Bloomberg author Eduardo Porter, in an article, “The Earth Wants Biden To Keep Gas Prices High,” lays out a policy whose effect would be to savage economies and depopulate the world. Porter argues: “When President Joe Biden visits the decommissioned coal-fired Brayton Point power plant in Somerset, Massachusetts, on Wednesday [July 20] to lay out his planned executive actions on climate, his allies will be looking for bold initiatives…. But here’s one bold move that Biden is unlikely to make, despite the real dent it would put in the emission of heat-trapping carbon dioxide: Stop the fall in gasoline prices.”
Porter avers that high energy prices should make people “use less energy altogether.” He excoriates Biden’s recent trip to Saudi Arabia, in an attempt to get the Saudis to bring down gasoline prices: “one wonders what to make of a president who invokes a climate emergency yet fails to understand climate change.”
“Keeping gas at $5 by presidential fiat, is probably more difficult than I imagine.… But perhaps there is a method whereby any drop in price automatically triggers an increase in the gas tax, such that the average price to the consumer remains at $5.”
At a July 19 Congressional hearing, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg insisted, “the more pain that we are all experiencing from the high price of gas, the more benefit there is for those who can access electric vehicles.” Buttigieg celebrated the pain; current access to electric vehicles is very limited.
