GOP will oppose Biden’s “war on energy” in a key vote this month

House Republicans will vote later this month on a bill countering the Biden administration’s “war on energy,” which has attacked everything from President Biden’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office on sweeping restrictions on oil and gas development, most recently this year’s creation of a $27 billion “green bank” fund at the EPA.

GOP leaders will convene the Lower Energy Costs Act, a bill that reflects Republicans’ months of work to catalog and dismantle various moves by the Biden administration to curb the oil, gas and coal resources that still bind one Mix make up most of American energy.

“For the past two years, President Biden and his extremist friends in Washington have waged a war on American energy, and hard-working families across the country are paying the price,” said House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., of the sponsored the bill.

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The 174-page bill is the most ambitious attempt yet by House Republicans to attack Biden’s energy policies, which they say have only resulted in higher gas and heating prices and wiped out the chance for new job growth linked to exploration of America’s energy resources.

“From the gas station to the grocery store, President Biden’s war on energy is making life unaffordable for the hard-working people of this country and forcing us to depend dangerously on supply chains controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. We need to reverse course,” he told Cathy McMorris Rodgers, chair of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, R-Wash.

The bill would reverse several of the policies introduced in Biden’s first two years and signal congressional disapproval for those that cannot be reversed.

It outlaws a ban on hydraulic fracking to oppose Biden’s decision in his first week in office to ban new fracking on federal land. It undoes a moratorium on coal leases on federal land that began under the Obama administration and was revived by the Biden administration. It repeals a tax on methane emissions introduced by the Inflation Reduction Act that is expected to cost the oil and gas industry more than $6 billion over the next decade.

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President Biden has claimed success in lowering energy prices for Americans through renewable energy research, but Republicans say this ignores higher gas prices and Biden’s failure to keep the US on the path to energy security. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

It is also urging the Home Office to implement delayed onshore oil and gas lease sales and release its long-delayed five-year plan for offshore oil and gas leases. The offshore plan was due last summer and could be delayed by 18 months or more, leaving the US with no new lease-sell options – industry experts have warned the delay is likely to cause major energy disruptions in the future.

Elsewhere, the bill bans China from controlling energy development on US land, creates a new exemption to the Clean Energy Act to spur US energy development, and makes it harder for left-leaning states to block critical energy projects.

The bill includes a number of provisions aimed at easing permitting requirements for energy companies and includes non-binding language disapproving of Biden’s decision to destroy the Keystone pipeline in 2021.

It is taking an active step against the $27 billion “green bank” created by the Inflation Reduction Act, dubbed by Republicans as a black fund that funnels taxpayer money into left-wing pet projects that don’t advance US energy security.

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Sen. Joe Manchin, DW.Va., has criticized the Biden administration for its 18-month delay in releasing a new five-year offshore oil and gas lease sales plan. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

The White House this week insisted that the Biden administration’s clean energy agenda is “fueling an unprecedented boom in clean energy manufacturing that will lower energy costs, reduce America’s resilience to oil, and finally put us back on track.” to fulfill our clean energy projects”.

But Republicans are hoping that passing the House of Representatives will put pressure on the Senate to include the bill or parts of it, as Democrats like Sen. Joe Manchin, DW.Va., have been outspoken opponents of Biden on some energy issues.

“Monday night, the Home Office made it painfully clear — once again — that it puts its radical climate agenda ahead of our country’s energy security, and that it is ready to make major efforts to achieve it,” Manchin said in early March of the delay of a five-year offshore oil deal and gas lease plan. “The Interior will not publish a statutory program for offshore oil and gas leasing 2023-2028 until the end of this year at the earliest. That’s 18 months too late.”

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“This is the first time in our nation’s history that we did not release a 5-year lease program before the old plan expired,” Manchin added. “Every other government, Democrat and Republican, has managed to follow the law in a timely manner.”