Jack Mullen Introduction The United States is now in the middle of an energy emergency that the political establishment refuses to name. Diesel prices are climbing even as official inflation narratives try to soften the blow. Gasoline is already painfully expensive for ordinary households. Machine oil, the overlooked lubricant that keeps commercial engines and industrial machinery alive, is facing what one industry source calls the most severe supply shortage in modern American history. And at the center of all of this are the endless, self-serving, and repeatedly false reports that…
