After admonishing Europe for becoming too dependent upon a hostile foreign country, our esteemed administration pivots to putting us in the same situation. The very people who told Germany they shouldn’t rely on Russia for their energy are the same that ok’d a pipeline to supply Germany more oil from Russia. In concert with that, this same group of people cancelled a domestic pipeline that would carry over 800k barrels of oil a day from Canada, our friendly neighbor, to refineries in Texas; oil that now has to be carried by train and truck. That makes sense!
As if this wasn’t enough idiocy, we’re now asking countries lead by dictators and hostile to the United States and under a plethora of sanctions, to please sell us some of your oil. Hat in hand, we’re in Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and yes, even Iran asking for them to sell us oil. You could do an entire comedy routine on this.
All the while, the propaganda machine rolls on with lie after lie. Gas prices are due to the Ukrainian war. There are 9000 leases not being developed. The government is not in the way of energy producers. That nominee we put up for the Federal reserve was just kidding when she said she would cutoff funding to oil companies.
This administration is a car full of clowns who think the Marxists will run them out of power if they don’t “save the planet”/turn American into a socialist state. Power, and the control that comes from it, is what feeds this monster. Rather than do the right thing in the right moment, they look to the left and trudge on all at our expense and certainly not theirs. While the elites get driven around in vehicles we pay for, they exhort us to accept the “sacrifice” for the good of……them.
At some point we will need to adopt their ways. (Think, “rules for thee but not for me”.) We the people are going to have to say, “You go your way, and we’ll go ours.”
Current Day Publius 