🧩 BND Motif Index · M1252
Necessarily skyrocket
The other side is said to want energy dear on purpose, gas and power prices driven up to force people off oil.
- 6claims filed under it
- 10right shows it came up on
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (0 left-leaning, 0 center, 10 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- right-leaning
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “'every single policy they have ever adopted is anti-human, anti-progress, anti-development, anti-abundance, and it is a policy of scarcity'” “'How many of you have incredibly high electricity bills?… Democrats did that to you purposely'” “'they will use the budget process to shut down pipelines, to shut down refining'” “'We have not built a new refinery… since 1978. So right now we have higher diesel prices'” “Levin: 'Especially with climate change, they're in the business to make life as expensive and inconvenient for you as possible'” “they wanted to force you into green alternative energy. They wanted to force you into buying a Tesla (Mark Levin caller) / they want to completely shut down and phase out our country from fossil fuels, which will jack up energy costs (clip played on MeidasTouch)” “They're going to drive it up like it is in California.” “War Room: 'The Democrats goal was to ban fossil fuels… they brought us to $5 gasoline in the last administration intentionally, not because of the unintended consequences of a war overseas, but because they shut down production and exploration'”
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 0
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the left so far.
Told on the right 6
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
- 2026-11-02 “Democrats want to end fossil fuels, forcing people into electric cars and higher energy costs, while riding SUVs to their own campaign stops.” 1
- 2026-10-27 “Democrats intentionally drove up gas prices by shutting down fossil fuel production and exploration.” 2
- 2026-10-27 “Democrats follow a radical green agenda that is anti-human, anti-progress, and a policy of scarcity.” 2
- 2026-10-21 “Democrats make life expensive and inconvenient to push climate change agendas.” 2
- 2026-10-15 “Democrats intend to drive up the price of gasoline rather than lower it.” 3
- 2026-10-06 “Democrats intend to destroy the oil industry through litigation.” 6
M1252 · first seen 2026-10-26 · last 2026-11-11 · what this is · how the index works