After Destroying American Energy Production, Biden Begs OPEC to Pump More Oil
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Just hours after being sworn into office on January 20, 2021, President Joe Biden signed an executive order canceling the Keystone XL pipeline. The move killed thousands of union jobs, halted an infrastructure project already underway and pushed the United States back into dependency on foreign energy sources. Biden further exacerbated U.S. dependency by halting leases for oil and gas drilling on federal lands.
Now as gas prices continue to skyrocket, Biden is desperately asking the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries [OPEC] to pump more oil.
"Higher gasoline costs, if left unchecked, risk harming the ongoing global recovery. The price of crude oil has been higher than it was at the end of 2019, before the onset of the pandemic. While OPEC+ recently agreed to production increases, these increases will not fully offset previous production cuts that OPEC+ imposed during the pandemic until well into 2022. At a critical moment in the global recovery, this is simply not enough," White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan released in a statement Wednesday morning.
"President Biden has made clear that he wants Americans to have access to affordable and reliable energy, including at the pump. Although we are not a party to OPEC, the United States will always speak to international partners regarding issues of significance that affect our national economic and security affairs, in public and private," he continued. "We are engaging with relevant OPEC+ members on the importance of competitive markets in setting prices. Competitive energy markets will ensure reliable and stable energy supplies, and OPEC+ must do more to support the recovery."
Under President Donald Trump's tenure, the United States was not only energy independent, but an exporter of American oil and gas.
President Trump gave us energy independence. @JoeBiden made us dependent again by waging war on domestic production.
Now he goes begging to OPEC.
Not a day goes by that he doesn't endanger our economic and national security. https://t.co/H2xncEt2tz
— Monica Crowley (@MonicaCrowley) August 11, 2021
The irony.
On the one hand, KXL is cancelled because of the urgency of climate change.
On the other hand, 6 months later OPEC+ is asked to increase oil production because of high gasoline prices due to oil supply concerns.
2 days after the IPCC code red climate report.
Wow? https://t.co/awvFNqRoh6
— Sonya Savage (@sonyasavage) August 11, 2021
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, ripped the White House on Wednesday, saying Texas can help reduce the price of gasoline by producing more oil if the Biden administration will “just stay out of the way.”
nice try. see all of those texas wells not pumping from boston? there's 3 drilling sites within 5 miles of my home now. I've got three nephews in the oil business and they say they're up to their eyeballs in it. it's major refinery and local distribution problems. there's hiring wage wars for skilled people and it looks like some cheapskates that can't see past their noses are going to be left behind holding their dicks wondering why their businesses went down the shitter. isn't capitalism great when it's allowed to work unmanipulated?
Many of us believe our own eyes. Gas prices are through the roof and here is the United States of America getting in line for oil again.
I'm loving it. Let's see how they vote in 2022 & 2024.
when your party takes over, be sure and investigate all that oil company price gouging, after their RNC campaign donation checks have cleared of course...
I think we'll start with Hunter & Joe Biden.
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All conservatives can do anymore is whine and complain, complain and whine.
What else are they going to spend their time doing? Creating a tech start-up? All they have is to wait on the government to give their local non-renewable oil and gas companies another subsidy so they can get a job and rent a house outside of the once hundred year flood plain which has now because a once every five years flood plain.
After 5 plus years of Democrats and leftists non stop bitching? You have no room to talk
Well hell then, Biden should have stopped the export of the 2.66 MILLION barrels per DAY that the US exported last week, right Vic?
Wow, pretty exciting to see a progressive liberal such as yourself actually admitting that the Biden Admin. isn't the greatest thing since sliced bread since they seemingly allow price gouging to go on unchecked.
It used to be 'her emails' now it's Hunter Biden
Also can you believe the nonsense that #45 made the US energy Independent?????????????????
+the continued nonsense and lies about the key stone pipeline whose oil was not staying in the US
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Stopping the Keystone pipeline only affects Canadian oil production. Not American production.
Actually, no. It affects consumer prices not production. It is simply now transported to the refineries in tanker trucks on our interstates and in rail cars traveling through highly populated urban centers while leaving a much larger carbon footprint than the pipeline ever would have.
The Keystone pipeline EXISTS today Xx. Get educated.
They are going to tell you that we are just imagining it. There is no Biden energy policy/S
Gas was about 2.10 a gallon on the front range of colorado when dementia boy took office. Not even 7 months later it’s about 3.52. That should really help the poor in this country.
A 20oz bottle of water costing $1.50 at WaWa or 7Eleven equals $9.10 per gallon...
Without tens of billions in subsidies gas might actually cost US consumers more than water some day.
Note I live in Texas and drive a car that demands premium in exchange for 37mpg on the highway.
The average E85 here in Dallas is $2.88. Premium is $3.74.
When it gets to $9.74 maybe I'll start using Grub Hub to deliver my groceries, but I doubt it.
People don’t depend on water to get to work, or run errands. Water can be had out of the spigot for pennies per gallon.
About 63 million Americans don't have safe drinking water from their 'spigot'.
Uh huh. I think you’re stretching the truth on that one.
The 'new Valentine's Day massacre' in Texas deprived a third of the citizens of power and water 'from the spigot"
People waited months for plumbers to replace a whole house full of broken galvanized pipes in pre 1940s housing
and thousands of miles of underground delivery and waste water lines that froze and fractured.
New homes with PVC required complete replumbing as well.
Thanks Greg Abbott.
What has Greg done to prevent a repeat of the ERCOT fiasco besides forcing out the entire board?
nothing yet...
Keystone had nothing to do with it. All it is is the fact producers cut back during the shut down and for the time being demand has exceeded supply.
Really? By how much?
How many millions of Americans without safe drinking water is acceptable for YOU?
Because you got your info from an article like this.
And in that article it says this,
“As many as 63 million people — nearly a fifth of the United States — from rural central California to the boroughs of New York City, were exposed to potentially unsafe water more than once during the past decade,”
that’s a far cry from “ About 63 million Americans don't have safe drinking water from their 'spigot'.”
High lead levels have been found in tap water in Baltimore , Chicago , Detroit , Milwaukee , Newark , New York , Pittsburgh, Washington, D.C. One NRDC analysis found that between 2018 and 2020, 56 percent of the U.S. population drank from water systems with detectable levels of lead.
The 'safe' amount of lead in drinking water is ZERO.
44 MILLION get their water from sources that have multiple violations of the Safe Water Act every year, year after year.
Over 20% of the wells in the US have contamiants. That's another 8-10 MILLION.
Many Americans, including most of the 2 MILLION Native Americans on the Navajo Reservation don't even have a fucking 'spigot'.
I keep getting health questionnaires from the Navy about how many days I spent on three particular bases
30 years ago where the water tables were known to be contaminated by a variety of aviation fuels and other chemicals
known to cause cancer. PFASs were mentioned also.
Apparently I am still at risk and they are still interested in my input.
As far as day to day water quality being corrected by municipalities the figure is 7 to 8%, approximately 25Million people.
Furthermore, although the USA broadly has great drinking water, there are many private wells that are contaminated
and many municipalities too small to be regulated by the states
( my former home in AZ had a well only for lawn use or laundry and the utility company was too small and never provided info about the contents of our drinking water )
I also had a home in the Poconos where visitors always wanted to see our flammable tap water. Our bottled water was supplied by the frackers that caused the methane in our water.
Many smaller utilities have allowances that are higher than the approved EPA levels.
The 63 million figure is realistic without the caveats.
Whether it's 63 million or 59 million
it's an issue that should be addressed.
Well what happened to “63 million don’t have safe drinking water from their spigot”? Post 1.2.3 was a lie and now you expect me to believe your latest post? Doesn’t work that way.
“it's an issue that should be addressed.”
i agree.
Math not your strong suit?
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Dishonest? WTF? Looking in the mirror?
You keep using Questionable sources and you will keep getting inaccurate and inflammatory headlines.
The US Imports are only a fraction more than the exports and we cannot really affect the global prices
but OPEC can affect the globe with the stroke of a pen or a threat to decrease crude production.
I just went to pick up dinner and passed three idle pumps.
Our storage in Houston in maxed out. We cannot refine it quick enough to send it back to Mexico or Canada or Brazil.
the people that own the still functioning gas & oil pumps won't turn them back on until the price makes sense for them
and most of them are very conservative Texans. They care about their profits, not your "pain" at the pump.
Greg Abbott is a tool/fool.
Restarting Texas’ Damaged Oil Refineries Is Going to Take Weeks - Bloomberg
Remember the big freeze in Texas? The one Abbott can't seem to find any Democrats to blame for the weather, the effects on our
powerless homes, frozen pipes and the damages to the power grid and our oil refineries.
Yeah Abbott should not be giving advice about staying out of the way. The ERCOT scandals have shown that that approach doesn't work.
With Opec depressing the price of crude, no intelligent Texan producer will pump his precious reserves out of the ground.
They will wait until the prices come up.
Seems like the head of an oil producing state should know that.
I spent 13+ months on the gulf coast during the pandemic and the outbound tanker traffic was 24/7 with an average of a dozen empty ships parked in the gulf waiting for their spot at the dock.
My son used to complain about his outlets pricing when they had dozens of tankers full of refined gas
sitting off the NJ shore with an average price around 1.76.
Now they are making a killing in the corridor from Delaware & Philly to NYC.
YUUUUUUUUUge profits and still killing the competition by 10 cents per gallon.
LOL, so the 2500 leases the administration has ok'd on public land since he took office should be rescinded, PERFECT.
BTW, the XL pipeline has nothing to do with the price of gas or the amount imported to the US. The existing pipeline and its expansion have more capacity than the XL would have when completed.
When the pandemic started in Jan of 2020 there were 790 operating wells as of the end of June 2021 there are 470, ya think that might have something to do with it.
Biden further exacerbated U.S. dependency by halting leases for oil and gas drilling on federal lands.
It's in the article. Biden did exactly what Trump said he would.
Seems that as always you are factless and try to rely on BS. Biden has approved 2500 new leases on public lands, it is right in the link.
Can you answer the question.
A simple yes or no will suffice.
Is it your posit that oil and gas leases turn into production instantainiously Vic?
If NOT, halting them has had NO effect on the price TODAY.
Fail.
Are you really going to try and tell our readers that Biden's energy policy was the same as Trump's? The gaslighting here is incredible!
"On his very first day in office, Biden killed the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have brought 830,000 barrels of Canadian oil a day down south — and thousands of good-paying jobs with it. In March, he put a moratorium on oil leasing on federal land , which a judge later found to be illegal. Later, he canceled Trump-era oil leases in Alaska.
Biden has made combating climate change a top priority — and declared war on the American energy industry to do it.
But somehow foreign carbon fuels get exempted. He waived sanctions on Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline that aims to get gas to Germany. And now he’s pushing Saudi Arabia and other less-than-democratic countries to pump — even as his team confesses it isn’t making the same ask of domestic producers — because gas is at $3.18 a gallon, up more than $1 over last year. Do the added emissions from tankers shipping oil here not count?
An energy-independent America can make better foreign-policy decisions, particularly in the Middle East. Under President Donald Trump, the nation was becoming the world’s top energy producer. But Biden, keen to appease environmentalists at home, would rather gut the American industry, make the country reliant on foreign oil and tie his own diplomatic hands. It’s the perfect picture of cognitive dissonance."
I shouldn't have to restate the obvious.
Not far from where I live there is a string of TESLA charging stations. I never see a car there. Green energy zealots need to understand that until we have affordable & available green energy resources we will still have to depend on our natural resources.
Again, no would have been sufficient.
Yet you repost half truths from the Post?
They are all over the DFW area and I have only seen cars charging twice.
I assume it's because most people keep their cars charged to the point where they shouldn't have to stop for an emergency charge
and I would never leave my Tesla charging unattended. Would you?
Ideologues need to learn that change happens. Get back to me when you understand how OPEC fucks with the global supply of crude to manipulate the markets. Conservatives could not stop themselves from saying Obama had nothing to do with low gas prices in 2014 and then blaming Obama in 2015 when the market reacted to OPEC. Trump took credit when prices dropped 33 cents when he softened sanctions against
...Iran. Later he blamed Iran and others and took a harder line, getting out of the Iran deal.
The Biden Admin will suffer similarly. Doesn't really mean anything.
Yes, the gas lighting here IS incredible!
Yes, natrual gas, NOT oil, which makes the author's comment moot.
Then one should presume that using MORE renewable energy supports that goal.
BTFW, the XL pipeline has NOTHING to do with the US being 'energy independent'.
You're wasting your time. Factual info is useless here.
So...why are gas prices going up so much, so fast?
Without a doubt pat.
See post #2
It seems that the seeder and others don't even read their own article.
From the article.
It seems they only seem to react emotionally to something rather than investigate fully.
Other than the headline, what begging?
They never seem to get past the headline.
It's time you followed your own advice
I do not engage in name-calling. The word 'partisan', for example, is not name-calling; it is a descriptive term that matches the reality of the situation.
" But ~ they ~ do it too "
For some, their corpus of comments are, in effect, nothing more than repeating talking points and making witless name-mangled trollish attacks. No contributions of value, no thought provoking seeds, just trollish comments.
Of the various name-manglings, your ' Bidet ' is one of the most devoid of wit I have seen. It lacks any shred of cleverness and ultimately makes no sense. Rather than use Biden's name and make an intelligent critical comment, you pick an English word close in spelling and use that as your ' attack '. There is not even a hint of truth in the mangling; just childish and witless refusal to refer to Biden by his name.
From the article.
LMAO, what a fucking moron the author of the article is, when did Canada become part of the US. The oil is from Canada dumbass.
You're aware that Canada isn't part of the US aren't you, Vic?
Geography 101.
You mean that we would still have to pay the going rate for that oil? Say it ain't so.../s
Silly fellow, the US is a Southern Canadian territory.
Obviously, the author has the credentials.
More unnecessary misogyny ?
You must have remembered that picture to come back here.
Caught your eye, did it?
I remembered that I was surprised that no one else called it for what it is
so I came back.
Sort of like the day you felt it necessary to point out that the picture of Tracy Stone-Manning was a picture of a woman.
Unnecessary Archie Bunker nonsense.
And to think it could have been just another light hearted article for everyone's enjoyment.
That's why you remembered/s!
While I appreciate your rare attempt at such articles, you probably should not bother.
You are incapable of keeping your partisanship separate from non political every day articles.
You seem to seek controversy and votes up, nothing else,
except the potential opportunity to denigrate your politically opposite American citizens.
Our body of articles posted here or elsewhere could not be more opposite.
I genuinely feel sorry for you.
Ciao!
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Why is this article not classified as Satire?
all Vic's articles should be labeled as such
If only you could!
Or outright lies