America’s Energy Crises Causing Much Despair.
With few short term fixes, America’s energy crises is starting to seriously pinch pocketbooks from coast to coast. (Washington Post)
“The United States is back in an energy crisis, with record gas prices because of disruptions stemming from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Many nations have rightly taken steps to halt or sharply reduce Russian energy purchases in an effort to choke off Vladimir Putin’s economy. But the shunning of Russian oil — which accounts for more than 10 percent of worldwide consumption — is causing a huge supply problem.”
The Biden Administration has been caught off guard by the rapid increase in gas prices all over America. In the short term many citizens may blame the war in Ukraine for the higher than expected fill ups but that that will not last. The nation has to become far more energy independent and could risk falling into a 1970s energy quagmire that threatens national security. The current Administration must make difficult decisions about where to get our next oil fix, Saudi Arabia? Venezuela? Those choices come with possibly compromising our ideologies and various lines in the sand.
