A 76 Gas Station in Auburn, Washington, recently reprogrammed its pumps for double digits in anticipation of higher gas prices. The current rate of increase could put gas prices over $10 a gallon in the state.
While President Joe Biden may not be able to count that high these days, for the rest of us, it’s a scary thought.
In the Washington Tri-Cities of Kennewick, Pasco and West Richland, customers driving up to the pumps are finding notes saying the station is totally dry — some offering only diesel, The Post Millennial reported.
Ever since Biden took office in 2021, gas prices have been higher than Bill Clinton was that time or two he “wasn’t inhaling.”
According to the American Automobile Association, gas prices are now at their “Highest Recorded Average Price” of $4.567 as of Wednesday.
When a more competent president (God-willing) takes office in 2024 and gas prices subsequently drop, no doubt Biden will take credit for the decrease. But why the mysterious increase in the first place? Are COVID-19 and Russia the cause, as Biden claims?
No way José.
According to Fox News, during Biden’s first day in office, he signed an executive order which “paused” the leasing of oil and gas on federal land. By the end of that year, the Department of Interior then recommended all kinds of new fees and regulations, which would drive up onshore drilling costs and remove the incentive for companies to lease the land.
His next folly that day was signing the executive order which revoked the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.
Running from Alberta, Canada, to as far south as Texas, the Keystone pipeline is broken into four phases. The first and second phase, which deliver oil to the Midwest, went online in 2010 and 2011 respectively. The latest phases, three a and b, deliver to Texas refineries and have been online since 2017.
Phase four, the Keystone XL pipeline, would have connected the phase one pipeline in Alberta all the way to Nebraska in a more direct route and, with a larger diameter pipe, could transport almost 1 million barrels worth of oil a day.
Former President Donald Trump moved in 2017 to permit the completion of phase four of the pipeline, but on Biden’s first day as president, he signed an executive…
