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White House Helpless As Oil Prices Climb Higher
Yahoo Finance ^ | Mon, January 17, 2022, 7:00 PM | Editor OilPrice.com

Posted on 01/18/2022 7:32:05 AM PST by Hojczyk

Morgan Stanley expects Brent crude to reach $90 per barrel later this year. This is also the price forecast of Goldman. JP Morgan recently said that crude could reach and exceed $100 this year, noting the decline in OPEC spare production capacity. The latest to join the bullish choir is Vitol, whose head for Asian operations told Bloomberg last week that oil had further up to go because of tight supply.

What this means for the Biden administration and its efforts to keep gasoline affordable for voters ahead of the midterms is nothing good. Perhaps more SPR releases could be organized, but that would have little more effective than the first announcement: like plenty of analysts has explained, oil prices are influenced by global rather than local factors, even a major oil-producing country such as the United States.

There is little left to do for the White House and other decision-makers than sit and wait to see how the oil price game will play out. It is telling enough that OPEC does not want Brent to reach $100, per comments made by the oil minister of Oman.

"We're very careful at OPEC+, we will look at each month as we go," Mohammed Al Rumhi told Bloomberg in an interview last week. "But so far, I think 400,000 is good because demand is increasing and we want to make sure that the market is not overheating. We don't want to see $100 a barrel. The world is not ready for that."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bideneconomy; bidenomics; energy; oil; oilprice; opec; propaganda
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1 posted on 01/18/2022 7:32:05 AM PST by Hojczyk
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Good thing Joe cancelled Keystone Xl


2 posted on 01/18/2022 7:34:00 AM PST by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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Helpless? Restore the Keystone XL pipeline.


3 posted on 01/18/2022 7:34:04 AM PST by No Party Affiliation
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Helpless??? More like clueless.


4 posted on 01/18/2022 7:34:35 AM PST by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: Hojczyk

You do not believe that propaganda bullshit, do you? The sheep, especially the Biden voters do.


5 posted on 01/18/2022 7:35:58 AM PST by sport
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To: Hojczyk

Why would this Yahoo Presstitute think for a second that Biden wants lower fuel prices?? Been Hitting the Pipe early Today? This is why we need DRUG TESTING FOR PRESSTITUTES


6 posted on 01/18/2022 7:36:14 AM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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Brandon has fallen and he can’t get up.


7 posted on 01/18/2022 7:36:55 AM PST by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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Imagine what Yahoo would be saying about rising prices if Trump was president. All his fault no dobut.


8 posted on 01/18/2022 7:37:03 AM PST by Starboard
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To: Hojczyk

Biden strikes again. A clueless puppet figure head.


9 posted on 01/18/2022 7:37:23 AM PST by FreedBird
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He has done everything he can to get prices up on “fossil fuels”. There is no such thing as a fossil fuel.


10 posted on 01/18/2022 7:37:38 AM PST by bray (The Vax is fake)
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fjb


11 posted on 01/18/2022 7:38:24 AM PST by chief lee runamok (Anti-Socialist Derelict at Large)
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I guess the propagandists known as the MSM have decided that portraying the energy crisis as beyond the control of the White House is better than truthfully reporting that Biden and the Democrats are the cause of it.


12 posted on 01/18/2022 7:38:44 AM PST by PTBAA
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I would suggest they look for the magic wand that Trump used. But that wouldn’t aid in reaching their real goals.


13 posted on 01/18/2022 7:38:47 AM PST by GMMC0987
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Helpless? Restore the Keystone XL pipeline.

Who in their right mind would invest in energy infrastructure in this country? You never know day-to-day what court, government agency or hippies are going to stop the project on the thinnest of reasons. No, there is no assurance of stability in the regulatory environment. In fact this government goes out of it's way to be unstable.
14 posted on 01/18/2022 7:39:14 AM PST by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
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What a selfish stupid little man elected by selfish stupid little people.


15 posted on 01/18/2022 7:39:19 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (Let's go Brandon)
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Helpless? They engineered the prices. The petroleum industry is huge and powerful. Global warming kooks and foreign petroleum businesses have conspired with the demonicrac deep state government to shut down American petroleum industry to increase profits. Small producers will be forced out of business and sell out at a fire sale giving the big industry more profit and power. Our ruller class get rich in the process.
16 posted on 01/18/2022 7:39:25 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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There is little left to do for the White House and other decision-makers than sit and wait to see how the oil price game will play out.

Biden is so bad he cant even do nothing right. He keeps making it worse.

I said it before, 2020 election was about deciding if we wanted the 2019 economy back or if we wanted Venezuela. We're getting Venezuela.

17 posted on 01/18/2022 7:40:03 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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Who is the idiot who wrote this crap? Biden deliberately did things to ensure prices went up!


18 posted on 01/18/2022 7:40:48 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: bray

But Biden himself is a “fossil FOOL”.


19 posted on 01/18/2022 7:40:54 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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20 posted on 01/18/2022 7:41:29 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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