Posted on 03/08/2022 4:46:15 AM PST by MtnClimber
...and guess what?
Maybe Eric Trump, one of President Trump's sons, is just a very lucky guy.
Or maybe he was on to something. The younger Trump tweeted this back in October 2020:
If Biden gets in, not only will he destroy the Oil & Gas industry (and millions of American jobs and lives), we can all say goodbye to these unbelievably good gas prices.
Talk about a prediction. Maybe Eric should buy a lottery ticket every Friday.
Just yesterday, I stopped by a neighborhood station charging $3.89 a gallon. The proprietor, a nice man from the Middle East, joked that the prices were changing so fast that he's thinking about turning off the price sign.
Prices are indeed going up or more like rushing up. This is from CNBC:
The national average for a gallon of gas hit $4.009 on Sunday, according to AAA, which is the highest since July 2008, not adjusted for inflation. Prices have been rising at a fast clip. Consumers are paying 40 cents more than a week ago, and 57 cents more than a month ago.
In some places, consumers are paying much more. California’s average is now $5.288 per gallon.
Sorry but that's crazy.
The Biden administration is desperately trying to connect gas prices with the war in Ukraine.
It's sort of like saying "Putin did that" or a reference to all of those funny cartoons and stickers saying "Biden did that."
Ukraine may be a factor. But a bigger reason is the Biden policy to curtail domestic production and irrationally following the 'green energy" crowd's agenda.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Electric school busses...
We need to ban “greenies” from this country. Like as in, run them out on a rail. If they want this crap, they can go live in Europe.
Why we all sit back on our butts and do nothing is beyond me.
We should hang these people for the pain they are going to inflict upon all of us. Job losses, loss of fortune, loss of power to fight a war. Just wait until our energy reserves are gone. Wait until your 401K is gone.
Here in the Florida panhandle our electric bills have nearly doubled this past year. The reasons given vary but one main reason for the accelerated cost is the rising cost of energy and in particular, a massive solar farm boondoggle that FLP has engaged in. It scares me think about the cost of electricity if progressive socialists force those who can afford it into electric cars.
It isn’t just the cost of gasoline going up. My local electric company has asked the utilities commission for a 7.9% rate increase for household and 9% for industrial users effective September 1. The justification is “adjustment for fuel and alternative energy.”
It is ironic the greens have no issue with thousands of acres of woodlands and farmlands being bulldozed in rural areas for huge subsidized solar farms. No tears shed for the forests of 100+ year old trees, which naturally recycle carbon dioxide. No tears for the streams now polluted with soil erosion from the bare soil under the solar collectors. No concern about farmland disappearing, much of it family farms.
Their green revolution is right out of Stalin’s playbook. Stalin starved millions to make Russia an industrial power.
No offense to Eric but anyone with half a brain could see this coming.
The irony of this entire sanctions’ kabuki theatre is Russia is making substantially more on its energy exports after the war than before. What is driving energy prices is the perception of potential future shortages of energy due to this war than the current reality that there is currently no shortage at all. This war will end before the perception becomes a reality and prices will decline. In the meantime, Russia is having a banner year from its energy exports because of the war. Europe is not importing less Russian energy after the start of the war but more, except Russia is receiving 35% more for its product than before the war because the war has driven energy prices up at least 35%. In the case of natural gas, they are receiving 65% more. We have not cut back on importing Russian energy and China is taking all Russia will send. Even Ukraine is receiving Russian energy by letting it flow thru the pipeline to Poland and Poland reselling it back to Ukraine. The Swift sanctions sleight of hand trick was for public consumption because 20% of Russian banks were exempted and that was because Europe insisted some Russian banks not be subject to SWIFT sanctions so they could funnel payments to Russia for the Russian energy they were buying. The cold reality is Russia is making money from this war, although that is not why they started it. Meanwhile Biden is exhorting our enemies like Iran and Venezuela to produce and ship more oil after cutting US production over the last year when the only energy producing nation producing and exporting less energy this year than last is the US because of his policies
I just looked up George Soros top stock holdings. The number 1 holdings is an Electric vehicle company. Such a coincidence!
4.20 in central Florida, but that was yesterday. Up 20 cents from the day before and who knows what today will bring.
#LetsGoBrandon
I guess that means leftists don’t even have half a brain.
As the 1994 election proved, American gun owners can determine the winner in any national election - according to statistics published in USA Today immediately after, almost a third of the people who actually voted were gun owners voting Republican.
But will gun owners consistently donate $5 to progun candidates, or turn out and vote? No - and even worse, way too many can't seem to remember recent history, and actually vote Democrat. In other words, the answer to your question ('Why do we all sit back on our butts and do nothing?') seems to be, "Too many Americans are as dumb as stumps"...
We need an opposing party who will ALL stand up and say:
Come up with a WORKABLE “alternative” energy system -FIRST…
THEN we can talk about phasing out the current system..
Our current “opposing” party are all in on this crap…
I think the lowest I paid in 2020 was around $1.79 while my buddy's daughter once paid $1.13 at a local Kroger's...
chuckee thanks for that post. I knew all that but you stated it very well. I laughed when I read it but it was a bitter sarcastic laugh.
Everything Biden was going to do was in the manifesto he wrote with the communist Bernie Sanders. Mark Levin mentioned it a million times on his radio show and TV show, Trump mentioned it, his sons mentioned it, I mentioned it, Freepers mentioned it all except the MSM who lied about Trump and Biden as usual misinforming the public and doing tremendous damage to the country and the world.
At least Miranda Devine wrote about it in July of 2020.....
https://nypost.com/2020/07/19/beware-of-biden-sanders-radical-lefty-manifesto-devine/
Gas in Lincoln, Maine, yesterday, was 4.19. I recall how infuriated I was about 50 years ago when gas went to a dollar. Electric rates across Maine about doubled two months ago. Liberals ruin everything. Trump won. The election was stolen. Let’s Go Brandon!
More like 81 million ,if that number is to be believed. The indoctrinated are many....thanks to the NEA.
The commies don’t care if you can afford an EV. If you can’t, you can walk or take public transportation. The wealthy bicoastal elites can afford the EVs.
Buttforker Pete says we should all go buy EVs because it will save us money. He knows what’s best for you. Just stay glued to your chair when he is around.
Your post made me think. Anyone with half a brain could see the Biden administration undoing all of Trump’s work and returning to the Climate BS that Trump rejected.
But, I did not foresee Trump’s success in transforming America to energy independence in a single ham-strung term. American oil and gas production sprang to life in a way that I had not even thought possible.
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