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Pick on him all you want. Let's go Brandon. But the fact is, all of the policy changes he's made this far haven't actually had a chance to take affect. Except maybe the executive order that cut petroleum subsidies, but we are all for that aren't we?

And exactly how many barrels of oil has this caused us to lose? How badly did it effect us? It should be very easy to qualify.

That February drop was due to the freeze in Texas shutting things down. We are still currently above 2017/2018 levels.

If I'm wrong, tell me, but this isn't showing that oil production is way down currently.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=WCRFPUS2&f=W

You're wrong, several ways.

July 2019: 368,765,000 barrels. July 2021: 350,521,000 barrels, down 5%. But the trend is what's alarming. The markets look ahead, not back to 2017/2018. And they know that it's not just US production that's being slammed. So that site doesn't tell the whole story. Canadian production is being turned away to fight 'climate change.'

Everyone (-1) knows "Team Biden" is continuing to hinder use of North American oil, as they promised to do. And everyone (-1) knows they're doing that.

And you continue to deny the reality at the gas pumps.

I'm denying nothing. I'm disputing your evidence. Gas prices are high. If Bidens policies are the cause, I'd like to know. But I'm going to need more then "everyone knows".

They already explained. Biden shut down drilling on federal lands. That stopped our energy independence.

The libs can't face the reality of this situation. Because they can't accept the effects of disastrous policy decisions, they begin to deny the decisions even occurred. One example: they pretend to not hear or see evidence that the Keystone XL pipeline project was shut down!

He stopped new leases on federal land, not existing leases. Which I agree will probably result in higher prices. I just disagree that it would have happened this fast. I mean, newly leased land won't start producing oil immediately, right? But if I'm wrong I'm wrong. I just want evidence, because I can't find any. I saw an article that said oil producers are focusing on profits for stockholders rather than the investment it takes to maintain the sort of production we were seeing. But I don't know if that was credible.

I also don't know if such a focus on profits isn't the oil industries reaction to Bidens policies. It could be, but it's all just guesses.