Energy

Why Gas Prices Are High When We’re Energy Independent

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It confuses many people. Myself included. I will attempt to simplify these complex concepts so that even I can grasp them.

Oil is a globally priced commodity. Pump prices in the U.S. follow world supply and demand without concern for how much we produce. People often ask why the pump price goes up so quickly even when the gas at the station was bought at a lower price. The price at the pump does not reflect the price paid but the replacement cost. The same principle applies in reverse.

Shockingly Underreported News and Commentary for the Week of 30 August

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This is the fifth post in the ongoing weekly feature that highlights news and commentary on important geopolitical, cultural, and economic issues that the Democrat-media complex buries because they expose the hypocrisies associated with the continuing Marxist-Democrat narrative. Everything is properly sourced and linked for follow-up reading, whether from legacy media, independent sources, or social media.

Here we go!

Trump Administration National Security and Foreign Policy Accomplishments: October 2025 – July 2026

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President Trump remains focused on delivering his 2024 campaign promises with lightning speed. This is Part II of a two-part series that summarizes Trump administration accomplishments since October 2025. An article last November covered the accomplishments during the first nine months here.

90 Days without Juice: Welcome Back to 1850 America

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Electricity was once a luxury. Today, it is the invisible life-support system of modern civilization. Take the grid away for three months and the problem isn’t simply darkness—it’s water, sewage, refrigeration, medicine, fuel, communications, and millions of people discovering that civilization has outsourced most of their basic survival skills. America’s Achilles’ heel may not be that an enemy can defeat our military, but that someone could disrupt the enormous electrical extension cord connecting nearly everything that keeps us alive.

Highlights of the News with Don Surber

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Don Surber delivers his take on this week’s news items as only he can. He’ll make you think, laugh, and learn to recognize the absurdity of the media’s coverage of the news.

ITEM 1: Yahoo reported, “A Popular ED Medication Was Just Linked to a Greater Risk of Blindness in Men Over 40.’

As the movie asked, can I do it till I need glasses?

Bessent has a ‘SPINE OF STEEL’: Former national security adviser on ‘Economic Outcast’

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Former National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien joins ‘Kudlow’ to discuss the European Union joining ‘Operation Economic Outcast’ to isolate Iran’s financial lifelines and freeze IRGC assets.

Donald ‘Jed Clampett’ Trump: The world runs on oil. The USA is getting back to controlling the world’s oil.

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Red China is hurting for certain. The world’s largest oil importer lost oil from Iran and Venezuela, which supplied 15% of the oil it bought last year.

Under Trump, the USA is a net exporter of oil. That should be the case for decades to come because thanks to President Trump and Chief Warrant Officer Five Eric A. Slover, America now controls 65 billion barrels of oil in Venezuela. Slover is the helicopter pilot who took a licking of bullets but kept on ticking as the military extracted Maduro on January 3, earning a Medal of Honor.

CARTEL CRACKDOWN: DEA, SOUTHCOM push to dismantle Ecuadorian drug networks

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State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott discusses rescue efforts following flooding near the China-Nepal border, President Donald Trump’s oil deal with Venezuela and the Trump administration’s crackdown on cartels on ‘The Big Weekend Show.’

Highlights of the News with Don Surber

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The mainstream media only reports what it wants you to think. For news that actually allows you to draw your own conclusions, you’ve come to the right place. The side of snark is complimentary.  

ITEM 1: Just the News reported, “Minneapolis police reportedly raided the apartment of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s son Tuesday night, seizing firearms and ammunition and arresting his 22-year-old roommate, Abdulrahman Abdi.”

Isn’t he also her nephew?

1985: The Future of Warfare Was Supposed to Be Blinding

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Imagine explaining to a military planner in 1985 that the laser weapons designed to blind enemy soldiers would never become the future of warfare. During the Cold War, some experts genuinely believed that bullets would eventually give way to directed-energy weapons that would simply remove an enemy’s ability to see. Then reality intervened. It turned out that permanently blinding someone wasn’t viewed as the humanitarian breakthrough some had imagined. The battlefield stayed remarkably old-school, and the age of the battlefield ophthalmologist never quite arrived.

Some New Life in the Uranium One Scandal: Could there POSSIBLY be an Iranian connection?

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The Uranium One scandal was a 2010 controversy in which the Obama administration approved the takeover of Uranium One—a Canadian company with significant uranium mining assets in the United States—by Russia’s state-owned Rosatom corporation. Critics alleged a pay-to-play scheme, pointing to large donations (roughly $145 million) to the Clinton Foundation from individuals connected to Uranium One and its investors, as well as a $500,000 speaking fee paid to Bill Clinton by a Russian bank involved in the deal.

California regulates spare tires: It is just another bureaucratic power grab in the name of saving the planet

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The California Energy Commission on Monday unanimously approved a new power to regulate spare tires using a 2003 law. The commission claims without independent verification that its Replacement Tire Efficiency Program will save Californians $1 billion a year on gasoline.

(In snobby British accent) they spend $58 billion a year on petro.

The commission could save Californians $8 billion a year by eliminating gasoline taxes but then the state would have to cut back on handouts to the homeless and the illegal aliens that give it extra congressmen and extra federal funding.

Chaos at the Gates August 21, 2026: Five Years After The Collapse Of Afghanistan

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Five years ago, the world watched one of the most devastating foreign policy failures in modern American history unfold in real time. The fall of Kabul in August 2021 was not merely the end of America’s longest war. It was a collapse of credibility, an abandonment of allies, and the start of a dangerous new era in global geopolitics.

‘Music to our ears’: West Virginia politician praises Trump admin mining investment

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State Sen. Chris Rose, R-W.Va., discusses the Trump administration’s investment in critical minerals on ‘Fox Report.’ #fox #foxnews #media #breakingnews #us #usa #new #news #breaking #foxreport #chrisrose #rose #westvirginia #donaldtrump #trump #criticalminerals #minerals #mining #politics #political #politicalnews #government #economy #investment #manufacturing #energy #nationalsecurity #trumpadministration Don’t just watch Fox News—be part of it. Become a Fox …

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After Ignoring Biden’s Raging 20+% Inflation, Democrats Pretend They Can “Make America Affordable”

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After Ignoring Biden's Raging 20+% Inflation, Democrats Pretend They Can "Make America Affordable"

During the Biden Regime this hypocrite showed NO INTEREST in the raging inflation, over 20%, created by the regime’s massive spending on worthless programs. Hoping to help the Democratic Socialists of America candidates get elected, he recently issued the following advice to them.