China is not the only big oil consumer the United States has asked to release oil from its reserves in a bid to rein in prices, Reuters has reported, citing unnamed sources.
So now Brandon goes crawling on his knees, begging for relief to save his political posterior. It's all a sham; he doesn't want lower gas prices (he drove them up in the first place) but rather wants to look like he's taking bold action. It's all about his poll numbers. But it was Biden who killed Keystone and banned drilling on government laned. It was Biden who promised a return to the Paris Accord and promised to end the internal combustion engine in the U.S. (thus frightening investors). It was Biden who put the squeeze on banks to get them to stop lending money to oil and gas producers. Then when his policies bear fruit (and this is exactly what these policies were intended to do, drive up the price of oil and gas) he crawls to foreign nations like a supplicant begging the king to not cut off his head. He doesn't mean it though. He wants prices to drop TEMPORARILY, until the public gets used to higher prices, then inch them up further. When Barack Obama was president and gasoline prices spiked over four bucks a gallon he was asked about it and said he was unhappy they rose so quickly, not that they rose. I would add that Donald Trump said this would happen during one of the debates when he finally got Rip Van Wrinkle to admit his hostility to oil and gas drilling. Nobody listened to Trump at the time. Well, how's that working out for everyone?
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Bite-Me's like most liberals/leftists, who apparently believe that energy appears magically. You turn on a light switch and the light comes on, and most of them have never bothered to think past that elementary action. Look, I believe the man is actually evil, but when he pushes two diametrically opposed ideas: electric cars, which will put a huge load on the electrical grid, and "renewable energy," which short-changes the supply to the grid, I have to believe he's also monumentally stupid.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at November 20, 2021 04:51 PM (pdDZ2)
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Evil and stupid. Where's the power going to come from?
Well, I think the electric car is a red herring, a scheme to get everyone to dump their internal combustion engines. Then when there is no power to charge said electrics everyone will have to take trains and buses - the fondest dream of the Left for decades.
Biden always rode the train home to Delaware. He's been a big trainiac for decades.
Liberals all like playing choo-choo...
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at November 21, 2021 09:32 AM (/4O05)
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The Left ignores the fact that most of the country has no mass transportation. Small towns, which make up the majority of population centers, have no trains and only rudimentary bus service if that. Are we to be forced to use taxis, or Uber and Lyft (which the Left hate because they're non-union)?
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at November 21, 2021 10:11 AM (6r44G)
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The dumber ones never consider that, and the smarter ones are happy with people not being able to move about. They figure if you aren't under quarantine you aren't under their control.
These are scary people.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at November 22, 2021 08:34 AM (DTF5h)