NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO • October 31, 2021
President Biden said on Sunday that the world can't immediately stop using oil and said OPEC and Russia need to pump more of it, even as he pushes the world to pledge to cut climate-changing carbon emissions at the Glasgow climate summit this week. After three days of meeting with world leaders in Rome, where he attended the G-20 summit, Biden said he is worried that surging energy costs are hurting working class families. “Everyone knows that idea that we're going to be able to move to renewable energy overnight ... it's just not rational," he said.