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White House Downplays Rising Energy Prices, Says ‘Climate Crisis’ Is More Important

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The White House downplayed surging energy prices in the U.S. and worldwide on Wednesday, arguing that the climate crisis was more important.

“Certainly, we all want to keep gasoline prices low, but the threat of the crisis — the climate crisis — certainly can’t wait any longer,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Wednesday.

She added that President Joe Biden believes climate change presents “one of the greatest national security crises” facing the U.S., suggesting that higher prices were a necessary consequence of the fight against global warming.

Both the U.S. and international benchmarks for crude oil briefly touched multi-year highs this week and remain elevated after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its Russian counterpart opted not to increase production. Natural gas prices also surged to their highest level in more than a decade while volatility hit an all-time high.

Oil and natural gas both account for the vast majority of U.S. energy produced, according to the Energy Information Administration.

But some experts have blamed the rapid shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy investment for the increasing prices and borderline global energy crisis, The New York Times reported.

“The energy transition is not being handled properly,” OPEC Secretary-General Mohammad Barkindo said at a conference Wednesday, according to Bloomberg. “And hence we are beginning to see the fall-out.”

In November, the United Nations will convene a major climate conference where leaders are expected to agree to bolster efforts to combat climate change and attempt to curb future emissions.

Psaki said the White House hoped high energy prices would not convince leadership from Europe and Asia to approach the November conference with more concerns about cost than climate.

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  1. More important? Than the elderly not being able to pay for heat in the winter? This guy is an evil, evil man. We’ll see how much the voters love his agenda next fall! If I was a Democrat in office I would be getting very nervous about their prospects of getting re-elected next term. Biden showed how much he cares about the American people by his Afghanistan debacle.

  2. Biden has made the essentials of 2020 now unwanted if they aren’t vaccinated. They showed up for work knowing there was the chance they’d come in contact with someone who maybe had the virus or had been in contact with someone who had the virus. They were the heroes, the guardian angels. Today they are unwanted and told to leave their jobs because they don’t like the idea of jabbing their arms with some experimental cocktail that some people threw together quickly. There is no sense to what this evil Biden and his cohorts are doing to the country, maybe the world, telling them he wants to protect the vaccinated. If a vaccinated person believed in the vaccine and that it protects them, what are they so afraid of? So now they still need more protection? How? Wearing masks again? That’s better than the shot, you can take off the mask, you can’t get rid of the vaccine once it’s in your body. Those who believed all they were told are now still believing all that they are told – that people who are not vaccinated are their enemy and they must be segregated from the rest of the world. Haven’t they finally realized they were and still are guinea pigs for the pharmaceuticals and politicians? The FDA basically said recently that the vaccines don’t work. Of course they don’t, there was no time to find out what they would do or what they could do. But now the only protection our government leaders say will solve all problems is to get rid of those who know the vaccines don’t work. And they also know there are side affects that are too dangerous so why take a chance? After almost two years of this most normal adults know what they should do to protect themselves. Their choice. Why is it that the virus attacks no one at a party? Sports stadiums and arenas? Protests? Riots? Why are people who are vaccinated but still get the virus or give the virus not told they are fired? Or “shoo, begone with you.” Because they jumped when Biden said jump? They will never feel protected, they can never be protected, they can never be virus free by ostracizing the very people whom they need to heal them if they do get the virus. Start keeping tabs on your own cities, counties states. The numbers aren’t adding up to the point of making people afraid of going out of their homes and going to work, at least in most areas. If only they could go to work. Businesses are having trouble finding workers and now must tell the employees they do have to not bother coming back to work if they’re not vaccinated. Biden says he wants to protect everyone so they aren’t killed by the virus but he’ll let them starve to death because he says they can’t work to buy food, or to get health care or pay for heat in the winter and AC in the summer, the very reasons people want to work. He will let them die because they don’t have the vaccine in them.

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