Before Joe Biden stumbled into the Oval Office, the United States was the global leader in oil production. We weren’t dependent on anyone, sorry – that’s not entirely true.
We were dependent on the whims of career politicians like Joe Biden, who, faced with record-high gasoline prices, is treating our own oil industry as the enemy while considering our enemies to help supply more oil.
Russia, Iran, Venezuela. Buying oil from Iran is on the table, as is loosening sanctions on Venezuela to add some crude to the global supply.
BUT!, to quote Ace at AoSHQ, the Biden Administration has “No Plans to Ease Sanctions on US Oil Industry.”
Iran and Venezuela. Who else?
Russia. We can still buy oil from them ‘cuz reasons.
Psaki defends carve outs for energy in sanctions against Russia:
“We don’t have a strategic interest in reducing the global supply of energy…it also has the potential to pad the pockets of President Putin.” pic.twitter.com/fxWqABOG6V
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) March 3, 2022
Did you catch that? Less supply raises prices.
The Biden Administration doesn’t want to do anything that might reduce supply…except that time, at White House Camp, right after the inauguration, when Joe went ape sh!t and reduced the supply of oil and gas from America.
And what happened? It reduced supply, and prices went up. They’ve been going up ever since. Way up. Joe’s great idea helped cripple the US economy and may have kick-started our record-setting inflation.
Speaking of setting records, Joe can add the rising price of gas and heating fuels to his resume but maybe not.
He plans to make sure US Petro-dollar employ Russians (killing Ukrainian citizens), Venezuela (Human-rights violating Russian ally and a socialist toilet), and maybe even Iran (also a Russian ally and the leading funder of terrorism on the planet).
Did you see the trend there? Sing it, Jan!
Russia Russia Russia.
Yes, there are the Saudis, but Biden is openly pro-Iran, which irks Saudi Arabia. And Biden’s campaign rhetoric attacking the Saudis can’t have helped. So, Mr. “Repair our reputation around the world” isn’t going to be building that relationship back better.
What to do? Where do we find more oil before the prices really start to harm Democrats’ re-election chances?
I can’t wait to hear what our Democrat Congress-Critters think about this. Padding the pockets of Iran and, by extension, its terrorist proxies. Let Venezuela’s Marxist elite pad their pockets (hey, someone should eat well, right?). I think they’ll be fine with that even though they are all allies of Russia.
But how do you stand with Ukraine and continue to fund Putin’s war machine? Oh, I know they can and will do it, but it doesn’t look good if you’re saying one thing and doing another. And yes, that’s all Democrats ever do, but their civilian casualties are usually Americans.
They can hide or ignore that. What they can’t hide is that US oil and gas production, which would keep US dollars in US hands, help increase supply (in case you want to suggest we circle back to that Jen Psaki), lower prices here, and take some pressure off inflation, is off-limits.
And Biden has ensured that they will have to run on that and on this. How is buying oil and funding distant enemies with all the added pumping and pipelines and trucking and shipping better for the environment than us doing any or all of that right here?
