Tone deaf, clueless, out of touch. Yet, none of the elected Democrats are giving up their own use of fossil fuels, eh? Oh, sure, a handful, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, bought electric vehicles (because they make a lot of money), but, they still take lots of fossil fueled flights
House Dems want Biden to declare national ‘climate emergency’ and ban oil drilling on federal lands
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 draft of the plan I saw also calls for Biden to ban oil/gas drilling on public lands and end fossil fuel subsidies.”
Siegel added that House Democrats will also call on Biden to manufacture more heat pumps to “ease the strain in oil and gas markets that has been caused by Russia’s war in Ukraine.” Some of those heat pumps would be donated to Europe, according to the House Progressives’ plan.
Can you ban drilling when the permits have already been approved? When they were essentially given a contract to do so? Does Brandon have the authority to unilaterally do so without Congress passing a law? Also, as you know, they are not subsidies, they are tax breaks, and almost all of them are not fossil fuels specific, but, are used by other countries.
And Democrats wonder why people blame them for high gas prices… https://t.co/wZ7ZEYyCqA
— NRCC (@NRCC) March 15, 2022
The Progressive Caucus reads as a list of the nuttiest members of Congress, who fail to practice what they preach.
