To Stop Climate Change, We Have To…Burn MORE Fossil Fuels?

United States domestic oil production hit an all-time high this year, and it’s not just an all-time high for the US. At 13.2 million barrels per day, the United States is producing more oil than any country in world history. We’re number 1!

But wait a minute… Didn’t Joe Biden call climate change an existential threat to humanity? Didn’t he promise to end fossil fuels? So why is his Department of Energy rubber-stamping the single biggest fossil-fuel expansion on Earth?

According to this article from The Atlantic, it’s all part of the plan. Let me explain…

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which passed in August of 2022, included several hundred billions of dollars for tackling climate change. As a result, nearly 300 clean-energy projects have been announced since then, and EV sales hit a new record thanks to tax incentives in the IRA.

There’s just one problem: Ever since the war in Ukraine, gas prices have been higher than they used to be, averaging well over $3 a gallon. Understandably, this made Biden worry about the midterms since voters tend to blame gas prices on whoever’s in power.

In order to lower gas prices, he tapped the strategic oil reserve, bringing it down to a 40-year low. Apparently it worked (or at least helped) because what…