Republican Admits to Sabotaging Jimmy Carter's Election

[Toddsterpatriot]

Pushers bring in customers at low prices and then after they are hooked start jacking the prices up. The US exploration industry was devastated in the 80's by cheap foreign oil that they helped discover.

We need expensive energy....today!!!!

It's the only thing that will protect us from expensive energy tomorrow.

 

[BlindBoo]

We need expensive energy....today!!!!

It's the only thing that will protect us from expensive energy tomorrow.

The cheap oil that cratered the US exploration industry didn't stay cheap though did it? They're still gouging us. The price we eventually paid for that cheap foreign oil was blood. We are now energy independent and moving towards being oil independent like Carter wanted.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

The cheap oil that cratered the US exploration industry didn't stay cheap though did it? They're still gouging us. The price we eventually paid for that cheap foreign oil was blood. We are now energy independent and moving towards being oil independent like Carter wanted.

The cheap oil that cratered the US exploration industry didn't stay cheap though did it?

I guess Biden's fix for expensive oil is best.
Make it harder and harder to drill for domestic oil.
That will make it cheaper.

 

[DudleySmith]

The cheap oil that cratered the US exploration industry didn't stay cheap though did it?

I guess Biden's fix for expensive oil is best.
Make it harder and harder to drill for domestic oil.
That will make it cheaper.

Yes, that's why drilling went up, cuz Biden stopped it n stuff. We know this cuz Republican parrots keep saying he did over and over and over, no need to look up real stats, or pay any attention to what big oil execs have been saying publicly since at least last Sept.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Yes, that's why drilling went up, cuz Biden stopped it n stuff. We know this cuz Republican parrots keep saying he did over and over and over, no need to look up real stats, or pay any attention to what big oil execs have been saying publicly since at least last Sept.

What did Biden do to make drilling go up?
For that matter, what did Obama do to make drilling go up?

 

[DudleySmith]

What did Biden do to make drilling go up?
For that matter, what did Obama do to make drilling go up?

Nobody said he did, It's not his job in the first place. Couldn't you find a graph or something?

 

[BlindBoo]

The cheap oil that cratered the US exploration industry didn't stay cheap though did it?

I guess Biden's fix for expensive oil is best.
Make it harder and harder to drill for domestic oil.
That will make it cheaper.

OPEC cut production when the worlds' economies started up again in 2020-2021 after the Covid slow down, which caused the prices to rise from 2020 throughout 2021.

Under Biden, the Rig Count has tripled from the low in 2020. Energy production is as high as it has ever been in this country. We are more energy independent than we've been since before 1960. WTC is selling for 65 a barrel today.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Nobody said he did, It's not his job in the first place. Couldn't you find a graph or something?

Nobody said he did,

Lots of idiots said he did.

It's not his job in the first place.

It's not his job to end fossil fuels.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

OPEC cut production when the worlds' economies started up again in 2020-2021 after the Covid slow down, which caused the prices to rise from 2020 throughout 2021.

Under Biden, the Rig Count has tripled from the low in 2020. Energy production is as high as it has ever been in this country. We are more energy independent than we've been since before 1960. WTC is selling for 65 a barrel today.

OPEC cut production when the worlds' economies started up again in 2020-2021 after the Covid slow down, which caused the prices to rise from 2020 throughout 2021.

If only we had a president who could negotiate with OPEC to get them to boost production.

Under Biden, the Rig Count has tripled from the low in 2020.

Yes, he's been very encouraging of all fossil fuel production. LOL!

 

[BlindBoo]

If only we had a president who could negotiate with OPEC to get them to boost production.

The thing is Trump was president in 2020 when they were overproducing. He called on them to reduce production in April. They finally agree to cut production in Nov. after the economies were starting to open back up again, causing prices to rise. They always do that when we are over the barrel, since the 1970's

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

The thing is Trump was president in 2020 when they were overproducing. He called on them to reduce production in April. They finally agree to cut production in Nov. after the economies were starting to open back up again, causing prices to rise. They always do that when we are over the barrel, since the 1970's

He called on them to reduce production in April. They finally agree to cut production in Nov.

Link?

 

[BlindBoo]

He called on them to reduce production in April. They finally agree to cut production in Nov.

Link?

Special Report: Trump told Saudi: Cut oil supply or lose U.S. military support - sources

By Timothy Gardner, Steve Holland, Dmitry Zhdannikov and Rania El Gamal

www.reuters.com

The NYTimes has a good article in the Nov. on the cut by OPEC, but they have a paywall.

OPEC reaches final deal to cut oil output by 10M bpd

- Mexico to cut crude output by 100,000 bpd, remaining 300,000 bpd to come from US - Anadolu Agency

www.aa.com.tr

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Special Report: Trump told Saudi: Cut oil supply or lose U.S. military support - sources

By Timothy Gardner, Steve Holland, Dmitry Zhdannikov and Rania El Gamal

www.reuters.com

The NYTimes has a good article in the Nov. on the cut by OPEC, but they have a paywall.

OPEC reaches final deal to cut oil output by 10M bpd

- Mexico to cut crude output by 100,000 bpd, remaining 300,000 bpd to come from US - Anadolu Agency

www.aa.com.tr

Which of those said no cuts were made until November 2020?

 

[marvin martian]

This is huge. I guess he wanted it off his chest before he died. And it looks like the New York Times has made this available with no paywall.

A Four-Decade Secret: One Man’s Story of Sabotaging Carter’s Re-election​

A prominent Texas politician said he unwittingly took part in a 1980 tour of the Middle East with a clandestine agenda.

WASHINGTON — It has been more than four decades, but Ben Barnes said he remembers it vividly. His longtime political mentor invited him on a mission to the Middle East. What Mr. Barnes said he did not realize until later was the real purpose of the mission: to sabotage the re-election campaign of the president of the United States.

It was 1980 and Jimmy Carter was in the White House, bedeviled by a hostage crisis in Iran that had paralyzed his presidency and hampered his effort to win a second term. Mr. Carter’s best chance for victory was to free the 52 Americans held captive before Election Day. That was something that Mr. Barnes said his mentor was determined to prevent.

His mentor was John B. Connally Jr., a titan of American politics and former Texas governor who had served three presidents and just lost his own bid for the White House. A former Democrat, Mr. Connally had sought the Republican nomination in 1980 only to be swamped by former Gov. Ronald Reagan of California. Now Mr. Connally resolved to help Mr. Reagan beat Mr. Carter and in the process, Mr. Barnes said, make his own case for becoming secretary of state or defense in a new administration.

What happened next Mr. Barnes has largely kept secret for nearly 43 years. Mr. Connally, he said, took him to one Middle Eastern capital after another that summer, meeting with a host of regional leaders to deliver a blunt message to be passed to Iran: Don’t release the hostages before the election. Mr. Reagan will win and give you a better deal.

Then shortly after returning home, Mr. Barnes said, Mr. Connally reported to William J. Casey, the chairman of Mr. Reagan’s campaign and later director of the Central Intelligence Agency, briefing him about the trip in an airport lounge.

Mr. Carter’s camp has long suspected that Mr. Casey or someone else in Mr. Reagan’s orbit sought to secretly torpedo efforts to liberate the hostages before the election, and books have been written on what came to be called the October surprise. But congressional investigations debunked previous theories of what happened.

LOL

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Special Report: Trump told Saudi: Cut oil supply or lose U.S. military support - sources

By Timothy Gardner, Steve Holland, Dmitry Zhdannikov and Rania El Gamal

www.reuters.com

The NYTimes has a good article in the Nov. on the cut by OPEC, but they have a paywall.

OPEC reaches final deal to cut oil output by 10M bpd

- Mexico to cut crude output by 100,000 bpd, remaining 300,000 bpd to come from US - Anadolu Agency

www.aa.com.tr

The answer is none of them backed your claim. LOL!

 

[Lesh]

The answer is none of them backed your claim. LOL!

In an April 2 2020 phone call, Trump told Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that unless the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) started cutting oil production, he would be powerless to stop lawmakers from passing legislation to withdraw U.S. troops from the kingdom, four sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

In an April 2 2020 phone call, Trump told Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that unless the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) started cutting oil production, he would be powerless to stop lawmakers from passing legislation to withdraw U.S. troops from the kingdom, four sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Absolutely. And?

 

[BlindBoo]

The answer is none of them backed your claim. LOL!

I stand corrected, the cuts started in May and continued through 2021. They had trouble with some members overproducing. They continued with the cuts in 2021 even though the demand was rising quickly and prices began soaring.

 

[themirrorthief]

I stand corrected, the cuts started in May and continued through 2021. They had trouble with some members overproducing. They continued with the cuts in 2021 even though the demand was rising quickly and prices began soaring.

u couldnt buy gas anywhere when carter was president

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

I stand corrected, the cuts started in May and continued through 2021. They had trouble with some members overproducing. They continued with the cuts in 2021 even though the demand was rising quickly and prices began soaring.

Thank you for the correction.