biden slap

It's amazing to me that libtards insist the oil crisis is not Biden's fault, when anyone who's paying any attention at all, should be able to see that from the moment he took office, Dementia Joe has seemingly done everything within his power to attack US oil production. And to those who say the problem is world wide, yeah, it is. That's the power of the US economy on the world economy. We're the straw that stirs the drink. And don't think OPEC is asleep at the wheel with this opportunity provided to them, gift wrapped, by Dementia Joe.

And now he's released what, 50 million barrels from our national oil reserve? What a pathetic attempt to cover his own back 40! If we faced an actual (as in non-Biden made) oil crisis, that would be enough to cover us for over two months. But in terms of easing the price of gas at the pump? Negative. Dementia Joe strikes again.

Libtards do not deal in reality and they get their fake news from the same outlets to confirm their stupidity. Confirmation Libtard bias, But hey science says liberalism is a mental disorder!!

no shit

Liberalism is non existent on the left anymore. Liberals still loved their country and believed it was a worthy of respect.

Oil prices began rising in the fall of 2020.
.....5 months before Trump left office.

DAMMIT BIDEN!!
Lol

It's interesting to me that Biden/democrats seem to be the ones more interested in ..conserving.. our oil and "conservatives" seem to be the ones more interested in burning it up.

Oil prices before pandemic...low (2.50 a gallon on average). The country was almost 100% energy sufficient. Two things happened that critically made them go lower. The pandemic and the subsequent loss of demand, and Russia flooding the market with oil at a time when it was not needed, a response to Trump's shutting down their pipeline, and a way to deal a devasting blow to our Fracking industry which requires gas to sell at 2.50 a gallon to be profitable.

So do we want cheap gas or do we want fracking jobs? Idk if it really matters what we want. I'm pretty sure OPEC can pump it cheaper than we can so they kind of control price (and therefore fracking jobs here) more than anything else.

I really don't understand the hype around "energy independence" when it's regarding a finite resource we pump or frack out of the ground anyway..... Seems like we're eating food out of the pantry bragging about how full we are as if the pantry will be full of food forever.

America has an estimated 200 years of oil at current consumption levels. Not a problem there with that "finite" resource. Besides, we're moving toward other energy forms anyway. Gradually phasing away from it isn't a bad idea at all. A lot of people work in the energy sector (fracking particulary) so keeping that whole industry moving helps jobs and keeps the overall price of gas at something considerably less than it is now, which is hurting everyone once fuel surcharges, heating costs, etc are factored in. It's the sudden transformation into something not even viable yet that threatens the country more than anything. It's amusing to hear people tell us to just go get an expensive electric car and put it into rush hour traffic...with no way to recharge when that battery dies in the middle of the road. Can you imagine the traffic jams in LA?

There's 50 years left of oil on Planet Earth.
200 years is coal of which the final product after extraction and processing will make gas going back to EGADS! 2013 prices look like piss going down the toilet at a bar, which in effect it is, the way we're pissing it away beacuse what's the purpose of each member of the household owning their own SUV if they can't drive to the Walmart 3 or 4 times a day to grab a snack?
That fracking? That's what the grandkids were going to use when the Saudis run out, but not anymore.

Anyways, after the Cannibal Riots of 2065 are over, what's left of the population can get by on lard. Except everything larger than a mouse will be gone, so there goes that.

- oh wait, you didn't hear that from me.

"There's 50 years left of oil on Planet Earth."

Depends on how you source it I guess...but once we get that pesky ice out of the way in the polar regions we can drill into all that formerly lush, tropical, oil-producing organic soil. Win win win and hundreds more years to drive our Humvees.

Fracking isn't going anywhere, I see it expanding and getting more lean as far as production costs go, but right now it's starting to take off again, on private lands, which will likely curb some of the pricing depending on how much actually goes to market.

Cannibals can have what's left when I die. Once this tidepod eating generation matures into edible adults I don't want to be here anyway.

I'm not sure if our own oil consumption would necessarily be the best metric of measuring how long it will last. I guess so long as we were not net exporters of oil it would be. In any case if we're burning up someone else's first, ours will last longer.

I would also point out that theoretically we might be able to move towards other energy forms.... but oil itself is so much more than just energy in our society.......... tires, makeup, clothing, shoes, many plastics.... Unless a product is made entirely of wood or steel there's a pretty good chance it somehow has oil involved. And even then..... How bout the paint..? Pretty good chance it's also oil.

Theoretically we could eventually move away from oil based plastics but if we can't make bio plastic without oil plastic that could also pose a problem if we ran out.

As far as fracking jobs, I could be misinformed about it but I'm not sure if fracking is necessarily a good thing for America anyway.... earthquakes in the midwest? Learn to code.
;P

As far as me imagining traffic jams in LA.... um...... Have you been to LA? Lol Also idk if electric cars use up electricity as much as gas cars continue to use fuel while "idling" in traffic... (?) I guess the radio, lights, and whatever else would continue using some amount of electricity though. Eventually I guess they'll probably drive themselves at which point idk if people will mind traffic so much anyway (being a "passenger" in stop and go traffic seems considerably less stressful). Seems theoretically there could also be less accidents (and therefore less traffic) if they drove themselves.

IIRC it’s big league, not bigly

eyyy if an individual's economic stability is highly dependent on a pipeline that's shown to be prone to being hacked means "energy independence." funny how when imgflip uses the term "energy independent," they still mean "government dependent." bootlickers

Energy Independence means we were producing almost 100% of our energy needs and had no need for foreign oil or their price rigging. Biden wouldn't have to ask OPEC to increase production...all he had to do was increase ours. A pipeline being hacked has nothing to do with it, seeing how we have thousands of pipelines running across the country. I live in the area most affected by the "hacking" that the media completely over-hyped. The only negative affect of the hacking was the mad rush created by the media itself. The pipeline that was shut down temporarily barely caused any disruptions.

We were net exporters, we still sold abroad and bought from abroad. A lot.
Heck, we're Venezuela's biggest (only?) customer (they have a type of crude that basically only we have the facilities to refine), and the biggest buyer of Iranian oil via 3rd parties till Obama brought that to an end.

It isn't a matter of just turning on the spigot. Demand was sharply curtailed last year, there was a surplus which at one point producers were PAYING{?), not selling to get off their hands. Supply and demand is still a thing, and now OPEC wants to recoup what they lost in earnings last year.

Anyways, prices are still TOO LOW, as subsidies have reduced selling price to half since the beginning of the industry. Perhaps it's time to wean that 'Socialist'/Corporatist mega money making industry off the tax payer teat, get realistic, and decide to pay for what we want instead of whining like the spoiled entitled brats we are.
Hey, I know it ain't easy, I haven't driven since 1991, and it'd be a bigger hassle for those living somewhere where walking might tire couch potato legs. But bottom line, like Ol' Grandpappy Modda used to say, "First rule of Capitalism: If ya don't want ta buy it, ya don't have ta have it."

Sad that we're burning our future away because we want everything cheaper than what it costs to produce because that's the price of being a gluttonous obese narcissistic society.

"Energy Independence means we were producing almost 100% of our energy needs and had no need for foreign oil or their price rigging"

fair enough, but real energy independence means we're independent from the power grid