Posted on 11/12/2021 9:31:16 PM PST by massmike
If Joe Biden could shut down the border the way he shuts down pipelines he’d be in good shape.
Instead, he’d rather stick it to hard-working Americans through skyrocketing gas prices while rewarding illegal immigrants with vast sums of taxpayer money.
It is not enough that the hate-America, left-wing loonies got him to shut down the Keystone XL pipeline, now they are going after the so-called Line 5 pipeline that moves crude oil from Western Canada to Michigan.
You may not like Donald Trump, but when he left the presidency, he left behind a country that he not only had made energy independent, that was exporting oil as well.
Low gas prices under Trump brought about an economic boom. Wages were up and unemployment was down, and inflation was held in check.
Gas prices were low because the U.S., through drilling, fracking and looser regulation, was able to become the world’s leader in oil production. Lower gas prices meant that consumers had more money to spend on other goods and services.
In less than a year in office, Biden, bowing to environmental fanatics and climate change doomsayers, thrashed that achievement.
Biden, in his war on fossil fuel, has turned back the clock. He has turned a country bursting with energy into a nation begging OPEC to increase its oil production.
The result has been steepening gas and grocery prices that are punishing the middle class and the working poor.
The war rages on. Witness John Kerry, Biden’s climate czar, who at the UN climate conference in Glasgow, said that in in less than 10 years the U.S. will have no coal plants. Currently 25% of the country’s electricity comes from coal.
“By 2030, in the United States, we won’t have coal,” Kerry said.
Whether anyone else does remains to be seen. In a surprise move at the summit, the U.S. and China announced they reached an agreement on climate goals.
“When it comes to climate change, there is more agreement between China and the U.S. than divergence,” China’s chief negotiator, Xie Zhenhua said at a press conference according to reports.
The U.S. and China will address clean energy, coal, methane and deforestation. Cheers all around — however China also refused to ban gas-powered cars by 2035 and wouldn’t join the methane pledge led by the U.S. and the EU.
What China is doing is ramping up its economy in its effort to replace the United States as the strongest economic and military power in the world.
While climate-change zealots are determined to put an end to the use of coal in the U.S., China has been rapidly building coal-fired power plants at a dizzying rate to produce steel, cement and other heavy manufactured products.
China also leads in pollution. It is by far the biggest polluting country in the world and while the announcement at the summit was a happy surprise to many, we’ll wait and see what changes actually come about because of it.
Saying one thing and doing another is old hat to Joe Biden, who, in the name of climate change, shut down the Keystone XL pipeline, but then paved the way for the completion of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
We lost 10,000 U.S. pipeline jobs, created thousands of Russian jobs and ended up buying oil from Russia that we used to produce. Biden is also now begging oil from OPEC, the Middle East oil cartel that Trump had on the ropes.
.Joe Biden has so weakened the U.S. presidency that he has become a joke. He performs like a forgetful, apologetic supplicant rather than a world leader.
Unfortunately, he has weakened the U.S. as well, which is why the Chinese are now openly mocking him by using fake U.S. aircraft carriers and warships for target practice.
He needs to be deposed.
Before it’s too late
If this is a cold winter with those polar vortex events bringing arctic air to the Midwest, I expect fuel shortages. In a polar vortex event two years ago in parts of Minnesota the natural gas supplier begged customers to keep thermostats at 58 degrees as their gas supplies could not keep up with demand. Expect repeats of this situation to become commonplace starting this winter. The closing of coal fired and nuclear plants could also put large parts of the country at risk of widespread blackouts. Perhaps when Biden supporters are shivering in their darkened homes this winter and going no where in their electric cars they might have second thoughts.
Nothing more needs to be said.
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A fair amount of them will be blaming Trump somehow.
The overreaction to Biden’s efforts to ruin the country will be “more government.”
“...now they are going after the so-called Line 5 pipeline that moves crude oil from Western Canada to Michigan..”
I just heard the scum might shut down another pipe into Missouri.
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