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That is the plan!bmks270 said:
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Basically this. Causing serious reduction in demand is their goal.FCBlitz said:
….by doubling down on going green!
93MarineHorn said:
The one Dem in my office assures us it's the fault of the refineries. Nothing Biden can do about it folks.
Weird that the same refineries didn't care about profits while orange man was POTUS.93MarineHorn said:
The one Dem in my office assures us it's the fault of the refineries. Nothing Biden can do about it folks.
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Biden's road to record-high gas prices may soon lead to rationing
By Steven F. Hayward May 18, 2022 6:24pm
Gasoline prices at the pump have always fluctuated within a regular epicycle of global oil prices, but the Biden administration's every policy choice from its first day in office has contributed significantly to this week's news that gas prices exceed $4 a gallon in all 50 states. President Biden and the Democrats seem determined to repeat every policy mistake of the 1970s, and it might not end until Biden attempts to impose price controls and rationing.
Start with Biden's cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline on Inauguration Day. This act was more shocking than merely the loss of unionized jobs and an insult to our largest trading partner; it is the first time to my knowledge that any president has canceled a private-sector project that was already under construction.
It is one thing to block a permit; the government does that all the time. It is another thing to revoke a permit already granted absent some malfeasance, and there was none by Keystone alleged.
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Democrats on Capitol Hill are dusting off Jimmy Carter's playbook and calling for an "excess-profits tax" on energy companies as well as price controls on gasoline and diesel. Plans for rationing will come as night follows day. These are the same people who just a few years ago said we couldn't "drill our way out" of our domestic oil supply shortage only to see the nation do exactly that under President Donald Trump. President Biden, who was in office during the 1970s energy crisis, obviously learned nothing from the experience of the last 40 years.
Steven F. Hayward is a resident scholar at the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley and author of a new biography, "M. Stanton Evans: Conservative Wit, Apostle of Freedom."
MouthBQ98 said:
That's the theory, but the barrier to entry is extremely high:
The gas car you have, might even be mostly or all paid for
Or:
A new electric car that has range and recharging limitations and still comes at a large comparable price premium, plus a reliable plan and facilities to charge it regularly where it is most often kept.
They totally dismiss this in their idiotic simplistic utopian rationalizing. It's not yet a practical solution for most of the population.
ChemEAg08 said:
The higher the oil price, the more likely people switch to electric.
This is the ultimate goal of the Democratic Party leadership.hbtheduce said:
Fix prices and nationalize