President Biden had a heated exchange with a climate protestor at the end of a “rally to boost support for New York Gov. Kathy Hochul just two days ahead of the midterm elections.” The rally was held at Sarah Lawrence College.
While wrapping up the speech, a climate protester shouted something at Biden that made him seem visibly annoyed.
“No more drilling,” Biden said.
After the protester continued to shout at him, he shot back, sounding even more irritable: “There is no more drilling. I haven’t formed any new drilling.”
The protester could then be heard making objections to “offshore drilling” in the Antarctic and the Gulf of Mexico.
“That was before I was president. We’re trying to work on that to get that done,” Biden responded.
This comes just a week after President Biden claimed that coal plants are too expensive to even operate. He said, “we’re going to be shutting these plants down all across America” and referenced turning to wind power. The White House spoke on the comments:
After some pushback, White House walked back the president’s comments. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a press release the following day that Biden’s comments “have been twisted to suggest a meaning that was not intended; he regrets it if anyone hearing these remarks took offense.”
She added: “The President was commenting on a fact of economics and technology: as it has been from the earliest days as an energy superpower, America is once against in the midst of an energy transition.”
I wonder if they’ll “walk back” the comments he made in his argument with the climate protestor?
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