AMERICA NEEDS FOSSIL FUELS

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.  Most of the inflation was due to huge deficit-spending, a global oil shortage that arose  from the U.S. no longer producing its share of oil, and disruptions to supply chains for food and goods  due to the lockdowns.  In 2020 the U.S. met all of it’s own oil, gas and energy needs (oil production in 2020 was 13 million barrels per day, in 2021 it went down to 9.6 million BPD).  The poor and people with moderate incomes were hurt the most from the resulting inflation, with many people no longer able to afford to pay for their daily necessities like food, transportation, and housing.

The shame of it all is that it’s 100% the fault of governments: Federal, State and local.  Government is supposed to help its citizens, so how can this be?  This is how….  The Far-Left wing of the Democrat Party has taken over that Party and now dictates its policies.  For example,  it is enabling millions of illegal aliens to enter the U.S. (open borders), made massive 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 not lend money to oil, gas, and coal companies, which have all significantly increased the price of oil which is mostly responsible for the large increases in inflation.

The Presidency and the Senate are currently controlled by the Democrat Party and the House of Representatives is just barely controlled by the Republican Party, so Democrat policies are the only ones likely to be passed into law and implemented by President Biden, and the Democrat Party energy policy is 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, they truly believe that high fossil-fuel prices are a good thing because it makes the very high cost of alternative means of energy production more competitive.  Currently, the generation of most electricity in the U.S. is obtained from burning coal and natural gas, both of which are fossil fuels.

If you believe that climate-change is mostly man-made instead of the result of solar flares and the sun, you might think that this 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 appears to be 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 is experiencing very high prices by the Biden Administration with its regressive anti-fossil fuel policies. It has asked some of our enemies  (Iran, Venezuela) and friends (Saudi Arabia) to increase their oil production to no avail.  At the same time it has and is, through numerous actions, discouraged the United States from becoming energy-independent again as it was under President Trump.  Will it ever change?  I don’t think so, because 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.

 

HOW IS PRESIDENT BIDEN GOVERNING?

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INTRODUCTION

Joe Biden has been president for over three years so it’s far past the time to assess how he’s doing.  America is doing very poorly in almost every metric and it appears to be almost entirely the Biden Administration’s fault. Biden’s approval polls reflect this, though you would never know it if you only watch Main Stream Media. How did the President destroy the economy, raise inflation, make illegal immigration out of control, mess up our departure from Iraq, weaken the military,  etc., in three years?

While Joe Biden campaigned as a moderate, he governed as a far-left radical.  In addition, President Biden appears to have  diminished mental capacity with other Biden far-left officials and friends actually formulating the policies Biden is implementing.  These are my speculations as to why the Biden Administration has failed at every single endeavor it has engaged in.  If there are any Biden policies or actions you believe have been successful, then your sources of news have been corrupted (CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, New York Times, Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, etc.).  Let’s examine some of President Biden’s policies.

BODY 

I believe the following issues are the most important to the public: 1) The Economy, 2) Energy Independence, 3) Illegal Immigration/Border Security, 4) Crime, 5) Covid, 6) The Military, 7) Ukraine-Russia, 8) Afghanistan.

1.THE ECONOMY:  To adequately examine the economy, let’s look at a) inflation, b) employment, and  c) GDP (gross domestic product).  Trillions of dollars of unnecessary spending that was requested by the Biden Administration, and approved by the Democrat Congress caused this unprecedented inflation.

a) Inflation hits the poor hardest.  In April ’22, it was 8.3%, though it’s lower now  (in 2020, under Trump, 1.4% inflation).  The cause began with the $1.9 Trillion “2021 American Rescue Plan”.

b) Employment appears to currently be doing well with unemployment at under 4%.  This was expected because of the “V-shaped Recovery” that President Trump enabled with his “across-the-board” tax rate cuts for everyone.

c) Gross Domestic Product (or GDP) measures the total cost of all goods and services produced by the United States.  It actually decreased in the first two quarters of 2022 which traditionally meant  the U.S. was/is in a recession (in 2020, under Trump, GDP growth was 6.5%).

2. ENERGY INDEPENDENCE: On the day he was inaugurated as President, Joe Biden began his war on fossil fuels that he promised during his presidential campaign. He immediately shut down the Keystone and Dakota pipelines and the permitting of oil and gas exploration and drilling on Federal lands.  He discouraged financial institutions from loaning money to oil and gas companies and significantly raised fees for existing oil and gas leases on Federal lands.  He’s now stopped very large  oil and gas leases in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico.

The consequences of all of the aforementioned is the price of gas significantly increasing in price as well as the 6,000 products made from oil significantly increasing in price.  Most consumer products are trucked to their destination so their prices have also necessarily vastly increased because of the cost of fuel that transports them.

3. ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION-BORDER SECURITY: 2020 Presidential candidate, Joe Biden, promised “open borders” if elected President, as did all of the other primary election Democrat candidates.  Since being elected, illegal immigration has vastly increased to over 200,000/month and was expected to triple if Title 42 is ever lifted (it didn’t) Most of the illegals are young single men, some of whom (the “got-aways”) carry backpacks containing Fentanyl and other illegal drugs in order to pay the cartels their $4,000-$8,000 fee to cross the U.S. southern border.  Moreover, there are a number of criminals intermingled with non-criminals…human trafficking is also rampant.

4. CRIME:  The Democrat-supported “Defund the Police” movement that coincided with the 574 riots that took place in the summer of 2020, destroyed countless small businesses, including many black-owned businesses.  Even V.P. Kamala Harris got involved by raising money to bail out rioters. The January 6 protest in the U.S. now appears to have been directed by a FBI-collaborator (Ray Epps) and arranged by the Democratic Party.  Democrat District Attorneys in Democrat-run cities are not prosecuting many classes of misdemeanors resulting in crime increasing exponentially in those cities.  Moreover, the-illegal the protests around Supreme Court justices over the then-draft Roe vs. Wade Alito opinion, were not investigated by the US Department of Justice nor condemned by the Biden Administration.  All of the aforementioned leads me to ask the obvious question, “why is the Democrat Party soft on crime,” and why isn’t the Department of Justice doing its job?

5. COVID: Response to Covid by the Federal and most State governments were a combination of incompetence, anti-science, and political malfeasance The victims of this chaos was the American public, many of whom lost their lives, their livelihoods, or their health and well-being.  Unnecessary lockdowns of the economy hurt many State and localities, and mandatory vaccinations resulted in many people being unnecessarily fired, including from some critical jobs and the military.  Moreover, CDC (centers for Disease Control) officials were not transparent in their decisions, nor did they recognize the obvious, like the superiority of the natural immunity acquired when one caught the virus.  Consequently, a one-year pandemic has lasted years!  Why did States and the Federal government do what they did?

6. THE MILITARY: China is in the process of surpassing the U.S. military.  Its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is very close in size to the United States and therefore China has the money to spend on its military for China to become a superpower like the U.S.  Fortunately it’s still  behind in nuclear weapons.  Russia does have a large nuclear arsenal to match the U.S.  It also has, unlike the U.S., many small tactical battlefield nuclear weapons, which Ukraine may eventually see. Recently, it has demonstrated its hypersonic missiles which are so fast and travel so close to the ground that they can’t be shot down.

While our adversaries are getting stronger, the U.S. military’s budget was increased only enough to keep up with inflation.  Also, U.S. military leadership is emphasizing teaching CRT (critical race theory) to all of our troops.  Our military has also fired soldiers that refused to be vaccinated. Why?

7. UKRAINE-RUSSIA:  Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022 with the expectation of defeating Ukraine in a few days.  That was years ago and Ukraine is still fighting and holding its own against Russia, using mostly American weapons.  To date the U.S. has given many billions to Ukraine, all of the money being given is borrowed and will add to U.S. inflation.  Meanwhile, the Ukraine-Russia war probably could have been avoided had President Biden started arming Ukraine when Russia started moving troops to its border with Ukraine, and if he refused Ukraine membership into NATO (instead of signing an agreement to support Ukraine).  Why?

8. AFGHANISTAN:  Unilaterally (with no consultation with other world leaders), President Biden changed the U.S. departure date from Afghanistan to August 31, 2021. as well as not adhering to the Trump policy of making the departure “conditions-based.”  He also made the departure site the Kabul airport and asked the Taliban to oversee the departure of all civilians.  Consequently, 13 American soldiers were killed, over 100 Americans and tens of thousands of Afghans that helped us were left stranded in Afghanistan, many of whom were eventually assassinated.  Moreover, $85 billion in U.S. military equipment was abandoned in Afghanistan.  Ultimately, this fiasco led to Russia and China to be emboldened and to become more aggressive with Ukraine and Taiwan.  Was this simply incompetence?

9. Israel-Hamas-Iran:  President Biden and his Administration is getting the U.S. closer and closer to war with Iran though this, of course, is not his intention. His and Obama’s  attempts to bribe/coerce Iran into behave peacefully has not worked.  President Trump’s policies toward Iran did work: enforcing strong sanctions, keeping oil prices very low by producing as much oil as the U.S. was capable of, etc.

Israel’s response to the October 7, 2023 attack is exactly what’s needed…don’t play with terrorists, destroy them or defang them. However, the U.S. might prevent Israel from finishing the job of destroying Hamas.

As long as Joe Biden is president, the U.S. is extreme danger of being attacked from within or from without.

CLOSING 

President Biden is on course to become our very worst president, by far.  The nine areas I looked at above are simply a small part of his actions that are destroying the U.S.  It’s understandable given his reliance on the far-left in the Democrat Party for guidance.  He will probably remain President for another year, so it’s anyone’s guess how bad the U.S. will be by then.  I blame Mainstream Media for this debacle because none of this would have been possible had it done its job covering the news rather than covering up any news that made the Biden presidential campaign and then its Administration look bad.