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> The issue seemed to completely drop from public discourse during the Biden presidency

Biden signed into law the largest investment in clean energy in US history, dwarfing everything that came before. Half the economy was trying to get their hands on some of that stimmy.

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Both were true, the IRA handed out a lot of money to green projects at the same time the administration quietly greenlit a massive boom in oil production. (The Biden administration issued more new drilling permits than either Trump administration).

> at the same time the administration quietly greenlit a massive boom in oil production

Hard to get re-elected when gas is expensive. Voters are uninformed but you have to work with what they are, not what you wish they would be.

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