Slouching Toward Armageddon
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Richard Fernandez at The Belmont Club asks whether the Lesko Brandon administration is strolling into our next quagmire.
We canceled pipelines and oil leases at home, to signal our virtue on climate change. The price of gas at the pump, and natural gas for home heating, is going up. We’ve called on Saudi Arabia to pump more oil for us but we’ve also removed sanctions on Iran, which is funding Houthis in Yemen, who are attacking Saudi oilfields. The US could back the Saudis with arms sales or troops so they could keep pumping the oil we want, except Progressives insist the Saudis are repressing the Yemenis so we must not help them. Can “no blood for oil” be far behind?
We’ve caused a world-wide oil shortage and are about to stumble into another war in the Middle East with conflicting policy goals and no clear mission. But all the Left wants to talk about is Kyle.
Joe Doakes
Well, and Orange Hitler.
Who is hiding under youer bed.
Ooogabooga!
November 29th, 2021 at 5:30 am
It sure would be interesting to be a fly on the wall in the room where Pres Brandon’s handlers make these decisions.
November 29th, 2021 at 5:30 am
It sure would be interesting to be a fly on the wall in the room where Pres Brandon’s handlers make these decisions.
November 29th, 2021 at 5:40 am
“about to stumble into another war in the Middle East”
Not with Joseph Robinette Biden running things. Kamel Toe Harris will tell Americans who can’t buy/afford gas, to “suck it up”. [pun intended]
November 29th, 2021 at 5:41 am
This website is really slow this morning. It ain’t the cookies, evidently.
November 29th, 2021 at 6:43 am
Ha! On top of the cancellation the pipeline and most drilling operations on public lands, the Pedo Joe cabal decided to triple the lease fees on the wells that were allowed keep operating. Let’s go Brandon!
November 29th, 2021 at 7:58 am
Having just completed a round trip through (counting my own) 8 states, I was heartened to see that the people paying the highest price for Pedo Joe’s brainless fuckery live in reprobate controlled states.
There is a $.52/gal price difference between what I pay at home and what the Crips pay to fuel the cars they jack in Chicago. That’s justice that gives me peace.
November 29th, 2021 at 8:44 am
And as the situation deteriorates due to the law of “unintended” consequences, the media will blame the Republicans.
It’s amazing what the minority party can accomplish!
November 29th, 2021 at 10:15 am
Allen: this website is slow for me now all the time, cookies and cache cleared constantly.
Bill: out here in blue Cali (now calling it the People’s Republic of California is too true to be funny anymore) gas is 4.50-5.00, state taxes and regulations being what they are. I wonder who is telling guvnor hair gel that he is doing a good job?
November 29th, 2021 at 10:24 am
This winter is going to be a killer for people who have to heat their homes (not so much out here in Cali).
The dems are not going to recover from this at the midterms, unless of course there are “irregularities” in voting.
November 29th, 2021 at 10:45 am
@kinlaw: Biden or Harris will go full Carter 2.0 and tell people to wear an extra sweater in their homes.
November 29th, 2021 at 11:09 am
Re: Petroleum prices. — Capitalism found out that not producing is profitable.
The price of gasoline isn’t much over the 15-year average price. It’s been considerably higher than this. Highest was in summer of 2008, more than $0.80/gal more than it is now.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GASREGCOVW
I really don’t know how conservatives keep a straight face. They crow about the infallible genius of “the market” and how the government should just stay the heck away. But if there is a political opportunity, there must be government action. Seriously guys, you can’t have it both ways.
November 29th, 2021 at 11:24 am
“The market” is a concept of economics. “Government action” is a concept of politics. They are not the same – indeed, they often are opposites – and it’s Liberals’ failure to keep them separate which leads to rampant inflation and looming shortages.
November 29th, 2021 at 12:01 pm
The truth is that oil and gas prices, which are set in international markets, have been climbing because of increased global demand as the world economy recovers from the pandemic.
Rising food and energy costs, including gas prices at the pump, are in fact a global phenomenon caused by the pandemic.
November 29th, 2021 at 12:07 pm
Leave it to Emery to compare petroleum prices before mass use of fracking to after!
Swiftee, I believe the Crips aren’t very prominent in Chicago. Vice Lords, Gangster Disciples, and a host of others, yes, but not the Crips as much. And God help you if you were going into parts of the city where these gangs are active. I’m guessing you actually stopped somewhere in the suburbs.
November 29th, 2021 at 12:19 pm
At 11:09, rising prices had nothing to do with the markets, it was all about the government action.
At 12:01, rising prices had nothing to do with government action, it was all about the markets.
The sad fact is that it’s both, but Liberals can’t admit that because one drives the other. The markets were doing fine until government acted. Cancel oil leases, oil supply reduced but demand for oil constant, oil prices rise. It’s the most basic, most obvious law of supply-and-demand and everybody knows it.
That’s why the “I did this” stickers on the pumps are such effective rhetoric. People see it and know it’s true. Brandon did do that. And no amount of blather can change the basic laws of economics.
November 29th, 2021 at 12:26 pm
Emery’s stock in trade is Incoherence and they’re hard at it today.