals and enabling Russian aggression, experts said.

The Biden administration has consistently implemented policies against the U.S. fossil fuel industry — nixing pipelines and ditching drilling projects, pursuing burdensome regulations and delaying the key federal oil and gas permit program— as part of its aggressive climate agenda. Meanwhile, the U.S. has become increasingly reliant on oil imports, including those from Russia, and Russia has established itself as a major player in global natural gas markets.

The U.S., though, is set to return to being a net importer of crude oil in 2022 under the Biden administration, according to federal projections. The nation became a net exporter of total energy in 2019, factoring in both coal and natural gas trade, and a net oil exporter in 2020.

“Vladimir Putin has had a chance to see if the Biden administration was going to continue to be aggressive in his support of the United States oil and gas industry,” Institute for Energy Research (IER) President Tom Pyle told the Daily Caller News Foundation in an interview. “Every action that this administration has taken with respect to energy and oil and gas has been the opposite.”

“The administration is sending a signal to both the market and to Vladimir Putin that the United States is not serious about utilizing its God-given natural resources,” he added. – READ MORE