Thus illustrating the absurdity of thinking that the Russians really wanted Trump to be president.
Saw this coming back in 2012 - 2014. My timing was too early else I would be the richest member in my family history. The Obama Administration wouldn’t sign off on an export application from my group.
The Bakken has 10 X the proven reserves of Saudi Arabia. The Permian Basin is producing an overflow of oil never before seen in its history.
Refineries are coming back online so quickly. Just a few years they were mothballed, disassembled, sold and shipped overseas. They are so valuable because they are made to US standards and are built to last hundreds of years. American engineering truly had a golden age that was set back for decades by politics. Now with President Trump, it’s all coming back. The young people of today are so fortunate.
On top of this, the USA has so much natural gas that comes out with the oil pumping that it has to be flared (burned) off, wasted.
It’ a whole different world now that most thought impossible just a few short years ago.
See, Collusion! There...oh, wait.
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Capitalism vs government control. The good guys win every time!
When are we going to get gas as cheap as the Saudis did all these years? When I was much younger, gas was 50 cents a gallon... we could cruise around on that.
15 gallons to fill a car would come to 7.50 and no extra tax. I pay 30.00 and more, to fill my tank today.
This one series of actions alone - all of the deregulation, the pipeline, the auctioning off of leases, etc., etc., plus the saving of the coal industry - PROVES that Trump was NEVER in the pocket of the Russians. He was saying during the entire campaign that he’d do this, and followed up by actually doing what he said he’d do.
Since Russia, like the Soviet Union 30-35 years ago depends on sales of oil and natural gas for roughly 2/3 of its foreign currency reserves (with which it spends multiple billions for defense, and to prop up its NY State-sized economy), ANYTHING that reduces oil/natural gas revenue to Russia hurts them badly. Drowning the world in oil, along with increased defense spending (another Trump promise fulfilled), was one of the pillars upon which Reagan and William Casey planned to bankrupt the Soviet Empire (quite successfully, as it turns out). Putin knows well that this is what happened in the 1980s, and that Russia is at least as vulnerable to it now as then.
Compare and contrast with Hillary wanting to shut off oil exploration and production, ditto for natural gas, and to continue picking apart the coal industry, PLUS not building up our defenses...and now you can EASILY see which candidate Putin really favored. Oh, and add to that the fact that the Russians had all of the goods on Hillary WRT the entire Uranium One situation.
This, by the way, is exactly why the entire environmental advocacy industry is peopled by a bunch of watermelons (green on the outside, Communist Red on the inside) - because it has LONG (i.e. for multiple decades) been in the interest of the Soviets/Russians to keep our oil and natural gas in the ground or under the oceans - because if we got it out, they’d be bankrupted. They were hoping to take over before we woke up and realized this, and to then pump it out themselves, but thanks to Reagan and Casey they lost.
Trump never was “Putin’s candidate” - that was Hillary. Next election, it’ll be whomever campaigns on crippling the energy industry in this country (under the guise of protecting the environment/fighting global warming, etc.).
Let the idiot anti-Trump Leftists (but I repeat myself) know this the next time you have an argument over “Russia, Russia, Russia” with them - they’ll be reduced to stammering, or else calling you a racist. But let them know that YOU KNOW THE TRUTH about Russia, energy, the environmental movement and the Dems.
Flood the owner/operator US trucking industry with lower gas prices to increase pay, stop the attrition and reliance on immigrant drivers, and gain 2 million voters (drivers) and their family members (3-5 million).
With us supplying the rest of the world with oil, Trump should be advised that the oil companies continue to screw us with their high prices. A gallon of gas is hitting $3.