The pain you're feeling at the gas pump right now is not just the result of the Biden Administration's policies, but they are a direct fulfillment of candidate Biden's promises when he was vying for the Democratic nomination last election cycle.
Nobody ever won the presidency by promising the American people that if you were to elect him, you'd be paying more for gas every time you fill up. Indeed, when Joe Biden was running against Donald Trump in 2020, he attempted to convince the American people (and more importantly, his pals in the media) that Trump's warnings of higher gas prices were just a load of malarkey.
Of course, journalists determined to upend Trump's presidency and his reelection efforts were willingly convinced that Uncle Joe had no intention to enact any policies that would impact the price of gas, or they were willing to lie to defeat Trump. Either way, Biden skated with barely any scrutiny.
Now, Americans are feeling the worst inflation and energy costs in our nation's history, and it was all foretold and could have been prevented.
On the eve of the 2020 election, Trump predicted the gas prices we are now seeing with frightening accuracy:
Flashback: November 2020... President Trump: If Biden got in gas prices would skyrocket https://t.co/CChdCG174A via @YouTube
— Larry O'Connor (@LarryOConnor) March 9, 2022
"If Biden got in, you'd be paying seven dollars, eight dollars, nine dollars, and then they'll say 'get rid of your car.'" Does anyone from PolitiFact want to have a run at this one? Looks pretty damn accurate right about now, doesn't it? And he made this prediction when we were paying around two dollars per gallon. Trump said, "That's like a tax cut," when reflecting on the low cost of gas.
Clearly, the inverse of that "tax cut" of low gas prices is the astronomical tax hike we are suffering from right now.
But please don't make the mistake of thinking that this is the result of incompetence (that's an easy leap to make given the people in charge of our policies).
And don't think that this is just a rudderless presidency without a plan that is subject to the outside forces of Covid, inflation, and Putin.
No, this is not just part of a plan. It's the fulfillment of a campaign promise made when Biden was wrestling the Democrat nomination from his fellow extremists like Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. This was a primary process that brought the Democrats to the brink of all-out Marxism. Biden, the old-timer, pretend moderate, had seen the party pass him by.
He had to get with the program.
The question at a CNN-hosted debate in 2021 put Biden firmly on the defensive. It's right there on the handy lower third of the screen. "Is Biden's plan ambitious enough to tackle the climate change crisis?"
Joe Biden is simply fulfilling a campaign promise.#FJB #BidenGasCrisis pic.twitter.com/Opyc3L78MI
— Brett R. Smith (@BrettRSmith76) March 10, 2022
One thing about Joe Biden: He's always seen which way the political winds are blowing, and he always makes sure he catches the draft. Over his 50 inconsequential years in elected office, he's always stood for one thing: The career advancement of Joe Biden. So, if the way to win the nomination is to destroy the oil industry, dammit, he was going to promise to destroy the oil industry.
"Number one, no more subsidies for the fossil fuel industry. No more drilling on federal lands. No more drilling, including offshore. No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period, ends, number one," Biden assured Bernie Sanders while the Vermont senator was literally picking his nose on camera (seriously, look at the video.)
Well, Joe, mission accomplished.
Don't buy any of the "Putin Price Hike" garbage because one month ago it was inflation, three months ago it was Covid, and a year ago it was a conspiracy theory and fake news.
This is what he promised to do, and he's doing it. It's the Faustian bargain he made to get the nomination handed to him while in his Delaware basement.
You don't like it? Buy a Tesla, peasant.
