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The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, and Linnea Lueken are joined by Isaac Orr from the Center of the American Experiment and Jason Hayes from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy for episode 350 of the In The Tank Podcast. On this episode, the ITT crew talks about all the excuses that are being spun to shield the Biden Administration and his energy policies from the rising prices for gas and energy. The ITT crew sets out to separate the facts from the fiction.
OPENING CHIT CHAT
WSJ – Climate-Change Censorship: Phase Two
https://www.wsj.com/articles/climate-censorship-phase-two-gina-mccarthy-social-media-biden-white-house-11655156191?st=0inyrmh1n3e5bb2&reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter
GAS PRICE RISE NARRATIVE
Fox Business – Record high gas prices: West Virginia, Montana, Colorado see biggest weekly jumps
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/record-high-gas-prices-west-virginia-montana-colorado-see-biggest-weekly-jumps
Washington Post – Fossil fuel leasing program undercuts Biden’s climate goals, report says
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/15/fossil-fuel-leasing-program-undercuts-biden-climate-goals-report-says/
AP News – Biden tells oil refiners: Produce more gas, fewer profits
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-biden-covid-health-f73c882b0664a5d5dd62635a9a65364c
ExxonMobil – Response to Biden
https://corporate.exxonmobil.com/News/Newsroom/News-releases/2022/0615_ExxonMobil-statement-regarding-President-Biden-Letter-to-Oil-Industry
IER – Another U.S. Refinery Slated to Close
https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/fossil-fuels/gas-and-oil/another-u-s-refinery-slated-to-close/
ENERGY SHORTAGES
WSJ – Why Electricity Blackouts Are Coming to Michigan
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-electricity-blackouts-are-coming-to-michigan-nuclear-power-plant-green-energy-renewable-climate-11653685521?mod=article_inline
Washington Post – A summer of blackouts
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/06/02/blackout-states-summer-heat/
WSJ – ‘That Could Never Happen in America,’ I Once Thought
https://www.wsj.com/articles/blackout-rolling-electricity-power-venezuela-america-11654185555
Reuters – U.S. Midwest may have summer power shortages for years
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-midwest-may-have-summer-power-shortages-years-2022-06-10/#:~:text=On%20Friday%2C%20MISO%20released%20a,responses%20over%20the%20next%20year.&text=One%20gigawatt%20can%20power%20about,on%20a%20hot%20summer%20day
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