Joe Biden ‘put his foot on the neck’ of the vitality business, now he desires extra oil: Salena Zito

Salena Zito, a political reporter on the Washington Examiner, mentioned she was befuddled that President Joe Biden would name on OPEC to provide extra oil whereas fuel costs soar within the U.S.

Zito, who was a visitor on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Wednesday, requested why the Biden administration was now sounding the alarm about fast-rising vitality costs after the president “put his foot on the neck” of the oil and fuel business day one in workplace.

“The vitality business in the USA has been some of the sturdy sectors in our financial system, main proper earlier than the pandemic, we produced extra oil than every other nation on this planet and we have been self-sufficient in that space,” Zito mentioned. 

He remarks got here after Jake Sullivan, Biden’s nationwide safety adviser, mentioned in an announcement launched by the White Home that OPEC’s agreed-upon manufacturing will increase are “merely not sufficient” to assist international restoration from the pandemic, and mentioned the nations wanted to “do extra to assist the restoration.” 

She mentioned that the vitality business created jobs throughout the U. S., and referred to as it “curious” that the Biden administration would ask OPEC to provide extra oil whereas limiting its manufacturing within the U.S. 

“Not solely was {that a} job creator, and never solely simply immediately inside the vitality business however additionally the downstream industries that assist it and the communities that then thrive on it and the varsity districts that profit from it,” she mentioned. “Nevertheless it additionally was crucial in nationwide safety, which is why I assumed it was curious at present the nationwide safety head was telling, primarily begging the OPEC international locations to provide extra oil.”

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Zito additionally famous that this was simply the newest instance of Biden’s historical past of harming the U.S. oil business. 

“The vitality business, Joe Biden has put his foot on the following since day one and there’s no exaggeration in that assertion, from his government orders on the Keystone Pipeline to halting and/or pausing manufacturing on federal lands with fracking in New Mexico and in addition oil manufacturing in Louisiana, he has impacted lives, American lives profoundly proper there.”

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