While the White House urges OPEC to increase their production of crude oil to meet the United States demands for energy, domestic producers express their disappointment with the Biden administration’s policy of importing rather than producing. Louisiana Oil and Gas Association President Mike Moncla said the White House is beating back years of progress.
“The price war the OPEC put on us years ago, we’re finally starting to crawl out of it a little bit, the price oil could be back up and now Biden is going to try and cut us at the knees again,” Moncla said.
Since the first day of his administration, President Biden has undertaken actions to shift away from domestic fossil fuel production in an effort to combat climate change. Moncla said the measures aren’t reasonable.
“What they’re trying to do just is pushing American energy away. This green policy they’re going after is just no realistic at this point,” Moncla said.
This comes as oil and gas workers in Louisiana continue to be laid off due to the pandemic. Moncla said domestic oil production is the safest in the world.
“Oil coming from the Gulf of Mexico is the cleanest grade of oil in the world when it’s refined so it’s less (dangerous) to the environment than from the other countries that he wants to get them from,” Moncla said
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