Energy independence

  Each and every time Lewis goes into his "dog bark" routine, I smile because at that time I know that his lying rhetoric has been exposed and he has no other lies available to shore up his previous lies. So keep on barking Lewis - that is all you have. 

Just a few examples of the govt interfering

Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer is pursuing closure of a major oil and gas pipeline, the Enbridge Line 5, which carries supplies from Western Canada to energy users in five midwestern states.  

A new study estimates that individuals and businesses in the five affected states would spend $23 billion more on energy costs over the next five years if the line closes, on top of any additional energy costs resulting from a sustained war in Ukraine. Hardest hit would be users in Michigan and Ohio, who would each sustain about $2 billion a year in new costs.

Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf has been trying for four years to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a consortium of states that agree to tax power plants and funnel the revenues into cleaner energy sources. So far Republicans in Harrisburg have blocked him, arguing that the estimated $410 million in taxes on the state’s power plants would be passed on to consumers in the form of higher price

Colorado, is sharply increasing regulatory oversight of the industry at enormous costs. The state’s Democratic legislature granted extensive new oversight powers to the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission in 2019, and last week the group announced that it was vastly increasing financial guarantees that oil and gas well owners must make to operate wells. The new costs, ranging from 10 to 30 times larger than the former financial guarantees, add to regulatory expenses that already amount to some $500 million a year for producers

California has raised energy costs for residents, including by setting its own Low Carbon Fuel Standard, aimed at reducing carbon emissions from cars and trucks, well beyond federal fuel standards. Enhanced fuel standards like those in California come at a heavy price, opponents argue, adding as much as 17 cents a gallon to the price of gasoline.

NYS has banned fracking for years

No, Davey Dear, that's YOU barking. You have the intellect, demeanor, and smell of a bad dog.

  Lewis is,once again, trying to change the topic by attacking me and anyone else who disagrees with his stupidity. A typical lying, leftist tactic.

Bark bark bark, Davey Dog!

What does that have to do with oil companies not drilling at full capacity in the wells they already have?

Thanks for being yet another LVA stooge that cant answer that incredibly simple question without changing the topic.

You have a president who has repeatedly said he wants to end fossil fuel companies. He nominates a person to the Fed who sees it as her mission to end fossil fuels. Why would a company invest millions in developing oil production when governments hostile to their businesses could get their legs off at any time?

Face it PJ even you if attacked react! Energy companies see this president as attacking them and their way of life. They are making (energy companies) huge profits at this moment. They have not been making the profits needed to sustain there growth.

have no idea what you do for a living, if the company you work would be able too add to there bottom dollar I imagine they would do so. Just maybe it takes awhile to gear up production. Not just flipping a switch.

Actually, Tommie-poo, that's a stupid Tommie-poo lie. Biden has never said that.

What proof do you have that the fossil fuel (not "energy," because that would include wind, solar, hydro, and nuclear) companies view Biden that way?

Companies don't have a "way of life." They're not alive. But in terms of business models, what they should have done years ago and still can do is to use their infrastructure and personnel to produce and distribute sustainable energy. Why, for example, couldn't gas stations be turned into quick-charging stations? Why couldn't solar plants be built to augment fossil fuel-burning generating stations?

The auto industry is adapting to the technological reality. Why can't fossil fuel companies do the same? They have the resources and the capital. And in terms of "adding to the bottom dollar"--there's this little thingy called capital investment. If they'd done that instead of licking Republicans over the last decade, we could be laughing at the current fossil fuel "shortages" now.