There are plenty of reasons why things can get more expensive, but supply and demand are most common. More demand faces less supply, and prices climb. Government meddling only makes it worse, and meddling is what government does.
When Democrats are running it, Leftists on our spectrum, meddling gets exponentially worse. Left unchecked for decades, and the stupid gets strong, though there’s no need to wait that long to see it.
In a piece at Substack, Bari Weiss explores the West’s green delusions and compares them to Putin’s in Russia. It’s a good read and ought to embarrass many who will lack the sense to realize the jokes on them. Well, not just them. The people who let them do this are really to blame for failing to see the energy forest for the trees before we found ourselves where we are today.
Weiss notes that Putin doubled Nuclear energy and produces more fossil fuels than Russia needs to sell them abroad. And primarily to Europe, which has been preening over its embrace of “soft” energy while becoming more dependent on Russia’s abundant, accessible resources.
As Russia wages war on Ukraine, the western countries appear to object, knowing their dependence undermines that.
The result has been the worst global energy crisis since 1973, driving prices for electricity and gasoline higher around the world. It is a crisis, fundamentally, of inadequate supply. But the scarcity is entirely manufactured.
Manufactured, indeed.
America had developed enough capacity to be energy independent under Donald Trump, becoming the worlds leading exporter, but before his mumbled oath of office had even whispered off on the winds of change, Joe Biden had pulled the plug.
We’re not just dependent again, but on Russia as well, at higher prices, and none of it is necessary.
While Putin was building up nuclear, the West was creating demand for his excess, which he is happy to sell at increasingly profitable margins because dopes like Coach Biden pulled our best players off the field.
We were in a position to pressure global energy prices downward, the benefits of which can not be overstated. Significant revenues accumulate in US hands, both private and public. This reduces other pressures and boosts every other sector of the economy, not just here, but everywhere energy prices stabilize or go down.
Trillions globally were available for things other than lights, heat, cooling, manufacturing, and transportation. The money we would have had for investment, entertainment, everything, everywhere, including lowering the cost to manufacture, transport, and install your stupid wind and solar panels.
And yes, elitist left-wing energy policy was already acting like a sanction on the free people of the West. Still, now that they’re putting sanctions on Putin (or playing at it), the only ones getting punished are Westerners.
Energy prices will drive inflation higher pricing not just the most vulnerable but the middle-class out of an increasing number of everyday things. That includes now non-existent discretionary income that won’t go to those other sectors of the economy, depressing jobs and wages elsewhere, leading to more needy and dependent folks who must turn to the government.
As is typical for Democrats, Biden’s energy policy harms the people he claims it helps. In response, the government will print more money for handouts forcing inflation and prices even higher.
He’s fashioned the noose and walked you into it. All you need do is wait for them to kick the chair out from under you, and don’t worry, they won’t feel a thing.
So, instead of waiting for that moment or standing with Ukraine, perhaps it’s time to stand with American Energy Independence. We had it and can have it again. There is no green utopia, and certainly not without a long and friendly relationship with fossil fuels. One, we’ll never live to see if Russia and China have their way.
There’s no scarcity of affordable energy, only a scarcity of common sense.
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