I gassed up the Jeep Wrangler this morning to the tune of 62.83 semolians for 13.787 U. S. gallons of regular at $4.499 per gallon at Costco in Mesa, Arizona. The line was not bad at all a little before noon. Victor Davis Hanson comments on the big picture:
Climate-change moralists love humanity so much in the abstract that they must shut down its life-giving gas, coal, and oil in the concrete. And they value humans so little that they don’t worry in the here and now that ensuing fuel shortages and exorbitant costs cause wars, spike inflation, and threaten people’s ability to travel or keep warm.
The Biden Administration stopped all gas and oil production in the ANWR region of Alaska. It ended all new federal leases for drilling. It is cancelling major new pipelines. It is leveraging lending agencies not to finance oil and gas drilling.
It helped force the cancellation of the EastMed pipeline that would have brought needed natural gas to southern Europe. And it has in just a year managed to turn the greatest oil and gas producer in the history of the world into a pathetic global fossil-fuel beggar.
Now gas is heading to well over $5 a gallon. In overregulated blue states, it will likely hit $7.
The sentence I bolded enunciates a truth little known, one that you cannot expect Uncle Joe's publicist Jen 'Circleback' Psakis to inform you of. The mendacious little weasel claims that the oil producers are not making use of their existing leases when she knows full well that drilling has huge upfront costs and that the oil companies need loans to proceed with projects the success of which is not guaranteed.
Psakis illustrates how truth can be enlisted in the service of deception. The truth that the drillers are not drilling is used to divert attention from the truth I bolded.
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