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Biden’s "Incredible Transition" Statement Proves Pain at the Pump is Intentional
- Category: Editorials Editorials
- Published: 24 May 2022 24 May 2022
Washington, D.C. - As President Biden celebrates two straight weeks of record gas prices, Power The Future Founder and Executive Director Daniel Turner released the following statement:
“Joe Biden finally said the truth out loud: the record high gas prices crippling America right now are on purpose. President Biden’s ability to bring our country to its knees in less than two years has been nothing short of extraordinary. Joe Biden knows that only by crippling the fossil fuel industry will he usher in the radical green agenda he so desires, and if that means causing incredible pain to American families and the overall economy, it’s a casualty he can live with. Joe Biden is on track to go down as the worst president in our nation’s history, and we will all be left picking up the pieces for years to come.”
Power The Future Slams Biden's Re-Nomination of Richard Glick
- Category: Editorials Editorials
- Published: 20 May 2022 20 May 2022
FERC Chair placed “unnecessary roadblocks” on American Energy
Washington, D.C. - Power The Future is calling on members of the Senate to reject President Biden’s re-nomination of Richard Glick to lead the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC.) Glick is part of Biden’s army of bureaucrats that continue to fight his war on American energy. Just this year, FERC put a stop to a natural gas project and tried to jam through a rule that would make building future natural gas pipelines almost impossible. The backdoor power grab drew a sharp rebuke from President Biden’s own party as a “reckless decision to add unnecessary roadblocks” to domestic energy infrastructure. Chairman Glick only pulled the rule back because he got blasted for it. He doesn’t deserve another term on the commission.
“If left to his own ideology and devices, Chairman Glick would still be stopping American energy projects today. Thankfully, Senator Joe Manchin had the courage to stand up to his own party and put the brakes on some of his reckless policies,” said Daniel Turner, Founder and Executive Director for Power The Future. “Joe Biden’s energy agenda continues to deliver nothing but failure to working families and he shouldn’t be able to rely on an army of unelected bureaucrats to continue driving America into the ditch. Chairman Glick has already proved he’s against American energy independence and every Senator should reject him.”
Editorial about priests and sexual abuse
- Category: Editorials Editorials
- Published: 19 May 2022 19 May 2022
Does the article https://www.grantcountybeat.com/news/news-articles/72056-lawsuit-alleging-sexual-abuse-of-a-child-by-a-former-silver-city-priest-has-recently-been-settled perhaps put more of a responsibility on parishioners to realize that priests, too, are human, and have personal failings that can cause harm to parishioners who tend to give priests full authority and trust?
The Roman Catholic Church has seemingly swept many such cases under the rug, and too often simply, after attempted rehabilitation, placed the miscreant priests in other parishes to perhaps reoffend.
Maybe parishioners should more frequently speak out about unusual activity they see by their priests in activities other than spiritual ones.
Hydrogen still a political pipe dream for MLG, et al
- Category: Editorials Editorials
- Published: 19 May 2022 19 May 2022
Recent reports have been written about how the Hydrogen Hub bill died in the 30-day session. The truth is – it should have died, it wasn't ready for prime time. How could legislators pass an energy plan that used a less efficient, more expensive fuel to produce electricity, which would then increase utility costs to homeowners with no measurable environmental benefit? Even worse, this half-baked plan didn't even use New Mexico natural gas as the feedstock.
Progressive Democrats rejected the plan even though the governor and the chairwoman of House Appropriations and Finance Committee expended a tremendous amount of political effort on it. Increased electrical costs, transformation from hydrogen to ammonia and inherent safety concerns were significant questions that were not answered.
Gas Price Sets New Records for Entire Week
- Category: Editorials Editorials
- Published: 17 May 2022 17 May 2022
New Price Record, 7 Days In A Row, Highlights Biden Energy Failure
Washington, D.C. - With the energy failures of the Biden Administration already impacting every part of American life, a new low was reached early Tuesday morning: the seventh consecutive day with gas prices hitting a new all-time high. Currently, at least 47 states have an average price of gas over $4.00 a gallon, with the current national average at $4.523 per gallon, according to AAA. Today's record price marks an increase of over 10% in just the last month and an increase of more than 48% during the last year.
"The Biden Green Tax is delivering a record of failure unmatched in American history," said Daniel Turner, Founder and Executive Director for Power The Future. "By any objective measure, it's clear President Biden's attempts to lower gas prices have failed except for the one solution he completely ignores: regaining American energy independence. This new record will mean nothing in Washington where the Biden Administration will continue to talk out of both sides of their mouth, but it will continue to cripple family budgets of Americans who are paying the real costs. Joe Biden is leading us straight into an energy dark age with a stunning combination of ineptitude and indifference."
Power The Future is a 501c4 non-profit dedicated to fighting for American energy workers.
Gov. MLG's latest Policy Imposition
- Category: Editorials Editorials
- Published: 16 May 2022 16 May 2022
Gov. MLG's latest Policy Imposition
By Paul J. Gessing
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham recently continued her attempt to simultaneously keep the oil and gas revenue spigot flowing while enacting enough policies from the radical environmental agenda to placate her political and fundraising base.
Her latest plan, known as the Clean Car Rule, was adopted by her handpicked Environmental Improvement Board (EIB). Governor-appointed boards are far more willing to do what they are told than are unruly and sometimes uncooperative (albeit overwhelmingly Democrat) legislative bodies with their own political calculations and aspirations.
Incredibly, New Mexico's newly Clean Car Rule undermines democracy and self-government (along with our economy) by placing New Mexico automobile regulations under the control of another state, California. The current rules are California's and if California changes them, New Mexico will have to go along with them or reverse course and opt out.
Biden Administration's Cancelling of Cook Inlet Gas Leases Harms Alaska's Future & America's Energy Security
- Category: Editorials Editorials
- Published: 12 May 2022 12 May 2022
Anchorage, Alaska – With news breaking late last night that the Department of Interior was cancelling a lease that would have put over a million acres of federal subsea areas into producers' hands, with potential for oil and gas development for up to 40 years, Power The Future Alaska State Director Rick Whitbeck issued the following statement:
"President Biden, Interior Secretary Haaland and Domestic Climate Czar Gina McCarthy have a skewed vision for 'doing everything possible' to control the highest gas prices ever. Cancelling the Cook Inlet lease sale – especially one mandated by federal law with a drop-dead date next month and using the pitiful excuse that industry wasn't interested – is rich, even for this Administration."
Michelle Lujan Grisham Silent As Families Pay Record Gas Prices
- Category: Editorials Editorials
- Published: 10 May 2022 10 May 2022
Albuquerque – For the second time in just the last three months, the cost for a gallon of gas in New Mexico has skyrocketed to a new record high. According to AAA, the cost of a gallon for regular gasoline in New Mexico is now $4.21, which represents an increase of nearly 74% from the price in January 2021. In response to these terrible results brought on by the failed policies of President Biden, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham is silent.
"Every single New Mexico family is paying a massive green tax and the silence from Michelle Lujan Grisham is deafening," said Larry Behrens, Communications Director for Power The Future. "Shame on Governor Lujan Grisham for failing to stand up to the failed policies of her own party while her constituents suffer. These record diesel prices are paid by every consumer, even those who buy only wagyu beef."