Biden supports policies that would make the United States more dependent on foreign oil again by banning oil production on federal lands and in offshore areas as well as banning fracking
Biden Would Make the U.S. Dependent on Foreign Oil Again
Former Vice President Joe Biden promised to stop issuing leases for oil and natural gas drilling on federal lands and in offshore areas and he promised to ban hydraulic fracturing, known as "fracking". The logical result of these positions would be for the newly energy-independent United States to go back to importing much more of its oil from the Middle East for it is clear that it will be many decades before electric vehicles could replace gasoline engines and that substitutes could be found to replace products made from oil. It is fracking that has made the United States energy-independent and natural gas produced by fracking that has reduced our carbon dioxide emissions—one of only a few countries to do so. Further, by banning oil production on public lands and offshore areas and by banning fracking, the United States will be giving money to foreign oil producers rather than employing the hundreds of thousands of Americans currently working to produce our oil.
