Strangling The Golden Goose

Boxed in by their ideologically insanity, leftist politicians will resort to their usual playbook of demonization and demagoguery. As gas prices continue to rise this summer, expect more attacks on the U.S. oil industry. 

I share your frustration with these outrageous gas prices. But it is important to understand that “Big Oil” isn’t your problem. The problem is that the left – at every level – has been undermining the U.S. energy industry for decades. 

When you hear Biden and other progressives say we’re going through an “incredible transition,” that transition is the deliberate result of their radical green agenda. It cannot be repeated often enough: Your incredibly awful pain at the pump is intentional. It’s not a mistake. The left is doing this on purpose.

But many Americans don’t appreciate how oil coming out of the ground turns into gasoline. That oil has to be put into pipelines to get to refineries. Well, the first thing Biden did when he occupied the Oval Office was cancel a major pipeline. 

The pipelines, of course, don’t go to your car. They go to refineries that turn the oil into fuel for your car, airplanes and diesel for trucks. An intricate system then delivers that fuel to gas stations.

Throughout New England and other northeastern states, progressive politicians have blocked virtually every attempt to build new refineries or make major improvements in existing facilities. 

We now have only 50% of the refineries in the Northeast that we had just 15 years ago. California, which has some of the most expensive gas in the country, hasn’t built a new refinery since 1979.

Biden made a huge mistake in not cooperating with the U.S. energy industry. He compounded that mistake by repeatedly attacking the U.S. energy industry.

He’s made it harder to get oil out of the ground. 

He’s made it harder to get oil to refineries. 

He’s made it harder to get gas to your car. 

He’s made us vulnerable to foreign enemies, and he has left us at the mercy of other energy producing nations. 

That’s putting America last, and now you’re paying dearly for it.

But in the days ahead, you’re going to hear that “dirty capitalists are gouging you.” You will be told that “oil companies are destroying the planet.” It’s garbage. 

It is an effort by radical leftists to strangle the golden goose – to destroy the energy miracle that has fueled our economy and lifted billions of people around the world out of poverty.