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Here’s one rule we try to follow. You probably should distrust anybody who draws quick and dirty partisan conclusions in the hours after a national disaster. You see this happen all the time. People on TV, for example, telling you the gun lobby is somehow responsible for the latest school shooting, even as the ambulances are still arriving or how climate change caused those tornadoes at a trailer park in Indiana. Bill Nye the Science Guy blaming your pickup truck for extreme weather.
These are not people who are speaking in good faith. They’re not trying to solve problems. They’re not even interested in what actually happened. They’re lying, they’re unscrupulous, and they will say anything if they think it’ll make them more powerful. So it’s best to ignore them.
On the other hand, and this is also true over time, it is possible to draw legitimate connections between decisions that politicians make and the catastrophes that follow. The rising gas prices, for example. The price of gas in America now qualifies as a catastrophe. That’s true. No matter how you feel about carbon emissions, you still probably assumed you’d be able to afford to drive to work every day or take a vacation with your kids this summer or buy dinner in a restaurant once in a while. But now you can’t, and gas prices are the reason you can’t. Nothing makes the country poorer faster than rising energy prices.
So how did this happen? Well, we’re going to let you decide. We’re going to play you a tape from a campaign event during the last Democratic presidential primaries in New Hampshire. This video was shot in 2019 at a moment when not a single person in the country really believed that Joe Biden had any chance to win his party’s nomination. So because they gave him no chance, not a lot of people were paying attention when Biden was asked whether he would continue to take donations from the oil and gas industry. Here’s how he responded:
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