by Ace
Dear Diary: Today I found out it’s a lot easier to shut down domestic oil production with a series of executive orders and policy directives than it is to put oil back in production again.Via Twitchy, the Financial Times discovers that when Pop-Pop burned the US’s domestic production capacity down, he didn’t have a plan for starting it back up again.
He just thought that “green energy” would come on line because we needed it to.As US petrol prices scale record highs, with the cost of a gallon of fuel surpassing $5 for the first time, Joe Biden has pleaded with the country’s oil producers to open the taps and stem the surge.But those calls — a stark departure for a president who vowed to crack down on fossil fuels — have largely gone unheeded as the industry insists its drilling spree days are behind it.
“When the White House started calling around in a panic, they thought shale oil production could grow sharply in the near term — like in a matter of months or quarters,” said Bob McNally, head of consultancy Rapidan Energy.
“They were shocked to learn that that’s like asking for blood from a stone. It’s almost impossible.”Weird, it’s almost as if it’s much easier to damage a complicated thing like a highly interrelated economic system — or a human body — with a stupid and gross injury than it is to repair it!
Meanwhile, AAA found the national gas average over $5 by Saturday, I think.
And a Michigan county is no longer sending out squad cars to respond to most emergencies, because gas is too expensive. They’re just dealing with them by… phone.
This is some real Mad Max shit right here.
Over $5 a gallon now. What’s idiot Biden going to do when the strategic reserve is empty? What will the stupid moron do, after that, when we actually NEED the reserve for an actual emergency? (note: crashing poll numbers because idiot Biden kneecapped the energy industry is NOT an emergency)
How much more proof do we need to finally convince us that professional disrupters have NO BUSINESS controlling BUSINESS. AOC doesn’t know where food comes from. She doesn’t know where electricity comes from. She doesn’t now what a garbage disposal is (though she MUST know what garbage is, being garbage herself). Idiot Biden can’t find his ass with both hands and he lets morons like AOC control him (Obama is a LOT like AOC).
These dumbasses, who think businesses can just print more money when they run out, like THEY do, believe the oil companies just keep all the equipment, employees and infrastructure in place, coming in every day and checking the internet to see if idiot Biden suddenly did a 180 and reauthorized exploration and production.
Oh, wait… I mean, “Putin did it!”
Does the following not seem odd to you?
Yes. Trump was preventing lobbies and companies, all of them, from making money with their installed politicians like Pelosi and others.
He had to go.
Trump had us pump oil. Biden shut it down.
Trump kept gas cheap. Biden made it go up.
Average Americans aren’t buying the propaganda. The world, and their wallets, are worse off with Biden installed in our WH.
Your reply totally ignores the FACT that oil companies are presently sitting on 9000 unused drilling permits, and are raking in the highest profits they’ve had in decades while your pump prices soar.
Biden isn’t the reason they’re not drilling. The reason is that corporations are PROFIT oriented, NOT production oriented. If they can profit more while spending less on production, that is what they do.
That, in fact, is what’s going wrong with the entire corporate system. Profits Over Production has pretty much become their motto. Their focus is on finance, not on producing. It’s why you can’t find Made in the USA products on the shelves of Walmart, or most anywhere else. It’s why many have moved their manufacturing bases overseas. It’s why Detroit has become an urban wasteland.
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You have no idea about which you spew.
you are shrilling for a failed illegitimate regime.
Unlike yourself, I know what I’m saying and I know why I’m saying it. You’re being playing for a dupe–but not by myself or by democrats.
We know what you are saying and its not true, your TV told you lies and you are repeating them.
Now they want to slap a windfall profits on the price that could take it to average 10 bucks a gallon, corporations dont pay the taxes they pass them on to the consumer.
Meanwhile back at the ranch they are clear about killing the industry, why should big oil GAF about making Biden look good?
You still haven’t figured out that Trump & Co staged an unsuccessful coup attempt, as obvious as that has become. Everyone in his inner circle has either clearly testified to that effect, unlawfully refused to testify at all, or repeatedly taken the Fifth.
Trump should have been removed from office. His own people say he was completely out of touch with reality.
And you still haven’t figured out that Americans don’t give a flying f*ck about January 6, 2021, even if what you claim was true, which it’s not.
Do you think you are going to convince people that paying over $6.00 for a gallon of gas is Putin’s fault? If that excuse was working, Biden wouldn’t be changing his tune and now claiming it’s all the fault of the oil companies in the U.S.
I have just one thing to say to you, freaking idiot that you are: Texas Congressional District 34.
I’m sick of hearing the likes of you trashing genuine patriots to elevate the likes of Donald Trump. Pence turned out to be a better man than Trump will ever be—just like the other good people Trump has demeaned and bullied. Trump is a corrupting influence. He had corrupted the Republican Party. He and his mob of suck-ups and worshipful idiots have methodically purged the integrity right out of the GOP.
pence is a dirtbag traitor. He is the reason biden is fuc$ing up America
Because he refused to illegally nullify election results that all states certified? Do you really want to give that power to VP Kamala Harris in 2024?
The congress is responsible for free fair and constitutional elections, they failed in their duty to be the last line of defense.
Congress failed when Senate Republicans twice refused to convict Donald Trump.
Who the hell is John Eastman, to have been doing what he did? He’s Trump’s personal lawyer, not part of the White House legal team. Who is this jackass, to have overruled the opinions and warnings of everybody in the administration but Trump himself? Have you even thought about that?
Once again, responsible people in Congress ARE doing their patriotic duty, while people under Trump’s control do all they can to lie and obstruct. Given all that’s coming out in the January 6 Committee hearings from inside the Trump administration itself, anyone but an idiot should realize the seriousness of the danger to American democracy.
Thank God for Mike Pence’s sense of duty. He bought the nation and its constitutional rule of law a second chance.
There was nothing to convict him of. He never committed any impeachable offense. Everyone that voted FOR impeachment in the House and the Senate should be kicked out of office. Impeachment is not for political spats; it’s for CRIMES. Democrats politicized it because Trump was too successful.
Thompson, leading the kartoon kangaroo kommittee, NEVER accepted Trump won in 2016. Democrats always dispute elections when they lose and they committed fraud in 2020; they have NO credibility or honor.
John Eastman: “I’ve decided that I should be on the pardon list, if that is still in the works.”
After failing to obtain his Get out of Jail Free card, Eastman plead the Fifth Amendment over 100 times.
Who needs a pardon because idiot Biden destroyed our energy independence? Well, besides idiot Biden?
I do not seem to remember your outrage when democrats objected several times during the same procedure in January or 2017, nez pah?
Democrats nullified the election results by destroying it with fraud. If how she treats any of her other responsibilities, the whore having that power would be inconsequential. She’d do nothing… again.
Members of Congress from both chambers, in the week before January 6th, filed to RAISE OBJECTIONS to certifying the results of the election as it is their constitutional right to do.
Both chambers were scheduled to hear objections and then vote on whether or not to certify the election.
The members requested a week to 10 days delay on certification to make their objections and vote. There is nothing special about the January 6 date, it is not in the Constitution; January 20th is in the Constitution.
Never-Trumpee Marc Short, Judas Pence’s Chief of Staff, wrote a letter signed by Pence, on the morning of January 6th stating that Pence had no intention to “overturn” the results of the election, the fraudulent election.
Mr. Short, with Pence in agreement, DENIED Members of Congress their RIGHT TO HEAR OBJECTIONS.
This denial of rights is a core part of the Coup.
As government employees, having taken an Oath of Allegiance to the United States, both Short and Pence committed acts of TREASON in denying due process to the People’s representatives thereby participating in an overthrow of a duly elected President. That would be President Trump who won the 2020 election, period full stop.
Thomas Sowell – Worst President
Hmm, let’s see. Was it a staged coup attempt when several members of the democrat party objected during the 2017 joint session of congress to count states electors?
Since you hate profits. Apple makes more than twice the profits of Exxon.
Once again, why were gas prices so low during Trump’s term? Didn’t oil companies want record profits then?
What about idiot Biden driving up the cost of a barrel of oil is it that you can’t understand? Because oil is a global commodity (something you love to point out) wells that used to produce $45 a barrel oil are now producing $120 a barrel oil. Why? Well, because AOC wants it that way. Nothing more. We could have $45 a barrel (or close to it) if we were producing at full capacity and the left had not regulated the closure of so many refineries. So, the oil companies are making profits off their investments, thanks to idiot Biden.
Also, permits on leases that are tapped out are not going to produce much.
Check back with me for more helpful hints on how NOT to look so goddamn stupid.
The farther you have your head up your butt, the more insulting you become.
greggie, you are about as intelligent as the new press secretary! Are you both competing to out do Baghdad Bob?
I see you prefer looking stupid.
Greg did not fall out of the stupid tree. he was dragged through the whole dam forest.
You rell fail to understand the oil business greggie. Think about this: do all leases have oil ? Are there permits approved by the government to drill? If there is oil found, are the pipe lines open to transport the oil? You really need to concentrate on your role as the village idiot!
So why was gasoline so much cheaper with Trump as President? Didn’t oil companies want to make record profits then?
Biden over and over again said he was going to shut down fossil fuels. Discouraging banks from lending to producers as well. Oil producers know it may not be worth taking the chance as Biden has signaled his position is anti-oil. With nothing to replace it, Biden’s position is just stupid.
That permit argument is a dog that won’t hunt. It’s just one step in a multistep process to produce with government involved in everyone of them along the way. Slowing, delaying and stopping the process as they choose. I guess the democrat media complex didn’t tell you.
The US refining ability or capacity is less now than pre pandemic. It may not come back to pre pandemic levels. Unless Biden helps, but he won’t because he can’t. He’s boxed in by his environmental wacko base.
https://nypost.com/2022/06/13/gas-prices-too-high-its-all-part-of-bidens-plan-to-eliminate-fossil-fuels/
Trump-Endorsed WY Candidate Harriet Hageman: Biden’s Policies Have Been ‘Disastrous’ For Wyomians
https://twitter.com/GasBuddyGuy/status/1537058097620992000?t=Zaoa1-0gnNaXZttxxVjiSw&s=19
I hope the oil companies respond to idiot Biden that if he will reverse all the executive orders that shut down refineries and choked off production, they can help him.
We have a government not for the people but against the people.
They are lunatics
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