Daily Caller Piece: Democrats Want Us To Forget All About These Inconvenient Energy Truths

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Despite the prevailing narrative pushed by our government and most of the legacy media that the U.S. and the world are in the midst of a great energy transition, inconvenient truths stubbornly continue popping up.

Truths like the world used more oil, coal, and natural gas than ever during 2022 and is very likely to exceed those levels in 2023. Truths like grid managers in locations as diverse as Germany and Texas feel the need to reactivate mothballed coal and natural gas power plants to keep homes heated and lights on this coming winter. (RELATED: Blue City Vowed To Go Green, But Can’t Bring Itself To Shutter Key Coal Plant)

Now, according to President Joe Biden’s own Energy Information Administration (EIA), both U.S. oil production and U.S. crude oil exports have reached new record levels despite the president’s oft-made promise to end the oil business entirely in just 10 years. Or is it 9 years now? Or perhaps only 8 years? It’s becoming hard to keep up.

Whatever the time frame remaining to the Biden goal, the industry itself and the consumers of its products both at home and abroad are not cooperating. Last week the EIA reported that domestic U.S. oil production hit a new record high of 13.2 million barrels per day during September, surpassing the previous high set in 2019, before the dual 2020 crashes cause by COVID-19 and by a dispute between Russia and Saudi Arabia.