Petulant obliviousness on energy shameful

We suspect that no matter how many times we find ourselves addressing it, it will be no less frustrating.
This past week, the Biden administration unrolled plans to designate more than 600 million acres of ocean floor as off-limits to exploration and drilling for oil and natural gas.
We agree with Karoline Leavitt and Ron Neal.
“This is a disgraceful decision designed to exact political revenge on the American people who gave President Trump a mandate to increase drilling and lower gas prices,” Leavitt, nominated to serve as the Trump administration’s press secretary, said.
“President Biden’s decision to ban new offshore oil and natural gas development across approximately 625 million acres of US coastal and offshore waters is significant and catastrophic,” Neal, chairman of the Independent Petroleum Association of America Offshore Committee, said in a statement to CNN.
As we have argued before, we firmly believe the defeat of Democratic candidates in November owes much to their resistance to accept that meeting America’s energy needs in the present requires the development of conventional energy sources — specifically oil and natural gas.
We believe their contempt for these industries have contributed to the higher energy costs that burden not only families but businesses and employers — leading to higher costs for consumers across the board.
We hope that the Republicans soon to be in majorities in both the U.S. House and Senate and in the White House are able to quickly reverse this courses of action and similar decisions the Biden administration has made. We further hope that as the benefits of such reversals are felt by the American middle class, that the Democratic Party can come to terms with the truth — that oil and natural gas can be developed in ways that steadily reduce the scale of environmental impact, while meeting our world’s energy needs and creating the jobs our communities need.