Biden's war on energy becomes war on transportation

 NY Post:

President Joe Biden rightly announced a ban on Russian energy imports Tuesday — though only after a bipartisan group in Congress twisted his arm. Biden had resisted the move, despite the purchases funding Vladimir Putin’s deadly Ukraine invasion, worried it would further boost gas prices (and further tank his polling).

But he’s doing plenty to jack up prices through his policies here at home. On Monday, his own Environmental Protection Agency announced it wants to slap new rules on tractor-trailers, buses, delivery vans and moving trucks. The regs, aimed at cutting nitrogen oxide and carbon pollution, will make life harder not only for working-class truck and bus drivers, our essential backbone already exhausted by COVID fatigue — they’ll hit all American shoppers hard.

As Climate Depot’s Marc Morano put it, “US climate sanctions on Americans have more impact than US sanctions against Russia.”

The EPA move toward “zero-emission vehicles in the heavy-duty fleet” will spike driving costs right as transportation professionals are facing a fuel crisis. It will make everything in the supply chain more expensive when we’re already seeing record inflation. The Independent Women’s Forum tracks a market basket of typical family goods each month, and we’ve seen food costs explode in the last year: Bacon is up 18%, beef 16%, eggs 13% and bread 6%.

Poor and middle-class families are hurt the most by Biden’s failed energy policies and obsession with the Green New Deal. They spend a higher percentage of their family budget on consumer goods carried by these trucks. Families just below the poverty line fork out 10.2% of their budget for food at home, while households with annual incomes over $150,000 spend just 5.4% on it.

Team Biden simply doesn’t care that it’ll hurt poor and middle-class families at a vulnerable time. Former Obama-Biden Treasury official Mark Mazur said the quiet part out loud last month: “We don’t want lower prices for fossil-fuel buyers, we prefer higher prices,” to achieve “climate change goals.” Mazur was referring to a possible gas-tax holiday, but his comments apply to a range of Biden policies.
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The climate kooks who have been serially wrong about climate change are out to destroy the economy and harm national security and American families in the name of saving them.