As winter starts to set in across the country, energy prices are still sitting at record highs.
For months, the Biden administration has been pressed about how it plans to ease the pressure on American families. The answers and actions have been quite telling.
President Joe Biden ran as a “moderate” candidate and yet, he’s fully embraced radical Green New Deal policy proposals during his time in the White House. On the campaign trail, he previewed his plans to attack American energy with promises to ban new fracking on federal land and to shut down the Keystone XL pipeline. He did both immediately after taking office in January.
When gas prices hit an average of $4 per gallon right before Thanksgiving, Biden didn’t move to restart Keystone or ramp up production of American energy. Instead, he released two days' worth of oil from the strategic reserve.
The inaction from the administration, along with do-nothing statements, shows high energy prices are a strategy. Biden officials want Americans to use less traditional energy and believe high costs will ultimately force them onto new, Green New Deal approved sources. Conveniently for Democrats, Biden’s Build Back Better spending agenda has the Green New Deal written into it.
“What’s really going to help us escape this, these energy price shocks in the long haul is the second part of the president’s agenda, which is the Build Back Better Agenda,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told reporters at the White House in November. “It will make electric vehicles and other clean technologies accessible to every American. And historic investments in manufacturing and supply chains as well will put Americans to work making the technologies — not just batteries, but wind and solar and vehicles — the whole array of clean energy solutions.”
“We’re laser-focused on ensuring all of these benefits are realized as we aim to achieve the biggest thing that America has ever done to address the climate crisis,” she continued. “Our administration is deeply committed to tackling this existential threat by transitioning to clean energy.”
Over in the Transportation Department, Secretary Pete Buttigieg has a similar message.
“Families who own that [electric] vehicle will never have to worry about gas prices again,” Buttigieg said during a recent interview.
Personnel is policy, and while Biden’s nominee to lead the Treasury Department’s comptroller office withdrew her nomination, the radical ideology of Saule Omarova is shared by the administration.
“Troubled industries and firms that are transitioning. Here, what I’m thinking about is primarily the coal industry, and oil and gas industry. A lot of the smaller players in that industry are probably going to go bankrupt in short order. At least, we want them to go bankrupt if we want to tackle climate change, right?” Omarova told the Jain Family Institute in February.
Of course, none of this plan is actually “green” or “clean,” but it does allow the U.S. government to be more reliant on global governance and communist regimes like China.
“A nickel mine stretching nearly 4 square miles scars the forest above Bartolome’s farmland. The mine, Rio Tuba, plays a vital role in satisfying the global demand for a mineral more coveted than ever due in part to the explosion of the electric car industry,” NBC News reports about a Filipino woman named Jeminda Bartolome. “The raw nickel dug out of the ground here ends up in the lithium batteries of plug-in vehicles manufactured by Tesla, Toyota and other automakers, according to an NBC News review of company filings and shipping records.”
“With the demand for nickel skyrocketing, the Rio Tuba mine is now on the brink of expanding deeper into the rainforest, adding almost 10 square miles to its current footprint. Local environmentalists fear that it will wipe out the forest’s fragile ecosystem and increase toxic runoff into the rivers that flow past the farmland down below, jeopardizing the crops,” the report continues.
The pain of high fossil fuel prices is the point. It’s an effort from the Biden administration to implement the Green New Deal by forcing Americans onto less environmentally friendly and inefficient forms of energy.