Posted on 07/18/2022 4:36:19 AM PDT by MtnClimber
After shutting down the Keystone XL pipeline and issuing 30-some regulations to halt domestic energy production, Joe Biden went to Saudi Arabia, hat in hand, to beg the Arab sheiks to pump more oil for him.
Result? They laughed him out of the park.
According to this scathing report just out from Reuters:
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, July 16 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden told Arab leaders on Saturday that the United States would remain an active partner in the Middle East, but he failed to secure commitments to a regional security axis that would include Israel or an immediate oil output rise.
"The United States is invested in building a positive future of the region, in partnership with all of you—and the United States is not going anywhere," he said, according to a transcript of his speech.
They not only rejected a proposed security alliance between the U.S., Israel, and the Saudis, likely not wanting to take orders from military geniuses like Gen. Mark Milley on matters of their own security, they also told Joe to go fly a kite on the extra oil production:
Biden came to Saudi Arabia hoping to reach a deal on oil production to help drive down gasoline prices that are driving inflation above 40-year highs and threatening his approval ratings.
He leaves the region empty-handed but hoping the OPEC+ group, comprising Saudi Arabia, Russia and other producers, will boost production at a meeting on Aug. 3.
"I look forward to seeing what's coming in the coming months," Biden said.
And why should they? Biden has shut down America's energy production and its logical stable suppliers such as Canada, and now wants Saudi Arabia to pull his chestnuts out of the fire as prices at the pump drive his poll numbers down.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Which “media” is that?
Is this inaccurate?
What do you think?
Heard it on FoxNews this weekend.
NONSENSE!
Yeah?
On which program?
A recession.
Nice going, liberals. I hope you choke on your stupidity.
As they should.
So you have a monarchy led by a vast family of vain cousins, whom you disparage and publicly insult as a “pariah” state; then you toady up to their historic Persian rival and help the crazies there get nuclear weapons; then you engage in ridiculous theatrics and minimizing of your inevitable need for face-to face contact, and then you expect them to help you out by maxing out their oil production, which would lead to lower profits for them if they did it, and do all this for basically nothing in return. Sounds like Blinken and Jake the Snake doing what they do best.
I KNEW those claims about how the Saudis were now going to pump 50% more oil were BS. Firstly, they don’t have 50% spare capacity. Secondly, they’re not inclined to do Biden any favors considering he insults them at every turn and is trying to cozy up to their mortal enemy, Iran.
Sooooo….OPEC+ is OK with high oil prices?
Who’d have thunk?
Big deal. When he took office, production was way down after global demand had been crushed by Covid. We are not pumping as much as we did before global prices collapsed, nor are we pumping anywhere near as much as we would be but for the policies of this administration.
I know. I was just reacting to the lazy disingenuousness of the author of the article.
During the newsbreak on one and during Steve Hilton’s show last night.
If so show us some stats to back up your claim.
The US graphs don’t support your contentions.
I thought they agreed to pump quite a lot more for two months.
Sure they do. 9,773 million barrels in Feb 2021 vs. 11.628 million in April 2022.
See post 33.
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