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Pelosi Remarks on Gas Prices Show Dems Planning More Pain for Americans – Opinion

By Pluralist / March 31, 2022

It’s long past time that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) should have retired. I’m not a big advocate of hide-bound rules as to age or term limits. Joe Biden and her see the issues of advanced age, and other problems that harm our nation.

Of course, it’s not just the age, but lousy policies that they are trying to impose on us as well, such as Joe Biden deciding that instead of working on promoting more American production he’s just going to drain our reserve of petroleum dry to try to drop prices before the midterms so Americans won’t decimate Democrats in November.

Pelosi was asked Thursday about gas prices. She started with a little truth and in the process, undercut one of Biden’s big lies, blaming everything on the “Putin price hike.” She made a mistake and admitted that was only “partially” true.

This was, however, probably the best observation. The rest was just a blip. Let’s hear from Nancy Pelosi on the reason for inflation — which she claims is because of low unemployment because of the policies of the Democrats.

First, this is nonsense, because low unemployment isn’t a cause of inflation, profligate spending is and that’s what the problem was in this case — the massive pandemic spending by the Democrats. Before the pandemic, President Donald Trump experienced record-setting unemployment and zero inflation. Second, the Democrats aren’t responsible for lowering unemployment — it went down when people came back to work, so not something that they can brag about.

Again, if you don’t understand the cause of inflation, how are you ever going to deal with it appropriately? Either they don’t understand or they just don’t care because they don’t want to give up their spending ways.

So that ignorance or flat-out denial of reality is how you then get Pelosi — after just talking about inflation — saying that what they’re asking in terms of the budget isn’t even enough, that they want to spend even more money. It is insane.

Pelosi further tries to explain taxes would be put on gas and oil production in Biden’s budget.

It is absurd to do so when gas prices continue to rise. That would be passed along to the consumer — she even admits it — and that would make the prices go up even more. That’s insane. But they are doing it because their anti-energy green dreams trump all sanity and they don’t care how many Americans they hurt in the process. It’s about seizing that “long-term opportunity” to push the leftist energy goals.

Increasing American oil production to lower prices and ensure American independence can’t be allowed because that might wreck those green dreams.

It’s always about pushing that and, in this case, using the high prices as an excuse.

But notice she talks about the use of the Defense Production Act to help “diversify” energy options. We should also talk about what fascists there are. Defense Production Act grants the government power to direct private industry so that it produces what they want. It’s a questionable thing to employ, but at least during a war and a pandemic, you have some form of an excuse. Here, the only excuse is their radical politics — that’s not a legitimate use of the Act. They are imposing their political will and increasing the pressure for green energy.

Finally, Pelosi acknowledged it costs more in California — land controlled by radical Democrats.

But of course, she can’t admit that they’re the problem.

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