Biden* orders no drilling permits or leasing on public lands--but just for 60 days. Wink-wink.

Say, have you enjoyed gas selling for just a bit over two bucks a gallon for the last four years?  (Well, at least if you live outside a high-tax state like California, anyway.)  For almost a year the U.S. was the world's number one producer of oil and natural gas.  Pretty amazing stuff.

Well, hope you enjoyed the low price, cuz under the brilliant leadership of Slow Biden,* those low gas prices are going away.

See, the Democrat leaders want to end the use of fossil fuel.  Well, at least for us common folks.  They wanna ban us from flying on airlines and from using gas-powered cars, cuz of Global Warming excuse me..."climate change," which they claim is caused by carbon dioxide from burning anything.  So the Biden administration has suspended new oil and gas leasing and drilling on public lands and waters for 60 days, effective immediately.

But hey, don't worry, citizens!  The suspension is just for two months, "as part a review of programs at the Department of Interior."  Like the lockdown orders, and wearing a mask:  "It's only for a few weeks, just to flatten the curve."  Remember?  After the "review" is finished, no doubt they'll go back to "normal."  Or close to it.

Oh, wait...didn't Biden* made a campaign pledge to permanently end all drilling and mineral leasing on gummint lands, "to address climate change"?

Why, now that I think of it, he did.  But I wouldn't worry about it, citizen.  I'm sure he didn't really mean it.  You know how politicians are about campaign promises, eh?  I mean, you don't really think he meant it when he said he'd give all illegal aliens free medical care, do ya?  C'mon, man...!

And really, how much oil is likely to be under public lands anyway, right?  Can't be all that much, cuz the gruberment only owns...let's see here...about half the land between Kansas and California.  So probably not much.  And it's not like the oil companies pay the government 12.5% of the value of all oil and gas produced.  Couldn't be more than a few tens of billions of dollars a year.  And if that revenue source ends we can always borrow the money from Joe's close friends in China, right?

Of course Biden* also ordered that construction on the Keystone XL pipeline stopped.  Did that his first day in office.  But that's probably just temporary too.  And after all, do we really need Canadian oil?  Nah.  After all, we can always go back to buying any oil we need from Iran.

Plus, we won't need any more oil after Nancy and Chuckie and Kameltoe and Slow Joe* pass the Green New Deal, right?  Slap a big enough tax on gasoline and the peons people will be begging to buy electric cars.  And Joe and Nancy can give the extra tax revenue to big cities to build multi-billion-dollar transit systems!  Yeh, dat's da ticket!  I mean, California's super-duper "high-speed train" has almost finished, what, a hundred miles of track?  And they've barely spent $42 Billion.  It's a bargain!

Hey, anything to slow Global Warming, right?

Excuse me..."climate change."