Winston
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Fuel prices go up when the economy is strong.
They also go up when some twat restricts supply or adds stupid regulations that restrict supply.
How has Biden restricting supply? What regulations has he unilaterally imposed that is affecting gas prices? Current gas prices are at or below what they were from October 2017 to December 2020. What did Trump do to cause those high prices?
How has Biden restricting supply?
Biden’s orders direct the secretary of the Interior Department to halt new oil and natural gas leases on public lands and waters, and begin a thorough review of existing permits for fossil fuel development.
Climate change: Biden suspends oil and gas leasing in executive action (cnbc.com)
What regulations has he unilaterally imposed that is affecting gas prices?
Did you already forget his pipeline EOs?
Current gas prices are at or below what they were from October 2017 to December 2020.
Liar.
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U.S. All Grades All Formulations Retail Gasoline Prices (Dollars per Gallon) (eia.gov)
If Keystone has not even been completed, how did it's cancellation affect supply?
Keystone XL suspension unlikely to raise US oil prices
One of President Joe Biden’s first official acts effectively halted construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which waswww.politifact.com
Same for the leases? If they haven't been sold then there has not even been any drilling, let alone the actual production of oil that could be refined into gas. So how does that effect supply?
And please, don't tell me gas and oil prices are based on future production capability. Gasoline is a perishable commodity and its price is constructed specifically to match the supply with demand.
If Keystone has not even been completed, how did it's cancellation affect supply?
You didn't think it was just to bring oil from Canada, did you?
Same for the leases? If they haven't been sold then there has not even been any drilling, let alone the actual production of oil that could be refined into gas. So how does that effect supply?
Do you know anything about futures prices?
When it became obvious that Biden's handlers were going to attack oil, prices jumped.
If you do something stupid that will reduce oil tomorrow, prices will rise today.
Now, back to your lie about prices from October 2017 to December 2020........
Oh, I know the purpose of Keystone very well thank you. It sure as hell was not to produce more gasoline for US consumption. Matter of fact, upon completion it would have increased the price of gasoline in the upper Midwest because it would have reduced supply, the very thing you seemed to be concerned with.
Refineries along the Gulf Coast have expanded their diesel production capabilities. And Congress lifted the ban on exporting refined oil products a good while back. Fact is, we are now exporting diesel like nobody's business. Which you really have to question the intelligence of that, seeing how critical diesel fuel is to our own domestic economy. But that is another topic.
So the purpose of Keystone was to get that shale sludge to refineries on the Gulf Coast so it could be processed into diesel fuel for EXPORT. Currently, what is moving to the US is refined in the upper Midwest for gasoline. You see how that actually does affect supply and demand.