By Deroy Murdock ~

The just-departed polar vortex confirmed that when Mother Nature is enraged, it’s wise to have options. Maddeningly, today’s “pro-choice” Democrats want Americans to have one energy choice.

Neo-totalitarian, left-wing eco-extremists are banning new natural gas access in scores of locales. If not reversed, this cruel, stupid, needless policy will kill Americans.

If the gasophobes prevail, millions more Americans will have electricity but no natural gas. Pictured: President Joe Biden speaks June 22 at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on his administration’s efforts to lower high gasoline prices. (Photo: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)

The Christmastime deep freeze that transformed much of the U.S. into the North Pole illustrates the deadly folly of forcing citizens to rely solely on an increasingly fragile electric grid (Plan A) while blocking natural gas as a secondary energy source (Plan B).

“The root cause of our grid’s reliability problems is simple,” explains “Fossil Future” author Alex Epstein. “America is shutting down