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The staggering cost of economic illiteracy is the debt that keeps on keeping on.

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Governments are getting better at creating problems and blaming private individuals/industry for it. In Canada, there are massive delays at airports due to vaccine passports and testing (yes, still) and the Trudeau government is blaming out of practice travelers.

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The middle class mass formation psychosis Democrats I know are OK with all of this. If Dementia Joe says oil is bad for the environment and all things related to fossil fuel must go up, it's OK. We're saving the environment.

However, if a Republican was saving the environment and causing prices to skyrocket, it would be a problem.

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Unfortunately, things are going according to plan.

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This is what happens when a shrieking teenager and bartender run energy policy: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-solve-climate-change?s=w

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We need to get these jackasses out of positions of power!

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The game is rigged, that is for sure. The main aim is to bankrupt the country and impoverish the people, followed by accelerated death rates and destroyed fertility of young people. Left-Right framework explains very little under these circumstances. To achieve their goals they must cut supplies, which raises prices which will starve the economy of energy. They are also cutting supplies of diesel and DEF which will result in shortage of everything. Investments do very little in this sort of environment because the normal functioning of market forces is prevented by other means.

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As a former president said, everything they touch turns to shite.

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I am not so certain we are dealing with economic illiteracy here. There is an argument to be made that this is being done intentionally in service to the “green” aspirations of those who would like nothing more than to make fossil fuels less and less affordable. And by enacting “windfall profit taxes”, price gouging laws and the like, they can still play the game of politics by showing their newly cash-strapped constituencies that we are the ones truly on your side - and many will buy it, hook, line, and sinker.

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One more example of why small government is the best government. Without the extra personnel they can't screw up as many things.

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May 26, 2022·edited May 26, 2022

These jokers WANT high fuel prices! They are unabashed at saying the quiet part outloud - they've been on a tour de force this last 2 weeks. This is just a 40 year temporary "fuel adjustment charge" to transition to renewables. Ain't gonna happen. I started a solar company 18 years ago. Solar is not a bad investment for commercial buildings. Technology has improved significantly over that time. However, it's nowhere near ready for prime time.. We're not even close. Fever dream. Chaos is the goal.

Get ready for a relentless stream of $500+ mil boondoggles like Solyndra. Maybe we should have California "manage" this 40 year transition. There will be a lot of bridges to nowhere. CA has perfected the uncanny ability to throw good money after bad, for unicorn dreams. Newsome is a real "straight shooter with upper management written all over him"...

Energy is the lifeblood of commerce. If the NWO/WEF can control the energy supply, well then, they will control everything! Climate change is just the surreptitious "catalytic" event that's the de facto Trojan horse to meet those ends. It's a diversion folks. Scary times indeed.

Times could be rough for We the People.

Here are some encouraging words for tough times.

“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.”

- G. Michael Hopf

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Who remembers that the progressive FDR thought that the cause of the Great Depression was low prices, which is, like most of what progressives believe, the exact opposite of reality, and so burned crops, destroyed livestock and limited food production.

This while people were starving and millions queued up in breadlines and soup kitchens.

This is how leftists roll, then, now and forever.

"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."

~ Thomas Sowell

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All part of a lager evil intent: to destroy free markets and to perpetuate globalism. Dementia Joe actually thinks destroying the energy economy (and therefore the nation) will hasten the Green Revolution. Solar and wind are unreliable and create more pollution and disposal problems than fossil fuels. The sun controls the climate - there is no Climate Crisis - the next 30 years will be cooler due to solar minimums. This is one big "duh". Everything Government controls or subsidizes turns to crap. There is no alternative to energy independence for now. I lived in Europe with $8 a gallon gas. You plan your trips carefully and never use a car in the city because they have safe public transport. Do you know any American city with "safe" public transit?

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They are trying to save the planet by killing off the deplorables and useless eaters.

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Discourage investment in domestic production while "banning" Russian

exports.

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Ain't the Great Reset grand?! #ControlledDemolition #YourGovernmentHatesYou

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