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Bidenโ€™s harangue of the oil companies made official government policy precisely the behavior - the coordinated limiting of production and of investment in future production - which antitrust legislation intended to prohibit.

So much for the idea that the Biden-Harris administration diligence in โ€œsee(ing) the the laws be faithfully enforced."

1 posted on 08/17/2024 9:40:41 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion
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Ok, who had HeelsUp saying, “Drill, baby, drill!” on the 17th?


2 posted on 08/17/2024 9:43:15 AM PDT by rx
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Biden raised the “fees” the government gets from drilling on Federal Lands....I think double. Trump would more likely than not go back to the old percentage...and cut out a lot of the mandatory climate “crap” and subsidies.


3 posted on 08/17/2024 9:43:26 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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It’s all bull$hit because we won’t get any drilling or fracking with her as President.

In fact, it’s a scandal that we have Democrat states denying the country use of our natural resources.

Get back to me when she passes a federal law to allow drilling/ fracking in all 50 states.


4 posted on 08/17/2024 9:45:35 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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Of course Democrats know we need that. That’s why they won’t do it.


5 posted on 08/17/2024 9:48:41 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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Well, she needed to be drilled and fracked by Willie Brown in order to get where she is, so I guess it’s good she’s not being a hypocrite.


6 posted on 08/17/2024 10:04:43 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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I am an attorney in the oil and gas industry. I have been in the industry for 40 years and lived in an oil and gas producing part of the country since childhood.

What most conservatives don’t understand about the oil and gas business is exploration and production companies need a market price that makes future drilling and production economical. Beginning with Reagan, republicans encourage foreign suppliers to oversupply the market with cheap foreign crude, which kills the domestic industry. They do this because they traditionally viewed the oil consuming industries of the midwest and the gas buying public as their major constituency. Trump continued this in his first term with constant tweets aimed at OPEC demanding that they bring the price of oil down, instead of letting supply and demand take care of itself.

Ironically, beginning with Jimmy Carter, and again under Clinton and Obama, the industry has done far better under democrats because the price is always higher due to threats limiting drilling opportunities and geopolitical uncertainty, which the democrats are really good at. Now throw in the democrats efforts to increase the cost of conventional energy in order to make “renewable” energy look more competitive. The result is oil and gas economics are dramatically better when the democrats are in power.

Traditionally when the republicans are in office the industry makes a lot less money, because government policies encourage self-destructive overproduction. The one destructive thing the democrats always do is threaten to change tax policy to penalize domestic oil and gas drilling. Every other industry is allowed to deduct its costs and amortize capital assets, but the opponents always call the deductibility of intangible drilling costs and depletion “subsidies.” But when the politicians get in the back rooms, somehow these provisions always survive.

I would humbly submit that the federal government, regardless of who is in power, would do well to leave the industry along and let the market correct itself. There are plenty of hydrocarbons left to produce and they are the cleanest, cheapest and most reliable energy supplies on earth. Left to their own devices, the market will find a price that incentivizes future drilling but provides fuel at a price consumers are willing and able to pay.


7 posted on 08/17/2024 10:06:17 AM PDT by con-surf-ative
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Sombody needs to parody Cat Scratch Fever with Back Track Fever featuring Kamala and the Backsliders.
15 posted on 08/17/2024 11:12:55 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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She doesn’t believe anything. She’s a hack who doesn’t get called out by the media. Ask her if she is willing to get rid of all the climate change regulations to further increase oil drilling and exploration and if she no longer believes that climate change is an exetential threat to human civilization. When did she learn that the idea of climate change being an existential threat (did it just happen to be the day she got the nomination). Ask her since she now agrees with Trump on climate change why she wasn’t able to get to this conclusion as fast as Trump (over 10 years slower). Has the time that it has taken her to figure out what Trump hasong figured out cost the U.S in any way? Thisbis just spit balling in terms of questions the media should ask but never will. How much longer will it take her to figure out that thr border needs a wall and that all the illegals need to be deported. If you disagree with thst how do you know there isn’t something that Trump is seeing that you are missing. If the media were fair the election wouldn’t be close.


16 posted on 08/17/2024 11:15:08 AM PDT by wiseprince (Me)
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Yeah......no!


17 posted on 08/17/2024 11:15:46 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this๐Ÿ’ฉ? ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ’‰! ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‘!)
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More carrot on a stick bait from bone head Harris not a word about opening the pipe line duh.


23 posted on 08/17/2024 12:19:38 PM PDT by Vaduz
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“the petroleum reserve holding half the volume that existed at the start of the Biden Admin.”
^

One should suppose the rest will be drained to collapse gas-pump prices before November’s election.


25 posted on 08/17/2024 12:48:22 PM PDT by Does so ( ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ.....Indoctrination WORKS...)
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