Thinking of Voting Democrat Because Gas Costs a Bazillion Dollars a Gallon?

(Note: This appeared originally on Oct 23, 2026 on Substack)

By Howard Barbanel

Are you thinking of voting Democrat because it’s costing you like a hundred bazillion dollars to fill up your tank or your SUV or pick-up truck? You guys have got to wake up and smell and coffee. Because, ok, things cost more money. Everything you want to buy costs more money. Well, grow-up, put on your big-boy pants and take a good hard look at what’s really happening.

The price of gas and diesel and everything that’s associated with it is up because of the war with Iran. The Democrats have been shouting about stopping this war with Iran. But what are they going to do about that? There are no simple solutions to complicated problems. Do the Democrats propose another chaotic, humiliating unilateral withdrawal like Biden did in Afghanistan and let Iran’s lunatic mullahs run wild across the world fomenting terrorism, attacking the entire West and more alarmingly, go ahead with developing nuclear weapons? Let them go ahead with developing ballistic missiles that can carry those nuclear weapons to all of Europe and even the US?

What is Trump doing in Iran? He is fulfilling the oath of office he took to “preserve, protect and defend” the United States. These crazy mullahs in Teheran have made no secret whatsoever about their intention to destroy the US and our allies by any and every means possible. A regime that has no problem gunning-down 40,000 of their own civilians would have no qualms about dropping a big, fat nuke on New York. Is Trump supposed to let this happen?

The Iranians want to take over the world, force our women into hijabs and bourkas, end democracy, abolish religions other than Islam. They say so. They’ve been saying so for fifty years now. We can’t let these lunatics have a nuclear weapon. I’m sorry, World War Two took about four years to win (six for the Brits). It’s only been about seven months with Iran. Evil can’t be vanquished overnight. We’re winning the war with Iran, but finishing the job will take a little more time and that might mean it’s going to keep costing you a bit more money to fill your car and buy groceries and fly off on vacation but the people during World War Two had a whole lot more to deal with than we do – a much lower standard of living, rationing not only of fuel but of even food and clothes but they stuck with it to make a better world for their children and grandchildren –us.

So, you’re thinking maybe I’m going to vote Democrat? If you think that gas costs a lot of money now and that energy costs a lot of money now? Just wait until the Democrats take power (if you let them) because the Democrats want to ban fossil fuels entirely. Don’t you remember just two years ago they wanted to force you into an electric car? They raised the taxes on and reduced the availability of fossil fuels. It was more expensive when Biden was President and they want to make it more expensive yet. Go to places like California, New York or other deep blue states – they have the highest gas and energy prices in the country with electricity and home heating costing four to five times more than in red states right now. They want to put fossil fuels out of business along with the tens of millions of jobs associated with it. Vote Democrat and you’ll be looking back nostalgically at $4.50 per-gallon gas because under the Dems it will be way, way more than that.

You want to talk about the cost of living? Democrats want to implement huge tax hikes. They want to tax anything and everything that is walking, crawling, sleeping or breathing. Go to any blue state like New York of California and people are paying 50 percent or more of their income in taxes right now. Highest in the nation. They want to tax your estate, your wealth, your capital gains, your income, anything that you buy. Go to Canada and the average person is paying 52 to 55 percent income taxes and their sales taxes are through the roof. Do you really want to live like that? If you’re living in a blue state now, why do you keep voting for this? Florida, which has four million more people than New York has a much better quality of life and run their state government for less than half of what New York State spends (wastes) and the whole state budget of Florida is even less than the budget of the City of New York. Empower Democrats nationally and the tax hikes will be through the roof. The Democrats will repeal every tax cut enacted by Trump and the Republican congress.

You want to vote Democrat? They’re going to throw open our borders again to unrestricted waves of migrants from every corner of the globe just like under Biden. America will become like France or England. Millions of crazy, often criminal (even terrorist) culturally incompatible people will stream into this country and bleed all our resources dry by taking welfare, using our schools and hospitals. Do we want a country with a billion people in it, driving up the cost of housing for Americans and camping out on your front lawns? You forgot that Trump got a grip on the borders. The Dems will throw them back open tomorrow.

Democrats? Soft on crime. Go to any blue state or city and you have Woke district attorneys who don’t want to prosecute, judges who release dangerous felons free on the streets without bail along with unbelievable levels of homelessness all over the place – urinating, defecating and shooting drugs on the streets, vandalizing everything. The soft on crime policies will also carry-over to these crazy riots like during the Black Lives Matter insanity and the recent stampede of virulent antisemitic pro-Hamas rallies that blanketed blue cities. There is an unholy alliance between the Left and the Islamists (strange bedfellows indeed). If you think the recent riots in Paris were something, just wait until they get in power and they won’t arrest or incarcerate anybody, except Republicans probably. Democrats don’t believe in law and order. They cut police budgets, not expand them. 

Vote Democrat? Aside from crime, they also don’t believe in the military. They want to defund the army, the navy, the air force, weapons systems and everything else to divert that money to welfare. We live in a dangerous world but Democrats think that by demilitarizing somehow the world will become a safer place. Really?

Election day is coming. You have got to vote Republican. We know that Trump is far from perfect (but can you imagine if Kamala were elected?) – he can be very erratic and irrational – full of bluster and bombast. But Trump isn’t on the ballot – even if he insists he is because his ego won’t have it any other way. Trump is absolutely not on the ballot but Republicans running for governor, Senate, Congress and many other essential offices are. If you don’t vote for these Republicans, any discomfort you’re feeling now is going to seem like nothing once the Democrats get back into power. Want to see chaos and gridlock in Washington? A Democrat congress will be impeaching Trump sixteen ways to Sunday virtually every day. It will be a madhouse.

Dems are telling you the price of gas is high – but they want to ban gasoline entirely. They want to ban everything. They want to take away your boat, your car, your leaf-blower, your gas barbeque grill, your natural gas fired home heating. Go ahead, vote Democrat.