Menton makes note of the many lies and contradictions when Biden talks about his energy policy:

Category A.

• Biden at a February 2020 rally: “We are going to get rid of fossil fuels. . . . That’s okay. These guys are okay. They want to do the same thing I want to do. They want to phase out fossil fuels, and we’re going to phase out fossil fuels.”

• Biden at a March 15, 2020 CNN debate with Bernie Sanders: "No more drilling on federal lands. No more drilling including offshore. No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period. [It] ends.”

• Biden Executive Order, January 27, 2021: “The United States and the world face a profound climate crisis. We have a narrow moment to pursue action at home and abroad in order to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of that crisis and to seize the opportunity that tackling climate change presents.”

• White House press release, April 22, 2021: “Today, President Biden will announce a new target for the United States to achieve a 50-52 percent reduction from 2005 levels in economy-wide net greenhouse gas pollution in 2030. . . . On Day One, President Biden fulfilled his promise to rejoin the Paris Agreement and set a course for the United States to tackle the climate crisis at home and abroad, reaching net zero emissions economy-wide by no later than 2050. As part of re-entering the Paris Agreement, he also launched a whole-of-government process, organized through his National Climate Task Force, to establish this new 2030 emissions target.”

• List of section headings from Report at RealClearEnergy by Joseph Toomey dated September 2022, listing major Biden Administration energy initiatives: “Canceling the Keystone XL Pipeline; Halting Lease Sales in Alaska’s ANWR; Placing a Moratorium on Drilling on Federal Lands; Rejoining the Paris Climate Accord; Proposing Energy-Inhibiting Budgets; Canceling Oil and Gas Drilling Leases; Initiating Punitive Government Investigations; Restricting Permian Basin Drilling Using Ozone Rules; Imposing Stricter Methane Emissions Rules.”

Category B.

• Biden remarks at White House, October 19, 2022: “[W]e need to responsibly increase American oil production without delaying or deferring our transition to clean energy. [Ed - very Fettermanesque there] Let me — let’s debunk some myths here. My administration has not stopped or slowed U.S. oil production; quite the opposite.

• Biden remarks in upstate New York, October 27, 2022: “Today . . . we’re in a much better place [than when I took office]. . . . [G]as prices are declining. We’re down $1.25 since the peak this summer, and they’ve been falling for the last three weeks at well — as well. That’s adding up to real savings for families. Today, the most common price of gas in America is $3.39 — down from over $5 when I took office.”

... First, consider the COP-27 conference in Egypt. Some 35,000 people flew in to attend because, after all, UN bureaucrats and international diplomats are way too important to be subject to any imperative to reduce carbon emissions that may apply to the little people. Most of the attendees at the conference came from the so-called developing world. The representatives from those places, who are not dopes, are completely on to how easy and profitable it can be to shame a lefty fool like Biden, and they were primed to test just how much this sucker could be duped out of.

Somehow, in the short year since the last such conference — COP-26 in Glasgow, Scotland in 2021 — the focus of the mostly-annual UN get-together had shifted dramatically. Last year, all the talk was “Net Zero” — how we are going to eliminate the use of fossil fuels in the economy. Twelve months later, Europe now is facing an energy crisis. Its consumer energy bills are soaring, wind an solar are completely not up to the task of taking up the slack, and its emissions are rising with increased use of coal. Sorry, nobody’s carbon emissions are going down much any time soon. It’s time to memory-hole “Net Zero,” at least for the moment, and move to a new theme of convenience. This year’s theme was “loss and damage” funding.

What’s that about? To give some context, think way back to COP-15, that took place in Copenhagen in 2009. At that conference the rich countries made some vague commitment to provide $100 billion or so per year to developing countries for “climate action.” From the website of the OECD:

At the 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) of the UNFCCC in Copenhagen in 2009, developed countries committed to a collective goal of mobilising USD 100 billion per year by 2020 for climate action in developing countries, in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation. The goal was formalised at COP16 in Cancun, and at COP21 in Paris, it was reiterated and extended to 2025.

That piddling $100 billion per year was supposedly for “mitigation actions” and “transparency in implementation.” In other words, maybe building a fleet of useless wind turbines. But now this year these developing countries have latched on to a much more lucrative idea in this “loss and damage” thing. Now, we are no longer talking just money to build wind turbines, with the reigning kleptocrats getting the opportunity to skim 10% or 20% here and there. No, now we are talking about much bigger money, and all of it going straight to the pockets of the kleptocrats. In the run-up to the conference the UN put out a big Report laying the new number on the table: $2 trillion per year. Euronews.green had a summary on October 11, with the headline “Loss and

Damage: Developing countries need $2 trillion a year to cope with climate crisis.” Excerpt:

Developing and emerging countries will need $2 trillion (€1.98 trillion) per year by 2030 to cope with climate breakdown, a new report warns. The money - which covers all of the world’s developing economies except China - would fund a shift to renewable energy and help countries cope with extreme weather. The figure comes from ‘Finance for Climate Action’, a UN-backed report released on Tuesday. . . . Its authors call for ‘immediate action.’