Are you ready to pay even more for gas than the extremely high prices you are currently paying? That’s what’s about to happen now that the Biden administration has finally made its move on Russian oil.

Per multiple sources, the White House has flip-flopped and now plans to ban Russian oil imports into the United States, driving the cost of the essential commodity even higher.

BREAKING: Biden to ban Russia oil imports – AP

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 8, 2022

The push to ban Russian oil imports has been a bipartisan one, with many establishment Republican figures also behind the move. I’ve taken a different approach, noting that doing so would be incredibly short-sighted and harmful if it is not also accompanied by the green-lighting of domestic energy projects. In short, I support banning Russian oil imports in the main, but only if the Biden administration is willing to lift a finger to help ease the pain by allowing and incentivizing more domestic production. If they aren’t, I do not believe that is a burden Americans should be asked to carry nor am I convinced it even helps the Ukrainian people.

Of course, as expected, the Biden administration is not going to do what’s necessary. Yesterday, Jen Psaki snarkily responded to questions about reauthorizing the Keystone XL pipeline or increasing federal oil and gas leases on lands that are actually profitable to drill on.

Doocy: "Would [he]..undo his executive order that stops the…Keystone XL pipeline?

Psaki: "Are you suggesting that would solve the gas prices issue?"

Doocy: "Well, do you think that would maybe effect prices faster than getting the whole country off of fossil fuels?" pic.twitter.com/8NmYlr7YhA

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 7, 2022

In short, Americans are completely screwed, ruled by a hateful administration that does not care about them. It would be incredibly easy to mobilize America’s energy production, even if it takes some months to make up the gap. Instead, because Biden is so beholden to a Swedish teenager and the greater climate change lobby, he is going to sit idly by while you pay $5 a gallon for gasoline and 50 percent more for home heating and electricity.

The White House is essentially telling hurting Americans to go jump in a lake. Elections have consequences I suppose, but I think even the most ardent Biden opponents didn’t expect it to be this bad. Far from the “empathizer in chief,” the president has continually shown himself to be a shallow, spiteful old man who spits on the middle-class in the name of far-left ideology.

In this case, pushing for more domestic energy production would not only increase our national security (and that of our allies in Europe), but it would help struggling families who can’t afford to see their energy bills double. Something has to give, and perhaps it’s going to take a red wave in November to stop this insanity.