President Biden's Energy Bridge to Nowhere

This week President Biden stood alongside two Class I trucks outside the White House to essentially celebrate two additional policy failures: First, his energy policy which has incentivized skyrocketing energy prices, and second, his inability to staunch the bleeding from America’s supply chain crisis.

Such failures are fed by the snarky ambitions of progressive globalist elites who consistently prefer to put the interests of the world ahead of the interests of the American people by placing higher taxes on American energy and ensuring greater dependency on foreign sources of oil and gas. Evidence of this ambition can be found in the fact that President Biden has decided to tap into the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserves, while refusing to expand American production of petroleum and returning to American energy independence.

Instead, the Left prefers to blame oil companies for price gouging without any evidence.  Indeed, evidence mounts that many Americans are struggling to pay higher energy costs while many on the Left are euphoric about higher gas prices, believing that natural gas and domestic energy exploration and production are harmful. The key question is harmful to whom? To the interests of the American people in lower energy prices, or to the authoritarian ambitions of globalists who continue to pander to climate change absolutists who prefer to care about the world while disdaining the American people?

At the same time, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, after filling himself with elite bombast, lectures the American people by telling them to get used to high energy prices until the U. S. achieves so-called clean energy independence. Although Mr. Buttigieg has declined, so far, to tell American people who are struggling to find food at reasonable prices, to simply eat more cake, the Biden Administration—through its actions and goals—has essentially admitted that it has indeed achieved its Green New Deal objective of driving up fossil fuel prices.

This goal is driven by the desire to force Americans to shift to electric cars that cost on average almost $60,000 per vehicle. That means that the average price of electric cars is more than 30 percent higher than conventional cars. But of course, the Transportation Secretary’s foolish advice does little to help long-haul truckers, farmers or the American people.

Both sectors—agriculture and trucking—are highly dependent on energy consumption and electric cars provide little or no help to workers or owners in either industry. Instead, the Transportation Secretary and the Biden Administration seem quite content with higher gasoline and correspondingly higher food prices, which have reached their highest inflation rate in forty years.

Instead, acting like helpless toddlers, they are content to offer policies that fail to solve either the energy or supply chain crisis or to help Americans left behind in Afghanistan. Rather than act like adults, the Biden Administration prefers to blame President Putin for higher petroleum princes. As such, President Biden continues to highlight his rickety energy bridge to nowhere. Responding to this spectacle, the American people rightly see overwhelming evidence that President Biden prefers to celebrate his policy failures rather than solve problems that affect rank-and-file Americans.