Energy Lease Hypocrisy: Biden Admin Uses Taxpayer Protections to Prop Up Wind, Gut Oil

Energy Lease Hypocrisy: Biden Admin Uses Taxpayer Protections to Prop Up Wind, Gut Oil
Giant wind turbine blades for the Vineyard Winds project are stacked on large racks in the harbor, in New Bedford, Mass., on July 11, 2023. At left is the Palmer Island Lighthouse. Charles Krupa/AP Photo
Pete McGinnis
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What constitutes a “proven technology” with “predictable income” to the Biden administration? Apparently, it isn’t the oil and gas industry that has been powering the world, raising standards of living, and making entire nations wealthy for more than a century. On the other hand, the first-ever North American ocean wind turbine installation—unpopular with people who will have to look at it and part of a flailing, not-ready-for-primetime industry—is a sure thing to the Department of the Interior (DOI).

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Pete McGinnis is director of communications at the Functional Government Initiative.
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