Energy squeeze – a deliberate campaign

Yesterday (8 March) the Biden administration put in place the last part of a deliberate campaign to raise energy prices. They did this because high energy prices are the key to their regime of curfew, candlelight and curtailment. An energy squeeze is necessary to this plan. But in doing this they gave Americans the stark choice their party has always wanted to avoid.

Steps in the energy squeeze

First, Joe Biden canceled the Keystone XL Pipeline within hours of swearing in and making his inauguration speech. The executive order for the cancellation actually reached much farther than this. Biden summed up his true purpose with this catchy title:

Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis

And for a preamble:

Where the Federal Government has failed to meet that commitment in the past, it must advance environmental justice. In carrying out this charge, the Federal Government must be guided by the best science and be protected by processes that ensure the integrity of Federal decision-making.

Best science? Like completing data “tricks” of adding real data to proxy data to hide declines in world temperatures? Or conjuring up visions out of bad science-fiction movies and worse science-fiction television shows of hot, dry, starving futures from robust industrial output?

Nor did his policy stop there. His Environmental Protection Agency administrator revived the Obama administration policy of treating carbon dioxide as a pollutant. Biden also suspended all oil and gas leasing immediately. The leasing was set to begin again, but only under a rule calculating a “social cost of climate change.” Judge James Cain of the Western District of Louisiana blocked such shenanigans. So the Biden administration blocked all leasing on federal land.

And yesterday we hear that the administration let another judge kill a sale of drilling leases on 1.7 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Russia Boycott

Also yesterday, Biden unilaterally banned imports of oil or other fuels from the Russian Federation. He used as his excuse the Russian “special military operation” in Ukraine. But that makes zero sense. A former Special Forces soldier, who asked that CNAV not identify him, put it this way:

Russia will not suffer if other countries just stop buying things from them. Russia will have the cheapest oil anywhere in the world for her own citizens. Furthermore, Russia will have all the grain she needs, so her people will eat well. And the rest of the world will eat less well – because not only does Russia export grain, but they also export more fertilizer than any other country. When that stops, farmers in other countries don’t have anything to add to their soils.

In any case, Steven Turley, Ph.D., has already pointed out that Vladimir Putin has sought to make Russia into a civilizational state. A civilizational state is a nation-state that functions as a self-contained, self-sufficient civilization. It does not try to be part of a civilization larger than itself. So if you cut it off from all trade, what can that matter to it?

Furthermore, Russia has always aspired to this. To that end, the Russian railway gauge is significantly wider than the standard for the rest of the world. So, let the rest of the world cut them off. Ordinary Russians don’t care! The Communists missed this point. Putin gets it.

Biden tries to deny the deliberate energy squeeze

So the energy squeeze in America has already begun. Last night, in Ashland, Virginia, the average price of regular gasoline stood at $4.20 per gallon. Biden admitted this would come yesterday.

But watch him try to deny provoking the energy squeeze:

Oh? Then he didn’t cancel the Keystone XL Pipeline? He didn’t couch it in terms of protecting public health and the environment and listening to the scientists who caterwaul that the Earth has only ten years to live?

Or maybe he doesn’t remember saying this:

No more subsidies for the fossil fuel industry.

What subsidies? What is he talking about? Neither he nor any of his tree-hugger friends have ever explained that. If anyone can explain it, CNAV would like to hear it. Just drop a line to letters@cnav.news

No more drilling including offshore. No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period. It ends.

Well, he just got his wish. But one should be careful what one wishes for. He wasn’t. And that’s why he’s toadying to Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, hat in hand.

Even some Democrats are aghast.

As energy squeeze tightens: do people miss Trump yet?

Does Erick-Woods Erickson miss Trump yet? He still will not repent of his cancellation of Trump in a fit of pique. But clearly he wants some change to the present regime. Not only does he remind everybody of Biden’s 2020 words, but he also reminds everybody how Bush Junior crashed oil prices in a single day. How? By authorizing offshore drilling.

Erickson also reminds people that now the United States has more oil reserves than has Russia or Saudi Arabia. But of course those on the political left do not want more energy production. Watch George Stephanopolos open his mouth wide enough to trap flies, when former Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.) decides to talk about something important.

As many have pointed out, it’s all very well to talk about switching to organic farming methods and battery-powered electric vehicles. The problem is: one does not make such a transition in a day. Elon Musk, whose name means electric vehicles day, knows this.

Notice when he said that: four days before Biden decided to cut us off from Russian energy supplies. For the record: Musk has sought to build new factories for his iconic electric cars for years. He has two ready to come on-line at any moment, one in Texas and the other in Germany. So what’s holding them back? Bureaucratic waste paper, that’s what. If U.S. federal or European Union authorities really cared about the environment, they’d have cleared those factories months ago.

What this means

Obviously the American people will pay more for motor fuel – and everything else – for the foreseeable future. The administration wanted an energy squeeze, because it will facilitate the Great Reset to a command economy. If Biden wanted to be intellectually honest, he’d say things like:

You people have been eating too much, so now you’re going to lose a little weight.

And:

I told you during my primary, and on Day One of my administration, that I would be about protecting public health and the environment, and listening to the science. This is our golden opportunity. So stop whining! Get the Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo out of your Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo India November Golf cars! NOW! You are COOKING THE PLANET, and this has to STOP!

Only he wouldn’t spell it out, not even in the military alphabet. He’d use the real words, as he memorably did as Obama signed socialized medicine into law back in 2011.

That is how a dictator speaks. That is how a self-righteous true-believing reformer and behavior modifier speaks. But even Biden knows that is not how one speaks when one must seek re-election, and his legislature faces its own election even sooner.

The energy squeeze will remain until Biden reverses himself on bringing it about. His fellow Democrats know it. So some of them want him to start drilling again.

But can he?

But he has another problem: not all of them do. If Biden is not willing anymore to celebrate the energy squeeze he has brought about, others are. Michael Mann, who pulled the original “Nature trick,” and Phil Jones, who “completed Mike’s Nature trick … to hide the decline,” must be doing cartwheels and ready to link arms and dance a jig. (Do you deny it, Dr. Mann? Do you deny it, Dr. Jones? The email address is up there for you, too, to use.)

Of course, Phil Jones is a loyal subject of Her Majesty, and Michael E. Mann, though an American citizen, is not an American legislator. So let’s imagine the reaction of someone who is: Representativa Alejandria Ocasio-Cortez, Dimocrata de la Nueva Llorca. Surely we all remember AOC’s Green New Deal.

An energy squeeze is an essential part of her plan.

Nevertheless, dissension is growing in the ranks. Of course, smug leftists will point out that “voters have short memories.” But when they say that, they suggest they’ll loosen the energy squeeze in time to win the Midterms. More likely they’ll roll out a “precinct strategy” of their own, to try to take back the Officer of Election positions many patriots are already taking from them.

The only way to stop it is with your vote

So CNAV leaves this memo to Americans. Remember this. Remember what Biden said during his primary. Never forget who did this to you, and who would like to go on doing it. The time for relying on “moderation” of the Democratic Party message is over. The only way to loosen the energy squeeze permanently, is with your vote.

Further proof the energy squeeze is deliberate

On Tuesday, Joe Biden released something he probably shouldn’t have.

Q. Mr. President, do you have a message for the American people on gas prices?

A. They’re going to go up. Can’t do much right now. Russia is responsible.

Can’t do anything about it? Like Hotel Echo Lima Square, he can’t. The article containing this tweet, also explains a thing or two about the leasing process.

This represents a fundamental misunderstanding as to how this process works. Once you lease land there is a whole process that you have to go through. First you have to actually discover whether there is oil and gas in that land. Second of all, you have to get a permit to actually develop that land. … Right now we actually are developing more leases than we have in two decades, so the White House certainly doesn’t have their facts straight on this.Mike Sommers, CEO, American Petroleum Institute

Not to mention all the things Biden did before to stop oil production, as noted above.

And on 10 March 2022 The Washington Free Beacon reports this: last year the Democratic Party was working assiduously to curtail oil and gas production. The House Oversight Committee gave orders to this effect to Exxon, BP, Shell, and Chevron, in an October hearing. Furthermore, while Biden was blocking the Russian spigot, on that very day, two New York State Senators unfurled, held up, and read from a banner comparing “climate change” to the September 11, 2001 attack.

Today Erick-Woods Erickson produced a two-and-a-quarter-minute montage of Biden avowing to raise fuel prices. Biden cannot deny the deliberate energy squeeze now.