Posted on 07/07/2022 5:19:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Wednesday night that Joe Biden should be impeached, and possibly indicted due to his “crazy and dangerous” energy policies.
The Biden administration has been selling U.S. emergency oil reserves to other countries—including our greatest adversary, China—while Americans struggle financially due to high gas prices.
The regime sent more than 5 million barrels of oil from the U.S. emergency reserves to Europe and Asia last month, according to data and sources, Reuters reported, “even as U.S. gasoline and diesel prices hit record highs.”
Biden on March 31 authorized the release of 1 million barrels of oil per day from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) for the next six months, totaling 180 million barrels..
According to U.S. Customs data, 470,000 barrels of sour crude were shipped from the Big Hill SPR storage site in Texas to Trieste, Italy. “Trieste is home to a pipeline that sends oil to refineries in central Europe,” Reuters reported.
Cargoes of SPR crude were also headed to the Netherlands and to a Reliance (RELI.NS) refinery in India, an industry source said. A third cargo headed to China, another source said. At least one cargo of crude from the West Hackberry SPR site in Louisiana was set to be exported in July, a shipping source added.
The releases are draining the SPR, which last month fell to the lowest since 1986, Reuters reported, yet gas prices have remained high.
“Crude and fuel prices would likely be higher if (the SPR releases) hadn’t happened, but at the same time, it isn’t really having the effect that was assumed,” oil analyst Matt Smith told Reuters.
The regime’s decision to export the nation’s precious oil reserves to other countries appears to have blunted any positive impacts of the SPR releases.
As gas prices continued to soar over the 4th of July weekend, Biden ludicrously called on gas station owners to lower their prices.
My message to the companies running gas stations and setting prices at the pump is simple: this is a time of war and global peril.
Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you’re paying for the product. And do it now.
— President Biden (@POTUS) July 2, 2022
On Fox News Wednesday evening, Tucker Carlson said the Biden regime’s decision to release the reserves is “so crazy, and so dangerous, that only someone who was trying to intentionally harm the United States would even consider it.”
Carlson pointed out that it shouldn’t have been necessary to drain our emergency oil reserves since the United States is rich in natural resources.
“We can produce the energy here, and in fact, were producing the energy here until Joe Biden took office,” Carlson noted, adding that—while irresponsible—the massive SPR releases should have reduced gas prices in the short term.
Amazingly, he noted, that didn’t happen.
“They haven’t dropped. They’ve kept going up,” he said.
“It turns out, the oil being released isn’t for us. It’s going to India and China! As gas prices hit record highs in the United States and many American citizens can’t afford to fuel their own cars, the Biden administration is selling off our emergency oil reserves to CHINA,” Carlson exclaimed. “That’s not an indictable offense? Certainly it’s an impeachable one. And they should impeach him for that.”
Carlson argued that the move is the equivalent of selling the Redwood Forest, or the water rights to the Great Lakes.
“If you’re keeping track. They didn’t even need it,” he continued. “China and India already have access to very cheap oil from Russia. Why? Thanks to the Biden administration’s lunatic ban on Russian oil imports for moral reasons.”
Russia has raked in 13 billion dollars in additional revenue from India and China compared to the same period last year. This is how we’re punishing out enemies? By selling off our own most valuable assets? And watching Russia, and India, and—my God—China get richer?
And on top of getting all that cheap Russian oil, China is getting petroleum from our emergency Petrol reserve.
The crude is the best we have and we’re giving it away to a government whose whole goal is to displace us on the world stage and crush us. The Chinese will be cruel masters when the run the world. They’re not like us, at all.
Carlson pointed out that China is “a longtime business partner of the Biden family,” and Congress should be investigating that. (video clip at link)
Former Director of National Intelligence and Congressman John Ratcliffe offered another explanation as to why the Communist Chinese would have so much influence over the Biden administration.
“Joe Biden’s top economic advisor is Brian Dietz who was a BlackRock executive,” Ratcliffe told Fox News host Laura Ingraham. “Last week he named Tom Donilon his top foreign advisory on China, also a BlackRock executive.”
The former Texas congressman explained the significance of the connection.
“For folks that don’t know, BlackRock is a U.S. investment firm that has been more collaborative and cooperative and complicit with the Chinese Communist Party than any U.S. investment firm,” he said.
“To put it in simple terms: The Chinese Communist Party controls BlackRock and BlackRock makes policies in the Biden administration. The idea that these folks are going to be tough with China is really wishful thinking.”
It is becoming obvious to even Democrats that Joe must go. Somehow the Democrats have to solve the Kamala problem before Joe is forced to resign for “health” reasons. It is too late to make this transition before the red tsunami in November and Joe faces impeachment. My bet by the end of this year Kamala will be given some fluff job and be replaced with perhaps Hillary and Joe will resign.
If you’re keeping track. They didn’t even need it,” he continued. “China and India already have access to very cheap oil from Russia.
It isn’t just a money deal it’s a control investment and it’s going to get worse before November democrats can’t lose the 2024 election it’s the biggest power struggle the country ever been in.
Faux Snooze celebs are not allowed to talk about “the steal”. A taboo subject there.
How far the mighty have fallen.....
No matter what Biden does the Republicans will never impeach him.
thats because many of them are “ the big guy” in their own right.
Trump was on the path to expose a lot more, so had to go.
The SPR isn’t supposed to be used to lower market prices
Problem is , I recall it being marketed that way by the MSM as cover for Biden.
Won’t happen, not even after a GOP sweep!
That’s the world we live in now even with MAGA Trump being impeached twice (and winning each time of course:-)
Like so many other things, the SPR has been turned into just another giveaway mechanism.
We start our own and it may take a couple years but I believe it would take off and become a major party.
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I believe that if we did millions of people would abandon the GOP literally overnight. A new party that actually stands for something will have no trouble attracting voters and donors.
The GOP is nothing more than a fake party IMO. We need to replace it with a real one and time is quickly running out to do it.
Absolutely agree. We don’t have much time and people need to wake up, stand up and get fired up. Of course the big question is HOW? Unless there are people with clout that knows how to get things started, what do we do? I am open for suggestions and ideas.
Umpteenth reminder.
US Strategic Petroleum reserve was established to secure a wartime fuel supply for USN. Dribbling it away is idiotic.
Even rigged elections have real consequences.
Dribbling it away is idiotic.
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No, its criminal.
I keep hoping Trump will figure out that the GOP is a lost cause and start his own party but that doesn’t look like its going to happen sadly.
Both parties have failed this country. Government keeps getting bigger, more corrupt, less accountable and ever more costly regardless which one is in power.
The Dems will get crushed in November but what happens when the country see’s that the Republicans are unwilling to clean up the mess? Someone will step up and show us an alternative to the destructive DC crowd I pray.
I pray all the time that we will have someone step up to start the movement that gets us a great new party that we all can get behind.
When/if that happens the GOP will be abandoned by millions — literally overnight. So many people would leave the party to join the new one we would quickly be right back to a two party system IMO.
I honestly don’t know anyone who is satisfied with the GOP. The only reason people vote for them is because the alternative is worse.
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