Aaron Lewis recorded a song in 2021 called “Am I the Only One?” The country song shot to the top in two weeks. Two years later people still understand and agree with it. No, Lewis isn’t the only one who thinks the Biden administration just wants to destroy America. Now gas prices aren’t high enough it seems. Biden’s latest move is to cancel oil leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Oil prices soaring
Why would Biden do that? It makes no sense to Americans already paying a lot at the pump but it might make perfect sense for others with a different goal.
Alaska’s GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski put out a statement: “These decisions are illegal, reckless, defy all common sense, and are the latest signs of an incoherent energy policy from President Biden.” Murkowski is on again, off again but sometimes she makes sense.
Oil drilling is useful
In more than one way. Alaska’s other Republican Senator Dan Sullivan put out a statement as well: “Not only is this an affront to the rule of law, it’s also a grave injustice to the Inupiat people of the North Slope, especially the people of Kaktovik — the only village in ANWR.” Among the things oil drilling benefits is the native people.
Sullivan said Biden officials “love to talk about racial equity, racial justice, environmental justice, taking care of people of color, but one big exception — the Indigenous people of Alaska. They screw ’em every time.” The current administration says one thing and does another consistently.
“Justice” in the oil industry
Liberals use the word justice differently. They’re supposedly taking the higher ground when in fact it’s the reverse. Liberals don’t care about justice, unless it’s for themselves. Otherwise it’s only about power.
Randy Ruaro is the executive director of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority. He sees the rule of law adhered to when it benefits the Democrats. He sees the oil lease cancellation as an “arbitrary disregard for Federal law, based on campaign trail rhetoric.”
War on oil
Based on climate change. Biden took a victory lap after the move. He “delivered on the most ambitious climate and conservation agenda in our country’s history. But there is more to do, and my administration will continue to take bold action to meet the urgency of the climate crisis and to protect our lands and waters for generations to come.”
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland agreed, saying we aren’t doing enough to protect the planet. “With climate change warming the Arctic more than twice as fast as the rest of the planet, we must do everything within our control to meet the highest standards of care to protect this fragile ecosystem.”
