Installations of wind turbines, solar panels and batteries hit a record high last year. But so, too, did oil production. The U.S. now "produces more crude than any country, ever," the EIA announced last month. U.S. exports of crude are soaring.

LNG drillers across the U.S. broke records for production last year. By December, wells across the lower 48 states were generating nearly 106 billion cubic feet of gas per day.

The U.S. used to import much of its fuel from abroad, leaving the country sensitive to supply cuts from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. Now, attempts by OPEC+ - the expanded club that now includes Russia - to cut supplies do little to drive up oil prices, in part because the U.S. currently accounts for such a large share of global production.

Combined with cheap loans from Wall Street, the fracking revolution unleashed an oil- and gas-drilling boom so big, U.S. politicians are still struggling to find the right ways to talk about it. Republicans accused Democrats of squelching the American drilling industry with climate regulations, with GOP lawmakers blaming President Joe Biden's pursuit of more zero-carbon energy for any spike in fuel prices.

TonyRoma must have been out of the country when Biden banned LNG exportation.

He didn't ban LNG exports at all numbnuts. Get off the rightwing lie sites and learn some truth. Just like braindead MAGots, you can't tell the truth if your life depended on it.

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I'm shocked Tony would draw attention to the fact the US is contributing to the destruction of the planet by producing record amounts of fossil fuels and selling it.

I'm shocked (not) that both Lefty and Ebs completely missed the context in which this thread was posted, but understanding the dualality of the information actually takes comprehension and more than simplistic linear thinking.

Installations of wind turbines, solar panels and batteries hit a record high last year. But so, too, did oil production.

OMG... prudence, foresight, and the ability to work towards multiple goals at the same time.

One cannot simply flip a switch and eliminate the need for fossil fuels immediately in 2024 or any time soon. It will take decades to make this transition and no prognosticator (nor any living Republican) saw it possible for the Biden Administration to serve two masters while it was going on.

It cannot be said that Biden's quest towards renewable green energy itself is stiffling domestic production of fossil fuels when records in both types of energy production are being realized. So Dark Brandon is the right's unacknowledged wet dream hero for fostering conditions leading to all-time record domestic fossil fuel production and he's taking steps - with the pause on new domestic export permits and facilities - to limit even more future environmental damage while assessing how to best move forward with all interests in mind.

...those politicians who fought against an increase in the use of fossil fuels are fighting for their political lives.

As they have been in state/national elections since Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the White House roof because of two main factions: Big Oil and its most numerous political supporters, the GOP.

Acting as though the effort to move from fossil fuels to renewables is simply a choice of simple will isn't based in political reality. One has to be elected to influence energy policy from inside the federal government. And even there, those who do are faced with massive coordinated opposition, ridicule, anti-green propaganda along with personal and partisan demonization.

so politicians are worrying about their re-election more than the environment.

Tell me just how effective one unelected citizen is in getting Congress to do anything. You cannot affect change from the outside when you don't have a vote. The need to be elected/re-elected is obvious, and when your opposition continuously lies about, smears, and denigrates green energy at every turn, how your electorate feels about the subject may very well dictate whether one wins or loses.

Biden is pro-oil. pro fossil-fuels. Pro oil company profits.

That's precisely why he mandated a pause in allowing more permits for more exportation and construction of LNG infrastructure to allow even more LNG to enter the market. He's not trying to intentionally add immediate higher energy costs to the spike of inflation, burdening American businesses and consumers.

Republicans are still saying that Biden regulations are strangling domestic oil and gas production and this mantra is repeated ad nauseum by elected GOP politicians and right wing media. As Speaks noted, Biden championed the biggest climate change bill in US history while simultaneously navigating global energy supply issues caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Honestly, Biden is trying to move towards green energy as quickly and effectively as public opinion and engagement will allow, the difference being that any Republican chosen to replace him will take a 180 degree different track. Biden is the current best hope for continuing the transition to renewable energy even if the fossil fuel industry is raking in record profits at present. One does not negate the other.

how so?

Federally defunding green energy projects and increasing subsidies for even more domestic fossil fuel production and exportation.

REALLY?? Then how about you then cite what actions/rules/regulations this anti-Oil&Gas administration has taken to increase the flow and sale of LNG. I'll wait...

Yes, really. You have the question backwards - which is precisely how your mind works anyway. No one here has made any case that Biden is bending over backwards or championing domestic fossil fuel production. With that being said, your destroyed-by-reality assersion that Biden is working against domestic fossil fuel production right now looks as stupid as you do considering this nation is setting all time records for the amounts of fuels extracted and exported.

If it were Biden's immediate goal to cut this production or stymie it, as all the right wing claims, then how is the industry breaking records for production? The point is that the industry has been met with a combination of positive conditions that have allowed it to thrive while Joe Biden has been President, while the former guy with his minions ignore this reality and say that his governance is hurting the industry while it sets both profit and production records.

Either Biden is the worst impediment to domestic oil/gas production in history - actually causing just the opposite to be true - or the right wing narrative of him harming average Americans by his policies is a bald-faced lie. You choose.