Biden’s Climate Task Force Meets Amid Record High Gas Prices

Joe Biden

As gas prices remain near record highs, President Biden’s National Climate Task Force had its 12th meeting. The group was formed through an executive order from Biden in January 2021, and largely aimed to fight the use of fossil fuels. The Task Force was ordered to “identify steps through which the United States can promote ending international financing of carbon-intensive fossil fuel-based energy” and “to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies from the budget request for Fiscal Year 2022 and thereafter.” Additionally, the Task Force was ordered to “consider whether to adjust royalties associated with coal, oil, and gas resources extracted from

Biden Mocks Oil Company CEO For Suggesting Solutions To Record High Gas Prices

As gas prices have reached record highs, President Biden mocked Chevron’s CEO Michael Wirth after Wirth sent the president a letter with advice on how his administration can help reduce gas prices but criticized his attempts to “vilify” the oil industry. “He’s mildly sensitive,” Biden said of Wirth. “I didn’t know they’d get their feelings hurt that quickly. Look, we need more refining capacity. This idea that they don’t have oil to drill and to bring up is simply not true.” “We ought to be able to work something out whereby they’re able to increase refining capacity and still not give up

White House Calls Uvalde Police Response Time ‘Deeply Disturbing’

During Tuesday’s press briefing, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that it’s “deeply disturbing” that Texas officials revealed that there were enough officers on scene to stop the school shooter in Uvalde within three minutes – instead of the hour and 14 minutes it did take. Two teachers and 19 students were killed in the shooting. “What is President Biden’s reaction to Texas authorities saying the police response in Uvalde was an ‘abject failure’ and that the gunman, in theory, could have been stopped within three minutes?” a reporter asked. “The actions that we have seen and the reports

Chevron CEO Gives Biden Advice On How To Lower Gas Prices

Joe Biden

On Tuesday, Chevron’s CEO Michael Wirth sent a letter to President Biden with advice on how his administration can help combat record high gas prices and criticizing Biden’s attempts to “vilify” the oil industry. “In 2021, Chevron produced the highest volume of oil and gas in our 143-year history. In the first quarter of 2022, our U.S. production was 1.2 million barrels per day, up 109,000 barrels per day from the same quarter a year earlier,” Wirth noted, adding that Chevron is “also investing $10 billion to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.” Wirth then pointed out that “American oil and gas

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