President Joe Biden, 79, found out the hard way it’s not easy being president, especially when gas prices reach record highs around the country. Biden thought nothing of cavalierly canceling the Keystone XL pipeline June 2 which would have brought abundant supplies of shale oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Instead of leaving well enough alone, Biden’s allegiance to his Green New Deal radical base twisted his arm to end the Keystone XL pipeline, largely over it running through Native American lands in Standing Rock Sue of North Dakota and Oklahoma. But whatever the politically correct objections, Biden has taken U.S. energy independence under his predecessor former President Donald Trump and created widespread shortages and skyrocketing prices in a less than one year. Average American citizens, regardless of party, don’t like what they see.
Biden’s aggregate job approval ratings are now 41.6%, lower than Trump’s approval ratings at 44.4% when he left office Jan. 20, 2021. One major difference is that Biden is wholeheartedly bacled by the U.S. media, when Trump was universally reviled. So when you look at Trump’s depressed approval ratings because on his bad press, it’s really no comparison. If Trump had the media behind him through his presidency, his approval ratings would have been about 60%. Biden’s 41.6% aggregate approval ratings reflect the fact that the press makes excuses for his presidency, despite the public watching pump prices go through the roof. When it comes to Covid-19, something Biden used to defeat Trump in 2020, the U.S. infection and death rate are continuing to rise, despite all efforts to get the public vaccinated. But by far the biggest issue driving down Biden’s approval ratings is inflation.
Fears of inflation reflect the high commodity prices, including real estate, gold and silver, trickling down to record gas prices. Gas prices have gone through the roof primarily because Biden’s energy policy singles out the fossil fuel industry as the culprit in global warming. But without fossils fuels, the U.S. economy would grind to a halt, fueling the worst inflation seen since the late 1970s under former President Jimmy Carter. Well, things haven’t got that bad yet but Biden’s flirting with policies, especially spending practices, that could fuel a long-lasting inflation. Biden announced Nov. 22 that he would release 50 million barrels of oil from the U.S. pertroleum reserve, hoping to bring down pump prices. But like everything else Biden does, it’s hypocritical to release more fossil fuels into a carbon-saturated economy, already creating what Biden calls an “existential crisis” for the planet.
Biden’s energy policy announced at the COP26 Glasgow U.N. Climate Summit, clearly showed he’s moving the U.S. toward nuclear power. Without any environmentalists taking notice, Biden tossed the renewable fuels industry under the bus. Going back to nuclear power shows how much the pendulum has swung over the last 10 years since Japan’s Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant melted down, spewing toxic radioactivity into Japan’s land and atmosphere and the Pacific Ocean. But no, Biden and his 52-year-old Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm made unilateral decisions that the U.S. would go nuclear over the next 10 years. Americans, including Democrats, take note that Biden spent his Thanksgiving in Nantucket at the $30 million estate of Carlyle founder David Rubenstein Biden calls himself a working class kid from Sranton, Pa., when he’s anything but.
Far more a concern to average citizens is how the country has cratered in both domestic and foreign policy since Biden and his 57-year-old Vice President Kamala Harris took office. In their mad glee to placate the Democrat Party’s radical left, they’ve upended the energy independence achieved under Trump. Now the country under Biden looks ahead to Brave New World of electric cars, producing less tailpipe emissions but forcing the government to build out the electrical grid with more methane-fired power plants or, Biden’s late brainstorm, going nuclear. Environmentalists were so blindsided at Glasgow, they didn’t realize that Biden was taking the U.S. nuclear, a path tried-and-failed before because of periodic disasters and endless amounts of toxic nuclear waste. Yet if you ask Biden’s wild-eyed nuclear power zealots, they figure out how to end global warming and create a nuclear winter.
Whatever happens with the price of crude oil, Biden’s energy future has the U.S. abandoning renewable energy for what Graholm calls “baseload,” the necessary power only from nuclear energy. Biden’s managed in just 11 short months to gut the U.S. fossil fuel industry, canceling the Keystone XL pipeline and blocking drilling in the Artic National Wildlife Reserve [ANWR] where most oil geologists think there’s more petroleum than Saudi Arabia. So when consumers moan going to the gas pumps, they should thank Biden’s energy policy that’s determined that nuclear is the way to go for the future. Instead carbon dioxide emissions, Biden opts for nuclear waste and more nuclear accidents. Biden thinks he did the country a favor getting rid of Trump but now the country deals with the fallout. A world careening toward WW III and embracing nuclear power as the future.
