Four Reasons This 4th of July Outshines the Last—and Buries the Green Utopians

1. Gas Prices Are Down—Because We Stopped Punishing Ourselves According to AAA, the average gallon of gas is 31 cents cheaper than a year ago. That’s not the result of some cosmic accident or an act of divine charity—it’s what happens when you stop electing leaders who deliberately sabotage American energy to feed their ideological fix. Remember the record-high prices in 2022 and 2023? They weren’t “Putin’s fault,” and they sure as hell weren’t “unforeseen.” They were the logical end of a policy that kneecapped domestic production, handed leverage to OPEC, and treated working Americans as collateral damage. This year, the brakes finally slammed on that madness. Prices are nearly $1.83 a gallon lower than the highs under Joe Biden—which…