Actually, regardless of your graph or what you link to. I was paying 1.85 a gallon under Trump. That price rose when Biden was elected. That price rose more after Biden began shutting down pipelines, denying leases, agreeing to the Paris Climate accord. And it was not just one pipeline that Biden stopped. It is pipelines across the nation.
Now the price is more than $3.00 a gallon.
Trump kept the price of energy low
Biden is making energy expensive
You're FOS.
Biden shut down
one pipeline that never transported a drop of oil.
Suspending
new oil leases on federal lands for 90 days.
What did oil companies do with their existing leases, state leases, private leases?
Why do the oil companies need the federal government land to drill oil?
Isn't that 'socialism'?
Of course, you don't mention the 4 Texas refineries that shut down because of the freeze in February.
It may take the Texas petrochemical industry until year-end 2021 to fully recover from the record cold that triggered power outages and supply disruptions in mid-February. Production of basic petrochemical products used in a range of intermediate and consumer goods was interrupted, breaking supply chains already strained by COVID-19 and leading to price pressures and scores of product shortages.
The record-breaking Arctic cold that flowed deep into Texas in mid-February hit the Texas refining and petrochemical sectors as hard as any hurricane and with less warning. Operations did not fully return until early April and sustained lasting damage.
The weather disruption tightened motor fuel supplies, created shortfalls of petrochemicals and slowed Texas exports. The impacts to supply chains have contributed to rising producer price inflation, and the challenges of restocking those supply chains are expected to persist through much of 2021.
August 27, 2021
The strongest hurricane to ever hit Louisiana has done some major damage, causing massive power outages and refinery shutdowns. The storm hit 95% of crude oil production in the Gulf of Mexico and shut down over 95% of natural gas production.
September 23, 2021
Oil refineries impacted Hurricane Ida and power outages are recovering. At one point nearly a dozen refineries were offline and because of power outages they had so-called stranded fuel.
Nathan McBride is Regulatory Affairs Manager for the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association.
“There’s really eight between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, but they brought the Krotz Springs refinery in as well because it could have an impact on the supply,” he said.
“Refineries had fuel in tankage on-site, even the ones who happened to lose power especially down in the New Orleans area, so there was fuel in tankage, so the first hurdle we had to clear was get power to the terminals, otherwise known as racks at the refineries so that they could pull that fuel out of tankage and dispense it into the local markets, so you may have fuel at the refinery even though your refinery is not actually running,” said McBride.
“A lot of the refineries, yes they shut down for safety reasons during the storm but then they were not able to come back up because they didn’t have electricity, so it really does all come down to power supply.”