Representatives of America’s energy industry have criticized President Joe Biden’s recent “no more drilling” remarks at a rally in Yonkers, New York, that have been widely interpreted as a doubling down on his earlier pledge to phase out fossil fuels, even though he recently urged oil companies to pump more crude to bring down soaring gas prices.
“No more drilling,” Biden said at the rally on Nov. 6, after an exchange with a climate protester.
“There is no more drilling. I haven’t formed any new drilling.”
His remarks come days after he demanded in New Mexico that oil companies “should be drilling more,” and that if they did, prices at the pump would be lower….}