It’s ironic that the best summation of President Joe Biden’s energy policy is a joke from former Vice President Al Gore, who used to goad conservatives by saying,"The right hand doesn’t know what the far-right hand is doing."
As Katie Tubb writes in the Washington Examiner magazine’s cover story this week, the administration repeatedly contradicts itself, undoing with one policy what it seems to attempt with another. While the far-left hand is doing this and much more, the more sensible left hand, panicked about burning its fingers in the November congressional midterm elections, pleads with OPEC to pump more crude, begs Venezuela for increased supplies, and releases a record 180 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
The more fundamental question for Biden as he tangles himself inextricably in the coils of the gasoline hose is, however, why oil from the SPR, from Marxist Venezuela, or from the assortment of allies and enemies that make up OPEC should be thought preferable to oil lying under our feet in American soil.