Dems will war against affordable energy: Here’s President Trump’s weapon to fight back

This article was originally published a The Empowerment Alliance and is re-published here with permission. If any doubt remained that high energy prices are the most predictable factor in American politics, last week’s “blue tsunami” in the midterm elections should erase it once and for all. While various pundits try to stake Republican defeats on self-serving arguments, exit polls tell the real story. By far, voters cited economic concerns, led by high gas, diesel and heating oil costs, as their top priority. As Reuters reported in a post-election recap, “Record Election Day diesel and gasoline prices helped push Americans toward Democrats in Tuesday’s midterms,” and despite President Trump’s promise that relief was coming soon, “many voters in rural states who depend on diesel, gasoline and heating oil to earn a living and warm their homes could not wait for his promised fuel-price drop.” In politics, timing is everything, and as The Hill reported on Nov.

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