Energy Consolidation

It's About Control

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There is certainly a lot to talk about this week:

Trump’s ridiculous defamation verdict. Title 42 possibly being extended by a Florida judge last minute. The brilliant performance of Trump on the CNN Town Hall. Congress going after the Biden Crime Family and its complete blackout by the media. With so much going on, I was afraid anything put out this week might be ignored. But the truth is, so much of the news cycle is just hype. We are constantly manipulated into thinking something huge is about to happen and it doesn’t.

This was supposed to be the week everyone found out how corrupt the Bidens are, and hundreds of thousands were supposed to cross the border illegally. How many times do we need to be distracted by the shiny object before we realize the real work is being done behind the scenes? While Americans have seizures staring at the flashing, throbbing strobe light, the real change is occurring more subtly.

We seem to fall for it every time, and we are supposed to be the enlightened ones. It’s not just the left-leaning media that gaslights us; it’s our side as well. Does anyone think it’s a coincidence that Trump scheduled a Town Hall on CNN for the day after his verdict was supposed to come out? Does anyone think Trump didn’t know ahead of time the outcome of the verdict? The verdict just makes the Left look even more ridiculous; the Town Hall was an opportunity to showcase this.

24/7, for the past week we’ve been told how the Southern Border will collapse this week, with no huge concern about it two weeks ago or two months ago. How about the Town Hall interviewer? Do people believe the producers didn’t think it was going badly? If it was real, they would have quickly told her not to be so annoying and unlikeable, her attacks weren’t working. The truth is, Liberals watching were supposed to see how calm and respectful Trump is and how rude and obnoxious their side is.

It’s all optics. We need to, myself included, stop getting sucked in. If something is getting a lot of attention and drama, it’s very likely a “nothing burger,” or at least it’s the lighting of the fuse, and the big BOOM won’t occur for some time. It’s likely the big stories of this week are actually just the seeding of something that will happen in the future, and when it does happen, we might not even hear the boom.

It’s the end of the world every week. The economy, the stock market, the US dollar, the banking system, the border, crime, the debt ceiling, WWIII. Do people get it? It never ends up being as bad as it is made out to be. While Trump and the Patriots rightfully point out how bad the current administration’s policies are for the country, in each situation, the destruction seems to be diverted last-minute, every time. There is no better example of this then the debt ceiling. We go from “the government is going to shut down tomorrow” to, “the shutdown is diverted last minute by a compromise in Congress”.

Why is this? The message needs to get out that the people currently running the world are criminals and their policies are horrific to humanity. But, the people putting this information out also know safety nets and safety valves have been put in place to combat any permanent damage done to our country or the world. They know this because they are the ones that put these safety measures in place.

The other day, I heard Trump making fun of electric cars. Do I think he is anti-electric cars? No. Do I think he is actually ridiculing the people who are pushing carbon reduction policies and drawing attention to it? Absolutely.

To be honest, I don’t believe half of the stuff that comes out of Trump’s mouth, but it’s not because I don’t trust him, I trust him completely, it’s because saying things he doesn’t really believe is necessary. If he just spoke the truth, what he really felt all the time, the media would twist his words even more than they do now.

In the world in which we currently live, we are forced to read between the lines. When Trump says something like, “vaccines are safe,” does he really mean it, or is he forced to say it or receive relentless attacks, blaming him for the deaths of millions of people because he didn’t support the Covid vaccine? When he says they are safe but thinks we should have the option to take them or not, that is basically him telling us we need to read between the lines, because he can’t say what he really thinks.

Married men, if your wife asks you if the pants she’s wearing makes her look fat, you know the correct answer is always, “no, they look great on you.” You might even go as far as saying, “everything looks great on you.” If the pants in fact made her look fatter, being honest with her would be the dumbest of moves—there is nothing to gain from it. Even slightly pausing before saying they look great could get you in hot water. Now imagine being Trump when everything he says is critiqued, manipulated and turned around on him by the media.

When Trump paraded Fauci around during the Covid scamdemic, was it because he had extreme confidence in Fauci, government health agencies and Big Pharma? Obviously not. He paraded him around so we could see how much of a fraud Fauci, the government health agencies and Big Pharma truly are. He actually took a situation that was forced on him, the Covid narrative, something that was meant to destroy him politically, and he turned it against the Deep State. Practically no one trusts Big Pharma, the medical industry or vaccines as much as they did prior to 2020. A small group of psychologically-damaged people might trust them more now, but most normal people are at least more skeptical.

Trump’s approach to the Covid situation forced the economy to open up years earlier than it was designed to open up by the Deep State cabal. Their plan was likely to keep things shut down much longer—possibly five years—but Trump fast-tracking and supporting a vaccine killed their plan, they had to allow the economy to open back up.

The Left isn’t going to get upset when Trump says electric cars can only go so far before they need to be charged. Wow, quite the put down. He said this in a manner that made it look like he was making fun of them, but he was just stating facts, they can only go so far before they need to be charged. But guess what, a gas car can only go so far before it needs to get gas. Are we to determine he thinks gas cars are stupid as well?

What would upset quite a few more people is if Trump said climate change is a hoax. Immediately, half the country would accuse him of wanting to destroy the planet. The media would have 24-hour coverage of it, bringing in an endless number of climate scientists to dispute his claim. Violent and destructive demonstrations would occur throughout the liberal cities of America and the world. Enough people would probably choose not to vote for Trump in 2024 that he might legitimately lose.

Trump needs to pick and choose what he says, how he says it, and when he says it. He has done a masterful job so far, whether people on the Right or Left are willing to admit it or not. If the media attacked you or I for the things we say the way they go after Trump, they would paint a picture of us that would make Hitler and Stalin seem angelic in comparison. This is why half the stuff that comes out of Trump’s mouth is to be believed and the other half deciphered. Throw in some Kayfabe and it’s almost a second job trying to figure out what’s really going on in that brilliant mind of his.

Saving the planet or consolidating energy?

From the title, I assume everyone reading this knows where I’m going with this. I’m not going to be throwing around executive order numbers and statistics a lot, so if you question what I have to say, feel free to look it up on your own. Like always, don’t trust anything you read—use it as a guide to do your own research to validate. But honestly, most of what I have said so far, and will continue to say is pretty logical. When we use our God given intuition, we tend to “feel” the truth or lies before we have the evidence to back it up.

An example of this concept is the number of people currently identifying as LGBT+ and Transgender. This is not an attack on them, but the number of people identifying as LGBT+ and Trans has doubled from Generation Y to Generation Z. In 15 years. This is impossible if it’s owing to biology alone. The only possible conclusion is that it is due to a narrative being pushed on society. Brave scientists or biologists will back me up on this, while weak ones will simply keep their mouths shut.

For decades, we’ve heard being gay is biological. So how can the number of gay people double in 15 years? Don’t get me wrong, I understand that one could say people are finally comfortable opening up as being gay or Trans, and that is why the numbers have skyrocketed, but we aren’t talking about people who have been hiding in the closet for 40 years and are now coming out. We are talking about young people who have never lived in a society that truly oppressed people for being gay or Trans. Gen X and Boomers still have extremely low rates of identifying as LGBT+ and Trans. If it was a matter of society accepting it more now, they would identify as well.

Whoops! Just as Covid woke people up to the dangers of vaccines, now in an attempt to create chaos, the cabal has accidentally let the cat out of the bag on being gay.

Now finally, on to energy consolidation.

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When Trump left office, one could arguably say our country was “energy independent”. Maybe we still used energy from other countries, but we weren’t dependent on them. This was quite an achievement, I’m not sure how long it had been since this was the case, if ever. The day Trump left office, gas was $2.38 a gallon, and he even filled up our depleted reserves to the tippy top, and we didn’t suffer at the pump in any way to accomplish this independence.

One of the first things Biden did, on his literal first day in office was to make our country “energy dependent” again. He suspended oil and gas leasing to curb carbon emissions. We were told these extreme measures were put into place to battle climate change, apparently not caring about the good jobs lost. As most reading this probably understand, the new policies had nothing to do with saving the planet and everything to do with lining the pockets of the Biden crime family, its allies and their puppet masters. Gas prices immediately started to go up, and up, and up. A year later, Biden blamed the increased gas prices on Putin when Russia invaded Ukraine, even though the invasion occurred a year later.

Ironically, when Biden made our country “energy dependent” again, a big portion of our energy imports was now coming from Russia. He told us of course he was tough on Russia and Trump is a puppet of Putin. Apparently not buying gas or oil from Russia makes you their puppet, but buying from them makes you “tough on them”.

Biden and his Build Back Better policies were quickly put into place once he started residing in the White House. All new cars sold in certain liberal states have to be electric by 2035. The pace to get there is so ridiculous and unachievable, it is comical. Our power grids can’t accommodate the proposed changes. Literally the day Gavin Newsom made this proclamation California had a “brown out”. Californians were told not to charge their electric cars in the evening. Anyone who needs more evidence that we are in fact watching a movie … well, there you go. The timing and absurdity of this could not happen organically.

Let’s now look at this situation from the perspective of an investor, and no, I’m not giving investment advice. When Biden shut down oil and gas production, or the future exploration of it, or whatever, basically making us energy dependent again, he stated he was going to enact policies to fight climate change. What happened to the stocks of the companies that should, in theory prosper from the new policies?

I wrote down the first five electric car companies that came to mind: Tesla, Nikola, Rivian, Polestar and Nio. As I am writing this, how have their stocks fared since Biden took office on January 20th, 2021, and enacted his new policies? Tesla is down -42%, Nicola is down -96%, Rivian is down -90%, Polestar is down -65%, and Nio is down -85%.

Does this seem logical? Shouldn’t making the US energy dependent, forcing gas prices up and pushing climate change policies make electric car stocks more valuable? The obvious answer is “yes”; the fact that they have all suffered dramatic loses doesn’t make any sense. One could argue their stocks are down because of Biden destroying the economy, but other stocks aren’t suffering nearly as bad as this category, and in theory, this category should be prospering with the policy changes. I’m sure someone out there might recall Nikola’s CEO being fired, and say it is the reason Nikola stock is down so much, but why are ALL of these EV stocks down so drastically? It’s like selling fewer cold drinks when the weather turns hot, or selling fewer toys around Christmas. It makes no sense.

How about solar companies? None really came to mind, so I googled “the biggest solar companies in the US” and the four companies that came up were NextEra, Avangrid, SunPower and First Solar. The last one, First Solar seemed to trigger something in my memory. I vaguely recall Obama being corruptly tied into it. Like many reading this, during Obama’s presidency, I think I tried to block politics out a bit in order to mentally survive the eight years.

Since Biden’s inauguration, NextEra’s stock price has dropped -7%, Avangrid’s stock price is down -11%, SunPower’s stock price is down -76%, and First Solar's stock price is up +108%. Wait, what? First Solar is up 108%?

Let me get this straight, of the nine companies I mentioned and looked up, all are negative, most dramatically negative, but the one company that I recall being connected to the Deep State is actually up 108%. I’m not saying, nor can I prove First Solar is doing or has done anything illegal, but I can say for sure it received massive favoritism during Obama’s presidency.

Before Obama was elected POTUS in 2008, Goldman Sachs was heavily invested in First Solar and were also big contributors to Obama’s campaign. Many other large donors to his campaign were heavily invested in First Solar as well. After coming into office, Obama put two Goldman Sachs executives on his finance committee, Bruce Heyman and David Heller. Soon after the election, First Solar started to suffer from the recession, as well as their own incompetency. Government money started to pour into First Solar. They received 2009 stimulus money, Department of Energy guaranteed loans, as well as Green Energy Subsidies. In other words, we were paying to keep this company afloat, otherwise Obama and his cronies would suffer big losses.

While Obama was pumping our tax money into this poorly run and fledgling company, First Solar’s CEO was selling company stock, netting $68.5 Million from his sales.

First Solar received $455.7 million to subsidize the sale of solar panels to two solar farms in Canada owned by a small corporation called St. Clair Solar. But St. Clair Solar was a wholly-owned subsidiary of First Solar. In other words, Obama used our tax money to pay First Solar to sell their solar panels to themselves. Bruce Heyman, the Goldman Sachs executive who was picked by Obama to be on his finance committee went on to become the Ambassador of Canada. Coincidence?

What about energy consolidation?

What has been happening since Biden took office and enacted his climate change policies? It seems to me that energy is being consolidated to electricity. It seems we are being forced into one form of energy. Natural gas, gasoline, oil, coal, and nuclear power are being demonized, but electricity is being pushed as being “planet friendly.”

How do they make electricity? They still use coal, oil, gasoline, natural gas and nuclear power, but somehow making electricity from these forms of energy is okay. We just can’t have direct access to these non-electricity forms of energy.

The only thing I can come up with is the Deep State cabal is consolidating access to energy. Creating one valve they can turn on or off. If we have access to different forms of energy, we have options, which is something they don’t want us to have. This makes it harder to control us.

If we get all our energy from electricity, the Deep State can raise the price of electricity and we would have no other option but to pay it. If the Deep State wants to keep us in our homes, and everyone is driving electric cars, all they have to do is shut down our electricity or make it too expensive or illegal to charge at specific times or for a certain length of time.

Imagine if, during the Covid lockdowns, we all drove electric cars and they wanted to keep us from leaving our homes. Simply make it illegal to charge them. Even the “top-end” EVs only get around 300 miles to a charge. How far could you get from home, especially if they shut down charging stations? There is also talk about the Deep State wanting to build “smart cities”; they want everyone to be within 15 miles of them.

Imagine the Deep State having the ability to shut down a revolution by turning off the electricity switch. Stand up to their tyranny and they simply flip the switch. Stand up to their tyranny and they raise the price of electricity by 400%. Again, this is harder to do if we have energy options.

Does anyone think it’s strange how gas stoves were demonized overnight. Overnight, they became the new aerosol can. Remember how that was supposed to kill the ozone? If you have a gas stove, you are an enemy of the planet. Not only are they saying gas stoves are bad for the environment, but they are also killing people. It’s not the vaccines, it’s the gas stoves. Done and done; now they are no longer liable for the vaccine deaths.

If you are a good person, you will cook your eggs on an electric range. But please don’t eat eggs, because they are proven to fight against the effects of Covid and the side effects of the vaccines. Notice the price of egg going up when this information came out? They would prefer you eat a soy burger cooked in vegetable oil on an electric stove instead. Honestly, if the government health agencies cared about us at all, vegetable oil would be made illegal today. But I digress.

Electricity is now friendly to the planet, even though it is created by using the same energy sources the media is demonizing as killing the planet. Make sense of this. The truth is, many people are currently incapable of putting two and two together. They just want to be told what to do, and then after they do it, they want to be told they are a good person for doing it.

Consolidating energy down to one source is like removing the emergency exit doors from a movie theater. If a fire broke out or a mass shooter went active, everyone would be forced to leave from one exit. Hackers or terrorists could more easily incapacitate the country by taking down the electrical grids.

Everyone knows it’s prudent to diversify, but we are being told we now need to rely completely and solely on electricity. It doesn’t add up. It doesn’t align with logic. It doesn’t make sense that so many companies that should be benefitting from the push for climate change policies are in fact suffering, horrifically. EV stocks should be up massively the past two plus years, but instead, they are tanking. When things don’t add up, it usually means there is something else going on behind the scenes.

I can imagine a Black Mirror or Chinese credit score situation, where we are charged more or less for our electricity based on our social credit scores. A controversial post on social media might cause our electricity rates to go up like someone’s car insurance after getting a speeding ticket or DUI. If we show up at an “anti-government control” rally, we might not be allowed to charge our EV for a month. If we leave too big of a carbon footprint, our EV battery might be capped at a 50% charge to keep us from driving as much. Sadly, anything is possible.

At first, it seemed we were being led in this direction, but lately it seems they are starting to push us in the back. Does this stem from desperation and a loss of control?

The truth is, the Deep State doesn’t care about the environment and never has. While carbon compliant countries like the US are forced to reduce their carbon footprints even more, countries like India and China are exempt, even though they are by far the biggest polluters in the world. If any of this climate change charade was real, the Deep State climate change enforcers would boycott India and China. Instead, Deep State-run corporations produce their products in China, where they have no environmental restrictions.

It has always been about stealing money from us and controlling us. At least with solar or windmills, they can make a believable argument they are doing it for the environment, but consolidating down to electricity? It makes no sense, and when things make no sense, it should always be a red flag that the agenda is about control.

I think any decent person believes we should take care of the world God gave us, but paying the government carbon taxes, killing good jobs, and needlessly paying extra on everything, with no evidence it is helping the planet is not the answer. The biggest evidence that climate change is a hoax is who supports it. It’s the same people who support every other issue or event that has been later proven to be a hoax.

Why do the hoaxes always line the pockets of the elites while gaining more control of the masses?

It’s all by design. And it’s all about control.

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