It’s ironic that the best summation of President Joe Biden’s energy policy is a joke from former Vice President Al Gore, who used to goad conservatives by saying, “The right hand doesn’t know what the far-right hand is doing.”

Biden’s astonishingly awkward struggle to suppress soaring gas prices, and the electoral danger they pose to Democrats, brings the green-extremist veep’s labored humor instantly to mind. The president’s left hand seems utterly clueless about the mischief his far-left hand is getting up to.