Posted on 11/30/2021 4:44:11 AM PST by Kaslin
When he announced last week that he would release more oil from the American Strategic Petroleum Reserve, resident Joe Biden told the American people he is doing everything possible to bring down gas prices at the pump.
That's a lie. This administration and the climate change crazies have declared war on American energy.
They want high oil and gas prices. The Biden master plan is for American oil and gas production and consumption to go to zero over the next 15 to 20 years. How do you achieve that goal? By making oil and gas so expensive and so unavailable that Americans are forced to use alternatives.
In other words, the fact that gasoline is roughly $1.25 more expensive per gallon today under Biden than it was a year ago under former President Donald Trump didn't happen by accident. This was not a result of a natural disaster, such as a hurricane, that could knock out our oil facilities. This was by design.
The left believes that they can change the temperature of the planet by forcing American energy companies to produce less oil and to force Americans to use less of it. How do you get people to buy less of something? You raise its price. This is basic high-school introductory economics.
Some on the Biden team have inadvertently admitted this. Cornell University professor Saule Omarova, a high-ranking Biden nominee for one of the country's leading regulatory agencies, said she wants to "bankrupt" U.S. oil, gas and coal companies -- and apparently has no problem putting roughly five million Americans into unemployment lines. Biden's appointee to be vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Lael Brainard, was asked at a congressional hearing recently if she thought high gas prices were a problem. She hemmed and hawed and refused to answer with a simple "yes." Instead, she explained that this is a "complicated" issue. How is this complicated?
U.S. oil production is down roughly two million barrels a day from the peak production under Trump prior to COVID, yet Biden recently blamed high oil prices on the Saudis and the OPEC nations for holding back supply. Hello! That is exactly what cartels do. They use their market power to jack up the prices so they can maximize their profits.
Trump broke the back of OPEC by making the U.S. the dominant energy-producing nation in the world. Biden has handed back that power to the Arab oil sheikhs and Vladimir Putin in Russia. Now they are gouging us. What a shock!
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said it well in August that Texas "can easily produce that oil" if Biden "will just stay out of the way."
He won't.
The Biden administration's strategy is to force-feed the American economy expensive, unreliable and made-in-China wind and solar energy. His $3 trillion Build Back Better bill would dole out more than $500 billion of taxpayer dollars to the wind, solar and electric vehicle industry to break the back of oil and gas production. If this energy source is so efficient, why does it need a half-trillion dollars of your and my money?
Meanwhile, nearly every Biden policy has been deliberately aimed at killing U.S. oil and gas production -- from killing the Keystone XL pipeline to trying to shut down other existing natural gas pipelines in the Midwest (Home heating costs are going way up this winter.) to shutting down much of Alaska oil production to new Environmental Protection Agency rules making it very difficult and expensive to drill here in America. He is also preventing the mining of American coal, which is still one of the dominant sources of electric power around the world. He also wants to raise taxes on the oil and gas industry.
Now, let's be honest. Do any of these policies suggest that Biden and his liberal friends in the green-energy movement want to keep oil and gas prices low? If you answer yes to that, you probably believe that Al Gore invented the internet.
Hunter has a dirty finger in that pot too ...
Blow Jiden doesn’t want squat! He has zero clue what’s even going on and is a puppet for the behind the scenes players. Those are the ones that need to be exposed
Dementiajoe’s Communist puppetmasters want to destroy the economy of the U.S.
Hunter’s kickbacks from Russian energy interests don’t come cheap.
“...Secret...”
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For it to be a secret, there need to be people who don’t know it.
Who is it that the author is claiming didn’t know that Brandon and the Brandon administration wants higher gasoline prices?
Good God. They have openly said what they want. I expect there are people out there who heard that and thought "Oh, that's just campaign rhetoric...meat for the Democrat base!"
Nooo. It is what they mean to do. And they aren't shy about it, because as we all know, it will be for our own good. And as C.S. Lewis points out:
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals."
What Joe Biden wants is a little girl’s nipple to pinch and his morning pudding. His brain will not accommodate more than that.
Looks like I picked a bad year to buy a new Jeep Grand Cherokee with a 710hp 392 Supercharged HEMI V8 in it.
WHERE ARE THE REPUBLICANS???
Why aren’t they holding press conferences every day. Why aren’t they taking that time to tell America just what this article says? That our President wants to make oil so expensive we can’t drive cars that use it?
Why aren’t the Republicans urging Americans to protest, march against the administration, send endless letters to the editors, arrange their own interviews?
Again....WHERE ARE THE REPUBLICANS???
Moore is a Free Traitor but he is right about this.
If you’ve got it, flaunt it! I couldn’t afford the tires!
What’s the plan for getting product to market? And even the local farmers’ markets...last time I checked most of the farms were an hour or more from the cities. Obviously I am mainly referring to the coast, no idea what the bread basket is supposed to do.
Gasoline prices around me are down 15 cents a gallon over the past few weeks.
Exxon, Texaco et al should acknowledge they are at war and cease selling into California and probably New York
The Eurotopians can experience reality as they wither on the vine
It’s no secret. O’Bummer the mongrel wanted $7/gallon, and his stupid liberal constituents approved. Cause that’s what the party dictates.
Plugs just wants ice cream.
Those IN CHARGE (0bamas, Soros’, et al..) are the ones that want higher gas prices. 0bama flat out TOLD us so back when he was publicly in office.
I swear he really looks silly when he licks that ice cream.
“WHERE ARE THE REPUBLICANS???“
THEY want the same things democrats do.
They do NOT represent us in any way.
When citizens lose and politicians gain, ALL the politicians win - not just one party.
It’s like tv wrestlers; on camera, they talk smack about each other and get the “audience” to choose sides (and fight among themselves - for their “team”)
The wrestlers do their thing for the cameras, but after the “show” - they BOTH get paid. Doesn’t matter which one “wins” that bout.
Our politicians have done the same thing with our government.
We the people no longer have any meaningful representation in this country. Ben Franklin was right.
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