Posted on 06/15/2022 8:29:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre handed over the daily briefing to National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby Wednesday afternoon. Kirby was asked by Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy how long President Joe Biden can deplete the Strategic Petroleum Reserve before it becomes a national security problem. Kirby claimed he didn't know the current inventory and passed the question off to Biden's energy advisors.
DOOCY: "How much lower can we let the strategic petroleum reserves get before that becomes a problem?"
Kirby doesn't give a firm answer. pic.twitter.com/MfNXn5jREf— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) June 15, 2022
President Joe Biden has tapped into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve a number of times, claiming doing so would decrease prices at the pump. As a result, the reserve is at its lowest levels since 1987 and gas prices hit $5 per gallon on average late last week.
"The amount of crude oil in the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) dropped by 5 million barrels in the week to May 13, data from the U.S. Department of Energy showed. Stockpiles in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) fell to 538 million barrels, the lowest since 1987," Reuters reported in May.
During his visit with reporters, Kirby also praised the Saudi government for their "leadership" on oil production as gas prices across the country barrel towards a $6 per gallon average.
DOOCY: "How is it that you guys have determined that it's in the US national security interest to ask Saudi Arabia to drill more oil instead of just letting oil companies drill more here in the US?"
KIRBY: "The oil production issue is a global issue." pic.twitter.com/B0nlSXsViX— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) June 15, 2022
Meanwhile, after cutting off millions of acres for drilling and infusing vast uncertainty into the industry by ripping away the Keystone XL pipeline, the White House is calling oil companies unpatriotic for not "doing more" to bring down prices.
KJP calls on oil companies to "be patriots" and lower gas prices. pic.twitter.com/YBwHdMhROj— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) June 15, 2022
Buy-Dung is following the example of his Veep in getting down on his knees and......
Well, we do know, that previous releases have not caused gas prices to go down. So why does anyone believe that it will happen now?
How’s our electrical reserve doing?
Our national security is being depleted.
Wait until a hurricane hits the gulf coast
They don’t. IMO they are deliberately using this situation as an excuse to deplete the reserve to a dangerous level for the purpose of damaging US national security in the type of emergency for which the reserve was intended.
Yes, they are grossly incompetent, but in this instance malice is the cause.
and how much goes to the eurotrash?
I can answer this:
Until it is all gone.
Biden will continue to take oil out of the Reserve until it is empty and then he will refuse to re-fill it.
Any bets?
And after it’s gone, he will refuse to re-fill it.
This is what happens when you put a potato in charge of the country.
The reserve is good for about two days consumption. BTW, how is this jerk going to fill it up?
Until it is all gone.
And MOST of it is actually going to Europe.
(after the ‘big guy’ gets his 10%.)
I wouldn’t expect much from them. They want to lower CO emissions in the US to 2.4 in 8 years. We are currently around 14 now. Buckle up. These people are insane.
Fuel and Meat are what they consider the 2 biggest offenders.
https://hotorcool.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Hot_or_Cool_1_5_lifestyles_EXECUTIVE_SUMMARY.pdf
The simple answer is...till it’s gone.
Then they will investigate the oil companies
for price gouging.
Until it is empty. That’s the end goal.
Wondering how much oil currently remains?
Until it’s empty.
Indeed Xi and Putin much happy Biden helping Putin make millions to keep his war going that Biden blames him for gas prices.
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