Commentary

The price of gasoline at the pump has doubled since the day Joe Biden took office, mortgage rates, too, have doubled, and inflation is eating up those increased wages people earned.

After fist-bumping with the Saudi King, he told us “We had a good discussion on ensuring energy security and adequate oil supplies to support global economic growth.  I’m doing all I can do to increase the supply for the United States of America.”

He’s running out of excuses for putting America in an embarrassing position. He assaulted Mom and Pop gas station owners and continues to release supplies from our emergency reserve.

Eighty-eight percent of Americans believe the country is on the wrong track, according to a Monmouth University poll earlier this month.

Rather than unleash America’s oil and gas production and reopen pipelines that made us energy independent under President Trump, he’s consulting with the world’s political thugs to open the spigots for us.  How embarrassing.

He talks about clean energy while dealing with countries who produce their dirty, high emission product.  Does he really believe that “Saudi Arabia will be a partner with us on a far-reaching clean energy initiative … to accelerate the world’s clean energy transition,” as he said in Jeddah? 

Now we learn that he will travel to Somerset, Massachusetts on Wednesday to deliver a speech on climate change that could include declaring a national climate emergency. Whatever that means.

President Biden, who frequently accused former President Trump of by-passing the Constitution and threatening our democracy, is expected to salvage his environmental agenda in the wake of the stalled talks in Congress by going around it.

In response to the Democrats, namely West Virginia’s Sen. Joe Manchin, who will not support his costly economic package that includes billions of dollars to address global warming, insiders believe he will resort to executive orders.

“I think realistically there is a lot he can do and there is a lot he will do,” said Jared Bernstein, a top White House economic advisor, with questionable credentials, causing America’s businessmen and women to lose faith as inflation gets worse. 

A SIDE NOTE: Bernstein earned a Bachelor’s degree in music from the Manhattan School of Music before earning a Master of Social Work from Hunter College and a degree in philosophy and PhD in social welfare from Columbia University.

If Biden goes too far with a declaration of emergency, he could face a court challenge.  Just last month, the Supreme Court decided that bureaucrats in regulatory agencies could not regulate carbon emissions; that it was Congress’ responsibility.

Biden will surely speak about the heat waves much of the country is experiencing.  We used to call it summer.

In Texas, where triple digit temperatures are not unusual, their wind power has faltered, as it often does during hot spells.  Wind accounts for 30 percent of Texas’s power supply, but unlike fossil fuel-powered generators, wind can’t provide power when it doesn’t blow, and gas-powered plants have to pick up the slack.

In the Manhattan Contrarian, blogger Francis Menton writes that “Nothing can be done to make it such that reduction in U.S. carbon emissions can result in a meaningful difference in the overall world picture. Fortunately, the likelihood of any catastrophic consequences to the climate is extremely remote.”

Hang in there, the midterms are just 111 days away.  We can stop the radical left’s effort to destroy America.

May God continue to bless the United States of America.