Will An Election Year Finally Make The Biden Admin Get Serious About Natural Gas?

2024 is an election year in the United States and, in election years, partisan politics always tend to impact the energy space. This year is certainly no exception as exemplified by recent events.

January brought us the White House implementation of a “pause” in permitting for proposed new liquefied natural gas export facilities. Like his ill-considered cancellation of the Keystone XL Pipeline, this move by President Joe Biden was a sop to his party’s funders in the climate-alarm movement. (RELATED: DAVID BLACKMON: The Terrible News For Electric Vehicles Keeps Rolling In)

The White House claims the “pause” will likely be lifted conveniently after Election Day has come and gone, but we can be certain that the billionaires who fund the climate-alarm lobby would advocate making it permanent in a second Biden term.

In February, Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it was removing existing natural gas power plants from its proposed carbon regulations scheduled to become final in April, disappointing some of the same climate alarm groups it had pleased in January.