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House Dems Cancel Big Oil Inquisition For Fueling The ‘Climate Crisis’

by Paul Driessen, guest post
March 14, 2022, 2:11 PM
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pipeline workers buildingAs Mike Tyson once observed, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. [bold, links added]

March 8 was to be anti-oil Democrats’ big day. Having pilloried Big Oil executives during two previous hearings over supposed climate change prevention failures, House Oversight Committee leaders had planned to really tighten the thumbscrews.

At their October 2021 hearing, committee chair Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and chief inquisitor Ro Khanna (D-CA) insisted that Big Oil commit to reducing oil and gas production by 3-4% annually (50-70% total by 2050).

Otherwise, global temperatures will rise 1.5 degrees Celsius (since the Little Ice Age ended and Industrial Revolution began, both around 1850) – which “the science” says would be an “existential threat” to Planet Earth, they claimed.

“I don’t need” an “American apple pie speech” about “meeting the needs of society,” Mr. Khanna told ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods. Will Exxon reduce production? Yes or no? the congressman demanded.

During the February 8, 2022, hearing, the two legislators demanded that oil companies “live up to” the “climate pledges” they have made.

Shell and BP, they said, have promised to go net-zero on all their greenhouse gas emissions. However, ExxonMobil and Chevron pledges apply only to emissions associated with drilling and production operations.

That is completely inadequate, Maloney and Khanna argued. Not only do these two American companies not “plan to reduce their oil production by a single drop.”

Their pledge ignores the “whopping 90%” of emissions that come from consumers burning the fuels they produce.

The two companies should have diversified into “clean renewable” energy. That’s how they can lower people’s heating bills and prices at the pump, the legislators suggested.

Of course, Mr. Khanna added, in a sudden about-face, he supports President Biden’s “decisive actions” to help lower gas prices” by asking OPEC, Saudi Arabia, and Russia to increase oil production and “calling on all oil companies temporarily increase production.” (Foreign oil doesn’t emit greenhouse gases?)

The legislators promised to hold a third hearing on March 8, when they would interrogate oil company executives “under oath,” “aggressively investigate” the industry’s role in fueling “the climate crisis,” and demand that oil companies “stop funding climate disinformation.”

The March hearing would be Big Oil’s “last chance to cooperate” with Congress, Ms. Maloney warned.

Enter Mike Tyson, in the form of skyrocketing energy and food prices – and bullets and missiles flying in Ukraine. The chairwoman abruptly canceled the inquisition mere days before it was to be held.

She and her Democrat colleagues clearly didn’t want to be humiliated by unfolding events and the grilling they would likely receive from Republicans, witnesses, and their constituents. Realities can be troublesome.

Even as post-Covid demand surged in America and a world that still relies on oil, gas, and coal for 80% of their energy, Congressional Democrats, the White House, federal agencies, and activist groups worked in consort to cancel pipelines, impose leasing and drilling moratoriums, slow-walk permits, and pressure financial institutions to stymie funding for oil and gas operations.

As they choked off production and supplies, oil, natural gas, and gasoline prices nearly doubled during Mr. Biden’s first year in office. The price of food and nearly all consumer products and services soared in response. Consumers (aka voters) voiced their outrage.

Then Russian forces invaded Ukraine, slaughtering civilians and sending millions fleeing to neighboring countries.

President Biden continued importing 670,000 barrels of Putin’s crude oil and refined products every day. Gasoline hit $7 per gallon in some cities the day the hearing was to be held.

Finally, right when the congressional inquisition would have been underway, Mr. Biden issued an executive order banning imports of Russian crude oil, refined products, and natural gas.

Congress signaled it might codify the ban into law. Global oil prices shot to $110 per barrel.

The President could have told his federal regulators to get agency boots off the necks of American exploration, production, and pipeline companies – and start expediting permits.

He could have told climate activists, banks, and financial institutions to pause their war on fossil fuels.

Instead, he’s still trying to persuade Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Putin ally Venezuela to increase their oil production, to keep prices from skyrocketing further.

He’s still using Russia to broker a new nuclear deal with Iran, permitting the Islamist regime to sell more oil on the global market!

Amid cries of “Putin Price Hikes,” the Biden Administration and congressional Democrats continue to obsess over the “climate crisis” and promote a rapid “transition” to “renewable” energy.

It’s an exercise in distraction and magical thinking. Wind and sunshine are certainly clean and renewable.

However, harnessing this widely dispersed, weather-dependent energy to meet huge and growing US and global energy needs requires millions of wind turbines, billions of solar panels, billions of battery modules, and thousands of miles of new transmission lines that need enormous quantities of metals and minerals, which are absolutely not clean, renewable or sustainable.

Indeed, just Mr. Biden’s initial 30,000 megawatts of offshore wind energy would require 110,000 tons of copper – plus massive amounts of cobalt, lithium, nickel, aluminum, steel, rare earth elements, and other materials.

Getting just the copper would require mining 25 million tons of ore. But federal bureaucrats and judges have already shut down three proposed U.S. copper mines. Again, that’s just the copper.

How many tons of metals, minerals, ores, and overburden will be required overall for wind turbines, solar panels, battery modules, transformers, and transmission lines in an all-electricity Green New Deal Economy?

How much fossil fuel energy to do this work? Where will the mining, processing, and manufacturing take place? (Alaska, California, and Colorado? Or China and Russia?)

How much environmental destruction, and child and slave labor, will be involved? What will these materials cost, as demand surges? How much land and wildlife will be impacted by these technologies?

Green New Dealers don’t have a clue and don’t care. But we will be the ones paying. We ought to care. The amounts are truly mind-boggling.

For clues about the almost unfathomable impacts and costs, look here, here, here, here, and here.

The vaunted Green New Deal would likely make America almost totally reliant on Chinese and Russian companies for “renewable” energy materials.

Europe and the United States already have minimal leverage (and credibility) over China and Russia on diplomatic matters, territorial ambitions – or open warfare.

Media, academia, and federal agencies are already populated by anti-fossil-fuel stalwarts.

But making matters worse, Putin cronies have long funded clandestine money-laundering operations to finance major disinformation campaigns by US and EU environmentalist groups to undermine drilling, fracking, and pipeline programs.

The US Senate “Billionaires’ Club” report, Environmental Policy Alliance’s “From Russia with Love” analysis, articles by investigative journalists Ron Arnold and Lachlan Markay (here and here), and studies by the US National Intelligence Director and US House Science Committee provide extensive, disturbing details that Democrats in Congress and the Administration have ignored.

The Ukraine invasion is prompting renewed attention to these nefarious activities involving the Sea Change Foundation, Sierra Club, Climate Action Network, NRDC, and other groups.

The Maloney-Khanna Oversight Committee should investigate these money laundering and Green New Deal mining and cost issues – and leave the “climate crisis” and “price-gouging” fantasies to Hollywood horror and conspiracy movies. But don’t hold your breath.


Paul Driessen is a senior policy advisor for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org) and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power – Black Death.

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  1. David Lewis says:
    4 years ago

    “Instead, he’s still trying to persuade Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Putin ally Venezuela to increase their oil production.” This is so typical of the climate change movement. For many years industries have been moving from Europe to China due to high cost of Europe’s green energy, and in the process taking the jobs with them. The environmental impact of producing the same goods in China is higher than it would have been in Europe. But the environmentalists don’t care as long as the impact is some where else. Increasing oil production outside of the US is the same concept. The best thing is to increase the production, and the jobs, within our own country.

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  2. Spurwing Plover says:
    4 years ago

    The Democrat Lemmings are running off the cliff over the ledge into the Ocean to Drown and wearing their blinders to

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  3. Steve Bunten says:
    4 years ago

    Guess these congressional idiots didn’t want to get it from both barrels from the oil executives given how much gas prices have climbed due to Biden’s actions.

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