House Dems want Biden to declare national
'climate emergency' and ban oil drilling
on federal lands
Fox News,
by
Andrew Mark Miller
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
3/15/2022 10:45:22 PM
Progressive Democrats in the House of Representatives are reportedly planning to publicly urge President Biden to ban oil drilling on federal lands amid record gas prices and a war in Ukraine that has disrupted oil markets. According to a report from Politico, the Congressional Progressive Caucus is planning to demand that Biden use his executive power to declare climate change an emergency and ban drilling on federal lands. "Progressive Caucus member @JaredHuffman told me calling on Biden to declare a climate emergency is one of the ‘centerpiece’ actions to headline their EO plan," Politico reporter Joshua Siegel tweeted Tuesday. "A
Reply 1 - Posted by:
smcchk 3/15/2022 10:52:33 PM (No. 1101219)
I thought that people change their minds when confronted with reality but apparently Democrats never do. They will kill us all for the sake of climate change hysteria. They will happily sacrifice our economy, prosperity and national security because what? The climate hasn’t even perceptibly changed in the past 25 years of this nonsense.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
NorCaliInfidel 3/15/2022 10:56:37 PM (No. 1101220)
Go ahead. Make my day. This would result in a red tidal wave in November. Maybe one where Brandon's veto power can be overridden. FJB.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
planetgeo 3/15/2022 11:06:30 PM (No. 1101222)
Need any more evidence that they're just not on our side?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jimboscott 3/15/2022 11:19:22 PM (No. 1101228)
Everyone, hear me out on this.
While the climate alarmists are dead wrong on just about everything (did you know that the sea level measurements in lower Manhattan have risen at a perfectly constant rate since about 1850? This is NOAA information)... I digress - they are dead wrong on everything BUT, as is often the case, liberals cannot see past their noses and they myopia is just stunning in it's magnitude.
The UP side that liberals do not see, but which a good CAPITALIST SHOULD see is that halting production in the U.S. and shifting the burden to the rest of the world means... when the rest of the world runs out of easily obtainable fossil fuels - America will be in the cat bird's seat and in a position of economic strength like no other nation has ever enjoyed. Do not know when that might be, but failing to drill today really means there is more for tomorrow.
But I seriously doubt the commie bed-wetters realize they are setting the stage for the greatest display of capitalism the world will have ever seen.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 3/15/2022 11:23:21 PM (No. 1101229)
We knew this was coming. Let's see how far this gets.
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Wonder how much Putin paid them to take that position?
Or was it Iran?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
49 Ford 3/15/2022 11:41:54 PM (No. 1101237)
Putin didn't have to pay them, # 6. They're a bunch of lunatics.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
SALady 3/15/2022 11:55:27 PM (No. 1101243)
Is this some ingenious plan by the Demon-Rats?!?!?!?
Apparently, they want to lose by massive margins in November, and give the Republicans a veto-proof majority in Congress. Then they will count on the Republicans messing it up, and making people actually want to vote for the Demon-Rats again in 2024.
You come up with a better explanation. Why else would they want to stop drilling when gas prices are so freakin' high?!?!?!?
Sadly, I don't have much faith in the Republi-Can'ts (like Graham, Romney, etc) not to make their plan work.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
stablemoney 3/15/2022 11:56:43 PM (No. 1101245)
Another emergency and dictatorial power in the hands of the Democrats.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Omen55 3/16/2022 12:00:57 AM (No. 1101246)
Political suicide to the max!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
PChristopher 3/16/2022 12:15:35 AM (No. 1101251)
Dems have gone rabidly insane, trying to impose as much pain as possible before they get thrown to the curb in November. These Dems should all be tried for sedition.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Jesse Jenkem 3/16/2022 12:57:28 AM (No. 1101270)
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Trigger2 3/16/2022 2:17:08 AM (No. 1101285)
Reason 150 for getting rid of demonrats in Nov.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 3/16/2022 2:19:28 AM (No. 1101287)
This is a total FICTION. There is ZERO climate problem. NONE, nada, zippo.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
pensom2 3/16/2022 3:23:34 AM (No. 1101307)
To the extent that the USA and the planet has a "climate problem," (which I doubt) and that any "climate change problem" is caused by the burning of fossil fuels (I doubt that changes the climate, but it does pollute the air), . . . to the extent this could be a "problem," the problem arises from the BURNING of fossil fuels, not the drilling for the oil and gas that produces these fuels.
Therefore, importing oil and gas from far away, to burn here in the USA, cannot reduce climate change or make the air cleaner. Shipping that oil from far away burns even more fuel to drag those tanker ships across the ocean. It's like shipping firewood from Siberia to burn in fireplaces and campfires in the USA--that's not going to reduce worldwide or countrywide smoke pollution and CO2.
What these morons want us to do is to buy $50,000 electric cars, subsidized by the government. This won't work, because the access and production of nickel, lead, and other metals, especially rare earth metals, cannot be ramped up to produce those batteries in that quantity. And it's difficult and costly to dump worn-out batteries or to recycle them. I don't know where these progressive nitwits get the idea that this will work.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
mifla 3/16/2022 5:08:01 AM (No. 1101320)
Yet another example of the left doing an end run around Congress because Congress won't go along with them.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
MickTurn 3/16/2022 5:39:43 AM (No. 1101335)
I have a better idea, put the COMMIES in Prison, charges pending like the Jan 6 protesters and DRILL Baby Drill!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
3XALADY 3/16/2022 6:39:58 AM (No. 1101384)
How does anyone this ignorant know to walk upright?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Rinktum 3/16/2022 7:12:48 AM (No. 1101403)
Democrats have not thought this out to its final conclusion. It’s not just gas and oil we are talking about, it’s everything made with it. Just tell AOC she won’t be able to buy lipstick, maybe then she will realize the importance of this very plentiful substance that makes many of the products we use daily. After all when everyone wants to date you, you must have the proper beauty products. Lipstick is a big one.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Nimby 3/16/2022 7:20:25 AM (No. 1101408)
Every Democrat who supports this insanity should be voted out in November
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
NamVet70 3/16/2022 7:37:44 AM (No. 1101422)
I wish they would just wait until a month before the midterms before they roll out that effort.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
JrSample 3/16/2022 7:45:09 AM (No. 1101426)
Still waiting for them to explain how oil imported from Russia, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and Iran has no effect on the climate and is permissible, while oil from domestic sources, Canada, and Mexico has to be stopped. Also, a mystery on why they think that an increase in domestic production [supply] of a commodity would not decrease prices, like it does with every other commodity. Biden will beg Iran [a hostile state sponsor of terrorism] to increase production, but not Exxon or Chevron. If the US had still a net exporter of energy, like during the Trump administration, there would have been no need to import Russian oil.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
privateer 3/16/2022 9:36:53 AM (No. 1101538)
IMHO, the Militant Left, AKA Commiecrat Elite, don't really want you to drive an electric car. They want you to drive NO CAR! You can walk from your rat-cage concrete housing block to the mill, factory, office or 'school'. The Left are basically spoiled brats, grown into vindictive Fascists. They dimly remember the frightening specter of the 'Boogie Man'. Now they have recycled the concept and styled it 'Climate Change'.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
red1066 3/16/2022 10:20:59 AM (No. 1101607)
Do this and the real insurrection will start earlier.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
kono 3/16/2022 12:08:32 PM (No. 1101714)
During the COVID-19 mess, the Left got away with decreeing and enforcing several "emergency" measures that had no plausible danger-mitigating effect on their supposed "emergency". Precedent and pattern established... now they will feel free to perform authoritarian abuses in the future under the auspices of whatever "emergency" they brew up, confident they can repel objections with fake data and have their lapdog press support them.
But that's just a wee bit off, when their media friends are a driving force behind the "great reset" dream of Socialist Globalism.
Here they reprise their chicken little act with hysterical cries of "emergency", without definitive proof that things are even the way they claim, nor any proof that their "emergency" measures can even affect the global climate.
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