Posted on 09/08/2023 8:17:51 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
With rising gasoline prices once again threatening U.S. consumers — and Joe Biden’s approval ratings — the president is upping his attacks on domestic energy production. Most recently, the White House canceled oil and gas leases on hundreds of thousands of acres in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and extended protections against future drilling to millions more.
It is almost unimaginable. Voters give Joe Biden extremely low marks on his handling of the economy, and even lower grades on how he has dealt with inflation. Almost nothing hits consumers harder or makes them angrier than soaring gasoline prices. When Biden took office, the average price of regular gas was $2.39 per gallon; today it is $3.80 — almost 60 percent higher.
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He warned it first to “get off my lawn.”
This isn’t Biden’s doing. It’s whomever is pulling the marionette strings. Methinks it is Obama and Soros in concert.
But over 80 million people voted for these high prices they can’t afford...
I can see the meetings in Biden’s Cabinet:
“Why does it matter that the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is now empty, we can still write an Executive Order to pump out 1 million barrels a day and bring the price down. What the hell is is wrong with you guys?”
Math is hard. It's 62.6% higher.
And it's going up dramatically higher again very soon, especially after OPEC followed Russia by taking another 1,000,000 barrels of oil off the market (making 2,000,000 total between both Russia and OPEC.)
#FJB
The more they attack the oil industry the more valuable the product becomes and the more they make for selling it.
It may bite him back but only after it has given us rabies.
I would like to register a small complaint over the Breitbart headline. It is not a "war on oil," per se. It is a war on consumers, the intention ever and always to separate the little guy and gal from their money, nickels and dimes at a time, dollars and more at other times.
One of the simple tenets of real capitalism is the notion of competition, as being good since price competition brings prices down for the consumer.
Then all which raises prices inexorably is the inverse. That is the "war on consumers," whether it be for energy or gaslighting for increased "uptake" of pharmaceuticals and more.
A look to the long history of purchasing power of a dollar, as of labor, shows that the war has gone on a very long time, a war on competition and for monopolistic control, and all for the benefit of the few and well connected.
Getting and staying out of debt, consuming "local" and be wary of marketing and messaging are stratagems to allay the effects of this war.
> This isn’t Biden’s doing. <
Right. Biden will sign whatever piece of paper is put in front of him.
If Biden is told to sign a treaty ceding Delaware to Bulgaria, we lose a state and Bulgaria gets a foothold in the New World.
what does elitist Jail House Joe care? His motorcade is lithium fueled right?/s
My thoughts exactly, they know they're going to dump him before the next election so know is the time to implement all the bad and unpopular policies. It will all be on Biden's legacy which the DNC will run from.
If gas is 7 bucks a gallon who cares Biden is toast anyway.
Look for even more outlandish policies in the near future.
Liz Peek thinks the average price of gas is $3.80 today. It’s been over $5.00 everywhere the last 3 years; that’s the permanent bubble in which they reside.
Imagine how thrilled we are up here to be floating in crude and yet paying an average of $4.60 a gallon. At one point a while back an outfit was able to truck diesel all the way up the Alcan to the North Slope from Washington state for 60 cents less a gallon than What was available in Alaska. Think about it. There are topping plants there that can make diesel but due to regulations about ULSD none of the diesel fuel available in an oil field could be used for trucks and equipment. Now they are trying to force us to use ULSD for home heating oil.
This idiocy is so stunning that it is surely intentional. What’s Joe’s answer to Saudi cutbacks ?: Close down Alaskan Artic oil !
I submit it’s Obama & co. ushering in U.S. decline as has been his goal. Similarly, the Obama/Sinclair gay news plus his admitted daydreams point to the gender chaos he’s engineered successfully.
Over the past four weeks, crude oil imports averaged about 6.8 million barrels per day, 12.1 percent more than the same four-week period last year
https://www.rigzone.com/news/usa_crude_oil_stocks_drop_over_10mm_barrels-01-sep-2023-173866-article/
What bubble do you live in? The highest price I ever paid for gasoline in my neck of the woods was $4.99/gallon last year … and I live in a state with one of the highest fuel taxes in the U.S.
This is largely a rehash of yesterday’s news about NPRA.
Look people. Stop with this kneejerk stuff about oil. Repeat this to yourself, because it is true —
MOST PLACES DO NOT HAVE OIL.
Simply that. Let it inform all your thinking about drilling.
There has been 1 exploratory well drilled in ANWR. Chevron did it. The results are kept secret, but Chevron knows the secret. In 2017 drilling in ANWR was approved. CHEVRON DID NOT LEAP TO START DRILLING. Think about that. Odds are high, very high, there is nothing there.
Alaska will always hype themselves and light fires of anger under anyone who would stop drilling.
Here’s another secret about oil. There are a zillion little companies out there who get paid to drill. Doesn’t matter what they find. They get paid to drill. They want drilling to happen and want no obstructions to it, and they don’t care what they find. You will never hear them talk about damage done while they drill because all they will talk about is the potential of what they find.
Chevron had 3 years to drill. They know more about what might be there than anyone else. They didn’t drill.
There is Nothing on Earth. Heaven, or Hell that will ever bring Bite-me down. The press will support, deflect, blame republicans for anything bac.
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