THE PRICE OF GA$ - AND THE RELATED VIRTUE SIGNALING REGARDING UKRAINE

Humankind occupies about 3% of land, and land itself is around 29% of the planet's surface; humankind can be seen as occupying about 1% of the surface overall.

From space, there is no evidence of man on earth; the biggest cities don't even register. The idea that people can influence climate (via anthropogenic climate change) is pure silliness: That idea merely serves political agendas of the political left.

When we consider that the earth's "muscle" melted glaciers miles thick (on the back end of the last ice age), you really gain perspective. We have about the strength of a worm as compared with an atomic bomb when considering our "influence" on climate.

Climate change is something that happens in natural fashion - regardless whether we drive gas-powered vehicles… and for that matter, no matter what we do. 

But... the political left will have us paying $5 (6? 7?…more?) per gallon.  Much of America (not all) has lost all sense and reason to the corrupt political class. (Certainly the 81 million people who voted for the Biden/Harris ticket. [sarc/off]).

Anyone feeling virtuous paying more for gasoline is a fool. And, as the U.S. buys more from places like Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and elsewhere, please realize that they produce oil and gas in a far, far dirtier fashion than we do here at home.

Our constricted U.S. oil production, through closure of the XL pipeline and restrictions on fracking and drilling on federal land, makes the atmosphere dirtier, in theory anyway, and it makes our gas (and overall energy) prices go up, up, up and up. The Biden Administration’s policies on energy are counter-productive on many fronts.

That, as paired with the “green” agenda of transferring all Americans to electric vehicles (EVs), also ignores the fact that EVs are in fact powered by… coal. Stored electricity is merely a by-product of burning coal in power plants to generate electricity with the attendant soot and discharge into the atmosphere and environment. (Dems seem to believe that charging stations are magic, with unlimited “green” energy for the taking).

Isn’t it time for America to stop shooting itself in the foot before the left has us merrily skipping our way into “virtuous” economic catastrophe?

Yet another consideration: China, Russia, India, and other comparatively smaller countries (N. Korea, Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, etc.) don’t give a tinker’s damn for “clean energy,” “global warming,” “climate change,” or even safety for that matter. In China’s case, they routinely kill political dissidents anyway. They have slave labor and a pool of 1.5 billion people: They willingly work people to death. Think they care about all the niceties of some OSHA-equivalent, or an EPA-equivalent, over there? They’re not going to constrict any spigots.

India, while much of it rural, is itself approaching 1.5 billion people. What’s the U.S. population against the China/India aggregate of nearly 3 billion? It stands as about 0.1%.  Ah, but a semi-literate leftist would argue: Much of China and India are rural, and not quite as “powered” as the U.S.  I’d say, as a “back of the envelope” calculation, it would be fair to offset that with the aforementioned smaller counties and their power consumptions, as well as (in no particular order, nor priority) England, Austria, Australia, Mexico, Germany, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Netherlands, El Salvador, Czechoslovakia, and on and on and on and on.  This world is comprised of 195 countries, scattered up-and-down and all-around the power map and associated power-use.  What the U.S. does simply does not matter (in terms of climate).

Our population of roughly 333 million and our energy consumption means nothing against the aforementioned considerations. But Biden, and the powers behind our cardboard-cutout of the resident of the Oval Office, will stand at podiums and blame Putin for the silly and sad numbers on our pumps.

Given the past year, one can fairly wonder:  Is the bias against American energy independence part of an overall agenda to weaken America?  And… if weakness be the true goal - to what purpose that?

Drill, baby, drill. Now.

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David Scott Strain is a U.S. Army veteran (HQ, 500th Military Intelligence Brigade [Japan]; 1st Personnel Command [1st PERSCOM, Europe]; Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans [ODCSOPS, Pentagon], more) and a retired Fortune500 I.T. executive (Young & Rubicam, Inc., DC-NY; Burson-Marsteller, LLC, DC-NY; ShuffleLabs, Inc., Virginia, more) as well as employment at major non-profits (Nat’l. Food Processors Assoc., N. VA [now GMA]; Water Environment Federation, N. VA, more); as well as TS contract work for clients. Mr. Strain has passed three FBI background checks in association with his work.  He is also the author of the novel THE GRIM GRIND OF LIFE:  A PI’s strange bounces through a surfeit of eateries, juke joints, and dark doorways.  Prior, he authored the MBA-text I.T. WARS: Managing the Business-Technology Weave in the New Millennium (UofW, UofMD, more than a dozen others). Books and expanded bio are available on Amazon.