The Democrats know that if crude goes to $140/barrel , gas will be $6/gallon on election day. This would be very bad for Democratic Congressional and Senate candidates in November. Hence Biden must prostate himself before the 9/11 Saudis and beg them to pump more oil. The Democrats are actually telling their green lunatics that unless more oil is pumped at this time, they will lose power and their new green deal will be trashed.
However, BiXiden has NO intention to take the gov’t boot off the neck of domestic fossil fuel extraction.