Posted on 08/01/2023 8:18:58 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
On Mondayy’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “José Díaz-Balart Reports,” NBC News Correspondent Steve Patterson acknowledged that cuts in oil production are “one of the biggest contributing factors” in the recent spike in oil prices, but another major factor is “long-term, we’ve been sort of putting this stuff into the air” and creating climate change.
Patterson stated, “It’s the height of summer driving season with that dreaded summer blend and crude oil prices are a bit different with production being cut worldwide, that is one of the biggest contributing factors, but certainly, so too is the heat. It is, because, specifically, these refineries that you’ll find along the Gulf in places like Texas and Louisiana and on the West Coast are so overheated with repeated hundred-degree days that they literally cannot operate at full capacity, which means production at those refineries…they can’t operate because it’s so frigging hot at those places, which makes it really, really difficult, and, of course, spikes the price of gasoline. That is the largest contributing factor to the fact, of course, that, long-term, we’ve been sort of putting this stuff into the air, creating a climate of increased climate. It’s hotter in general, which means those refineries get hotter quicker. It’s a vicious cycle, Jose. And we’ve seen it repeated now. It was, of course, a lot worse last summer. The hope is it doesn’t spike even further, but as we’ve been speaking to experts, we expect at least another seven to ten-cent increase to maybe somewhere along $3.85 before the driving season ends. So, it’s going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better. That’s what we’re hearing.”
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Circular logic.
We the People cannot fix Stupid
Everything bad is either because of Climate Change or Donald Trump.
Drugs can make you really stupid.
Television is a dangerous drug.
I’m reminded of Holden Caulfield in “The Catcher in the Rye” when he said “That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a goddam toilet seat.”
Only, in this case, it would be “That guy Patterson is about as smart as a goddam toilet seat.”
It’s ok, they know they can get away with this crap.
Media spews nonsense to ignorant public. Public consumes the nonsense and believes it to be solid fact.
The only way this cycle breaks is a complete breakdown of our society. When people are hungry and without hope, once they’ve killed all the conservatives they will blame for their situation, they will realize they’ve been manipulated.
Yeah, did you see that one venn diagram on Pooky’s Tunes?
Gibberish
Deep State is EXPORTING record amounts of our energy.
Where is it going?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Deep State’s frontmen are stupid, not the people hiding behind them.
And if Americans are stupid, why does Deep State need to steal our elections?
I like the warnings of the next ice age in 10 years that were the talk among experts back in the 1970s. My how things change, taxes go up, and the rich get richer.
To this wack job it does not matter if you got a catalytic Converter or not, even though we are not nearly put as much into the air it will never be good enough when you have a left wing wacko progressive setting the narrative on the media where all the purple hair people eat it up
“Lack of Oil Production Is a Factor Too”
They might be onto something with this...
Logic fail.
Obviously a democrat.
Must be a NYC retard. This blithering idiot apparently has no idea that summer along the gulf coast is hot. It has always been hot.
I lived along that coast for >decade. There were no summers when temps were not >100F. So, any impact upon refinery production is that same as last season — just like last summer was also hot.
Claims that anything is tied to “climate change” has to be treated in the same way as: “Well, say what you like about Mussolini, at least the trains ran on time.”
We need to openly ridicule such creatures.
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