Yesterday All Our Gas Seemed So Far Away

While precious environment needs our TLC, WSJ says Joe’s suck up to far left is “preposterous” as “no American President has done more to make US more dependent on foreign energy as we pay the Pied Piper…

The editorial board’s damning policy op ed was cast in the context of “The Saudis Snub Biden Again” by doubling its oil production CUTS to drive up everyone else’s prices. The WH predictably reacted by saying it’s “a reminder of why it is so critical that the US reduce its reliance on fossil fuels.” Incredulous editors asked: “Do these people know how preposterous they sound?” Joe Biden “came into office promising to slash US oil & gas production & his regulators & Democratic Congress are doing everything they can to make drilling difficult & investment non-economic.” The immediate impact? “Brent crude is [already] back above $93 a barrel” after pump prices had already begun to climb back up after a summer of respite from $5 per gallon gas.

Forget for a second the “diplomatic humiliation” Joe just suffered or the specter of rising pump prices in the lead up to the November mid-term elections. Think instead about us working stiffs who are caught in the middle of this political/environmental football game staged by concussed pols. The immediate need is to be, as Trump had said, “energy independent” so the environment could be helped without bankrupting the West. Instead, as the WSJ concludes: “The Biden WH has tried every gimmick to lower gas prices other than the one that would really matter: Call off its political campaign against American oil & gas production … But [he] won’t do it because [he’s] too afraid of, or shares the beliefs of, the climate left that wants to ban fossil fuels” yesterday.

Davd Soul