Democrats cheered when Biden stepped foot into the Oval Office and started shutting down oil and gas infrastructure. Prices immediately rose, and that was good for them too. Make it so expensive that green can compete.
So, what if you have to create economic hardship along the way. Crushing the lower and middle classes is a price they are willing to make you pay.
We paid more for oil from countries with atrocious human rights records. Funneled huge sums to Russia for oil we could have bought from ourselves at a fraction of the price. Democrats even created a star chamber to squeeze oil execs into promises of production reduction.
Russia invaded Ukraine, and Biden kept the Ruski spigots open until the polls said he’d better close them. And while he and his team of experts searched the Globe for oil, someone had the bright idea to invoke the Defense Production Act to (wait for it) encourage domestic production.
The Defense Production Act is the primary source of presidential authorities to expedite and expand the supply of materials and services from the U.S. industrial base needed to promote the national defense.
It could empower the Federal Government to do whatever was necessary to get the oil and gas flowing (again).
So, Biden puts his boot on the oil companies’ necks, and now folks are talking about him spoon-feeding them cash and instructions for the “protection or restoration of critical infrastructure.”
The federal law empowers the president to essentially nationalize private industry to ensure the U.S. has resources that could be necessary in a crisis. It even singles out energy as a “strategic and critical material,” giving the president wide latitude to prioritize contracts and force businesses to supply the government with materials and services.
A textbook example of Democrats ruining a thing and claiming the only cure is government intervention. But according to this report, Biden, Inc. is not interested in that, but I can’t say I believe that.
“You can help reduce domestic energy prices and further our nation’s energy independence while blunting the impact of President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to use Russian energy exports as leverage in the face of European and American sanctions,” lawmakers, including Representatives Jared Golden, a Maine Democrat, and South Dakota Republican Dusty Johnson, said a letter to Biden.
I have a non-expert suggestion. Just get out of the way. Let them do what they do. They were doing it just fine until that day Biden trundled into the Oval Office. Plenty of oil and gas. No offshoring US dollars. Jobs a-plenty, lower inflation.
Get out of the way!
That’s not how Democrats do things—everything from astroturfing to late-night omnibus votes, calculated to get the government in the way. We are left to wonder if these were chess pieces moved behind the scenes so that the Left could get their hands on something they have an insatiable urge to micromanage at every level.
Energy. All of it. Forever.
Would they start a war to move that forward without having to vote in an election year on an unpopular Green Raw Deal? Fossil fuels for my friends and me in the name of national defense while you get solar panels, wind machines, and a culture of getting stuff done between brownouts and blackouts.
The goal of the game is control. That’s why they so easily spend trillions that don’t exist. If they can’t control this generation, they’ll get the next one.
People born into slavery to fiat money and massive spending packages The perennial state of the economic downturn. Obama’s new normal. A land shackled and embittered by the indifference of forebears tasked with ensuring domestic tranquility but who instead allowed their inheritance to be squandered on identity politics and confidence scams run by establishment politicians yoked to the mental illness of Marxism and the Democrat party.
Conditions brought on by a state of constant fear. A cascade of shadows sold as a need for government action but one that would disappear if only we could get the boot off our necks.
