Buckle up, folks, you’re in for a doozie. Jen Psaki’s latest thoughts on gas prices are just That bad.
The Biden White House has continued to spew delusional propaganda, and nothing is more shocking than their spin about our economic downturn. With soaring costs due to rampant inflation and supply chain issues, our government continues to try to “dem-splain” what they want us to believe is actually happening. Many of us see the approaching storm already, but the Dems keep pointing out the silver linings to the clouds that will bring about economic doom.
We’ve heard everything from arguments that inflation is a good thing to suggestions that printing additional money doesn’t cause inflation. Yes, they want you to believe that increasing the supply of money, thus decreasing the value of the money already in circulation, is not the literal primary cause of inflation and certainly hasn’t contributed to the highest inflationary rate in nearly 40 years. Mayor Pete is out there saying that one inflation fix is Biden’s Infrastructure Plan, which is just massive Government Spending, likely requiring the printing of more money, without creating anything or increasing production because the vast majority of planning and funding for roads and infrastructure comes from state and local sources anyway. Printing money results almost always in inflation.
But just as you would think that the delusional claims must end, here is this doozy: It comes from a COVID survivor, who got it even after she had been vaccinated, and Jen Psaki (White House Press Secretary).
.@PressSec: “Our view that rising gas prices in the long-term make it more important to double down our investment and concentrate on clean energy options. pic.twitter.com/rdDIm2spwY
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) November 12, 2021
“Look, our view is that the rise in gas prices over the long term makes it an even stronger case for doubling down our investment and our focus on clean energy options so we are not relying on uh… the fluctuations and OPEC and their willingness to put more supply and meet the demand in the market.”
Wait… What?
They believe that higher gas prices, which are directly attributable to Biden’s policies, are somehow a justification for doubling down on investment (hint: your tax dollars) on “clean energy options” (except the cleanest and most efficient, nuclear) so that we aren’t dependent upon foreign oil, which we already weren’t when they came to office?
It could be a completely ignorant understanding of energy prices or, more likely, an admission that policy has been altered to cause gas prices to soar in order to justifiably spend on more efficient and expensive sources.
In January 2008, gasoline prices were stable and low at the time Biden was elected to office. Biden immediately cancelled the Keystone Oil Pipeline and destroyed oil futures. All oil and gas leases were stopped by him. Not only have his policies been pro-clean energy, but they are also anti-fossil fuel. This panic has caused anxiety amongst the producers of oil and gas as it affects how we proceed with our plans to increase US and Canadian natural gas production. After the unilateral cancelation of Keystone, current pipelines like Enbridge’s Line 5 in Michigan, which ships 540,000 barrels of oil a day, are left in limbo wondering if and when the Biden Administration might come for them next. In the case of Line 5, another enviro-wacko administration, this time, Governor Whitmer’s in Michigan, unilaterally ordered the end of the use of the pipeline in May. Enbridge respectfully instructed Whitmer to crush the sand.
Let’s not forget that after a cyber attack on a pipeline that handles 15% of our national distribution, gas prices began to tick up. Biden declared a zero tolerance policy for cyber attacks against certain infrastructure types, after it became clear that the attackers had been linked to Russian hackers. You wonder what Biden thought about the Colonial Pipeline incident. It didn’t.
When Psaki gets up there and says that gas prices going up is a good thing, all she’s doing is providing cover for Democrat policies that created the problem in the first place. Psaki’s disingenuousness becomes more evident when she suggests that higher gas prices may be the pathway to US Energy independence, when the US was already independent of energy when Biden became president. Is that what she meant? Was it always the Biden Administration’s plan to manufacture a fossil fuel crisis, to justify their radical agenda? That sure sounds like it.
The situation is even more dire for the Biden Administration. Did they only have funding available for projects that were responsible for the current crisis in order to finance clean energy? To get their desired results, did they need to almost double the gas price? Did they have to blow the budgets of American households to make their points? Do a clean-energy strategy and low prices for US oil not necessarily go hand in hand? We know that the short answer is “no”. But they still did it.
They did not have any data to suggest that such a move would speed up the switch from fossil fuels. Most likely not. The capital necessary to invest in clean energies is shrinking as fuel costs and thus the transportation cost continue to rise. How about the tax revenues needed to support such a costly and ambitious climate agenda. The funny thing about making things more expensive is that people spend less, purchase less frequently, and can live with less. This has a cascade effect, with businesses producing less and employing fewer workers for shorter hours. In some cases even, it can lead to the end of operations. Tax revenues suffer across all industries as a result.
Yet it wasn’t just energy policy that caused this either. Our inflation rate has risen, increasing the prices of our products. To buy the same amount gas, it takes more money. Crude Oil, also traded on dollar, has experienced a large decline in its value over last year. This means that it takes more dollars to buy the exact same amount.
Psaki would like you to think that this is a supply problem with OPEC. Biden, and all the Democrats, are responsible for the rising gas prices.
You can’t imagine all this being a mistake. The near-savant level incompetence needed to cause the economic collapse is worth mentioning. How else can you explain being such an incompetent policymaker that all this was done in less than one year? This is why I, and likely you while reading this, can only conclude that it isn’t. It must have been part of their plan. It must be the plan they had in mind to fundamentally change America’s economy. Remember, Rahm Emmanuel once said that you “never let a good crisis go to waste.” Well, what about a crisis they create? They can create a crisis. What about a synthetic crisis, which has many solutions, yet the people in charge only offer one: “doubling down our investment and our focus on clean energy options.”
I mean… is it really that crazy?
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