I never thought the day would come when I would be paying $5 a gallon for gasoline.  Now that crazy day is here.  As with most issues, the problem of high fuel prices has been a subject on which the Biden Administration has contradicted itself.  We’ve been told all of the following:  high fuel prices are Trumps fault; Putin’s fault; the greedy oil companies’ fault; nobody’s fault, and nothing can be done about it; and all part of a Democrat planned “transformation” of the energy market.  Believe the last one.  The “root cause” of the high prices is the result of the confluence of two Democrat/Progressive policies – climate hysteria, and the conscious decision to put Americans last.  Think about that second policy.  Putting Americans last.  Biden has consistently made that choice.  He opened the southern border, and is admitting more than 500,000 illegal aliens a month.  The illegals are only seeking a better life, so they mustn’t be inconvenienced, but Americans will just have to sacrifice.  More crowding, more crime, higher taxes for education and police, and fewer jobs for citizens.  Americans can’t buy baby formula, but it’s being passed out free to “irregular migrants.”  America last.  We’re sending Ukraine money and goods we can’t afford.  Americans will just have to sacrifice.  America last.  Fuel prices are no different.  Make no mistake.  The high prices aren’t the fault of Trump, Putin or the oil companies.  They’re Biden’s plan, and it wasn’t a secret plan.  Old Joe told us all about it.  Candidate Joe Biden laid it all out on the campaign trail.  During  a debate, Biden said, “I would transition from the oil industry, yes.”  Biden made other statements that should have left no doubt about his plans.  “No more subsidies for the fossil fuel industry.  No more drilling on federal lands.  No more drilling, including offshore.  No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period.  Ends.”  Biden claimed that he wants to shut down the oil industry because it “pollutes significantly” and needs to be “replaced by renewable energy over time.”  How much time?  Uh, not much.  “I do rule out banning fracking because we need other industries to get ultimately to complete zero emissions by 2025.” “No fracking on federal land.”  “We would make sure it [fossil fuel] is eliminated and no more subsidies for either one of those.”  “I guarantee you, we’re going to end fossil fuel.”  And running mate Kamala Harris agreed.  “There is no question I am in favor of banning fracking.”  President Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden began his destruction of the fossil fuel industry on day one of his term.  He cancelled the Keystone Pipeline, that would have facilitated shipping oil and gas from Canada.  He cancelled oil and gas leases, imposed crippling regulations on holders of existing leases, and ordered the Federal Reserve to deny loans to the industry.  But fear not.  It’s for our own good.  It’s all part of “a beautiful transition” to alternative renewable energy, from renewable energy sources that don’t exist.  Biden’s Cabinet is on board.  He appointed John Kerry Climate Czar, a position that never existed before.  Kerry’s supposed job is to “pursue green energy policies around the world.”  No one knows what that means.  The State Department won’t reveal how much he’s being paid, or who, or how many people work for him.  So Kerry’s free to fly around the world on a private jet selling America down the river, while lecturing mere American citizens about their carbon footprints.  Energy Secretary Granholm is another beauty.  She’s eminently qualified.  She went to Harvard Law School and then became a politician.  As for fossil fuels, she has said, actually she has sung, that oil should be left in the ground.  When asked, “What is the Granholm plan to increase oil production in America?” she began laughing. “That is hilarious.”  She explained that oil prices are set by OPEC, so America can’t do anything about them.  Of course, that’s a lie.  Donald Trump made OPEC irrelevant, by encouraging domestic production of oil, which made the U.S. energy self-sufficient, and drove the price of oil to about $60 a barrel.  Biden took the opposite approach – discouraged production, increased regulations, threatened increased taxes, and denied funding.  As this is written, the oil price has “fallen” to $120.  So take a bow Joe –

He did do that.  And he did it all to address the “existential threat” of climate change, and because that’s what his Woke masters told him to do.  But don’t despair, soon you’ll have an electric car, and just wait till you try to charge it on solar and wind power, when it’s cloudy and still outside.  No matter that electric cars cost more than gas cars, and that we don’t have the lithium, cobalt or rare Earth elements needed to produce their batteries.  The Chinese will sell us the elements, and use the money they make to open more coal-fired power plants in China.  No matter that we don’t have enough charging stations.  No matter that oil is needed for the components of electric cars.  No matter that electric cars won’t solve the climate problem, if one in fact exists.  It’s a beautiful transition, so just enjoy it – or else.  And yet, in the midst of Biden’s great and beautiful experiment, Old Joe and his henchmen know that they’re in serious trouble.  The Americans that they’ve put last didn’t sign up for $5, or $7, or $10 gasoline, and they’d prefer to stay warm next winter.  So, having single-handedly taken steps guaranteed to double the price of oil, Biden is now at work blaming oil companies for the increase.  In order to do this, he has had to deny 200 years of economic theory.  Economists agree that when a commodity is in short supply, its price goes up.  Biden decreased the supply, and now he’s complaining that the oil companies, to whom he denied supplies of crude oil are making too much money refining less oil at higher prices.  He’s even threatened the companies, that unless they increase oil supplies (which he cut) he will unleash his “emergency powers.”   You may be able to fool some of the people some of the time, but that’s simply bullshit.  There is no shortage of oil.  There’s a shortage of leadership.  So hats off to Joe Biden.  He’s done in less than two years what all our enemies failed to do in more than 200 years, he’s brought America to her knees.