There are two ways for a government to raise the price of goods and services for consumers. First, the government can increase spending. Second, the government can tax and regulate energy developers, so that they have to raise prices on gas and electricity. Do you remember when the Biden-Harris regime stopped the construction of pipelines? That made inflation worse.

Here’s the first story from Daily Signal:

High inflation could soon make a comeback across the American economy. That’s because a combination of soaring demand for electricity and artificially constricted supply has laid the foundations for steadily increasing electricity prices.

[…]Electricity bills are rising because of the required adoption of renewable energy mandates, carbon emission-reduction goals, and cap-and-trade schemes, as can be seen in this table, primarily in states with Democratic leadership.

States that have required renewables, particularly wind and solar energy, to be used in electricity production often experience higher electricity costs due to the regulatory burdens placed on traditional energy sources, such as natural gas and coal.

For instance, several states have limited the construction of natural gas infrastructure or restricted access to abundant natural gas resources, exacerbating energy costs for their residents and their neighbors.

At the same time, incentives for clean energy in the so-called Inflation Reduction Act discourage investment in power plants fired by natural gas or coal that provide affordable and reliable baseload power.

People are all too familiar with rising residential electricity bills and their consequences for inflation rates. It’s obvious that all businesses have to pay for electricity, too. What’s not as obvious is that electricity is a crucial input into the production of virtually everything that is produced, bought, and sold.

Basically, everything that you buy – products and services – has to be produced in buildings that use electricity. This even applies to online services and commerce. Further, goods have to be transported by vehicles that use gas. So when you purchase goods and services in a “green” economy, you are going to pay a lot more for them. People think that this is a technological problem, and we will eventually solve it. That’s a faith commitment, and we have no evidence to back that up. But we can look at “green” states like California, Massachussetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut and immediately see that these policies are causing higher prices for consumers.

The article has a very good example of what we can expect under the Harris-Walz regime:

One example of the damage done by higher electricity prices is Germany, where companies are relocating due to higher energy prices caused by the closure of nuclear power plants and the cutoff from Russian natural gas.

In an annual survey of 3,300 German companies, performed annually since 2012, the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry found that 40% of companies were considering relocating or reducing production due to high electricity prices.

According to Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry Deputy Managing Director Achim Dercks, “The trust of the German economy in energy policy is severely damaged. So far, the government has failed to provide companies with a perspective for a reliable and affordable energy supply.”

A doubling of electricity prices could produce a rise in inflation well above 5% and drive jobs offshore. This would fall hardest on America’s poor but would affect everyone.

Remember, Kamala Harris supports the Green New Deal, and Tim Walz signed legislation that would eliminate carbon emissions in Minnesota by 2040. So, if you like what Germany did, then you will be very happy with Harris-Walz energy policies.

Here’s a second article from Daily Caller, talking about restrictions on energy inside your home:

The Biden-Harris administration released data on Oct. 17 suggesting its push to electrify everything will ratchet up costs for American households, contradicting one of the White House’s favorite selling points for its green agenda, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The Biden-Harris administration has made a crackdown on residential fossil fuel consumption a key aspect of its environmental strategy, justifying the push in part on the grounds electrification will lower energy costs. Now, Oct. 17 residential energy price data from the Department of Energy (DOE) shows electricity was roughly four times as expensive as natural gas in 2024, with experts telling the DCNF the White House’s electrification push is an example of extremist climate policy hurting everyday Americans.

[…]The Biden-Harris DOE has issued a slew of rules restricting the use of gas appliances, including issuing revised standards on furnaces in September 2023 that could prohibit 40-60% of gas furnaces in homes, and increased efficiency requirements for water heaters that the agency claimed would save U.S. consumers $11.4 billion on their energy and water bills every year.

Naturally, the poorest Americans would be hurt the most by these green energy policies. I hope that Christians and conservatives are doing a good job of communicating ALL the facts to undecided voters. Because there is a lot more to policy than abortion. It’s our job to protect the poor and the weak in every way we can.

Here are a couple of stories from just the last few days that really show how desperate Democrats are to hang on to political power. In one state, they want to allow self-declared non-citizens to stay on the voter rolls. In a different state, they want to prevent citizens who just went through a natural disaster from having access to vote. I’m posting these stories to remind you that you really need to vote.

First story is from the The Center Square:

A federal judge is ordering Virginia to return the names of more than 1,500 “noncitizens” to voter rolls following a lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice saying the commonwealth violated the National Voter Registration Act.

Here’s the Republican Attorney General of Virginia:

“It should never be illegal to remove an illegal voter,” said [Virginia Attorney General Jason] Miyares. “Yet, today a Court – urged by the Biden-Harris Department of Justice – ordered Virginia to put the names of noncitizens back on the voter rolls, mere days before a presidential election. The Department of Justice pulled this shameful, politically motivated stunt 25 days before Election Day, challenging a Virginia process signed into law 18 years ago by a Democrat governor and approved by the Department of Justice in 2006.”

[…]”More concerning is the open practice by the Biden administration to weaponize the legal system against the enemies of so-called progress,” Miyares added.

And here’s what the Repoublican governor of Virginia had to say:

In a statement Youngkin said, “Let’s be clear about what just happened: only 11 days before a presidential election, a federal judge ordered Virginia to reinstate over 1,500 individuals – who self-identified themselves as noncitizens – back onto the voter rolls. Almost all these individuals had previously presented immigration documents confirming their noncitizen status, a fact recently verified by federal authorities.”

They self-identified as non-citizens, so they don’t think they are eligible to vote. But the Biden-Harris administration says that they should be added back to the voter rolls.

That’s awful. But wait, there’s more. Not only does the Biden-Harris administration want non-citizens to vote, they also don’t want citizens to vote – if those citizens are in very Republican areas.

Here’s the story from The Federalist:

The havoc wrought by Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina brought disaster to homes and families, but that has not stopped Democrats from blocking the approval of emergency early voting sites in the heavily Republican area. The refusal to act forced the GOP-led state legislature to intervene.

Democrat-run local elections boards in McDowell and Henderson counties have failed to approve additional early voting sites in the disaster-stricken area, despite increasing calls for more access to voting. Both counties voted for Donald Trump in 2020.

[…]Meanwhile, Democrats in nearby deep-blue Buncombe County, home to Asheville, have already given the go-ahead for new voting locations to replace the ones damaged by Helene, bringing the county’s total to 10.

[…]Stonewalling the approval of new voting locations in the disaster area seems inexplicable, as even the Democrat-run State Board of Elections and state legislature have made it easy for local boards to open them under emergency circumstances. The state board did not respond to a request for comment from The Federalist.

Democrats playing games with peoples’ access to vote this close to the election and in Republican-heavy districts devastated by a natural disaster lends even more credence to the belief that state and federal Democrats have slow-rolled relief efforts in order to suppress the vote.

I am noticing how sites like YouTube and Facebook are regularly censoring stories that are supportive of Republicans, and critical of Democrats. So, there is a lot going on to influence the election. So I really want to urge you to vote yourself, and make sure that your friends and family vote as well.

If you are trying to live out a Christian life plan, you are NOT going to like what Kamala Harris does with policy. This will affect you, and it will affect other Christians. Some of those Christians are going to be forced to choose between honoring their faith commitments, and just being able to work and live. Just like Christians have in other places and times when the secular left got into power.

How good of a job do people on the secular left do of understanding the positions of the candidate that they vote for? If you ask them, they’ll say that they are super-intelligent, and highly informed. They don’t form their views from impressions, intuitions and sound bites at all! But what would happen if someone did an actual poll, where the secular leftists were asked about facts? Would they pass?

Here’s the story from the Media Research Center:

A significant new Media Research Center poll finds that large majorities of registered Democrats and Independents who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 — exactly those who would be expected to support Vice President Kamala Harris in this year’s contest — are mostly in the dark about many of the controversial and radical positions Harris has taken.

When asked about ten different aspects of Harris’s public record — on issues as varied as her sponsorship of the Green New Deal, abolishing ICE, and eliminating private health insurance — between 71% and 86% of these Democrats and Independents said they either had not heard of Harris’s position or were unsure.

My favorite question to ask people to see if they are safe to talk to is “where do you get your news?”. Because if people are relying on the corporate news media to tell them the truth, then they are likely to have tremendous confidence in their beliefs, but all those beliefs are likely to be false:

When these voters were asked about where they got most of their news about political elections and candidates, by far the top answers were broadcast television (ABC, CBS and NBC) or cable news (such as CNN and MSNBC). This suggests that the knowledge gaps found by our poll reveal a failure of these outlets to report on radical positions once (and perhaps currently) supported by the now-Democratic nominee for President.

In fact, a detailed Media Research Center examination of ABC, CBS and NBC evening news coverage in the three weeks since Harris became the leading Democratic candidate (July 21 to August 10) shows eight of these ten issues received ZERO attention from these newscasts, while two others received only minor coverage.

Here are the facts about Kamala Harris, along with the percentage of Democrat voters who were ignorant about each one (in parentheses):

• Harris supported cutting funding for the police (71%)
• Harris co-sponsored the Green New Deal (73%)
• Harris supported the elimination of private health insurance (81%)
• Harris supported reparations payments to atone for slavery (71%)
• As “Border Czar,” Harris never visited a conflict zone on the border (72%)
• Harris said it should not be considered a crime to enter the U.S. illegally. (74%)
• Harris supported abolishing ICE (77%)
• Harris promoted a fund to bail out violent protesters during 2020 riots (78%)
• Harris would consider allowing death row inmates to vote (86%)
• Harris was named the most liberal U.S. Senator in 2019 (75%)

What’s funny about these questions, is that they were asked as yes / no questions. So I’ll bet some of the people saying they knew the facts didn’t really know the specifics at all!

The article has a paragraph about each of these questions, but this one about the reparations caught my eye:

Harris supported reparations payments to atone for slavery: During her 2019 campaign, Harris joined with other far-left Democratic candidates to support massive payments as a form of “reparations” to the descendants of those enslaved prior to 1865. According to a PBS account, “Harris has proposed monthly payments to qualified citizens of any race in the form of a tax credit.”

While there are various proposals for possible reparations, a CNBC report in 2020 suggested an ultimate price tag of $10 to $12 trillion, or vastly more than the size of the current U.S. federal government budget (on track to surpass $6 trillion in 2024).

Since July 21, the Big Three evening newscasts haven’t said a word about Harris’s past support for reparations. And according to our poll, 71% of the Democrats and Independents we polled were unsure or completely unaware of her position on the issue.

Keep in mind that Democrats DO believe in slavery – they just want the slaves to be the young people who will have to pay for all this government spending and welfare. They want children, born and unborn, to pay for their living high on the hog today. I don’t know what you’d call this except “slavery”.

It might be a good idea for those of your reading to send this MRC article to your friends, so they can know the answers in case these topics come up in discussions. It’s not a good idea to choose the leader of the free world if you don’t know what the candidates believe about things.

Image source: Media Research Center