Fossil fuel

During the campaign Biden regularly attacked the fossil fuel industry. Joe Biden said during a rally this week that he wants to “get rid of fossil fuels.” Biden also said there would be “no more coal plants.“ “we should put them in jail” when talking about fossil fuel executives. Biden has also endorsed a fracking ban. If elected Joe Biden said that he would end fracking, during an exchange with a New Hampshire voter on Friday. “And stopping pipeline infrastructure?” Biden also endorsed a carbon tax on the American people, which will force households to pay much higher gasoline, heating, and cooling bills.   action, saying: “There’s no more consequential challenge that we must meet in the next decade than the onrushing climate crisis. … Left unchecked, it is literally an existential threat to the planet and our very survival.” To help achieve that goal, Biden promised to end new oil, gas and coal leases on public land. After the election to his credit he followed up on his campaign promises. The Biden administration is canceling oil drilling lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Cook Inlet, President Joe Biden shut down oil and gas lease sales from the nation’s vast public lands and waters in his first days in office