The energy crisis is well upon us and, like most things Democrats get us into, it was wholly avoidable if common sense approaches had been taken from the beginning of their time in power, a time that’s expected to soon draw to a close at this rate.
(READ: Rising Gas Prices May Have Put the Final Nail in the Democrats’ Midterm Coffin)
On Fox News’s “The Five,” host Greg Gutfeld and his fellow panelists got onto the topic of the energy crisis and began talking about President Joe Biden’s excuses about how our skyrocketing prices at the pump were the result of Russia’s war on Ukraine and America’s subsequent refusal to buy any more fuel from our enemy to help fund their war on the innocent.
Gutfeld was the first to cover the story by The Daily Wire. She dismissed Biden’s attempt to cause American citizens suffering as something they must suffer in order for west values of liberty and freedom to flourish. The Biden administration is accused of creating a worse situation than it needs to be by incompetence, dangerous obsession with the Climate narrative.
“[Biden] said defending freedom comes at a cost,” Gutfeld explained. “And that is not true. This is false. It’s the environmental clap trap that comes as a cost. It’s not all about liberty. There would be no cost if we didn’t demonize drilling, if we didn’t shut down pipelines, if we didn’t demonize fossil fuels.”
“So, it’s not about defending Ukraine,” he added. “It’s about exposing the destructiveness of, I would say, the green ideology, which is part of a larger ideology of punishment, right? It’s easy for rich countries to handle it, they only need more gas. It’s the poor countries that are going to suffer and it’s going to be poor people in the United States, right?”
“So, you have Twitter celebrities like George Takei and other losers who will say ‘you know, you should pay more to support Ukraine,’ but they’re not truckers, they’re not salesmen, they’re not Uber drivers,” Gutfeld continued. “This is the same detached mentality that we found with shutdowns, right? Everyone could deal with a shutdown, even if they worked in media. All we did was do our shows from our homes. People who tell us that we should live with it, can also live with any other thing. So, that’s either climate change, COVID, inflation. And once you see that you can’t unsee it. There’s an ideology of punishment, and it’s that you can handle the punishment, they’re above it.”
Gutfeld is right. It’s easy for people at the top to endure these hikes in cost but for many average Americans, this is going to be brutal. It’s incredibly sad to think that this all could have been avoided if the Biden administration hadn’t moved against the oil and gas industry in America from day one, including shutting down construction of the Keystone KL pipeline. Americans shouldn’t be surprised that these actions were done under the pretext of virtue signaling for the environment.
As my colleague Jim Thompson covered, the Biden administration’s attempts to make America a country completely free of fossil fuels is a pipe dream as many of the necessary materials needed to make us energy independent involve strip-mining the earth, and even then these materials are very expensive and most of them are owned by our enemies such as China.
It’s not happening, but energy independence is definitely within our grasp.
Moreover, Biden’s excuse that this crisis is due to the war in Ukraine is absolute drivel. These prices were already rising before Russia invaded, as Ted Cruz noted.
(READ: Ted Cruz Lays Down Hard Truths About the Biden Administration and Its ‘War on Energy’)
This is the Biden administration’s fault. It’s over. It was the Biden administration that did what it said it’d do from day one and clamped down on oil production here in the states. Mike Sommers, American Petroleum Institute explained that the excuse of 9,000 federal drilling permits is an utter fabrication of facts.
“Just because you have a lease doesn’t mean there’s actually oil and gas in that lease, and there has to be a lot of development that occurs between the leasing and then ultimately permitting for that acreage to be productive,” he said. “I think that they’re purposefully misusing the facts here to advantage their position.”
Gutfeld has it right. Biden is attempting to use patriotism, the war on Ukraine, and the dismissal of his administration’s red tape when it comes to drilling in order to hide the massive failures he and the Democrats have created.
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