If Americans were thrilled to hear President Joe Biden’s prediction about potential green energy savings, their balloon was quickly popped by a White House correction.
In a speech on Thursday addressing the ongoing crisis at the pump as March saw the highest recorded average gas prices in the nation, Biden touted the savings for consumers after a switch to renewable energy. But he was quickly fact-checked on the inaccurate wording of his promise.
After blaming high gas prices in the U.S. on the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and announcing that he will release an unprecedented 1 million barrels of oil per day over the next six months, the president said he was “declaring real American energy independence in the long term.”
“Yes, building a made-in-America clean energy future will help safeguard our national security. Yes, it will help us tackle climate change. Yes, it’s going to help us ensure that America creates millions of good-paying jobs for generations to come,” he said.
“But most important — the most important thing my plan will do right away is save your family money,” Biden continued. “If your home is powered by safer, cheaper, cleaner electricity like solar or heat pumps, you can save about $500 a month on average.”
(Relevant portion in video below begins at 10:53 mark)
(Video: CNBC)
In short order, the White House corrected the official transcript of his speech to indicate the president meant the predicted savings would be over a year, not a month.
In a fact sheet released Thursday, the White House clarified the green energy savings.
“His plan will help ensure that America creates millions of good-paying union jobs in clean, cutting-edge industries for generations to come,” the statement reads.”And it will save American families money in the immediate future – including more than $950 a year in gas savings from taking advantage of electric vehicles, and an additional $500 a year from using clean electricity like solar and heat pumps to power their homes.”
The Associated Press issued a “fact check’ with the headline “Biden overpromises on green energy savings.”
According to the AP report:
THE FACTS: Not so. The average person in the U.S. spends far less than that every month on electricity.
The average electric bill for homeowners was $115 per month in 2019, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Between 2009 and 2019, the average monthly electric bill for a U.S. homeowner never surpassed $120.
Despite the correction, it was noted that it would still take years for homeowners to reap the savings being promised “given the upfront cost of installing solar panels and heat pumps in homes,” according to AP.
Earlier in his remarks, Biden said there were two “roots” for the “problem we’re facing with gas prices.”
“First, the pandemic. When COVID struck, demand for oil plummeted, so production slowed down worldwide. Because of the strength and the speed of our recovery, demand for oil shot back up much faster than the supply. That’s why the cost of gas began to rise last year,” the president claimed.
“The second root is Vladimir Putin. At the start of this year, gas was about $3.30 a gallon. Today, it’s about — averaging $4.20, $4.22. It’s higher in many states. Nearly a dollar more in less than three months. And the reason for that is because of Putin’s war,” Biden stated, using the current administration narrative.
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Every Word Out of this Assholes Mouth is a LIE!
Damn lie.
At the start of Dementia Joe’s regime in January of 2021, gas was $2.17 per gallon. At the beginning of 2022, gas was $3.30 per gallon, more than 60% higher than when Dementia Joe took office. No Putin, no pandemic, just Dementia Joe’s vicious attacks on oil production that drove prices and inflation Let’s go Brandon FJB
I’ll gladly pay FJB $500 dollars a year just to leave us alone.
Just another reason to be thankful that 81 million voters, some living, some not, were able to see through Trump’s lies about making America great! Joey and his plans are moving us forward at warp speed. Thank you Joey!
$500 a year…. if this doesn’t convince you just how out of touch these morons are, you are part of the problem…
Again… The senile old fool is way out of his league! He is so full of crap he stinks! If green energy was all that, we’d be using it already. IT IS NOT! The idiot in the white house knows it as does everybody else.
No, that was him crapping in his pants in front of the Pope FJB
He keeps on pushing AOC’s green agenda, she must be giving him skull.
….and the average American family can save almost $300 per month by cutting their eating habits in half, $200 per month by keeping their clothes twice as long, etc.
Biden and his team are out of touch idiots without a clue!
We’ll buy that Joey – when pigs fly.
“If your home is powered by safer, cheaper, cleaner electricity like solar or heat pumps, you can save about $500 a month on average.” Interesting! I have a heat pump, but I have never noticed electricity coming out of it…only into it. So how does the heat pump make safer, cleaner electricity? Is the White House communications office so inept that they missed that part of what he said?
Heat pump just makes your heating and cooling system operate more efficiently down to 32 degrees F. Below that they typically shut down. Heat pumps need electricity to operate. Biden is a total doofus. Homeowners in my area that have solar panels have added more panels and batteries as in a 4 day blizzard they don’t work very well. Wind turbines are shut down when the wind blows more that 25-30 mph, which here is all the time. My local utility company has solar available, but it costs 2-3 cents more per kilowatt to use. Wind costs almost 5 cents a kilowatt more to use. These politicians are total idiots. What’s next? Mule powered airplanes?
Yes
500 a month in savings, corrected to $500 per year? If ever you needed confirmation that he was just a clueless reader in chief, this should do it. He just reads what he’s told. His head is vacant of thought.
Tell us how! Not happening tomorrow, next year next decade. Not gonna happen in my life time. Maybe in my grand kids lifetime. Maybe!
This senile and totally incompetent OLD moron is so out of touch, it is like he lives on another planet. Yea, everybody has 50K to just go out and buy an EV, then have an electrician come over and put in a dedicated charging circuit?? What a Buffoon!!! He is going to release 1 million barrels of oil from the national reserve to drop oil prices- BUT America uses 21 million barrels per day for gasoline and consumer goods, and 10 Billion for diesel. 1 million barrels will do very little – meanwhile the Democrats now blame Putin for the high prices of EVERYTHING – not themselves and their failed economic and energy policies that caused all of this way before Putin invaded the Ukraine, but 50% of the nation, DUMB DEMO0CRATS AND INDEPENDENTS WILL BELIEVE THAT PROPAGANDA.
LOL still looking for my saving with the “Affordable” care act.
It’s always someone else’s fault. Remember he tweeted about being the person who would take responsibility.
I really doubt that Biden understands or realizes what he is saying most of the time. Neither he nor his staff obviously knows nothing about climate change or energy generation or anything that matters to We the People!!
Biden and his advisors know economics like I know microbiology or nuclear physics. To those ends Im completely ignorant.
Covid did it! Putin’s fault!
It’s always handy for a politician to have some sweet sounding lies at the ready to shift the burden of blame and responsibility to others.
I am so sick of the paper-thin lies from this administration. I’ve been into electric vehicles for nine years and they are NOT feasible on a large scale. Cut the defecation..
Especially when California tells ev owners please don’t charge your cars
And the cost of changing over to those technologies adds what to the mortgage, about a $1000 per month? Typical Democrat thinking.
Thinking, I call it lying. They know they’re not tell him the truth.
Come on man, he doesnt want the truth! He wants the money hes getting from Russia for pushing lies.