State governments around the Northeast find themselves in a ditch they dug themselves. Winter is coming, energy prices are out of sight, and they are looking to appease the peeps with home heating handouts, but you should insist on small bills in case you have to burn that money to keep warm.
There might not be anything for you to buy.
The US Northeast is so short on heating oil that the fuel used to power home furnaces is being rationed even before the start of winter.
Some wholesalers in Connecticut are putting retailers on allocation, meaning they can only get a limited amount of fuel based on availability, according to Chris Herb, president of the Connecticut Energy Marketers Association, which represents around 600 family-owned retailers in the state. These retailers must in turn ration their customers.
Talk about the old dirt road. How many times have we talked about this issue over how many years? To no avail, it seems. The government experts, along with the squeaky wheel environmental fascists, have ensured that we don’t have what we need. And no, you can’t burn solar panels or wind turbine parts. If you could even get them to ignite, the toxic emissions from the components would kill you.
As noted previously on these pages and in almost daily installments of words more recently, demand exceeds supply, so costs have exceeded means. It explains the knee-jerk political reaction to throw money at the problem. But you can’t buy what isn’t there. It is not a problem that can be solved with payouts, handouts, or buyouts.
And it’s not Putin’s fault. A six-month-old war is not the problem. The Northeast has deliberately embraced a reckless and ruinous approach to energy security for decades. Putin’s not blameless, but no matter what rank of assh*le he may be, Europe has the infrastructure to store supplies of oil and natural gas, of which much came from… the United States.
Think about that while you’re on the phone with the oil or gas company that can’t deliver what’s not there. But Europe got some!
Then ask yourself why the geriatric bag of bones occupying the Oval Office had to beg foreign powers to increase oil output (they refused) when before he took the office, the US was a net exporter of oil and gas.
It wasn’t Putin that held “meetings” to force US oil companies to cut production. That was congressional Democrats.
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Putin didn’t stop the sale of new oil and gas leases, nor did he sign executive orders to stop fracking in its tracks. And you can’t blame Vlad for putting the kibosh on other energy infrastructure projects or diverting trillions to green energy development that will never meet our needs, especially for heat in the places that get cold every winter.
That was all Biden and the Dems. But they are not the only ones to blame. You can scroll back through our pages and find a few examples of shortsightedness about infrastructure (electric and gas) that are about to bite us on our chilly (mostly) white asses. So, there’s blame to go around, but most of it belongs to the political left, which should inform your decisions about who to vote for in a few weeks.
Democrats have led the ruinous charge for decades, here and nationally, and if they continue to have their way, the situation we face this year will become the norm instead of the exception.
HT | PJ Media
