US politicians and oil execs see Ukraine invasion as license to drill, baby, drill.

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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/03/ukraine-russia-oil-fracking-natural-gas-shock-doctrine-green-energy/

On Monday, the United Nations’ climate change assessment body, the IPCC, released a landmark report finding that 150 years of unchecked fossil fuel burning had left the planet with a “brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all.”

A day before, speaking at a virtual meeting of UN climate delegates from her home in embattled Kyiv, Ukraine’s representative, Svitlana Krakovska, related the report’s finding to Russia’s attack on her homeland: “Human-induced climate change and the war on Ukraine have the same roots: fossil fuels, and our dependence on them.” She added: “We will not surrender in Ukraine…And we hope the world will not surrender in building a climate-resilient future.”

“We will not surrender in Ukraine…And we hope the world will not surrender in building a climate-resilient future.”

But in the United States, politicians and fossil fuel industry lobbyists are taking a rather different lesson from the conflict. Russia is basically a petro state, heavily reliant on oil and gas exports to Europe, much of it flowing in pipelines through Ukraine. Europe currently relies on Russia for about a third of its natural gas consumption, mostly to heat homes during the winter. With Russia emerging as a global pariah for its ruthless assault, the world should reject that country’s oil and instead encourage US producers to drill, baby, drill!

The American Petroleum Institute, the industry’s main trade group, started making its appeal on February 23, a day before Russia launched its siege:

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1. Drilling hasn't stopped, as of this minute they are drilling under my property nt