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These are stories we tell ourselves to make due for the fact that we are so dependent on Saudi Arabia that we roll over and play dead when they hack up our journalists. Which isn't to say rolling over and playing dead isn't the wisest move, but you can be danged sure it is spineless. In any event, there have been ten thousand reasons to move away from dependence on Saudi Arabia, this being just the messiest and most disrespectful to us.

One thing we could do is open up drilling here in America. But President Brain Damage and the left wing is doing everything in their power to make that impossible. And as has been stated, we are tied to gasoline and diesel for the foreseeable future.

So the immediate question is, what are we as a nation, going to do to keep the gasoline flowing without bankrupting the citizens in the process?

As you know, the price of gas/diesel affects everything in our lives. It is now the time of year for farmers to be getting into the fields to plant crops for this years harvest. I don't know how it is wherever you live, but here those farmers tractors burn diesel fuel and use probably 100 gallons a day. As the price of diesel has doubled this year, it may cause some farmers to reconsider planting in some fields as their expected ROI will not cover their increase costs. This could translate into food shortages this fall and huge price spikes in farming commodities.

How many people will begin to go hungry in this country, let alone those that depend upon the US for their food supplies?

How long would an electric combine work?

17 minutes?

Good outcome

said it then and I'll say it again....what's more likely? (a) Those pesky Russians set up an elaborate set-up operation and faked a laptop with fake emails! OR...... (b) a f**king CRACKHEAD/alcoholic smoked crack, drank drank, got high and drunk, dropped off a laptop on a binge and completely forgot about it.

Yeah, I'll go with option B.

Problems can have short term approaches which could mitigate the problem, and longer term (years or decades) solutions.  The head of Oxy Pete said they couldn't produce more right now because of labor and material shortages.  There are a lot of open leases.  And production is recovering.  This is the shorter term approach.

I think Biden put his foot in it pandering to the Greens and then issued some EOs which I THINK had relatively little to do with production but sounded good (pandering).  Thus, he created the image he dampened production, because he meant to create that image. Maybe all that did have some slight impact.  I suspect it was nearly all optics, nor reality, and other factors are at play here.

I see folks on FB saying we should open the KXL pipeline to use AMERICAN oil, which says something about where some folks are these days.

I do think it's absurd to ask SA et al. to produce more while not at least reversing the optics of what was done internally, but he can't say that.

Now, longer term, EVs will reduce how much oil we need, but it really is long term.  I'm sure oil companies are looking at that trend and thinking about what they want to be in 2040.