Watch this clip, please:
The President’s energy advisor says the President doesn’t want to do anything that could keep oil and gas companies going for twenty more years. It takes about twenty years to make a profit in the oil industry on new exploration, drilling, and refining. By saying what he said, he’s admitting there’ll be no new oil exploration and drilling in the United States as long as Biden is President.
Right now, America’s number one concern is inflation and the economy. Increasing capacity in the oil supply will decrease inflation because so much of inflation is related to energy prices right now.
When the inflation number came out last week, the Biden Administration noted that the 9.1% number had not factored in the recent decrease in gas prices. That decrease in gas prices comes from China’s economy slowing down, which has freed up some capacity, in addition to Middle Eastern and OPEC nations increasing some production.
But there’ll be nothing for us.
The President is declaring a climate crisis. He is using the European heat wave as his excuse to engage in executive action that will include speeding up transitions away from fossil fuels. In Texas, some power companies are remotely turning up smart thermostats in people’s homes in the middle of the high summer heat. Power grids are stressed out because wind and solar cannot compensate for the decrease in coal and natural gas burning plants. Natural gas is too expensive right now for a lot of people. The nation only has one nuclear plant under construction in Georgia.
We need more fossil fuels. We need more coal. But the President will declare a climate crisis and further destabilize our power grid. He is doing so at a time Americans care about inflation and are seeing their quality of life degraded.
This looks like insanity. But it is actually the best they can do politically. The President and Democrats cannot do anything about abortion. They can’t get anything through the Senate right now. They have given up trying to persuade the middle class, the moderates, and the independents. Instead, they have to maximize their outreach to the white, progressive, college-educated left. They have to get those people to turn out in record numbers in order to mitigate what is coming.
The President’s policies seem deeply out of touch. They are out of touch with most Americans but deeply in touch with the white progressive left. Democrats know they’ve lost the middle. Now, they are just hoping to placate the left, so while they lose in November, they minimize their losses.
Ironically, by doubling down on climate change emergencies, transgenders in sports, abortion on demand, etc., they risk losing more non-white voters to the GOP. But if they don’t do it, they lose their donors and the new core of the Democratic coalition — angry, rich, white women and their beta male partners who worship Moloch.
"But if they don’t do it, they lose their donors and the new core of the Democratic coalition — angry, rich, white women and their beta male partners who worship Moloch."
Spot on, and worth the price of admission.
One of the largest failures of the Democrat party is the inability to recognize when to stop digging when the hole is getting too deep.