Desperate Senate Democrats propose a temporary federal gas tax cut to undo some of the inflationary damage they’ve done. But don’t worry, they don’t really mean it. The tax cut, that is.
For their part, Republicans were even more mocking: “It’s blatantly transparent,” snapped Sen. John Thune of South Dakota. “[It’s] obviously very politically motivated,” he said. “This isn’t something they’d be rolling out unless they were looking at polling that suggests they are taking on a lot of water as result of a huge spike in gas.”
Yet revealingly, even now, as Democrats scramble to do something about the high energy prices they have caused, their own appointees keep working to drive them stillThe Biden Deep State is still following through on the original green plan, not realizing–or not caring–that there’s a new plan in the offing. For instance, the Biden administration is happy sending climate envoy
–using a government jet, instead of his own private jet–all around the world, preaching scarcity for everyone but him and his fellow billionaires.the Biden appointees at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for blocking new permits for natural gas. Cassidy highlighted the geopolitical threat, as well as the inflationary threat:
This FERC policy announcement all but guarantees no new natural gas construction permits will be issued this year and amounts to a de facto natural gas export ban. All the while, Europe is dependent on Russian natural gas and we are in the midst of a global energy crisis hurting Americans’ pocketbooks.
This FERC policy announcement all but guarantees no new natural gas construction permits will be issued this year and amounts to a defacto natural gas export ban.