Posted on 05/11/2023 7:05:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
When it comes to gas prices, there has been plenty to complain about since Old Joe Biden began his president act. There have also been numerous indications that aside from the alleged president’s fact-free boasting, the Biden regime actually likes high gas prices, as they help them push their green agenda. Another sign of the regime’s actual view of rising gas prices came when Old Joe tabbed Jared Bernstein to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. Like you and me, Bernstein has complained about gas prices. But unlike us, Bernstein thinks they’re too low.
The Washington Free Beacon reported Tuesday that Bernstein actually “lamented in 2015 that gas prices were ‘too damn low.’” This was at a time when gas cost $2.09 per gallon. Instead of celebrating the benefits that this low price brought to the American people, Bernstein wrung his hands about how bad this supposedly was because of (you guessed it) climate change: he “asserted that ‘seriously under-priced’ fuel costs had ‘scary’ consequences for the environment because they stoked demand for fossil fuels.” And this cold-blooded ideologue had a solution: add yet another tax to the already heavy tax burden the American people were carrying. Bernstein “suggested a gas tax hike, even as he acknowledged that low prices at the pump help working families.”
A pocket-picking authoritarian statist is, of course, just the sort of person the Biden regime wants running things, and so Bernstein “could soon have a prominent role in shaping Biden’s economic policy at a time when many Americans list high energy costs as one of their top concerns.” The Senate Banking Committee “will vote Thursday on Bernstein’s nomination.
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Those damn Muggles are not paying the Voldomorts enough yet, and need to be squeezed harder. And harder.
More “gun violence” from a FJB bag of crap whose transportation is paid for by the U.S. Taxpayers.
The price of gasoline is none of this azho’s business.
how else are you going to make green energy competitive?
-Joe Biden, 2008.
Most news isn't really news. People just never paid attention.
Yet another one in government…
Skyrocketing gas prices were never a bug of Bidenomics.
Skyrocketing gas prices are a feature.
The end goal is to force most Americans to live in densely populated, democrat controlled large cities and ride around in mass transit.
People just never paid attention.
Indeed the hear but don’t listen
FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE ring a bell
Low gas prices are a problem for the left and the green energy movement. Electric vehicles only make economic sense when gas prices are above $3.00 per gallon.
The left desires control more than anything. They want control of the population’s ability to drive, to heat their housed, to cook, to stay up at night (lighting). Electricity and control over the grid enables the control of the consumers of electricity. You can’t shut off natural gas supply from a central location like you can electricity.
Their goal is to put in place the controls over electricity (smart meters) and then implement a social credit policy over the distribution of electricity. That way, like China, they can shut down the power to those that oppose the government.
But cheep gas stands in their way. Gasoline can not be centrally managed.
The press and media should be ashamed of themselves. It’s like an information, groundhogs day storyline.
Indeed it is
Isn’t it amazing that all these commies who want everything more expensive never get blasted with the “disproportionately harmes BIPOC LGBTQWTF+ and the poor” attack from the democrats?
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