Tucker: They did this on purpose

good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight a lot of unprecedented things happening but honestly not all of them are shocking for example it probably shouldn't surprise you that once they got their hands on real power the same lunatics who don't believe in human biology immediately made a serious mess of our economy it took them less than six months to do it first they acted like the us dollar had no value they spent money like they just printed it for the occasion which needless to say they had and predictably we wound up with frightening levels of inflation which for the record they still deny exists but inflation does exist as you know well if you live here corn prices to name just one example of a staple commodity that is now out of control have risen by 50 percent just since january but that wasn't bad enough the lunatics then decided to make it even worse than that so they paid millions of americans more than they make it work just to stay home and do nothing to justify doing this they used the word kovid quite a bit but it had nothing to do with the pandemic they just wanted to break the system and so they did and the rest of us immediately wound up with a bewildering combination of rising unemployment in the middle of a severe labor shortage so at the very same time we found ourselves with too many workers and also too few workers that doesn't even make sense but thanks to their policies that's now exactly what we have and then finally in case 2021 didn't remind you enough of a grimmer version of the 1970s we now have serious gas shortages in a country that was recently energy independent all along the east coast of the country today people couldn't fill up their cars take a look at the footage it looks like venezuela gas shortages now being reported in at least six states and expected to grow stretching down the highways as customers wait at the pumps the governor of north carolina has declared a state of emergency this station there running out of fuel as pumps run dry and officials urge drivers not to panic by we are completely out of diesel and gas but already long lines and low fuel gauges the shutdown of the pipeline is also putting major airports in baltimore charlotte and others on the east coast at risk of low supply an emergency no if they ran out of weed that would be an emergency don't worry says the new york times none of this is real it's a conspiracy theory your eyes are lying to you you're hysterical in a piece today the new york times reported that quote since the pipeline shut down there have been no long lines at gas stations then apparently someone in the new york times newsroom found a working television and the paper deleted that line from the article a few hours later without ever acknowledging it had included the line in the first place that was the paper but for their readers on social media who presumably will believe absolutely anything the new york times did not even bother to change the lie that tweet is still up quote since the shutdown there have been no long lines or major price hikes for gasoline right not at all except in the state of georgia where as of 3 pm this afternoon almost 6 percent of all gas stations had no gasoline in virginia that number was almost 8 percent of all gas stations in north carolina it was eight and a half percent in metro atlanta the biggest city in the south more than 20 percent of all gas stations more than a fifth had no gasoline to sell that is an energy crisis why is it happening well the official explanation is that some mysterious gang of cyber criminals hacked the software at a major american fuel supplier called colonial pipeline colonial pipeline handles more than 2 million barrels a day that's roughly half the east coast's entire supply of diesel gasoline and jet fuel and that's not a small problem in a country like every country on earth that still relies almost entirely on fossil fuels to survive but don't worry says her new energy secretary jennifer granholm formerly the incompetent governor of michigan quote it's not that we have a gasoline shortage it's that we have the supply crunch oh it's a supply crunch and that's very different from a shortage at least in some theoretical way that's important to jennifer granholm so what is the white house doing about this supply crunch that is not a shortage well here's the answer from ann newberger who is the confirmed non-genius who somehow serves as the deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies so first we recognize that victims of cyber attacks often face a very difficult situation and they have to just balance often the cost benefit when they have no choice with regard to paying a ransom colonial is a private company and will defer information regarding their decision on paying a ransom to them did you the administration offer any advice on whether or not to pay a ransom so typically that is a private sector decision and the administration has not offered further advice at this time given the rise in ransomware that is one area we're definitely looking at now to say what should be the government's approach to ransomware actors and to ransoms overall that's the person protecting you from the cyber criminals colonial pipeline and new burger would like to remind you is a quote private company and as a matter of principle the white house does not get involved in the affairs of private companies not unless private companies were to use the wrong pronoun in a sentence in which case the fbi would arrive with a swat team and make televised arrests but in cases where the mere fuel supply of the entire eastern seaboard is at stake and newberger and her friends at the white house strongly prefer a hands-off approach they're situationally libertarian that way what is this about well you know on some level let's be honest about it the white house approves of this disaster yes some gas stations are closed tonight but soon enough the lunatics plan to close all of them close every gas station in the entire united states shuttered forever to make way for some new as yet not quite defined means of transportation that will magically replace the gasoline engines that we have used for more than 100 years this is a green revolution so who cares about some old pipeline remember that on his first day in office joe biden shut down a pipeline that's the first thing he did it was the massive keystone xl pipeline joe biden didn't wait for mysterious hackers to shut it down he shut it down himself and more than 11 000 people lost their jobs and by the way gas prices went up in case you haven't noticed gas prices have never gone down in the state of california the average price of a gallon of gasoline is over four bucks a year ago it was 270. in illinois gas is three dollars and 20 cents a gallon last year it was 210. it's not just two big liberal states it's the entire country in texas gas prices are averaging two dollars and seventy cents a gallon last year it was a dollar fifty in the state of maine the average price of gas is almost three dollars a year ago was under two and so on nationally americans are paying about 45 billion dollars more for gasoline overall than they were last year why this is the result of policy decisions made by the new administration this is the green new deal we've got it already and if you love gas shortages and electricity blackouts no air conditioning 80 plywood this is the program for you tomorrow the administration's bureau of labor statistics will release the new official numbers on inflation in america you should know that a key part of that statistic is called the consumer price index the consumer price index measures the prices of a carefully curated selection of goods and services and if tomorrow's consumer price index number is flat rest assured the people on tv will tell you it is proof that inflation isn't real should you believe them well before you take their word take note of what is not included in the official consumer price index lumber for example because no one in america buys building materials so you should definitely ignore this in a recent study by fortune.com the average price of lumber is now 280 percent higher than what it was pre-pandemic which is causing the cost of construction to also increase 30 to 40 percent in a statement from the division president for homes by town jeff pemstein he says for a typical fifteen hundred square foot home just rough lumber used for framing has increased from fourteen thousand dollars per home to twenty nine thousand two hundred and eighty percent up wow marge that's a lot what's going on here well typically in the material world where the laws of nature apply when the price of something jumps that quickly and that high you've got a supply problem because it's supply and demand there's isn't enough of that thing to go around more people want it and we don't have enough of it does that apply to lumber are there fewer spruce trees out there than there were a year ago are those trees growing more slowly than they once did have we seen a 280 percent increase in new houses being built the answer is no no and no the real answer as you may have guessed is that bad federal policies are distorting the price of everything in this country from two by fours to diesel fuel to corn dogs none of this is an accident just as it wasn't an accident when the power went out in texas over the winter it wasn't a cold snap that did it it was a federal policy that encouraged the state to rely on windmills which don't actually work so it's not a natural cycle somebody did this to us on purpose hey sean hannity here hey click here to subscribe to fox news youtube page and catch our hottest interviews and most compelling analysis you will not get it anywhere else

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Id: ioy1bO7aEFQ

Length: 9min 54sec (594 seconds)

Published: Tue May 11 2021