President Biden’s capitulation to the left on green energy "created the perfect storm" for Russia’s Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine, Republicans say.
Green groups are celebrating the president’s comments last week that clean energy is the answer to ending the country’s reliance on foreign oil after he banned imports of Russian oil and gas in an effort to weaken Putin.
Biden said Russia’s war against Ukraine and its effects on global oil markets "should motivate us to accelerate a transition to clean energy.
But while progressive groups like the Sunrise Movement have looked at the current crisis as an opportunity to move toward ending America’s reliance on fossil fuels, Republicans say it’s those very same policies that created the crisis in the first place.
"The world cannot rely solely on renewable energy like wind and solar at this point and time – that’s a fact the White House can’t understand," Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., who serves on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, "It's clear that the US could have easily provided an alternative to Russian energy to our allies and taken away the Kremlin’s ‘ace’ had this administration not bent to the whims of the progressive left and deserted an effective all-of-the-above energy strategy."
"There is no denying that abandoning traditional fuel sources and failing to export LNG to our allies, per the left’s climate agenda, created the perfect storm for Putin to take advantage of," he added.
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