Joe Biden infamously (and manipulatively) warned of a “very dark winter” 2021 in reference to the Covid-19 pandemic, but his morbid prophesy of a miserable winter may be realized this upcoming year albeit for decidedly different reasons.
We’re talking about literal darkness, Save Jerseyans. The groundwork is being laid for a potential full-blown energy crisis in the coming months, and it won’t surprise you to learn that it was completely avoidable. Here’s what’s happening:
- Vladimir Putin, possibly because his “special military operation” is in jeopardy, has cut off Europe’s main natural gas pipeline (Nord Stream 1) and in so doing set off a panic in European capitals. “We would only have one thing left to do: as in the famous Russian fairy tale, we would let the wolf’s tail freeze,” Putin colorfully declared during a recent speech.
- Experts are now predicting the German economy will shrink next year due to the economic giant’s energy supply struggles.
- The UK may be facing blackouts this winter after the new conservative government announced price caps.
- US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is also warning that oil prices may rise.
They’ll blame Putin, sure, but that’s sort of like a squirrel blaming the snow for not having enough to eat. Our hypothetical little furry friend had all summer and fall to store up food but squandered his opportunity. Europe and, under Joe Biden, the United States has placed its energy future in speculative (at best) “green” technologies and foreign energy supplies. Uncle Joe has repeatedly declared war on coal, oil, and even clean natural gas without anything in mind to replace it, outrageously excusing skyrocketing energy costs as part of a necessary “transition.” Maybe cold fusion is 5? 10? 50 years away? In the interim, the obvious problem with relying on non-domestic energy sources is that many of those sources are controlled by the West’s geopolitical adversaries.
Put simply: it wouldn’t matter what Putin did if the West had appropriately invested in developing its own reserves as well as a robust new generation of nuclear power plants and improved natural gas capacity.
What about our petroleum reserves? Which the Biden Administration tapped to limit pre-Midterm Election pain at the pump?
Not a meme stock or a collapsing currency, this is America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and this is before today's record release of 8.4mb, the largest ever. pic.twitter.com/yodSXxdjoO
— James Lavish (@jameslavish) September 12, 2022
The pain is ramping up long before the first snowflakes fall. Here at home, electricity bills are already trending upward across the country. The California experiment is already collapsing in spectacular fashion with officials pleading with residents to NOT charge the electric cars they’re being compelled to drive. In New Jersey, Phil Murphy’s “California of the East Coast,” energy bills are reportedly set to spike by at least 25% for millions of consumers beginning this October.
Rents remain high. Those near the margins of the economic ladder have been drowning for months.
Brandon, folks, and his idiot ideological allies. That’s who you’ll have to thank if winter 2022-2023 is only the latest in a series of man-made government disasters on this guy’s watch. Putin’s pipeline politics shouldn’t have mattered.
