In a recent column about Democrats’ dubious claim to any political advantage over “affordability,” we noted that while the opposition party’s approach to exploiting elevated fuel costs for political advantage is a strategic layup, it’s a noncredible and incoherent policy position.

As Democrats film “commercials in front of gas stations, voters ought to remember that higher energy costs is their stated policy goal,” we wrote. “They’re bellyaching about prices as a means to regain power, but the policies they pursue with said power are often explicitly anti-energy.”