Daily Verse | Psalm 68:19
Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior,
who daily bears our burdens.
Thursday’s Reading: Psalms 73-77
It’s Thursday and Brandon is floating the idea of a 3-month gas tax holiday. Of all the options the guy has to pull us out of the economic spiral we’re in, letting me keep $0.184/gal will give me what — $3.12 every time I fill up? Great, that means I can afford a dozen eggs once a week.
Well, but see, he’s going to do that for 3 whole months! I’m no math wiz, but it seems like he’s offering me, tops, $37.44 to ease the pain at the pump.
Thanks Joe!
Never forget that Brandon told us that he was going to kill our use of fossil fuels and in that, at least, he’s been a screaming success.
He wasn’t kidding. The day after he was inaugurated, he signed an executive order banning the fourth phase of development of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have delivered oil from Canada to refineries in the United States. The move was the final battle in the years-long war environmentalists had waged against the project; TC Energy, the operator of the pipeline, abandoned it less than six months later.
Read more here, but wear a shower cap so you can’t pull your hair out.
Brandon blames Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for skyrocketing gas prices. Maybe a little, but here’s what he’s contributed.
American oil production has yet to recover to pre-pandemic levels as Presidentish Joe Biden has used his executive powers to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline, canceled offshore oil leases in Alaska, and halted new gas and oil drilling permits.
It’s a crisis of his own making.
It’s intentional.
All to fight some fake “climate crisis” that always threatens but never materializes.
It’s all being done to kill our individual and corporate independence, making a mobile society immobile, all to satisfy environmental weenies who start with false premises.
Modern extreme environmentalism assumes mankind to somehow be apart from nature and acting upon it independently. Yet, mankind is a part of nature and our actions are, therefore, also a part of nature …
The modern environmental movement is built on false philosophical premises – that mankind is apart from nature, that nature is static, and many others.
What I find most fascinating about all this, is the adoption of such false philosophical premises is rooted in a presumption of god-like status for mankind. For Christians, seeking such a status is the very root and beginning of the concept of sin.
The idea that mankind can somehow change the climate by eliminating fossil fuels strikes me as the same kind of attitude driving the society that tried to build the Tower of Babel. God Himself laughs heartily at our puny ravings of grandeur:
Can you raise your voice to the clouds
and cover yourself with a flood of water?
Do you send the lightning bolts on their way?
Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
Who gives the ibis wisdom
or gives the rooster understanding?
Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?
Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens
when the dust becomes hard
and the clods of earth stick together?
Not you, buttercup.
Back to Brandon. He’s literally trying to kill the oil industry.
When Biden was running for president, he promised to shut down oil producers: “No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period.” He pledged to put the country on “an irreversible” path toward “doing away with” fossil fuels.
On Day One as president, Biden shut down the Keystone pipeline, sending a message of no new pipelines anywhere, period.
In the months that followed, he stopped all sales of leases to drill on federal lands or offshore, meaning zero new leases allowing oil to be brought out of the ground.
And in September, House Democrats introduced legislation to stop banks from lending money or investing capital for new or expanded fossil fuel production. That legislation hasn’t passed, but it sent a clear message. The oil industry is being shut down.
Here’s how deranged this fool is.
Out of touch as ever, President Biden celebrated record-high gas prices Monday, gushing that the pump pain was part of “an incredible transition” of the US economy away from fossil fuels.
“[When] it comes to the gas prices, we’re going through an incredible transition that is taking place that, God willing, when it’s over, we’ll be stronger and the world will be stronger and less reliant on fossil fuels when this is over,” Biden said during a press conference in Japan following his meeting with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
What I want to know is, how can one man make the decision to shut down an industry that our society — and our world — is so dependent on? Where does that political power come from? Is it constitutional?
He shouldn’t be able to do that just to pander to the small percentage of environmental whackos in our country while wrecking the economy.
I’m sure it’s because the government can regulate and deny or approve drilling, especially on “federal” land (which is a whole other question — who gave “the government” that land?). Stupid us for allowing them to take that power unto themselves.
Wrecking our economy and making it hurt in the process is not working “for” the people but against the people. And we shouldn’t have to sit here and take it.