Posted on 03/06/2022 8:57:45 AM PST by John Semmens
Since Russia's war on Ukraine is largely funded by profits from selling its oil and gas, MSNBC journalist Stephanie Ruhle wondered "why the sanctions President Biden imposed do not include the 700,000 barrels of petroleum products per day the US buys from Russia? Aren't these purchases aiding and abetting Russia's aggression?"
US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg admitted that "to the unsophisticated observer it looks that way, but since the President has committed this country to weaning itself off of fossil fuels he had to cancel the Keystone Pipeline and shut down oil drilling on public lands. The 800,000 barrels a day that Keystone could have provided would have enabled us to completely boycott Russian oil. The short-term impact of such a boycott could have seriously undermined Russia's war effort, but it would also undermine our conversion to green energy."
"Yes, I see that," Ruhle said, "but doesn't replacing US produced energy with Russian-produced energy also undermine the green energy agenda?"
"You make a good point," the Secretary acknowledged. "However, in the months running up to the November elections the price spike for gasoline that would result from a boycott would severely hamper the chances for Democrats to retain our majorities in Congress. Helping to fund Russia's war by buying their petroleum is the lesser evil. The thousands of lives lost in Ukraine would be bad. The dozens of seats lost in Congress would be an intolerable disaster for our country. After the elections will be the time for Democrats to push the price of gasoline beyond the reach of selfish individuals who put their own freedom of mobility ahead of their collective duty to sacrifice for a greener tomorrow."
In related news, by a vote of 221-202, Democrats in the House rebuffed a GOP effort aimed at reclaiming the energy independence achieved during the Trump Administration by restarting the Keystone Pipeline and allowing oil drilling on public land. Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the GOP measure an unnecessary attempt to embarrass the President. He has already ordered the release of 60 million barrels of oil from our strategic reserves." Sixty million barrels is enough to meet three days worth of US demand.
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To ultimately get rid of Buttigieg and his incoherent green policies, they first have to be strictly enforced. The grand, epic failure of Prohibition in the 1920s is a good example of that sort of thing in action.
What an idiot.
We’ll, to the “unsophisticated observer” he seems like an idiot. To libs, who are smarter than all of us plebes, he’s brilliant. Same with Harris. She only seems like a babbling moron to us; her idiocies are actually quite brilliant.
Buttplug was only hired because of one thing and it wasn’t his smarts
Everyday that Biden and his Administration do not bring Trump’s energy plan, we are a day closer to WW3.
By making the US energy independent, prices will fall robbing Russia of petro dollars. Too bad Biden is on Russia’s payroll.
We started buying Russian oil again in October 2020.
Trump’s policy evidently included buy a quarter of a billion dollars worth of Russian oil in the last several weeks before the election and prior to Slo-Joe getting into office.
(19 million barrels a day, for a total of $268 million dollars.)
This whole oil thing is a red herring.
Some intern in Congress read the numbers wrong and eveyone has gone to town on them without checking the numbers.
Getting worked up over the $229 million dollars worth of oil we’ve bought from them in 2022 is kind of a waste of energy (pun intended.)
Of course, we should cease it. But there are bigger fish to fry.
I think that’s what he said.
Are all of Biden’s critical appointments diversity minority hires, or does it just appear that way? Sheesh!
Enough reason to get rid of Sniffer. And, Buttplug.
What was the price of oil when Trump was in office before Covid, we were a swing supplier and a net exporter? What is the price now? That is one big damn herring.
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