Former Interior Secretary of the Department of the Interior Ryan Zinke told Breitbart News on Thursday that the Biden administration took America from “energy dominance” to being “held hostage by foreign entities for our energy needs.”
“Yesterday, the Biden administration asked OPEC to produce more energy,” Zinke said on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow. “The America First policy was pretty clear, it’s called energy dominance.”
Zinke added, “America went from [producing]8.3 million barrels a day — and declining — to 12.5 million and rising [during the Trump administration. We became the largest producer of energy … in the world. Now we’re asking our foreign allies — sometimes adversaries — to produce more energy when we have it here.”
On Wednesday, the White House asked the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to increase crude oil production. The Biden administration cancelled the Keystone XL Pipeline’s cross-border permit issued by former President Donald Trump. The mostly built pipeline was intended to transfer crude oil from Western Canada’s oilsands to the U.S. for storage and refining. The Biden administration, Democrat Party, and broader left regularly frame fossil fuel consumption as a driver of “global warming” and “climate change.”
The U.S. became a net energy exporter during President Donald Trump’s tenure. “In 2019, total U.S. energy exports were greater than total energy imports, and the United States became a net total energy exporter for the first time since 1952,” noted the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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