Here’s how it works.
Greenies raise hell over drilling permits/air quality concerns. Media goes wild with coverage on Global warming.
While you look at that, the Dems legislate refineries, pipelines (little ones and big ones alike) into extinction.
Laws about transport are made to put max obstruction on oil delivery (ECO concerns etc.)
Refineries, unable to profitably run due to the above, close.
Dems get on tv and tell the world that refineries are at full capacity so additional drilling will not increase useable supply/decrease prices since we cannot process it all (that we produce now)
Stupid people never wonder why the law of supply and demand has been so egregiously violated and prices are what they are. Then vote Dem again for the children.
Media is Marxist.
Nope, that's not how it works.
You are missing a the key element to this corporate fascist loop.
The reason the regs exist is that the greenies sue to get them. The greenies are sponsored by tax-exempt "charitable" foundations belonging to... the major stockholders of oil and gas companies, also the biggest sponsors of AGW racketeering.