The Left’s Love Affair with High Gas Prices

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Paying 5 {dollars} or extra on the fuel pump is all a part of the progressive plan. If you assume that assertion is nonsense, think about the left’s response to the skyrocketing price of fuel, and the psychological fog will start to clear. For years, nay a long time, the fuel haters have launched each arrow of their quiver to wean the American public off the evils of fossil fuels, and what has come of it?

Not a lot.

One of the preferred autos on the American market is the Ford F-150 truck. The producer claims this beast will get 25 miles per gallon within the metropolis – homeowners say it’s extra like 17 at greatest. Reasonable folks would possibly assume that’s not too unhealthy, however to the inexperienced of us amongst us, it’s merely one other instance of extreme consumerism that have to be quashed. And if we received’t do it voluntarily, why, then they’ll pressure us into it.

In November of 2021, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported the common price of a gallon of fuel ranged from a low of $2.25 to a excessive of $3.41. Today the nationwide common for a gallon of fuel is round 4 {dollars} and quickly rising, relying on the place you reside.

Do not consider for a second that nothing might be achieved about this. There are varied actions that the federal government might make use of to take the chew out of excessive petroleum costs for the patron. But we have to perceive these on the left are not looking for that to occur. If they did, Democrats wouldn’t have killed the American Energy Independence from Russia Act. They stopped it within the House as a result of it could have meant ramping up the Keystone XL pipeline, and the environmental lunatics can’t abide such an unholy act.

Well, we’re impartial of Russian oil now, aren’t we? So, what has the administration achieved to ease the ache for the common American hemorrhaging c-notes on the pump? Nothing. There are a number of causes for this.

Consumer Control through Wallet

As Liberty Nation’s chief political correspondent Graham Noble famous in a current article, the left seeks to management by deprivation. He asserts that an efficient “method of instilling total subservience” is to make “certain consumer goods too expensive or near impossible to obtain.”

There’s one other rationale for letting the costs proceed to rise: the federal government rakes in additional of your cash. According to Liberty Nation’s financial guru Andrew Moran, “The government takes approximately $85 billion every year in gas taxes: a federal tax of 18.4 cents per gallon and a state tax as high as 58.2 cents in Pennsylvania. In total, 20% of gas prices are composed of federal, state, and local taxes.” Of course, if the Biden Administration needed to take a little bit of the sting out of the pump, they might drop, droop, or scale back federal taxes. But that’s not even on the desk.

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Instead, the general public is fed verbal pablum by pushing the #PutinsGas hashtag on Twitter. Gas costs, Biden fecklessly whined this week, are “going to go up,” and “Russia is responsible.”

But as a result of fossil fuels are Satan incarnate to the left, the need to help the general public and share the ache on the pump is rejected. It’s harking back to these days when your mom shoved a tablespoon of cod liver oil down your throat. “It’s good for you,” was the mantra, solely to search out out later that cod liver oil did nothing for a rising youngster. Now one can discover articles on the web citing “three reasons to avoid it.” Similarly, these on the left wholeheartedly consider fuel isn’t good for us, so the demonization of fossil fuels continues apace. However, there may be one other facet to the fossil gas coin progressives refuse to see, as Andrew Moran famous:

“We take oil for granted. We don’t think of how much oil has contributed to our society. Everything from ambulances rushing to sick patients to the import of coffee and avocados, oil has done more for the American people than Greenpeace ever did.”

No matter how onerous one tries, the left won’t ever be satisfied of those easy and logical information as a result of hate is never rational. But don’t idiot your self – a lot could possibly be achieved about this rise in fuel costs — it’s simply that the parents accountable for the Republic is not going to allow it. If you wish to keep away from excessive fuel costs, they counter, take public transportation, purchase an electrical automotive, or higher but, stroll.

~ Read extra from Leesa Okay. Donner.