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Joe Biden has driven up energy prices by halting leases for drilling on federal lands, shutting down the critical Keystone XL pipeline, and demonizing Big Oil with investigations into skyrocketing energy prices, which are globally set.
What he hasn’t been doing is anything constructive to lower energy prices. He’s thrown out shiny baubles such as the release of two days’ oil reserves onto the global markets as his claimed ‘tool’ for driving down energy prices, hoping you don’t notice his other acts. He’s pathetically begged the Saudis and OPEC sheiks to raise production in lieu of the local pipelines and production he has shut down.
But now there’s another way he’s driving energy prices sky-high and I found it in a buried lede that ran in a long story on on CNN :
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