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According to someone called Jared Bernstein, who serves on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, there are 20,000 gas stations in the United States where the price of gas is below $4 a gallon.

I am guessing this is what Pete was crowing about yesterday.

Boy Interrupted, that interferes with your Administration's twin goals of shoehorning working people into electric vehicles that rely on coal-charged batteries and cramming the greenest of all green nitwittery proposals; the final solution of the #climatecultists, energy scarcity

— manic contrarian (@SBCTA) July 22, 2022

Jared Bernstein, appearing on Fox News Sunday this past Sunday, told Shannon Bream that $4 gas is still too high, but they’re working on it. But wait, Jared must not have seen Joe Biden’s schedule for Wednesday of this week. Joe had a speech to make. Something about an emergency.

I guess the Administration’s left hand doesn’t know what the far-left hand is doing.

So, does “working on it” mean the Biden Administration has given up on the Green New Deal? Because for the Green New Deal to come to fruition, gas prices in America won’t fall below $4 a gallon ever again.

The entire point of the GND is for gas prices to soar like Icarus and for our economy to meet the same fate. Because Green New Deal or not, the Sun is hot! Including in July, apparently.

When Biden talks about a Climate Change “emergency,” as he did on Wednesday, besides talking about his cancer he is talking about self-imposed energy scarcity and economic austerity.

This is a bad deal, no matter what color it is.

And it will bring on rising energy costs due to falling domestic energy supplies. And unlike Icarus, this ain’t Greek Mythology, it is the law of supply and demand. And this law doesn’t care about our feelings. You know, just like Mother Nature.

The law of supply and demand is unforgiving. It can’t be bargained with; it can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, remorse, or fear.

I’m sorry. I always wanted to use a line from The Terminator in a column. But this line works, because it’s true.

The American people have experienced the ruthlessly brutal efficiency of market forces when politicians stick their paws where they don’t belong.

Joe and Pete’s excellent adventure where they drag the country kicking and screaming into accepting a Green New Deal, gas prices, from East LA to East St. Louis, will exceed $10 a gallon.

And blaming Putin, gas station owners, or greedy oil company executives will no longer be part of their talking points.

The narrative will have shifted away from blaming to shaming. The shame game will soon replace the blame game.

In the Liberal World Order, the shame game will become a fundamental component of the Climate Cultist’s strategy.  And the Media will be as usefully idiotic in their obedience to their schemes as they were with the nonsensical “pandemic of the unvaccinated” hoax.

In Joe and Pete’s future green economy, well, in Pete’s future green economy, paying $10 for gas won’t earn you sympathy or pity from our betters.

Rather, you’ll be pilloried for not driving an electric car, taking the bus, riding your bike, or zooming through your workday from a solar-powered, residentially re-zoned mixed-use home office, approved for social distancing.

Oh, the times they are a changing…

But not fast enough it seems.  As we can see from Pete’s tweet and surmise from Jared’s comments on Sunday, they’re not quite mentally prepared for the times to, er, change.

The bottom line is if $5 gas in Denver, Chicago, or Topeka spooks them, as it clearly does, (See Pete’s tweet), they’ll never withstand the political headwinds that $8, and $9+ gas will do to their political house of straw once the Green New Deal is implemented and working families start seeing red!

And speaking of working families, if you think Democrats are having trouble with Hispanic voters now, you ain’t seen nothing yet. By the way, when you mix the color green with red, you get brown.

And in American politics, as the Democrats will come to learn all too well in November, Brown votes matter.

Joe Armendariz is the Director of Government Affairs for Armendariz Partners. He is a former two-term member of the Carpinteria City Council and the former Executive Director of the Santa Barbara County Taxpayers Association, and Santa Barbara Technology and Industry Association. He is Chairman of the California Center for Public Policy. He can be reached at 805.990-2494