...Is US teetering on the edge of ruin? - Victor Davis Hanson article Posted: Apr 24th, 2021 - 12:33 pm
This is an excellent opinion piece. The following paragraph, to me, was one of the most striking.
"Record natural gas and oil production has been giving the public affordable heating, cooling and transportation. Self-sufficiency in energy made the United States exempt from worries over Middle Eastern wars and foreign oil embargos. The more we produced our own natural gas, the cleaner became our air and the smaller our collective carbon footprint.
Yet in just 100 days, energy prices have soared. The Joe Biden administration has canceled the Keystone XL pipeline and limited energy leasing on federal lands, threatening to all but end our gas and oil independence in just a few years.
In the drought-stricken West, key irrigation water is still being diverted from farms to the ocean. Billions of dollars in farm aid are doled out on the basis of race. And promised new regulations and estate taxes may well kill off what’s left of family farms."
LINK/URL: A nation's well-being hinges on only a few factors – is US teetering on the edge of ruin?
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