Democrat states have some of the highest oil prices in the country. When I left California and came back, one of the things that always hit me hard was seeing per gallon oil prices that were double those outside it. I sometimes snapped photos of truly insane, like $7 a gallon, gas prices.
But to Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Democrat elites who were out to wipe out cars, this was a feature, not a bug.
It’s why Senate Democrats sabotaged efforts to refill the strategic reserve that Biden had drained in a desperate election bid.
It’s why they used to argue, as per this Harvard post, “High Oil Prices Can Help the Environment”.
Now suddenly these people are pretending to be upset about high oil prices. Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose taxes and regulations made gas prices so high in his state, is now blaming President Trump over the price of a barrel.
Here’s the thing though. Two weeks or so of bombing Iran may temporarily send oil prices higher, but they’re more likely to secure and stabilize the region in the long term. Either way it’s a temporary phenomenon whereas Dems have a party agenda of hiking oil prices permanently.
That’s why the Obama and Biden administrations waged a relentless war on drilling permits in the United States.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. Daniel became CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center in 2025.
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