Dakota Beacon

Capitalists vs Democratic Socialists - Part I

In recent decades, “Climate Alarmists” and “Class Envy Marxists” seemed to have overtaken “End-of-times” Religious Fundamentalists in our ongoing Fear-Mongering Olympics.

The attempted destruction of the US fossil fuel industry that began with the blocking of oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and was continued with the cancellation of construction of the Keystone XL pipeline within the United States (after the Canadian portion had been all but finished) represented two major examples of severe setbacks to United States Energy Independence.

Capitalists vs Islamic Terrorists

Despite the attempted destruction of our fossil fuel industry, along with the economic prosperity such industry created, we appeared to have stopped the nonsense, largely due to changes in national leadership. Then came the culmination of a 47-year war waged against the civilized world by Islamic Fundamentalist Terrorism (Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis, et al) … the June 22, 2025 obliteration (Operation Midnight Hammer) of the nuclear threat of Iran’s terrorist clerics and their proxies.

Capitalists vs Consumers

Operation Midnight Hammer did not result in even a modicum of change in the intent of Iran’s Islamic Fundamentalist Terrorists. Their obsession with martyrdom condemns their movement. Operation Epic Fury has been implemented to PREVENT the delivery of Iranian nuclear-tipped ballistic missile(s) from vaporizing one or more Western cities, now or ever.

What we should NOT have expected was the resulting rise of fossil fuel prices in our Energy Self-Sufficient nation. These abrupt fossil fuel price increases are not a result of Operation Epic Fury. They are a result of monopolistic power held by the oil and gas industry in the United States.

It takes a considerable amount of time for interruptions in our crude oil supply to affect gasoline and diesel fuel prices at the pumps… likely about two to six months depending on the finished product. Furthermore, with only about 1% of our crude oil coming from the middle east, we should expect those price increases to be very modest.

Capitalists vs Democratic Socialists -Part II

Do not place the blame for higher fossil fuel prices on anyone or any event other than our own capitalist greed. Such greed has been abundantly evident in our marketplaces ever since COVID-19 turned everything upside down. The solution to monopolistic activity in the marketplace is to avoid the purchase of the items being over-priced. No efforts of Marxists and Climate Alarmists to promote electric vehicles and discourage fossil fuel production could have been as successful as the recent gouging performed on consumers at fossil fuel stations throughout our country.

The Fossil Fuel Industry must immediately call for a return to sanity by its network of gasoline and diesel fuel stations if it wishes to remain the fuel choice of voters. To do otherwise would represent self-assisted industry suicide.

Why has the fossil fuel industry delivered the voters to Bernie Sanders?

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