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Oct 19 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Biden just now said he's been "doing everything in my power to reduce gas prices," but that's false. He
- slashed acreage for oil/gas production
- killed the re-opening of a major oil refinery
- repressed private investment in oil/gas production by flooding market with SPR oil
"Biden administration has leased fewer acres for oil-and-gas drilling offshore and on federal land than any other administration in its early stages dating back to the end of World War II"

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If Biden and his aides are going to keep demanding that Big Tech firms censor “misinformation,” they should start by censoring his claim that he has "done everything in my power to reduce gas prices." He obviously hasn't.

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The reason prices are high is because there isn’t enough supply both of oil and gasoline, due to lack of oil refinery capacity, as I testified to Congress
Biden and his allies have been blocking oil refinery capacity for decades, as I document here, and then gas-lighting the public about it

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Biden says his promise to re-fill the SPR when oil prices drop to $70/BBL will be an incentive for oil companies to produce.

Another lie. Oil is currently $83.54. If firms don’t feel secure investing now, given Biden’s promise to shut them down, they won’t at $70.
“If you were an oil company, why would you invest hundreds of millions of dollars into expanding refining capacity if you thought the federal government or investors would shut you down in the next few years? The narrative coming from the administration is absolutely insane.”
- Biden just now offered to buy oil from American oil producers at $70/BBL.

- Biden aides last month offered OPEC $80/BBL

- In 2020, Democrats blocked Trump's proposal to buy American oil at $24/BBL

Those are facts. Draw your own conclusions:

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/bidens-secre…
Biden today offered U.S. oil producers $70/barrel to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. His aides reportedly offered OPEC $80 last month. Why is that?

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Oct 21
People who wonder why Latinos are turning against Democrats might consider that, across California, working-class neighborhoods have been over-run with prostitution, drugs & gun violence since @GavinNewsom banned police from arresting sex workers in the name of transgender rights
“This is a piece of legislation that will ensure that people are safe on the streets and that we do not continue to be harassed and oppressed by law enforcement,” said the CEO of the TransLatin@ Coalition.

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But people and the streets now are *more* dangerous.

"It shouldn't be introduced at the age of 4 years old that you're going down the street and you're seeing women dress like this (or) you need to learn 'oh, if you hear gunshots, duck down."

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Oct 19
Progressives in Vancouver say the newly elected mayor is a "fascist," because he has promised to increase the police force by 7% and hire 100 mental health nurses to shut down the open drug scene, and a "white supremacist," even though he's Asian.

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People sometimes ask me what the difference is between San Francisco, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and other cities where radical "harm reduction/Housing First" progressives are in charge.

The answer is, "Nothing significant."
Everything I wrote about in "San Fransicko" applies to Seattle, Portland, Vancouver, L.A. and other cities that embrace radical harm reduction/Housing First. That's not just my opinion, that's what hundreds of people in those cities have told me.

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Oct 18
For decades, Greens have argued that the industrial revolution was a mistake, and that Europe one day needed to embrace “de-growth” through de-industrialization.

That day has arrived.
It's true that Putin's invasion of Ukraine is the proximate reason for natural gas shortages in Europe, but Germany has spent the last decade shutting down its nuclear and coal plants, rejecting greater use of imported liquified natural gas, and opposed natural gas fracking.
The writing has been on the wall for years. Germany has for years had the most expensive electricity in Europe and wind-heavy Denmark has the second most expensive. In the first half of 2020, German power prices were 43% higher than the European average

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Oct 18
Climate activists in UK expressed concern for people being hurt by high energy prices, but they are not only demanding higher energy prices, they are blocking ambulances, fire engines, and cars carrying babies to the hospital. Finally, UK is cracking down

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“Getting in the way of ambulances… isn't just illegal, it's monstrously selfish.“

Absolutely correct.

“The fiercest fanatics are often selfish people who were forced, by innate shortcomings or external circumstances, to lose faith in their own selves”

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They aren’t actually concerned about the climate. If they were they would advocate for natural gas and nuclear. Instead they oppose them. And so UK will burn more coal.

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Oct 18
Governments are scrambling to produce enough energy so their people survive winter. And yet fanatical climate activists are demanding we use *less* not more energy. Why is that? Why are certain people drawn to fanaticism? And how can we hasten its end?

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“The fiercest fanatics are selfish people who are forced, by innate shortcomings or external circumstances, to lose faith in their own selves. They separate the instrument of their selfishness from their ineffectual selves, and attach it to some holy cause.”
— Eric Hoffer Image
Climate activists in the UK have blocked highways (because cars emit CO2), poured milk onto the floors of supermarkets (because livestock emits methane), and thrown tomato soup at Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” (because climate change is more important than art. Or something).
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Oct 18
This is tin foil hat stuff. There is zero evidence of a price-rigging conspiracy. Meanwhile, even your own experts agree that gasoline prices are high in California because you & your allies have blocked the expansion of oil refining capacity and production.
I have debunked your claims in detail and quoted from the state's own experts, who have for decades pointed to the lack of oil refining capacity as the main reason for California's comparatively high gasoline prices.

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There is no evidence of illegal price setting. A federal judge in San Diego recently issued a 103-page ruling dismissing a lawsuit that claimed traders at oil companies had colluded to keep prices high. The scope of the case was massive and spanned seven years of litigation.
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