Disinformation Behind Censorship Demands

President Joe Biden, spokespersons for his administration, and Congressional Democrats say they are trying to get out the truth about energy and climate change against Republican and fossil fuel efforts to deny it. Over the summer, Biden denied he was limiting oil production and accused oil refiners of restricting production. In July, White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said, natural disasters… are getting worse because of climate change,” which, he said, had caused the war in Syria. And Rep. Ro Khanna, on September 15, 2022, said, If there was a war on energy, how is Exxon, Chevron, BP, and Shell making over 200% profits? You can’t have a war on an industry and then they’re having record profits.

But every one of their statements was false. Biden has leased far less federal land and off-shore waters for oil and gas production than any president since World War II, oil refiners are operating at maximum capacity, and Biden s EPA shut down a major oil refinery in the US Virgin Islands in May. The number of weather-related natural disasters has been declining since this century, and the claim that climate change caused the war in Syria has been soundly and repeatedly debunked. And, as I explained to Rep. Khanna during the September 15 Congressional hearing, big oil and gas companies have big profits precisely because the Biden administration and others have been stifling production, thereby reducing supplies, and increasing prices and profits.

via michaelshellenberger.substack.com

It’s as if the Dems have a line, a political narrative of what’s going on, and they want to label the contrary of that as misinformation, whether it’s true or not! But that doesn’t seem right. Any government that could do that would just try to keep themselves in power indefinitely, right? And anybody could do this, Right or Left, correct?