Biden’s ‘Green Team’ Applauds
Soaring Gas Prices Out-of-touch advisers are blind to the economic damage — and voter outrage. BY DICK MORRIS
I
ncreasing the price of both gas and home heating oil is not an unintended
consequence of President Joe Biden’s green agenda, but rather its goal. As in Europe, environmentalists have pushed up pump prices to discourage driving and heating to reduce the “carbon footprint.” In Europe, huge taxes have pushed
pump prices to well above $8 per gallon, way more than Americans are accustomed to paying. As with efforts to limit cigarettes, higher prices are the best path to success. The left has bandied about proposals for a carbon tax and a mileage levy to reduce consumption. But now the markets are doing it by themselves. With the midterm elections fast
approaching, Biden’s political advisers recognize the harm higher gas prices are inflicting on his job approval, as they rose sharply following years of stability under Donald Trump.
But his environmental puppeteers
are quietly cheering as prices rise. After all, it was their influence on policy that enabled the Russian invasion in the first place by cutting U.S. energy output and limiting our ability to replace Russian oil and gas shipments to Europe. Our inability to keep Europe’s energy
supplies whole even in the face of a Russian cutoff made Russian President Vladimir Putin confident he could stop NATO from intervening as he invaded
and even elements of the war on terrorism. Biden’s foreign policy misjudgments are
matched with his inability to grapple with do- mestic issues. Consider this litany of failures and missed opportunities on other key issues.
Border Security Since Biden took office, illegal entries across the border are the highest in decades. And the problem isn’t abating. According to U.S. Customs and Border Pro-
tection, U.S. agents logged 153,941 migrant en- counters in January 2022. That was double the number of encounters
the previous January. Border apprehensions are on track to exceed 2 million this year.
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Ukraine. Yet with robust natural gas
production, we could curtail carbon emissions and help Europe to free itself from Russian domination at the same time.
An intelligent approach to fighting
carbon emissions would center on increasing U.S. natural gas production and freeing ourselves — and our European friends — from dependence on oil.
All this happened during a time when the
Biden administration was insisting the country had to do anything necessary to end the threat of COVID-19. Americans in many places were forced to
show their vaccine papers to go to a restaurant. The Biden administration tried to force Ameri- cans to get vaccinated or lose their jobs. At the same time, it let millions of people into the country with no proof of vaccination.
Chaotic Afghanistan Withdrawal The Biden administration assured the country that the withdrawal would be orderly, and that the Afghanistan government was stable and
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