On the surface, this doesn’t make sense.

America has an energy crisis. Gas prices are at historic highs. The international market for oil and gas is tightening. Some of America’s worst enemies – Russia, Venezuela, Iran and others – are prospering due to the lessening of exploration and production in the United States.

Eight percent inflation is getting worse because of the cost of transporting goods, including fertilizer that is really needed by our farmers.

Under normal circumstances, our president would take immediate steps to boost production of oil and natural gas. The goal would be to lower the price of energy by increasing the availability.

But instead, President Biden is halting pipelines, eliminating new oil and gas leases and sending emmisaries to nations that despise us and our way of life to encourage them to produce more oil and gas, which would further damage our domestic industry.

Biden smiles and tells America that Russia is to blame (it is not) and that motorists will have to suffer at the pump for awhile but it will eventually get better.

What is the goal here and what is this Biden strategy?

Step one is to cripple energy companies. This started under Barack Obama who went after America’s coal industry. America has 25% of the world’s coal reserves. We do a better job of burning clean coal that any other nation in the world. Obama’s campaign against coal badly damaged workers in West Virginia, Pennsylvania and other coal-producing states. It cost billions of dollars as electrical plants were converted from coal to natural gas or shut down completely.

Step two is destroy oil and natural gas. The smokescreen is “global warming” or “climate change.” This is absurd because the world has had no significant warming and even if it did, it would mostly beneficial. And the argument was switched to “climate change” because it’s impossible to make a case that the climate is changing because it has always changed.

If Biden would tell the truth, he is delighted at high gas prices. Remember when former Vice President Al Gore wrote that the biggest threat to mankind was the internal combustion automobile? Biden wants to eliminate gas-powered cars.

By jacking up the gas price and blaming oil companies and the Russians, Biden hopes to scare Americans into spending more than $55,000 for an electric car. That means fewer people can afford a car and will have to rely on public transportation. That that will encourage the end of single-family dwellings and a switch to apartments and condos.

This will make people rely more on government services and, more importantly for the progressives, make it easier for an ever-growing government to control its citizens.

Do you doubt that federal bureaucrats, the “Deep State” or Democrats and some Republicans want more control? Just take a look back at how they manipulated the Chinese coronarvirus. America funded the lab in Communist China that developed this deadly virus and then gave it to the world. With the full compliance of the mainstream news media, the federal government tried to force vaccinations, they put mask mandates on kindergarten students and they fired nurses and doctors who followed the science and refused vaccinations.

This is serious business.

One of the unique aspects of American life is mobility. We don’t have to wait at a crowded train station to go to St. Louis or even Collinsville or Norman or Coweta.

We can just hope in the family SUV and head our without being monitored by the government or having to ask permission.

Communists and socialist can’t tolerate that level of freedom. And they despise the fact that citizens trapped in communist countries can see our level of freedom and yearn for that themselves and their families. The China Olympics was a clear example of oppression and Biden’s opening of our southern border shows how anxious other people are for our freedom and prosperity.

President Donald Trump was just the opposite. He loves this country. He understands business. He values energy. In fact, America became energy independent under Trump. That’s the first time that has happened in decades. Trump promoted freedom and individual responsibility.

How do we stop Biden’s destruction of our energy?

First, pray. If there is going to be a renewal of American greatness, it will be due to the grace of God.

Secondly, register to vote. Vote in every election. Support candidates who hold to traditional values.

Help candidates win back Congress from Democrats and from Democrats who deceptively run and win office as “conservative Republicans.”

Stop listening to warching or reading the liberal news media. Their job is to steer you from the truth and they are very good at it.

Maybe then our energy policy will once again make sense.