Biden’s Energy-Policy Bind

[excalibur]

Democrats have screwed America over energy for two decades now. Time to rid ourselves of their stupidity.

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Still, there are complications. The United States is the world’s largest oil producer and one of the largest — in some months, the largest — exporters of oil, natural gas, and petroleum products. We produce about 20 percent more oil than second-place Russia does. But we also import a great deal of oil and other petroleum products for a variety of reasons, ranging from the configuration of U.S. refineries to artificial production and transport constraints such as the Jones Act to all those blocked pipeline projects and bans on “fracking.” New Yorkers are not alone in paying a high price for the stupidity and cowardice of Andrew Cuomo.

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We could spare ourselves some of these calculations by maximizing our own output — not only of crude oil and natural gas but also of refined-petroleum products. That would also mean building the necessary pipeline infrastructure and reforming our antiquated maritime regulations to enable the transportation of those fuels. Doing so would offer many benefits that ought to appeal to Democrats and Republicans alike: lower prices, more strategic and economic flexibility, and a bunch of high-paying jobs for people who are not software engineers, investment bankers, or lawyers. But with the exception of waiving the Jones Act, none of that is work that can be done by next Monday.

And Biden needs a new energy strategy yesterday. Nuclear-power advocate Elon Musk can be three bowls deep and still offer a more coherent analysis of the energy situation than the Biden administration does at its soberest.

My guess is that the relative political weights will tip the Biden administration’s scales in the direction of tapping Venezuela as a short-term measure rather than asking voters to suffer $6-a-gallon gasoline or enraging the true-believer greens by beginning the medium-to-long-term project of jacking up U.S. energy production.

That will be very good news for Nicolás Maduro, and pretty good news for Vladimir Putin, too.​

Biden’s Energy-Policy Bind | National Review

Should the United States throw a lifeline to the worst tyrant in the Western hemisphere in order to undermine an even worse tyrant in Europe?

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[BULLDOG]

Oil companies are already ramping up production with no additional help of any kind. They intentionally reduced their production until the price went up, and now they are going to shovel in the cash.

 

[Esdraelon]

and now they are going to shovel in the cash.

Once the average price per gallon reaches a point of diminishing returns, they'll be selling NO product because the global economy will have collapsed. Then we'll be treated to wags like yourself who will be assigning blame - as if it will matter at that point. SMDH

 

[Death-Ninja]

Oil companies are already ramping up production with no additional help of any kind. They intentionally reduced their production until the price went up, and now they are going to shovel in the cash.

You are a certified sub-moron, I'm not even gonna waste the effort explaining exactly how fucking off the mark you are, because you are so impossibly fucking stupid you'd argue that sunset was actually sunrise if the fascist elites only told you it was so... I think most everyone with such notions is very likely, not a car owner, not a home owner, not a renter, not responsible for a single fucking thing.

 

[MisterBeale]

Oil companies are already ramping up production with no additional help of any kind. They intentionally reduced their production until the price went up, and now they are going to shovel in the cash.

Um. . . no.

With all the green stake holders and rhetoric of this administration, they don't trust them.

First, it costs money for permits just to explore on Federal land.

Then? Even if they find something, then they have to pay again for the right to drill.

Now, yes, the administration has now, like a energy friendly administration, has started putting out rhetoric that, energy companies are free to drill on Federal land.

But you know what the attitude of the investors and the boards of directors after the rhetoric and mandates of this administration on energy policy that have been telegraphed to them, and their willingness to invest those millions into energy infrastructure? They know who owns the DNC, it is the Green alliance, Green Capitol, and the AGW crowd. Do you think they are dumb?

 

[MisterBeale]

If this administration treated drilling and extraction like it and the previous one had treated find a vaccine and distributing jabs. . . we might, MIGHT be able to get out of this mess. . .

. . . but we know they don't give a shit about the middle class or the poor. THEY WANT A CRISIS.

 

[BULLDOG]

Once the average price per gallon reaches a point of diminishing returns, they'll be selling NO product because the global economy will have collapsed. Then we'll be treated to wags like yourself who will be assigning blame - as if it will matter at that point. SMDH

It becomes less complicated when you finally realize oil companies are the ones who set the price, and it doesn't matter whether it is going up or down right now. Either way, it is the result of their manipulations to maximize their profits. They cut production to justify a price increase, and now they are boosting production to take advantage of that increase. That is how it works, no matter how many leases are available. They already own enough to control the market.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

It’s like the country is being flown by a suicidal pilot.

 

[BULLDOG]

You are a certified sub-moron, I'm not even gonna waste the effort explaining exactly how fucking off the mark you are, because you are so impossibly fucking stupid you'd argue that sunset was actually sunrise if the fascist elites only told you it was so... I think most everyone with such notions is very likely, not a car owner, not a home owner, not a renter, not responsible for a single fucking thing.

Which part do you question? Whether they intentionally cut back on production, or whether they are boosting it now, even before any new leases are offered?

 

[BULLDOG]

Um. . . no.

With all the green stake holders and rhetoric of this administration, they don't trust them.

First, it costs money for permits just to explore on Federal land.

Then? Even if they find something, then they have to pay again for the right to drill.

Now, yes, the administration has now, like a energy friendly administration, has started putting out rhetoric that, energy companies are free to drill on Federal land.

But you know what the attitude of the investors and the boards of directors after the rhetoric and mandates of this administration on energy policy that have been telegraphed to them, and their willingness to invest those millions into energy infrastructure? They know who owns the DNC, it is the Green alliance, Green Capitol, and the AGW crowd. Do you think they are dumb?

Yet they are already boosting production without any new leases.

 

[BULLDOG]

If this administration treated drilling and extraction like it and the previous one had treated find a vaccine and distributing jabs. . . we might, MIGHT be able to get out of this mess. . .

. . . but we know they don't give a shit about the middle class or the poor. THEY WANT A CRISIS.

That's exactly what a brainwashed drone would say.

 

[Doc7505]

In 2012 under the Obama administration there were 137 oil refineries in the U.S.
Today under Joey Xi Bai Dung only 124 oil refineries remain operational.
As of December 2020, immediately after the fraudulent election of Joe Biden, production of gasoline, diesel and fuel oil has declined precipitously.

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As Gas Prices Skyrocket, Biden Refuses to Reverse Course on Domestic Energy Production

townhall.com

 

[BULLDOG]

If this administration treated drilling and extraction like it and the previous one had treated find a vaccine and distributing jabs. . . we might, MIGHT be able to get out of this mess. . .

. . . but we know they don't give a shit about the middle class or the poor. THEY WANT A CRISIS.

You might want to look at these projections made before Putin's attack or any discussion of banning Russian oil.

 

[BULLDOG]

Um. . . no.

With all the green stake holders and rhetoric of this administration, they don't trust them.

First, it costs money for permits just to explore on Federal land.

Then? Even if they find something, then they have to pay again for the right to drill.

Now, yes, the administration has now, like a energy friendly administration, has started putting out rhetoric that, energy companies are free to drill on Federal land.

But you know what the attitude of the investors and the boards of directors after the rhetoric and mandates of this administration on energy policy that have been telegraphed to them, and their willingness to invest those millions into energy infrastructure? They know who owns the DNC, it is the Green alliance, Green Capitol, and the AGW crowd. Do you think they are dumb?

US oil output to climb again despite restraint of big shale drillers

Privately held producers set to lead the way on expected 800,000 b/d increase in 2022

www.ft.com

 

[TeeDub]

Yet they are already boosting production without any new leases.

You really have no clue at all, sad.

 

[MisterBeale]

US oil output to climb again despite restraint of big shale drillers

Privately held producers set to lead the way on expected 800,000 b/d increase in 2022

www.ft.com

I really hope you don't pay for that.

I find, the more folks pay, and the more exclusive their information is, the more cult like their world view tends to be.


This is, primarily, the problem with the Deep State, and our privatized intelligence industry, and why there is now a war against the common people in this nation. It will doom the world as they are now using it as a means to extract power and profit.


We will either have a forever police state, or the end of civilization as we know it I am afraid if things do not change.

 

[MisterBeale]

You might want to look at these projections made before Putin's attack or any discussion of banning Russian oil.
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[MisterBeale]

That's exactly what a brainwashed drone would say.

 

[BULLDOG]

I really hope you don't pay for that.

I find, the more folks pay, and the more exclusive their information is, the more cult like their world view tends to be.


This is, primarily, the problem with the Deep State, and our privatized intelligence industry, and why there is now a war against the common people in this nation. It will doom the world as they are now using it as a means to extract power and profit.


We will either have a forever police state, or the end of civilization as we know it I am afraid if things do not change.

You seem to fear a lot of things that never happen. You should get help for your paranoia.

 

[SweetSue92]

You seem to fear a lot of things that never happen. You should get help for your paranoia.

The problem is, you feckless Biden voters feared the meanie words and mean tweets and so voted us into a global economic collapse and probably, a world war.

Hope you feel great about that. Now there really is something to fear