The Green Fifth Column Makes Life Easier for Foreign Oiligarchs

What do Biden, Bernie and Putin have in common?

All three want to stop the US fracking revolution and thereby hogtie the US economy, for starters. This may not count as "Russian collusion," to borrow a phrase, but it might raise questions about who supports America's national interests and who does not. 

Both Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are now on record supporting a ban on hydraulic fracturing in the US, although it's largely responsible for our world-leading reductions in CO2 emissions and America's rise from energy slacker to energy superpower. Several recent pieces -- here and here -- nicely explain what Putin's Russia hopes to gain by orchestrating the current oil price plunge, which may be good news for American gas-buyers but will wreak havoc with our domestic energy producers if the Russian gambit works.

But here's what gives Russia, Saudi Arabia and other foreign energy rivals a hidden advantage in this high-stakes game. These foreign powers aren't alone in wanting to put a lid on America's domestic energy revival. They have witting or unwitting allies working toward similar ends right here on American soil, buried deep behind "enemy lines."

That ally is Gang Green, Environmental Anxiety Inc., the Church of Climate Catastrophe . . . whatever you choose to call it. This powerful, well-funded, media-savvy lobby is also working to derail America's "energy dominance" (to use Trump's phrase), only from within, not from without. And the Democrat Party now walks in mindless lockstep with the environmental lobby, as Biden's bow to the fracknophobes shows.

I'm not saying organized environmentalists are working in consort with these foreign powers, or that they're secretly on the payroll (though that's a possibility that deserves closer scrutiny). But there's no doubt that Big Green wants what the Russians and the Saudis want -- which is an energy-starved, economically-weakened, competitively-disadvantaged United States of America. 

Having a Green Fifth Column on their side must help the Russians and Saudis sleep easier at night.