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Old Joe Biden is heading to Saudi Arabia next month to plead with the leaders of the state he once called a “pariah” to lower gas prices, although he denies that is the purpose of the trip, and whether it is or isn’t, don’t expect any relief at the pump anytime soon: on Thursday, Biden said that the high gas prices would “as long as it takes” to beat Putin, whom he persists in implausibly blaming for them.
Biden was asked during a press conference at the NATO summit in Madrid: “How long is it fair to expect American drivers and drivers around the world to pay that premium for this war?” Despite the fact that a new poll shows that 64% of Americans believe that Biden, not Putin, is responsible for skyrocketing prices, Biden yet again insisted that it was all the fault of Vlad the Inflationer. Biden answered: “As long as it takes so Russia cannot, in fact, defeat Ukraine and move beyond Ukraine.”
This is a massively disingenuous answer, as even the New York Times noted in mid-June that “Even before the invasion, prices of oil and gasoline were rising as the world gradually recovered from the Covid pandemic.” The Times also ingenuously pointed out that “the effort to stabilize the oil market…is at odds with Mr. Biden’s stated ambition to move the country to electric cars and renewable energy.”
And there’s the rub. On CNN Thursday, Biden adviser Brian Deese gave us a hint of what is going on when he was asked: “What do you say to those families who say, ‘Listen, we can’t afford to pay $4.85 a gallon for months, if not years, this is just not sustainable?’” Deese answered: “Well, what you heard from the president today was a clear articulation of the stakes. This is about the future of the liberal world order, and we have to stand firm.”
The liberal world order makes no secret of wanting to eliminate fossil fuels. Biden himself suggested in late May that skyrocketing gas prices were all part of a larger plan: “And 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.”
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Michael Regan gave the same impression back in March, when he was at the White House, according to the Sacramento Bee, to announce “proposed limits on new buses and large trucks to curb some of their greenhouse gas emissions by up to 90% in the next decade.” In the course of his remarks, Regan boasted, “We’re pressing the accelerator to reach a zero-emissions future sooner than most people thought.”
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CogitoErgoSum says
Old Joe keeps the war going by giving Ukraine more money and weapons. It could be another one of those never ending wars. High gas prices will continue until the voters get fed up enough to kick Biden’s sorry ass out of office. I have never so intensely disliked a President in my life. Other Presidents I thought were bad had at least a few good accomplishments but I can’t think of a single thing Joe Biden has done that could be called good. Anybody want to try to name one?
CogitoErgoSum says
BTW, how is Joe doing at finding a cure for cancer? Anybody remember him promising to launch a program for curing cancer as ambitious as the one Kennedy launched for going to the moon? I haven’t heard another peep out of Joe about it. I guess living under Putin is even worse than dying of cancer.
somehistory says
I protest his “liberal world order.” One that is “liberated” is desirable, but not one based on the greedy quest for complete control of whomever they allow to keep living and enslaving. People are meant to be **free.** Everywhere.
mortimer says
But SH, they use the word ‘liberated’ in the communist sense as ‘liberated’ FROM FREEDOM and enslaved to the permanent communist party.
somehistory says
I am aware of that, but it is still a good word. And please, for the umpteenth time, stop shouting at me.
somehistory says
Definition; liberated
(of a place or people) freed from imprisonment, slavery, or enemy occupation:
mortimer says
Typical of Leftists, Biden (The $32-million Beijing Bribed-man) is an opportunist who believes the end justifies the means.
How will he sell out his country this time? That seems all he knows how to do.
mortimer says
Biden punishes poorer Americans for his hare-brained agenda. He is willing to sell them out and sacrifice the working class of his own country.
The Dems show themselves to be snobbish ELITISTS … no longer the party of working poor.
Keith O says
The part of all this that I find to be more than a little concerning is that the technology to completely eliminate the need for fossil fuels has been available for more than 50 years.
This tech, first pioneered by Nicola Tesla wold throw a huge spanner in the works of world corporations.
All of this revolves around two things power/control and money, the money leads to more power and more control. The tech would remove the reliance on oil, which in turn would destroy the corporations grip on power.
Don’t believe me?? Dive down the rabbit hole, then start looking beyond the controlled narrative.
tgusa says
Preserve the liberal world order. Take a look at the countries he probably believes are part of the liberal world order. They are falling apart because of the importation of illiberal people. This is an arranging the deck chairs as the Titanic is sinking outlook.
I wonder what year biden thinks it is.
gravenimage says
Biden Administration: High Gas Prices Will Continue ‘as Long as It Takes’ to Preserve the ‘Liberal World Order’
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Putin’s vicious actions sure as hell aren’t helping here, but gas prices were skyrocketing before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, due to Biden’s slashing domestic oil production and general mishandling of the economy, Inflation is rife across the board.
tgusa says
I cant figure out whose side I am on and thats been going on a long time so I suspect my brain is telling me to support neither side. The democrats have made the Ukraine their major talking point. Everything wrong in America today stems from Russia and now the Ukraine. Throwing money at them, not weapons, money. Ukraine was a bastion of much illegal activity by US standards used by US entities and the fact that democrats are fighting so hard on this says it all. Both sides, all sides, in this conflict, are beginning to annoy me.