The Biden administration's war against transportation

 Tucker Carlson:

Let's say just for the sake of a mind experiment, that you're the secretary of transportation for the United States of America. That's a big job, but what would you do all day? Well, that's a pretty easy one, because every secretary of transportation has the same two concerns, the overriding concerns, and despite what they may tell you, neither one of these concerns has anything to do with systemic racism.

So, your first concern would be the price of diesel fuel. Diesel fuel is what makes transportation possible in this country. Virtually everything you buy in America arrived by diesel engine. Our entire trucking fleet runs on diesel; so does every single freight locomotive in the United States. If diesel prices get too high, transportation and you have the secretary of transportation, stops. The price of nearly everything becomes unaffordable. So, inflation is directly connected to transportation and transportation requires diesel.

It turns out that diesel fuel prices are the key to a lot of the American economy and you would know that. Your second concern, if you were transportation secretary, would be domestic air travel. This is a huge country. It's far too big a country not to have reliable commercial flights from one place to another. Businesses depend on the airlines and so do families. For generations, they've been able to depend on the airlines. America has had the most efficient air service in the world. Planes land on time. They don't crash. So, maintaining that system of air travel is probably the top concern of the United States Transportation Department.

So, that's what you would be worried about if you were the secretary—diesel and airlines —and yet, remarkably, in less than a year and a half under Joe Biden, both of these things, fuel costs and air travel have gone dramatically in the wrong direction. The price of diesel is now hit its highest price ever recorded in history. The national average is up 70% since just last year. It's now $5.53 a gallon. That's terrible for truckers, but it's also terrible for you. It means you're paying much more for everything you buy. Watch.
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REPORTER: Here on I-70, a lot of big trucks making the cross-country hauls, but a major increase in diesel prices, with the numbers ticking higher and higher with no end in sight, is hitting them hard.

TRUCKER: You pay out a lot more because you're doing the same amount of work and mileage, but you're paying a lot more at the pump. If you've got it or use it or wear it or whatever, a truck touched it at one time or another.

REPORTER: So, whether or not you have to buy diesel fuel, the price hike affects your goods, groceries and services.

TRUCKER: You pay for it one way or the other.

The cost of a gallon of diesel fuel rose by more than a dollar in just Biden's first year as president. That was the largest annual increase in over a decade. Why is this happening? Well, because Joe Biden made it happen. This was intentional. It's a product of his clampdown on domestic energy production and especially of his lunatic war against Vladimir Putin, the war that both parties seem to be in favor of, but that is crushing the United States. Biden's sanctions of Russia have been especially counterproductive.

So, back in February, you may remember that Joe Biden pledged to destroy the Russian economy. "Let's make them poor." Of course, this is in retaliation for installing Donald Trump as president. So, what happened next? Well, four months later, the opposite has happened. The ruble is now at a four-year-high. Thanks, Joe Biden. Russia has the largest gold deserves on planet Earth. Meanwhile, in this country, you can't afford gasoline.

Oh, so the opposite from what Joe Biden predicted happened. What's his explanation for that? Explanation? "Sorry, it was an act of God. I can't do anything about it." Watch.
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Instead, he's pleading with Venezuela for oil and then pleading with the Saudis. Wasn't it just the other day that the United States was energy independent? Yes, but now we're begging dictatorships to sell us oil, but it won't be enough. Industry officials are predicting shortages very soon.

"I wouldn't be surprised to see diesel being rationed on the East Coast this summer," said John Catsimatidis, a CEO of the United Refining Company. "Right now, inventories are low and we may see a shortage in the coming months."
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The second is domestic air travel. It has become totally unreliable. Tried to fly anywhere recently? It's like traveling in India in 1985. You have no idea if the plane is going to arrive or leave. No one will give you a straight answer on that and there is nothing you can do. It is falling apart and anyone who's tried to go anywhere, particularly this weekend, can tell you that.
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There is more.

The only good thing to come from the mess Biden has created is that every time you go past a gas station it is a reminder to vote against Democrats.  The same is probably true of flying an airline.  The administration has totally botched the transportation system with a "transition" to a Big Green nothing.