As the world grapples with the existential crisis of climate change, environmental activists want President Joe Biden to phase out the oil industry, and Republicans argue he’s already doing that. Meanwhile, the surprising reality is the United States is pumping oil at a blistering pace and is on track to produce more oil than any country has in history.
Republicans are ignorant to this fact but are ready to credit trump with this accomplishment.
Because they will credit Trump with everything they like and Biden with everything they don’t. Facts do not matter to these people and pretend like they do is how you alienate a base and lose elections. No amount of oil production is going to make a Trumper vote Biden, but it will discourage those who bought the ‘most climate friendly president’ line. It’s a lose lose situation that no one wants to reckon with because of the profits the energy sector brings in.