Guest Post by Michael Shellenberger
Biden could save millions of lives that will be lost to hunger, cold temperatures, and pollution by simply expanding rather than repressing natural gas production. Why doesn’t he?
Over the next several years, millions of people will die from hunger-related diseases, cold temperatures, and air pollution as a direct result of natural gas shortages. All of those deaths have been going down over the last several decades. But shortages of natural gas, gas-derived fertilizers, and electricity will result in a reversal of those trends. And the higher-than-normal death toll will continue so long as the world fails to produce sufficient natural gas to meet global demand.
President Joe Biden could prevent a significant number of those deaths but his policies restricting natural gas production and exports will increase them. The U.S. is already the largest natural gas exporter in the world and it could produce and export far more. The problem is that the Biden administration is refusing to grant permits for production, pipelines, and export terminals. And it is working through federal agencies to discourage private sector investment in natural gas.
Biden administration officials point to rising liquified natural gas (LNG) exports to Europe, provisions in the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) that tie renewable energy production to oil and gas production, and a permitting reform proposal proposed by Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), which may pass Congress and be signed by Biden at the end of September, as proof that Biden increasing natural gas supplies.
But rising LNG exports are mostly the result of policies put in place before Biden took office, IRA increased the cost of natural gas leases on federal lands without requiring a significant expansion of them, and Manchin’s permitting reform proposal currently under consideration does not amend or update any of the statutes the Biden administration has put in place, which restrict natural gas production, transport, and export.
A high-level Washington, D.C.-based lobbyist for the oil and gas industry told me that, as a direct result of Biden administration policies, private sector investment in LNG is being throttled. “The LNG industry is going to investors to invest in these facilities but investors are saying, ‘Wait. These are 20-year investments and Biden is saying that in 5 to 10 years these investments will go bad. So what should we do?’”
Manchin’s permitting reform may not even get the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a priority of Manchin’s, built. That pipeline would transport a significant quantity of natural gas out of the Appalachian region and make it available for export to the world.
“There’s nothing in the current permitting reform proposal Manchin’s office is circulating that allows the Mountain Valley Pipeline,” the lobbyist said. “Manchin staffers put out a one-pager with different components of reforms in it, and one of the bullets said ‘Get MVP permitted.’ But the way Manchin staffers describe it, it wouldn’t help.”
Many journalists claim there’s little the Biden administration could do to significantly and quickly increase the global supply of natural gas, and thus fertilizer and food. That’s false. The main barrier to expanded natural gas production in the U.S. is regulatory. That means that the main barrier to increasing the world’s supply of natural gas is Biden himself. Why is that?
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Because he’s a disgusting fucking scumbag.
now now. he’s jello, that’s all.
Meanwhile….
Iran And Russia Move To Create A Global Natural Gas Cartel
The Russia-Iran alliance, as evidenced in the most recent multi-faceted MoU between Gazprom and the NIOC, wants to control as much of the two key elements in the global supply matrix – gas supplied over land via pipelines and gas supplied via ships in liquefied natural gas (LNG) – as possible.
https://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/International/Iran-And-Russia-Move-To-Create-A-Global-Natural-Gas-Cartel.html
Several times in the article the author makes references to “lives lost” by Biden’s actions.
Biden kills with his Covid policies, Ukraine war and more deaths due to criminals entering the southern border, etc…
Biden needs a new name.
Something like “Joe the senile slaughterer Biden”.
Who’s creative out there?
Kind of lame but off the top of my head, ‘Body Count Biden’.
But being somewhat serious was just thinking while working this morning for some REALLY out of touch people (lets all plant sunflowers to show Russia who is boss) is that the average American does not think all this turmoil in the world is going to touch them in any way, just business as usual.
The only thing is, FJB can’t remember what he had for breakfast this morning. He was selected for his lack of cognition. He is a man devoid of moral character, his ineptitude is what qualified him for the position. He is a figure head and no more, he doesn’t make policy nor is he consulted on it. The bumbling old fool is just that, a bumbling old fool. The people pulling the strings may not even be a recognized part of the Biden cabinet. It really is quite scary and we men need to step up for the sake of our people and our way life or we shall all parish together.
“Why doesn’t he?”
he’s not in charge of anything. at all.
was watching a video of him, turning on someone and saying something. the agent with him took him by the arm and hip, and led him away.
Biden may not be quick on his feet. But he still knows who butters his bread.
He has not forgotten that!
Give Obama a call, he will fill you in.
i saw an article a week or so back that a huge lng processing plant is being built in mayheko south of tayhass–we will pipe our gas there 4 them to export–
why?
because the ones behind that are not americans.
i saw an article earlier today that cali will mandate all new vehicles sold there have to be 100% emissions free by 2035–as goes cali goes the country–
it needs to be stopped–
at the rate it’s going, by 2035 there may not be any operating vehicles there at all.
We won’t make it till 2035, this ship is going down!
No pain no gain….their plans for the transition away from petroleum products necessities the need for sacrifice (Of course not by the top 10%, just the hoi polloi). They’ll simply say ad nauseum, that you must accept their remaking of society in order to survive. If you don’t survive, it is for the greater good. Most will get into the cattle cars.
How fuckin stupid are you falcon flight????
The purpose of the green revolution is to raise oil
You all just don’t get it!!!!!
You all are retarded!!!!!!!!!
The biggest oil companies have biggest proven reserves with the lowest price per barrel.
They benefit most from high gas prices!!
How don’t you get that you dumb mother fuckers?!?!?!?!???!,!,!?!?!
Biden is in bed with them!!!!
Dumbasses!
Wonderful.
So why aren’t they pumping it out of the ground like mad?
D’OH!!
Nothing is ever as it seems.
for sure abundant cheap energy is necessary for civilization as we know it. biden was a soulless serpent but is now a demented soulless serpent.
He does what he is told, he is simply a teleprompter reading puppet on a string. He has owners and they get what they want, more for them less for you.
Just another democrat communist plan.