[Tilted Irish Kilt]

(From the article):" Sachs said: "I know it runs counter to our narrative, you're not allowed to say these things in the West,
but the fact of the matter is all over the world when I talk to people, they think the U.S. did it.
Even reporters on our papers that are involved tell me 'of course' [the U.S. did it], but it doesn't show up in our media."

Of course it doesn't show up in our press or media,
but didn't Biden already, verbally, threaten to close the Nord Stream pipeline?
Why else would he use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to keep the price of petroleum cheaper in the United States prior to the Mid-Term elections,
and yet replace forty-five dollar ($45.00) petroleum with replenishment at eighty-five ($85.00) petroleum.
All this is occurring prior to an OPEC meeting of petroleum exporting nations who are proposing a possible one hundred thousand barrel reduction of production.

The whole reason for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in the fist place was because OPEC previously chose to reduce production in order to raise the prices of petroleum,
and it was in the US national security interest to have its own reserve as a way to avoid OPEC price gouging and 'price sticker shock' .
The amount of petroleum in the US national Strategic Petroleum is currently at a new low, amidst an immanent meeting of the OPEC nations.
Also, why would the administration attempt to force a reduction of the amount of LNG being exported,
when our European allies are at a winter fuel crisis, above and beyond the Nord Stream destruction ?
This administration just doesn't follow common sense, unless it is trying to provoke another crisis .

[MtnClimber]

In June there was an explosion at the Freeport LNG terminal in Texas. The EPA has been hampering repair activity and the repair timeline has been extended from a 3-week estimate to the current estimate of November. There has been little in the news about this.