My book, “Proud to be American”, is on sale at Amazon and can also be ordered at any bookstore for $17.95. It’s a 330-page paperback book with 70 articles in nine categories and with 70 pictures. It has a provocative introduction and conclusion and analyzes national, international and domestic problems. It also critiques the biggest culprits to America’s well-being, Mainstream Media and the far-left of the Democrat Party. # # # #
Inflation in the United States was as high as 9.1% in June 2022. Though it’s much lower now, the resulting price increases were cumulative with high prices remaining high. Back then, most of the inflation was due to huge deficit-spending, problems with oil distribution that arose from the U.S. not producing its share of oil, and disruptions to supply chains for food and goods due to the Covid lockdowns.The poor and people with moderate incomes were hurt the most from the inflation, with many people no longer being able to afford to pay for their daily necessities like food, transportation, and housing. Today, of course, the war in Iran is responsible for the high price of oil and the consequent inflation. Federal, State and local governments are supposed to help its citizens, so how can this be? This is how: the Far-left (socialist) wing of the Democrat Party has taken over that Party and now dictates its policies. For example, it enabled millions of illegal aliens to enter the U.S. (open borders), made massive government deficit spending, mandated Covid lockdowns (which did nothing except destroy jobs, businesses, economies, and children’s education), defunded police (which led to huge increases in crime), allowed over 500 BLM and Antifa riots the summer of 2020 (which also destroyed many businesses, etc.). Other devastating Far-Left Democrat policies include Federal lands being removed from permitting leases for oil/gas exploration, much higher costs for existing oil/gas Federal permits, subsidizing alternative fuels, advocating banks to not lend money to oil, gas, and coal companies, which had all significantly increased the price of oil which was mostly responsible for the large increases in inflation.
Until January 20, 2025, the Presidency and the Senate were controlled by the Democrat Party, but the House of Representatives was just barely controlled by the Republican Party, so Democrat policies were the only ones likely to be passed into law and implemented by President Biden, and the Democrat Party’s energy policy was to discourage the use of fossil fuels (oil, gas, coal) and encourage electric vehicles and some forms of alternative energy sources (wind, solar). In fact, Democrat leaders truly believed that high fossil-fuel prices were a good thing because it made the very high cost of alternative means of energy production more competitive.
If you believe that climate-change is mostly man-made instead of the result of solar flares and the sun, you might think that the policy of discouraging the use of fossil fuels is good…and one day it may be; however, the United States and the world are not technologically ready for it yet, and this premature transition was on-course for causing a world-wide depression and the widespread poverty and starvation that goes with it. Why would this happen? To answer this question, we need to look at what fossil fuels are used for: 1) transportation via vehicles, ships, and planes for food and goods from farms and factories to outlets throughout the world, 2) a major ingredient in fertilizers to grow crops, 3) a major ingredient in synthetic fibers to make fabric, rugs, tires, 4) to burn as fuel for heat and energy, 5) in plastics and floor coverings, etc., etc. (for about 6,000 products). Consequently, one can readily see that fossil fuels are used for many purposes other than fuel and that they are extremely important to the United States and every country in the world. Check out Alex Epstein’s, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, if you’d like to learn more about their importance.
CONCLUSION
America experienced very high prices due to the Biden Administration with its regressive anti-fossil fuel policies. It even asked some of our enemies (Iran, Venezuela) and friends (Saudi Arabia) to increase their oil production, to no avail. At the same time it had, through numerous actions, discouraged the United States from becoming energy independent as it was under President Trump’s first term and is again. To explain, because of its anti-Capitalist, Socialist-Marxist philosophical underpinnings mandate high energy prices to help destroy the fossil-fuel market, which is what the Left uses as a pretext to disguise its real objective, which is to destroy Capitalism in the U.S. and replace it with Socialism.
Fortunately, President Trump changed these anti-fossil fuel policies.
