Remember when oil was cheap, and so was motor fuel? Nations that hate us were no longer raking in US petrol dollars. America was a net exporter of oil and gas. Lots of jobs and the incomes that came with them. Not since Joe Biden took over.
After just a few years of finally starving our enemies of American money for oil and gas, Joe and the Democrats have put us back on the dependency wagon.
According to government statistics, energy imports from Saudi Arabia more than doubled from Dec. 2020 to Oct. 2021. And our imports from Russia more than tripled from Feb. 2019 through Sept. 2021.
While I’m sure the oil sheiks in Saudi Arabia and Vladimir Putin are thrilled to be making money selling oil and petroleum to the United States, it’s hard to imagine why any American president would have intentionally enriched them at the expense of our own prosperity and our national security.
Millions that used to stay here augmented by extra dollars from surplus sales are now lining the pockets of our enemies like Russia. Remember them. Russia, Russia, Russia. Collusion. Helping the ruskies.
Donald Trump worked to thwart Russian ambition. He got Europe to pay for more of its security. He created an energy economy that allowed them to wean dependence on Russian gas.
Biden undid that in a matter of days, and it has unraveled entirely in the months since his inauguration.
Energy prices weigh heavy on the cost of goods and services, not that Biden Inc hasn’t done all it can to make matters worse across the not-so-fruited plain. But at least those mistakes aren’t pouring more and more dollars into Putin’s war machine.
Democrats destroy everything they touch.
What do they have to break before some folks notice?
