Green pushers should cheer oil supply disruptions and price increases, so why are they whining today?

 by Jack Hellner

In 1970, during a period of strong growth in oil use and gas-powered vehicles, the earth experienced a global cooling period. The doom and gloom crowd put out dire predictions, with the great help of the complicit media and others, saying billions would die from starvation because of a coming ice age.

Around 1980, the dire predictions switched on a dime, to disastrous “global warming.”

Since 1980, most of the media, educators, entertainers, other Democrats, and some naive Republicans have continually bombarded students and others with talking points that the earth and humans had only a few years left if we didn’t give up our use of oil, coal, and natural gas because of global warming—which shortly after that, changed to “climate change.”

They said the science was settled. Anyone who disagreed by truthfully saying the climate has always changed cyclically and naturally was falsely labeled a climate change denier and anti-science. Scientists mostly went along because they knew that it was the only way they could get money—lots of money.

The UN had annual gabfests where billionaires and other green pushers flew in on their private jets telling others, including poor, underdeveloped countries to stop using oil. You see, these rich people were special. They really cared. After all, sometimes they would pay to plant trees or buy worthless pieces of paper called carbon credits to pretend they reduced the carbon footprint of their jets, mansions, and yachts.

As a result of these dire warnings:

No new significant refineries have been built in the U.S. since the 1970s while 123 have been closed since 1982, going from 254 to 131 today.

More than 30 refineries have been closed in Europe since 2009. Since 1980, refining capacity in Europe has declined by 8 million barrels per day, or down by a third. The last major refinery in Europe was built in 1975.

Great Britain has banned new drilling in the North Sea.

Joe Biden campaigned on stopping the use of oil, natural gas, and coal (what are described as fossil fuels) by 2050, with the non-attainable zero emission goal. As soon as he took office he signed executive orders to strictly regulate oil and to block pipelines. The media, other democrats and green pushers cheered these actions. The price of crude oil and gasoline took off as soon as Biden was elected yet somehow, there were not daily complaints in the media about how harmful these actions were to consumers and overall inflation.

The high prices for oil greatly helped Iran and Russia finance wars and terrorism.

But now, as we finally have a president who is trying to destroy Iran, which everyone used to say was dangerous, and the price has gone up some and suppliers are temporarily limiting supply, many of these green pushers are whining like stuffed pigs. They do nothing to help open the supply route and they want to help Iran survive. Here’s what Fatih Birol, head of a world energy organization, had to say, via RedState:

‘In Europe, we have maybe six weeks or so (of) jet fuel left,’ he said. ‘If we are not able to open the Strait of Hormuz ... I can tell you soon we will hear the news that some of the flights from city A to city B might be canceled as a result of lack of jet fuel.’

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The impact will be ‘higher petrol (gasoline) prices, higher gas prices, high electricity prices,’ said Birol, speaking in his Paris office looking out over the Eiffel Tower.

It is a true joke when Kamala, Newsom, and others all of a sudden complain about high gas prices after their policies intentionally limited supplies and raised prices.

Thankfully, we have a president who understands the dangers of Iran, the importance of reasonably priced and abundant energy and that the green policies were always a scam to transfer massive amounts of money to green pushers and to embed more government control over the people.

There has never been one piece of scientific data that shows a direct link between the amount of oil we use, the number of vehicles on the road, or the number of cows and temperatures, sea levels, floods, droughts, or storms. And, if there is no correlation, there is no causation. That is science!

The media is also reporting that Spirit Airlines is collapsing and blaming the spike in jet fuel prices over the last couple of months because of Trump. The fact is Spirit has been in trouble for years, twice filing bankruptcy. Sadly, the Biden administration was so incompetent and economically illiterate that they blocked a merger with Jet Blue because they thought it might raise prices and reduce competition. From an article at AP in 2024:

The prospect of a JetBlue-Spirit Airlines merger took a major hit in court on Tuesday when a federal judge sided with the Biden administration and blocked the $3.8 billion deal.

The judge ruled that JetBlue’s purchase of Spirit, the nation’s largest low-cost airline, would harm competition — and increase prices for air travelers as a result. Meanwhile, JetBlue has maintained that it needs such a deal to compete with industry rivals.

So, now many small airports will have no airline because of the Biden administration?

When will the people be told the truth instead of always having the media campaign for Democrats and peddle their radical agenda? Who knows? That would take an intellectually honest media, and we are far from having that.

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