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This is madness

HARLAN BERGER

McElhattan

A friend filled up her three-quarter-empty gas tank. Paid $60.

Our president will likely tell us this is temporary, the car will get better mileage with this high-price gasoline, or we will soon drive electrics so it won’t matter.

This is madness.

Our financial wizards Yellen and Powell tout 5.9 percent inflation and a similar Social Security raise next year.

These fuel price increases will start another round of increases. Yet anyone who buys food has seen their bills already rise 10-12 percent. They are the modern Great OZ.

Worse comes. A federal agency warns of natural gas prices rising 20 to 50 percent this winter. Much electricity is generated by this fuel so electricity rates will rise. Let’s hope we get full-time electricity. Intermittent wind and solar sources have weakened the grid and may make us a Third World country. It happened in Texas.

We won’t ask how this once-abundant fuel got to cost more. As we dare not question our resounding Afghanistan victory. This sickening mess resounds in the background.

The increases in food and fuel hurt all, even those on the state and federal expense tab who have some defense. The rest of us pay full dollar.

We’ve seen begging from our feds. Beg the Saudis to lower oil prices. Or to pump more. Or domestic producers should help more. Yes, and beg the Taliban to let us leave.

It’s not incompetence. This is a deliberate move to break the country down. Or what was a country. It’s not one without borders, and the southern one is gone.

It starts with Biden-Harris, their Congressional accomplices and the very top of the military.

Their lies are enough to gag a donkey.

Perhaps this winter we can burn equity studies to stay warm. And If the Taliban or ISIS becomes fractious, the president will doubtless propose to drone them with.

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