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John Kennedy@SenJohnKennedy · Jan 17, 2025

🧵 (1/12) Pres. Biden is using his final days in office to rub salt in the wounds of the American energy sector. He’s…

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The thread criticizes President Biden's energy policies, arguing they increased costs for Americans and weakened the energy sector. It calls on Congress to help the Trump administration reverse restrictions on fossil fuel production and streamline energy permitting to restore economic growth and energy independence.

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  1. #1

    🧵 (1/12) Pres. Biden is using his final days in office to rub salt in the wounds of the American energy sector. He’s ignoring the will of voters and making it harder for Pres. Trump to revive our economy and defeat inflation.

  2. #2

    (2/12) Since Day 1, the Biden White House has taken every opportunity it could to make producing fossil-fuels more expensive. He knows that high energy prices cause inflation and slow economic growth.

  3. #3

    (3/12) Pres. Biden blocked the Keystone XL pipeline, killing thousands of American jobs on his first day in office. He also issued more than 125 executive actions to cancel leases and stop developing new energy sources.

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    (4/12) Pres. Biden also tried to prohibit the development of all new LNG export terminals in the U.S., jeopardizing several facilities in Louisiana. The Biden admin did everything it could to saddle American energy producers with costly new regulations.

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    (5/12) Most recently, Pres. Biden executed yet another offshore drilling ban on more than 625 million acres of American coastline. And he used an obscure 1953 law to make it even harder for the Trump admin to reverse.

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    (6/12) Here’s what Pres. Biden’s war on energy means for you: Americans are paying 29% more for electricity and 31% more for gas. Louisiana families paid nearly $1,000 more to keep the lights on and their gas tanks full in 2024 alone.

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    (7/12) High energy and gas prices make it more expensive for businesses to operate, too. Businesses and consumers both get saddled with those extra costs.

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    (8/12) The only way our country will crawl out from under Bidenflation is if our economy grows rapidly. Growth requires affordable, abundant American energy. Pres. Trump will need every tool at his disposal to restore American energy independence. Congress can help.

  9. #9

    (9/12) Congress should demand that the Interior Dept. approve more lease sales, especially offshore. The department is supposed to adhere to a schedule of at least 2 lease sales each year, but the Biden admin held zero last year.

  10. #10

    (10/12) Existing federal regulations drag out the permitting process and cripple energy producers. Congress can reform the bureaucratic permitting process to reduce excessive judicial overview and shorten the timeline for approvals.

  11. #11

    (11/12) In 2019, Biden told activists he would “end fossil fuel.” He has certainly tried. Because of him, Americans’ real wages have lagged behind inflation, and Russia has overtaken us as the European Union’s #1 LNG supplier.

  12. #12

    (12/12) It is going to take an all-hands-on-deck effort to unwind all of Pres. Biden’s destructive energy policies, so Congress should stand ready to take the handcuffs off American energy.