WuWei
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Why did Brandon go beg OPEC to increase production?
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Because US oil companies choose not to increase production. Should the govt have the power to force them to increase production?
WuWei
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Force? No. How about taking some of that 4 trillion Woke money and making it worth while?
Call it gas infrastructure.
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WuWei:
Force? No.
Ok. Then low production in the US is the fault of business, not government, right? The oil companies could easily increase production but choose not to. Nothing is stopping oil companies from hiring more drilling rigs.
WuWei
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Borgia_dude:

WuWei:
Force? No.
Ok. Then low production in the US is the fault of business, not government, right? The oil companies could easily increase production but choose not to. Nothing is stopping oil companies from hiring more drilling rigs.
It’s not their job. OPEC sets the price, remember?
JimmyC
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Hmmmm…conservatives looking to government to solve market issues?
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WuWei:

Borgia_dude:

WuWei:
Force? No.
Ok. Then low production in the US is the fault of business, not government, right? The oil companies could easily increase production but choose not to. Nothing is stopping oil companies from hiring more drilling rigs.
It’s not their job.
Agreed. So low production in the US is not Biden’s fault but can be laid at the feet of the oil companies, correct?
WuWei
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It’s Jbiden Inc’s job to convince them. Instead, he threatens them. What is using up the reserves going to do?
Come on man!
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But they could, at any time, increase oil production by completing more DUC wells and drilling on land they already have control over. They choose not to. Blaming Biden because he can’t coerce American companies to go against their corporate strategy seems rather partisan of you.
Here’s a bigger question: why are you against using the Canadian Oil Sands (which the Keystone pipeline was going to bring to America), and instead prefer to continue to drill in the Gulf of Mexico?
Did you learn nothing from Deep Water Horizon?

floydefisher:
Here’s a bigger question: why are you against using the Canadian Oil Sands (which the Keystone pipeline was going to bring to America), and instead prefer to continue to drill in the Gulf of Mexico?
Did you learn nothing from Deep Water Horizon?
I’m ambivalent on Keystone. Just pointing out it won’t solve any oil shortages today because it isn’t in operation.
WuWei
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I didn’t say “coerce”, I said convince. That dumbass and his tribe certainly don’t have any problem pissing away money on green hoax and gender studies.
Maybe he ought not attack them? Maybe he ought not claim they are destroying the planet?
It’s the immiseration for me.
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WuWei
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Nor will it ever be, now. Infrastructure bill roads open today?
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No, but after seeing the Gulf of Mexico damned near turn into the Dead Sea, I conclude it’s a helluva lot safer to mine oil sands than drill all the way out in the middle of the Gulf.
Why is your side so against that?
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tnt
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You guys realize this is a global thing, right? The us isn’t the only country dealing with an increase in energy costs and inflation.
tnt
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Wasn’t the pipeline going to take the oil to the gulf for export to the global markets?
WuWei
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First major release in a non-emergency. NBC
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Rodeo
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Impenitent:
with the economy doing so wonderfully, the president seems to think that emptying our oil reserve will bring even more prosperity to the middle class…
if he really wants to reduce prices and open up the fuel supply, and make Canada a happy neighbor again, all he has to do is re-open the Keystone pipeline
long lines as well as even and odd days are coming soon - but history never repeats
This will do zero good. None.
50 million barrels of oil is about a 2-3 day supply.
Trump filled that strategic oil reserve up when oil prices were low … what Biden is doing amounts to taking out a high interest payday loan to pay your credit card bill.
Why not get the damn government out if the way and get the American energy industry that was doing so well a chance to do what it does again.
This is just another idiotic maneuver by our idiot president.
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