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Immediately following his inauguration, Joe Biden made a number of decisions that have hurt the American people. Some of his harmful decisions are only beginning to be felt. But one series of decisions had an immediate, and I fear long lasting, negative impact on the people he is charged with protecting. He signed Executive Orders shutting down the Keystone XL Pipeline and new leases to drill for oil and gas on all public property. His rhetoric about putting an end to the fossil fuel industry, coupled with veiled threats to lenders, led to a dearth of financing that is the life blood of many oil and gas explorers and producers. He shut down drilling leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Gulf of Mexico. This combination of foolish policies is having deleterious effects on the American people. The price of a barrel of oil began its nonstop rise the day after Biden was elected. The financial future of the majority of Americans began to worsen as the price of gasoline at the pump headed straight north. Just as Biden and his far left cohorts planned.

As Americans are discovering, gasoline isn’t the only thing they need that is rising in cost. Thousands of products used by consumers every day are derived from petroleum. Higher petroleum prices cause an increase in the cost of all of them. Most important is what the increase in oil prices mean for one item that every person in the world must use every day: FOOD! Farmers need diesel fuel to operate their farm equipment. When Biden took office a gallon of diesel fuel averaged $3.06. Last week it cost $5.43 per gallon. That increase has crushed farmers. Many fertilizers that farmers use to produce crops are also petroleum based. Many fertilizers have doubled, or more, in price since Biden took office. Farmers are being forced to make decisions on issues where there are no winners. In order to produce the amount of crops they have in the past they must continue to use fertilizers. Higher fertilizer prices will force the price of food to go up. If they choose to use less fertilizer their harvest will be smaller. That too would cause prices to go up. As this years more expensive crops come to market we will be paying ever higher prices at the grocery store. This is bad news for every American who is already fighting to keep their families fed, clothed, and sheltered. The real tragedy is that none of this had to happen.

As awful as the above seems for us, it gets even worse if you live in a poor, third world country. Mass starvation becomes a real possibility for people who live in a country that depends on food from the U.S., Ukraine, Russia, etc. If crops are reduced in quantity there will be fewer available for export. As the prices of agricultural goods continue to rise, poorer countries will struggle to procure the amount of food needed to feed their populations. This will lead to poor countries getting poorer. It will mean that already malnourished people, many of them children, will starve. All because global elites have an unquenchable thirst for power.

These are evil people. Our President and the rest of the Progressive Left (PL), don’t care a whit about the hoi polloi. To them we are nothing more than collateral damage in their global quest for power. They are pushing for a global health care system that will almost certainly lead to their control of the rationing of health care products and services. They would like to control financial services. That would allow them to reap untold riches at the expense of the working class. The push is on to give elites in the green movement control over the source and production of energy. Their goal is to make everything and everyone dependent on renewable energy. Elites long for the day they can control us by threatening to turn off our heat and lights. Fossil fuels are plentiful and relatively inexpensive. The producers are a disparate and diffuse bunch who are next to impossible to control. Elites will go to all lengths to control the sources and availability of energy. Elites are too wealthy to be hurt by the “transformation” they are trying to force on us. They don’t care if people are impoverished here, or starved to death, elsewhere. They understand that poor people will look to them if they feel the need for a big brother to help. They know the death of a couple billion nameless, faceless, people would benefit the world and their movement. Just ask Bill Gates and others of his ilk.

We understand the foolishness of policies that cause prices in America to skyrocket while we are forced to “transform” to solar panels and windmills. We know those solar panels and windmills are being manufactured in China using energy produced by coal powered electricity. As of 2020 about 184 coal powered plants, 70% of the world’s total, were being built in China. All the while cheap coal powered plants are being decommissioned all over the U.S. The U.S. produces fossil fuels that are cleaner than anywhere in the world. American technology will continue to produce cleaner fossil fuel energy if left to do so.

Don’t let anyone tell you that we are going to be “transforming” our economy from fossil fuels to renewables by 2035, or 2050. Anyone who doesn’t have an agenda knows intuitively that this kind of commentary is pure BS. Just one example. As I write this article we are being warned that there could be rolling brownouts in the midwest this summer. On the east and west coasts blackouts occur on a regular basis. Already people with Electric Vehicles (EVs) are being asked to not plug their cars in during peak energy usage periods. Less than 5% of the cars on our roads today are EVs. What do you think will happen if we double the number in use over the next 2-5 years? Our electric grid would crash. That won’t happen because EVs are still too expensive for the masses. Right on cue, Biden’s policies that forced the price of gasoline higher has more people considering them. Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg, and Energy Secretary, Jennifer Granholm, suggest that people who don’t like high gas prices should buy an EV. Any day now I expect to hear Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Marcia Fudge, recommending that the homeless buy a home! Fossil fuels will be around long after most of us are gone. The level of pain we Americans will suffer during the “transformation” is completely in our own hands. We must rid ourselves of those who care more about an agenda that enslaves us in their ill-advised move toward energy deficits. If we reelect the PLs we will be giving them the go-ahead to push us closer to dependence on their generosity. Truly free people wouldn’t allow that to happen.

It grieves me to even think that what I have written could be true. But if you stand back and look objectively at what is happening in our country it becomes frighteningly clear. What we are witnessing is all part of a sinister global plan formulated by global elites. People who look on 90% of the world’s population as meaningless serfs. People who think we are not capable of making good decisions without them. They are a soulless group of people who see the rest of us as collateral damage in their insatiable march to global domination. That global elites push forward with the “Green New Deal”, or anything remotely like it, shows a complete lack of conscience. We must push back in every way possible. Thank you for taking the time to read my twice weekly prose. As always please share it with your friends if you think it is worthy. Bob