A perennial favorite poses the silliest of questions.
Why Are Leftists And Elitists So Happy About Skyrocketing Gas Prices?
Brandon (Smith, not that other guy) knows the answer as well as the rest of us do, of course, and goes on to lay it out for us.
There is a narrative being spread within leftist/socialist circles by media celebrities and White House cronies, and it is this: Paying high prices for oil and gas is actually a GOOD thing. But why is it a good thing to these people? How do they benefit?
Spoiler Alert: It has nothing to do with punishing Russia economically.
As I write this article crude prices have somewhat stabilized around $110-$115 a barrel, which translates to a little over $4 a gallon for gas across most of the country. I don’t expect this to last very long. My guess is that regular gasoline will end up in the $7 to $8 per gallon range before US shale oil roars back and balances out the market. I realize that this is a conservative estimate and perhaps a best case scenario. Gas could go much higher depending on speculation in oil markets as well as continued government interference from the Biden Administration.
The big secret is that gas prices were already going to inflate to epic highs, the Ukraine event is not a catalyst, it’s just adding a little petro to the house fire. The fact is, there are some people out there that are desperate for prices to go much higher regardless of what happens in Ukraine.
Yep. Another example of the shitlib Leftocrats never letting a good crisis go to waste, confirmation of their rock-solid opportunism in the mad quest for more power.
Biden’s electric car initiatives are strange in light of the fact that inflation is already straining people’s pocketbooks yet the government is suggesting those same struggling Americans buy $50,000 to $100,000 vehicles. None of this actually addresses the root causes of the inflation we face. Rather, Biden and leftists seem to be saying “We aren’t interested in fixing the problem, you are just going to have to adapt in the ways we want you to adapt…”
Clearly, the establishment does not want the public to question the real triggers for the inflationary disaster we are witnessing. This is illustrated very well in an article I found by CBS declaring that any suggestions that high oil prices are somehow tied to Biden’s electric car program is “conspiracy theory” related to QAnon.
This is bizarre.
Nawww. It’s typical, is what it is. Smith then lists some of those pesky, debate-proof facts the Left hates like vampires hate garlic before winding up thusly:
To summarize, the elites are happy about rising oil prices today because first, they now have a perfect scapegoat for the disasters inflation will reap; disasters they are responsible for. And second, they now have a backdoor way to introduce their carbon agenda, starting with forced public dependency on expensive and less efficient green technologies and slowly progressing towards total carbon restrictions.
Average leftists are happy about rising gas prices because they ignorantly believe that sanctions on Russian oil hurt Putin. They also ignorantly believe in global warming and they don’t realize how drastically our standard of living will be reduced in the name of carbon dictatorship. In other words, this isn’t a conspiracy to force people to buy electric cars; most people can’t afford a Tesla anyway. But it is a conspiracy to undermine our prosperity and our freedoms through inflationary crisis as well as green energy mandates. Leftists have no understanding of this. They are happy because they are dumb.
Indeed so. They’re like a jilted woman who is so vindictive and hot for vengeance she’s perfectly willing to do things that will harm her too, even badly, just so’s she gets to score some points on her erstwhile man and do him damage in the bargain.
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Just to clear up any confusion, the marxists don’t really want you in an electric vehicle, they don’t want you in any vehicle. They don’t want you to have the freedom vehicles provide.
Proof you ask?
Where will all the electricity to power the electric vehicles come from since the marxists are also opposed to building functional power plants?
They yearn for the “good old days” of their Messiahs – Lenin and Stalin.
WHO had cars in Soviet Russia???
Only Lenin and Stalin and the inner circle Politburo had cars. Mostly with drivers.
Perhaps some high-level functionaries that ran the State Oil or State Steel company had “company” cars.
In other words, all cars were owned by the government and for use by a tiny 1% of the population for personal use.
Three little problems with EV production:
No lithium for batteries.
No power stations outside of commie cities
The power grid will not handle the power requirements
And as demand rises the electricity prices will rise meaning not only is your EV more expensive to run, but heating and cooling and running appliances in your house skyrockets in cost too.
The author of the article thinks that once prices go high enough, US shale production will “roar back and balance the market,” As if. That will not be permitted to happen. Our overlords have worked very hard to destroy the US energy industry and impoverish Americans. They are not going to allow that kind of productivity to take place.
Markets are no longer Free.
They’re not really even markets anymore.
What he said.