Rarely has there been a more concerted effort by a country’s leadership to eliminate a source of national strength than the Biden administration’s war on fossil fuels.

As President Biden prepares to shuffle off the stage, he’s attempting to burnish his tarnished legacy with last-minute administrative actions.

To that end, he has just banned new offshore drilling along an enormous swath of the US coastline as part of — as a White House statement put it — “the most ambitious climate and conservation agenda in our country’s history.”

“Ambitious” is one word for it; “perverse” is a better one.

As the US has sprinted ahead the rest of the world economically, in part thanks to revolutionary advances in oil and gas production, the Biden administration has worked to fasten around our neck the same green albatross dragging down EU economies.

If you think Germany, an increasingly sclerotic economy enfeebled by self-imposed high energy costs, is a model, the Biden........

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