Posted on 08/17/2021 10:14:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It's a rough week for President Biden who, despite a brief appearance at the White House in which he blamed others for his colossal mismanagement of our country's withdrawal from Afghanistan, has remained secluded at Camp David — and the hits just keep coming.
In a stinging rejection issued Monday, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) denied Biden's request for more oil, saying that its member countries "and its allies, including Russia" — conveniently — think markets "do not need more oil than they plan to release in the coming months, despite U.S. pressure to add supplies to check an oil price rise," according to sources who spoke to Reuters.
OPEC+ sees no need to meet U.S. call for more supply, sources say https://t.co/MyCHrpfRJv pic.twitter.com/uC44O77awk— Reuters (@Reuters) August 16, 2021
Appearing weak on the world stage is already proving to be a drag on the Biden agenda, and now it's set to impact Americans at home as gas prices continue to rise thanks to record-setting inflation on Biden's watch that sent him begging for more oil after killing several domestic projects that would have kept the United States energy-independent.
As Katie reported, one of Biden's first acts as President was to stop the Keystone XL Pipeline, a move that "killed thousands of union jobs, halted an infrastructure project already underway and pushed the United States back into dependency on foreign energy sources," made worse when "Biden further exacerbated U.S. dependency by halting leases for oil and gas drilling on federal lands."
So yes, American dependence on foreign oil is another mismanagement of the Biden administration, but he apparently thought he could solve the problem of rising fuel prices by asking OPEC — to which the United States is not a party — for more oil after bungling the energy boom President Trump created that saw the U.S. not only energy-independent but an exporter of oil and natural gas.
FULL STATEMENT: The White House urges OPEC+ to pump more oil (above and beyond the current 400,000 b/d monthly hikes the cartel is already implementing) | #OOTT pic.twitter.com/qnWA1l7Pnt— Javier Blas (@JavierBlas) August 11, 2021
"Higher gasoline costs, if left unchecked, risk harming the ongoing global recovery" fretted the White House's Jake Sullivan at the time Biden requested more oil from OPEC. "While OPEC+ recently agreed to production increases, these increases will not fully offset previous production cuts that OPEC+ imposed during the pandemic until well into 2022."
The OPEC sources mention of Russia is especially ironic, given Biden's decision to allow Russia's Nordstream 2 Pipeline project to move ahead after killing American pipeline projects — another apparent instance of Biden getting played on the world stage.
The White House has not done well trying to explain its fealty to Russian energy projects while blocking similar ones in the United States. Jen Psaki has her work cut out for her — as she did back in May — explaining what Biden will do now to address the rising cost of fuel prices in the U.S. after OPEC flatly rejected Biden's request to increase supply.
Peter Doocy battles Jen Psaki over the Biden administration refusing to sanction Russians over Nord Stream 2 and having done nothing to stop the pipeline's completion (even though he killed Keystone XL).
As Doocy pointed out, it doesn't exactly show "climate leadership." pic.twitter.com/0eBk4uJ2rA— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 20, 2021
How much longer can they keep the demonrat sheep convinced that the orange man is bad
Come on, OPEC! You can do better than that. Reduce oil production now. Not only tell Biden to go pound sand, but also where he can shove it.
LOL, after Hanoi v2.1 no one wants to deal with or be associated with this LOSER REGIME!
I truly fear for the people of Taiwan, thank GOD they unlike the douches over in afbidenstan they will fight to the end for their country!!!
We’re on track for the USA to be declared a nation whose government system is an idiocrasy.
State run by idiots.
This is what happens when you spend a weekend at Bernie’s.
Everyone thinks they pulled a fast one and got away with it, but criminals often trip over themselves and their convoluted machinations.
A rough week??? It is his chickens coming home to roost. Biden’s whole Presidency has become a total catastrophe.
Omygosh. What an idiot. "Climate change" is the squirrel. The acorn is demonicRAT contributor Warren Buffett. He owns the rail lines that American oil is being transported on now that Biden shut the pipeline off.
“How much longer can they keep the demonrat sheep convinced that the orange man is bad”
Yes. How long can those deranged souls lacking in all common sense continue to believe America is headed in the “right direction”? How can ANYBODY think our policies in energy, economics, inflation, border & immigration, and foreign affairs are sensible and good for the country?
Biden hasn’t had a coherent thought or idea in years. This isn’t his doing - it’s the shadow government pulling his strings. He’s just the puppet doll.
” Biden’s whole Presidency has become a total catastrophe.”
I believe this is a result of the “Trump Curse”.
I wonder what the rest of world really thinks about the wisdom of replacing Trump with Biden?
Our enemies, foreign and domestic, love it.
If a single demonicRAT is to be pointed out as Biden's puppet, the ventriloquist is probably Barack Soetoro. With Warren Buffett and George Soros collaborating on writing and funding the act.
The left are not idiots. They are devious. They are trying to destroy the country. When you look at their actions with that in mind, it all begins to make sense.
Come on Joe!
Ask em pretty please with sugar on top.
Like Biden cares.
He’s getting bribe money from them.
But then we get Kamalatoe will 2024. God help “US”!!!
I don’t think so. I’ll bet anything that those who’re really pulling the strings will convince Cackles to step down as well, leaving Pelosi in the top spot. They know all to well how universally despised Cackles is.
We are now dependent on Russian oil - thanks Traitor Joe!
The man is an idiot. And he, or whomever is pulling his strings, is obviously ok with gas price increases and shortages. Actually trying to get more oil from opec, rather than using our own capabilities, is a stunning act of malfeasance, mismanagement, and malpractice, which would be laughable, we’re it not so consequential.
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