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Biden Threatens Oil Companies' Permits
townhall.com ^ | 7/26/2022 0740 hrs edt | Leah Barkoukis

Posted on 07/26/2022 8:27:49 AM PDT by rktman

President Biden warned oil companies last week that if they don’t do more to help address rising prices, he will revoke their drilling permits on federal lands.

While touting that gas prices have fallen to below $4 at 30,000 gas stations across 35 states, he said more needs to be done.

"First, we’re going to look at ways to increase oil production from the existing wells and permits that exist today," he said. "The industry has more approved permits for production on federal lands than they can possibly use. That’s a fact. Let me say it again: They have more than they can use.

"So my message to these companies is: Use the permits or lose them. Don’t say we can’t — you don’t have access," he added.

Second, I’m telling the industry, “You’re making record profits due to Putin’s war in Ukraine. Use those profits to increase production and refining. Don’t use those profits to buy back your stocks and dividends.”

Look, thirdly, we’ll talk about a global price cap on Russian oil — that I got our partners to agree to last month at the G7 — that will keep supply up and Putin’s revenues down. In the days and weeks ahead, I’m going to keep doing what I can to bring down the price of gas at the pump. (White House)

(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anwr; bidenflation; ccp; china; dumbassery; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; keystonexl; opec
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OFFS! Reducing your supply nearly always causes prices to fall. Right? Hello? Bueller? That dang Putin! BranDUHn ought to take him behind the gym and wrap a chain around his head or something. ⛽😵‍💫🤡🐎💩
1 posted on 07/26/2022 8:27:49 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

Beatings will continue until morale improves.


2 posted on 07/26/2022 8:30:08 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: rktman

Joe knows nothing about prices he never buys anything he has people for that


3 posted on 07/26/2022 8:30:18 AM PDT by butlerweave
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On any policy or policy-related action, Brandon can be relied upon to choose wrongly 100% of the time.


4 posted on 07/26/2022 8:31:44 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (Not Responding to Seagull Snark)
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Are demonrats afraid they will lose power if gas is eleventy billiom dollars? Then they better artificilly lower it until I November


5 posted on 07/26/2022 8:32:20 AM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: rktman

That’s sort of like ordering farmers to produce more food or their water allocation will be cut off.


6 posted on 07/26/2022 8:33:20 AM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: rktman

‘Hey Esther, you, use the permit or I’ll come over and drag you off.’


7 posted on 07/26/2022 8:34:16 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: butlerweave

JOSEPH BIDEN has NEVER held a private sector job-—

He knows NOTHING about the oil business-—farming—mining—ANY business.

HE needs to be stopped.


8 posted on 07/26/2022 8:34:51 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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“ That’s sort of like ordering farmers to produce more food or their water allocation will be cut off.”

Nicely put.


9 posted on 07/26/2022 8:36:36 AM PDT by Bigbrown
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To: rktman

I cannot say aloud what should happen to him and his handlers and enablers.


10 posted on 07/26/2022 8:36:45 AM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: rktman
When I first read it...I thought it was the latest from comedy special.

Unfortunately fake presidents have serious consequences.

11 posted on 07/26/2022 8:39:46 AM PDT by SpokeshaveReturns (Grandad Spokeshave)
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To: rlmorel

joseph robinette biden is just a shiny object that’s there to distract us from who’s REALLY calling the shots.....and I have to sadly say so far it’s been pretty effective.


12 posted on 07/26/2022 8:40:14 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: rktman

WHEW. The chomo is “looking” at something again.


13 posted on 07/26/2022 8:40:33 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: rktman

What an idiot! Biden knows less about economics than a grade schooler who runs a lemonade stand.


14 posted on 07/26/2022 8:40:59 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: rktman

They are going to make us dead unless we make them dead first.


15 posted on 07/26/2022 8:41:13 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Contempt for pre-born human life breeds contempt for post-born human life.)
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To: butlerweave
Most definitely. Ask him the current price for a gallon of milk and you'll get a 100 word response but no answer. He couldn't possibly know.

I'd love to see that at a presser.

16 posted on 07/26/2022 8:41:31 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Great minds drink alike...me and my baby havin' a hell of a night. - - BB King)
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To: rktman

Hugo Chavez is looking up from Hell and smiling.


17 posted on 07/26/2022 8:42:18 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Bus No. 2525)
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To: Wonder Warthog

Biden is an avatar for whomever is really running the white house.

The point of this is that the drilling permits are already gone, this is the perfunctory notice being given.

They are intending to break the oil industry beyond repair.


18 posted on 07/26/2022 8:42:21 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (The democRATS are not looking to govern, they intIend to RULE.)
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To: rktman

(Whisper) 9,000…

Rosebud


19 posted on 07/26/2022 8:42:26 AM PDT by EEGator
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What a clueless clem this diabolical dementia tyrant is. Does he really believe the the words they train him to use. He’s like a trained seal.


20 posted on 07/26/2022 8:42:42 AM PDT by Pilated
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