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[QUOTE=GDreams;2667856]Firstly Keystone was a Canadian project to ship oil to the US to be exported. This oil is being transported by rail currently. Keystone has not impacted the oil supply as it still would not have been completed now. So Keystone has no impact and never had any impact on US oil independence as the oil has always been available.

Second the reason for the fall in oil production is that during the great Trump pandemic the oil price collapsed. The industry had borrowed huge amounts of money to achieve the rapidly expanded oil production initiated by Obama. Many financiers went broke, many oil and gas producers went broke so now noone is leaping to invest huge amounts of money in developing production that for years delivered low then negative returns. Strange that the free market republicans only care about the free market when its convenient.

Thirdly Europe has depended on Russian gas for decades. The big difference was Nordstream which was built to bypass Ukraine. How you can blame Biden for Europes dependence on Russian gas is unfathomable. There is no logic or evidence supporting that.[/QUOTE]Please stop getting your data from fantasyland. That is a typical socialist fake post. All the pipe and supplies were on the ground and construction had started on the pipeline when Biden took office. It would be delivering oil today. Biden cancelled pipeline and increased oil from Russia. Oil companies were not going broke in Trump presidency when prices are stable. Oil is being transported by Warren Buffett rail at a high price but there is no way that rail can handle 800,000 barrels a day that is needed in USA refineries.

Biden cancelled drilling permits on all federal land and offshore and put numerous stupid regulations on oil drilling to slow USA exploration and production which he succeeded in doing by 1.2 million barrels a day. We were energy self sufficient under Trump and now we depend on Russia, OPEC and Saudi for oil. These 3 are getting rich by Biden. Biden is financing Russia to invade Ukraine. Ukraine children lives are on Biden failures now. People who voted for Biden need to know they have blood on their hands.

[QUOTE=Xpartan;2667855]Read that drivel. So basically, the diabolical America made gullible Putin invade Ukraine so that Germany had an excuse to shut down Nord 2. Oh my!

Legend indeed. Where do the crackpots find those clowns?

Next![/QUOTE]By crackpots I assume you mean socialists. Kid you want to find one of these clowns look for the writer of Xpartan posts.

"Imagine What Can Happen in Ukraine" if Trump is Re-elected. Warned Joe Biden!

[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO0Emcybrqc[/URL]

[QUOTE=GDreams;2667856]Firstly Keystone was a Canadian project to ship oil to the US to be exported. This oil is being transported by rail currently. Keystone has not impacted the oil supply as it still would not have been completed now. So Keystone has no impact and never had any impact on US oil independence as the oil has always been available.

Second the reason for the fall in oil production is that during the great Trump pandemic the oil price collapsed. The industry had borrowed huge amounts of money to achieve the rapidly expanded oil production initiated by Obama. Many financiers went broke, many oil and gas producers went broke so now noone is leaping to invest huge amounts of money in developing production that for years delivered low then negative returns. Strange that the free market republicans only care about the free market when its convenient.

Thirdly Europe has depended on Russian gas for decades. The big difference was Nordstream which was built to bypass Ukraine. How you can blame Biden for Europes dependence on Russian gas is unfathomable. There is no logic or evidence supporting that.[/QUOTE]Wrong. Are you the only guy in USA that isn't smart enough to know that on day one of Biden presidency he vowed to reduce oil and gas production in USA in sake of climate? Cancelling pipelines, cancelling new drilling on federal lands, cancelling offshore drilling and putting stupid excessive regulations on oil companies killed exploration in USA. You can fabricate all the lies in the world but it doesn't change the fact that Biden made USA reliant again on foreign oil. Him begging Russia and OPEC to produce more only showed his desperation so they raised prices. Oil doubled in price and Russia was the biggest benefactor. Yes Biden is responsible for funding Russia invasion of Ukraine.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2667853]It appears forward looking USA stock market investors with real money on the line and not just blathering political gamesmanship at stake have not yet noticed any "senility" in Biden's economic or national security stewardship or "weakness" in him or his economy going forward.

They are not yet even showing signs of being particularly concerned about the state of today's historic global supply chain destruction inflation challenges that Biden inherited from Trump or the ones in energy triggered by Trump's and the Republican Party's much preferred "leader of the free world" Vladimir Putin.

[B]Dow climbs 800 points in its best day since late 2020 as investors weigh latest on Russia-Ukraine[/B]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/24/stock-market-futures-open-to-close-news.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL].[/QUOTE]Sorry you are wrong again. Dow is down 6.5% this year. Analysts are worried about inflation and Biden policies. Inflation can only get worse with Biden policies. Market is in a holding pattern and staying relatively stable because indications are that Republicans will take back the House and Senate this fall. If not watch for the biggest crash ever possibly. Analysts are not always correct but they usually are pretty close.

[QUOTE=TheCane;2667833]I heard from a commentator on the above-referenced show the real and true reason for why Putin felt emboldened to act at this time. It's because democracy in the United States is as weak as its ever been. And whose fault is that? Hmmm? Anybody remember who inspired January 6th? Think it's that same guy on his knees in front of Putin.[/QUOTE]Keep watching fake news. Stay in fantasyland.

[QUOTE=Golfinho;2667864]Simple reading comprehension is clearly beyond you, so easy does it now, stick to your script:

[URL]http://thesaker.is/and-now-a-few-words-from-our-wannabe-overlords/[/URL][/QUOTE]"The Saker is strongly integrated into both Kremlin-controlled networks and homegrown US-based conspiracy groups. The Saker and South Front syndicate content; a special section of The Saker Site is devoted to reports from South Front. The Saker personally contributes to sites in Canada, the US and to Russian nationalist groups. The site contains a selection of news sources – most are affiliated to Russian state or oligarch structures. RT, Sputnik, New Eastern Outlook, Strategic Culture Foundation, South Front, News Front and other contributors to the EUvsDisinfo Database on Disinformation.

The site has a rather impressive traffic – data from Similarweb shows that the site had over 360 000 visitors in May. Most visitors come from the US, some from Canada.

Saker is in all a fairly mainstream conspiracy site. The unique selling point is that the site combines a slightly leftist anti-colonialist sentiment – suggesting the USA as the evil force in global politics – with traditional right-wing approaches to Jews, Moslems, the LGTB community etc. He is eloquently supporting Orthodox Christian values, as long as the Orthodoxy is commanded by the Kremlin.

The Franchise "The Saker" has developed into a community. The Saker's readers can share tips on what to read, what to grow and how to stay healthy; the list of reliably pro-Kremlin news makes the members of the community feel comfortable and cosy inside the bubble. And an entire set of different language versions is found. " [URL]https://euvsdisinfo.eu/the-saker-blind-loyalty-disguised-as-defiance/[/URL].

[QUOTE=CaliGuy;2667842]He won't open up drilling because that is the intelligent thing to do. Expanding drilling in USA kills Russia. Lowers oil prices. Reduces inflation. Biden is to stupid to actually do something that helps Americans.[/QUOTE]Please cite a source, any source, that if Biden opened up drilling everywhere on day 1 of his Presidency that those wells would be producing today. [URL]https://energyhq.com/2017/08/from-inception-through-completion-the-life-cycle-of-a-well/[/URL] But sure, blame Biden.

I realize that you are just parroting FUX "News" but only about 22% of oil production comes from federal land. The rest comes from private and state land. So Biden didn't do anything to affect [B]current production[/B]. But the talking heads at FUX "News" didn't tell you that, did they? But sure, blame Biden.

And besides, Biden doesn't control what private companies do. Unless, of course, you think he should force private companies to start drilling. The results of which, BTW, wouldn't be felt for several years. But sure, blame Biden.

And, of course, there is the "but it would be so easy to just ship American oil and gas to Europe" canard. Obviously this idiotic idea was thought up by the same idiots who thought that Chinese thermostats changed 2020 election votes. [URL]https://news.yahoo.com/more-us-gas-production-wont-affect-russia-ukraine-or-europe-experts-say-200717731.html[/URL].

[QUOTE=Golfinho;2667864]Simple reading comprehension is clearly beyond you[/QUOTE]Why is that? I didn't quote Michael Hudson, you did.

[QUOTE]The only way left for U.S. diplomats to block European purchases is to goad Russia into a military response and then claim that avenging this response outweighs any purely national economic interest.[/QUOTE]Do you disagree with Mr. Hudson? Am I somehow misinterpreting what he means?

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2667994]Whomp whomp, indeed.

"Is Trump's hold on the Republican Party getting weaker?" [URL]https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2022/02/08/is-trumps-hold-on-the-republican-party-getting-weaker/[/URL].[/QUOTE]Not a chance Brookings LOL.

It's important to set the right mood and theme during these solemn times to explain why things have transpired as they have:

[URL]https://youtu.be/LyQ8GyjuTWo[/URL]

[QUOTE=Xpartan;2668099]Why is that? I didn't quote Michael Hudson, you did.

Do you disagree with Mr. Hudson? Am I somehow misinterpreting what he means?[/QUOTE]Consider the possibility: the Biden State Department wanted Russia to invade Ukraine. Then, what? Well, instability on rival Russia's border for starters, a net plus. And afterwards, it could even get better: Ukrania as a failed State. The first act hasn't closed and the Banderastan government (courtesy of Uncle Shmuel, err Sam) is already handing out weaponry to any male between the ages of 18 to 60 who wants one, a prelude to armed criminal gangs in control of the country? Where have we seen that before? Libya? ISIS, Iraq? Yes, it sounds utterly cynical. But if US foreign policy has nothing positive left to offer, why wouldn't they do a strategy like this? And, note the reaction in the financial markets: Wall St. Appears to be on to the game. The question is how far the US will go to keep its vassals in line? Look closely as you'll see the signals. Biden says no US troops: Ukraine is being totally used, hung out to dry, just like Georgia in 2008. Same playbook. As for the NATO vassals? Professor Hudson has them pegged. The US wins no matter how this turns out. But, it does ratchet up the stakes the next time they try the same strategy. If you want to keep playing checkers, that's understandable. This isn't 5-the chess or conspiracy. This has been the US strategy in plane sight now for a number of years.

[QUOTE=PVMonger;2668056]"The Saker is strongly integrated into both Kremlin-controlled networks and homegrown US-based conspiracy groups. The Saker and South Front syndicate content; a special section of The Saker Site is devoted to reports from South Front. The Saker personally contributes to sites in Canada, the US and to Russian nationalist groups. The site contains a selection of news sources most are affiliated to Russian state or oligarch structures. RT, Sputnik, New Eastern Outlook, Strategic Culture Foundation, South Front, News Front and other contributors to the EUvsDisinfo Database on Disinformation.

The site has a rather impressive traffic data from Similarweb shows that the site had over 360 000 visitors in May. Most visitors come from the US, some from Canada.

Saker is in all a fairly mainstream conspiracy site. The unique selling point is that the site combines a slightly leftist anti-colonialist sentiment suggesting the USA as the evil force in global politics with traditional right-wing approaches to Jews, Moslems, the LGTB community etc. He is eloquently supporting Orthodox Christian values, as long as the Orthodoxy is commanded by the Kremlin..[/QUOTE]Duh! If you can't appreciate the saker for entertainment value, you may as well watch CNN and read the NY Times only. Read and watch all media -- always between the lines obviously, if you want to understand anything.

[QUOTE=PVMonger;2668066]Please cite a source, any source, that if Biden opened up drilling everywhere on day 1 of his Presidency that those wells would be producing today. [URL]https://energyhq.com/2017/08/from-inception-through-completion-the-life-cycle-of-a-well/[/URL] But sure, blame Biden.

I realize that you are just parroting FUX "News" but only about 22% of oil production comes from federal land. The rest comes from private and state land. So Biden didn't do anything to affect [B]current production[/B]. But the talking heads at FUX "News" didn't tell you that, did they? But sure, blame Biden.

And besides, Biden doesn't control what private companies do. Unless, of course, you think he should force private companies to start drilling. The results of which, BTW, wouldn't be felt for several years. But sure, blame Biden.

And, of course, there is the "but it would be so easy to just ship American oil and gas to Europe" canard. Obviously this idiotic idea was thought up by the same idiots who thought that Chinese thermostats changed 2020 election votes. [URL]https://news.yahoo.com/more-us-gas-production-wont-affect-russia-ukraine-or-europe-experts-say-200717731.html[/URL].[/QUOTE]I'm not sure what crackpots want from Biden. Like you said, there are thousands of unused permits they can use but no. They're just sitting on them waiting till the prices go even higher.

[QUOTE]So far, U.S. oil companies have been reluctant to pump more, preferring to steer record cash flows back to investors instead of spending it on new drilling that could flood the world with cheap crude but also stoke another boom-and-bust cycle.

That could change with oil prices hovering around $100 a barrel, said Kevin Book, managing director of research firm ClearView Energy Partners. Oil and gas producers buy leases as options, not obligations, Book said. As we close in on $100 a barrel it is a safe bet that those leases are going to get used.

Oil and gas permitting on private land is not affected, and Interior regulators were still reviewing applications for permits to drill on Tuesday, said an agency representative who asked for anonymity to discuss the activity. [/QUOTE][URL]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-22/biden-halts-oil-permits-just-as-gasoline-prices-surge-on-ukraine[/URL]

Maybe, trumpers should direct their false outrage at oil producers who are taking their sweet time at this time of the unprecedented crisis. And maybe Biden should threaten to revoke these permits (although I don't know about the legalities here) from greedy bastards sitting on their hands while America is hurting at the pump.