Normal Americans have experienced a wild ride in the last couple of days as energy and gas prices have soared. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is partly responsible for some of this. Most of the price increases occurred prior to that point, though, with gas going up over a dollar per gallon during Joe Biden’s first year in office.
Gas prices are always on the rise. Everything follows suit. The prices for groceries have rocketed and it is likely that the prices for non-perishable goods will also rise rapidly.
Biden instead of helping Americans, he is busy shifting blame and refusing basic steps to reduce their financial distress. Biden attempted to blame Putin Tuesday for increasing energy prices. This is insulting.
BIDEN – “I will do my best to limit Putin’s price rise here at home.” pic.twitter.com/j5EMRicV7w
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 8, 2022
Sorry, that dog isn’t going to hunt. Everyone reading this is more than three weeks old, which means we remember seeing gas go from $1.60 to $3.00 after Biden won the 2020 election (those are my local prices, but it’s been repeated in the same degree all over the country, even if the starting point was higher). Yes, Putin’s move to invade Ukraine has pushed prices even higher, but that still represents a fraction of the total increase Americans have absorbed with Biden in office. The Russians have done a terrible job of framing this whole disaster as an outcome of their aggression.
Joe Biden, however, is exactly this. He’s a coward who can never admit when he’s wrong, even when the writing is on the wall in black sharpie. He’d rather let the working class be crushed by his policies than even consider changing course. This is an example. During this same speech, instead of hearing the calls for more domestic energy production and the green-lighting of pipelines from Canada to increase supply, the president once again pushed Green New Deal “solutions” that are anything but.
Biden declared Green New Deal the best way to beat Putin.
“Transforming our economy to run on electric vehicles powered by clean energy with tax credits to help American families winterize their homes and use less energy —that will. This will make a difference.
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) March 8, 2022
I want to punch a wall with this kind of stuff. Let’s put aside the fact that government investment programs always turn out to be wasteful boondoggles (and this one will be). Let’s even pretend that electric vehicles and winterizing homes will lower energy usage over the long term and save Americans money (they won’t because that ignores a host of other variables). All of this has to do with what’s happening in the present. This is decades away from when Americans will see any significant benefit from using tax credits and other investments for green energy projects.
Specifically, on the topic of electric vehicles, even if everyone had $60,000+ to go out and buy one right now, there aren’t enough of them to buy. A new EV may take anywhere from 6 months to several years before you can purchase it. You cannot provide EVs to all Americans. Most would not have the means to charge them. What is the best way to charge an EV for someone who lives in an apartment? Almost no one has a 220 outlet in their garage, and that’s if they are lucky enough to have a garage. Commercial charging stations are more expensive than gas because the energy must come from somewhere.
So Biden’s big solution to the gas price crisis is to tell middle-class Americans to go buy electric cars that they can’t get, that they can’t charge, and that cost so much that it’d take decades to realize the cost savings. Again, it’s enough to make you want to go punch a wall.
For a long time, I looked at Biden as an aloof, incompetent, doofus, and sure, he’s absolutely that. But his presidency has made clear that he’s also a vindictive, stubborn old man who would see Americans driven into abject poverty if it meant realizing his leftwing utopia. It’s disgusting to witness such a lack of empathy.
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