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Biden Pitches Plan to Refill Oil Reserves, but Producers Are Skeptical
The Wall STreet Journal ^ | 10/24/22

Posted on 10/24/2022 4:30:47 AM PDT by EBH

After releasing the most oil ever from the U.S. emergency petroleum reserve, the Biden administration is signaling it will refill soon, a multibillion-dollar undertaking that it hopes will rouse sluggish domestic drilling activity.

The pitch is likely to be a hard sell for many domestic producers, say industry executives and analysts. “It’s a little bit more [complex] than this,” said Olivier Le Peuch, chief executive of oil-field services company Schlumberger Ltd.

On Wednesday, President Biden said for the first time that the Energy Department would begin purchasing oil to refill the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve when oil prices are $67 to $72 a barrel, or less. Officials also said the department has made a final rule that would allow it to purchase crude at a fixed future price, which they hope would encourage producers to drill more.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: anwr; bidenflation; drilling; idiots; inflation; keystonexl; oil; opec; opecplus; russia; saudiarabia
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Do I laugh or cry?

Oh the insanity of the Biden Administration! Should have never stopped drilling you idiot!

Trump was right ...again.

1 posted on 10/24/2022 4:30:47 AM PDT by EBH
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"...a multibillion-dollar undertaking that it hopes will rouse sluggish domestic drilling activity."

WTH? Biden's handlers have shut down domestic drilling.

2 posted on 10/24/2022 4:38:03 AM PDT by HandBasketHell
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And probably buried in the plan to buy/produce more is 10% for the BIG GUY.


3 posted on 10/24/2022 4:38:08 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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Reminds me I need to tell my gas station and fuel oil companies about my new rule for their future prices; I’m sure it will encourage them to find more.
Always a new answer to the question, “Exactly how ****ing stupid can a person be?”


4 posted on 10/24/2022 4:38:12 AM PDT by _longranger81
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I love how the oil industry has Biden and the ESG gang by the gonads. You don’t want no oil, you don’t get no oil. Now Biden is begging them to produce oil and the ESG leverage is cratering. Ain’t populism great?


5 posted on 10/24/2022 4:39:53 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul ("..)
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To: HandBasketHell

Pulling oil off the open market is going to raise prices and have a major impact on inflation. These people are insane and idiots.

They really do think we are stupid?


6 posted on 10/24/2022 4:40:36 AM PDT by EBH ( 1776-2021 May God Save Us.)
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to encourage drillers....huh....you mean like...drill baby drill...lol


7 posted on 10/24/2022 4:41:00 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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[They really do think we are stupid?]

8 years of Obama proved that to be quite true.

(for a significant portion of our population)

I’m sorry to say.


8 posted on 10/24/2022 4:42:35 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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This is all about producing a good headline before the elections, and nothing more.

Now the mainstream media can shout, “President Biden plans to refill the oil reserves. He’s keeping America secure!”

This will all be forgotten the day after the elections.


9 posted on 10/24/2022 4:49:08 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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“Exactly how ****ing stupid can a person be?”


Are you issuing the turnip a challenge?


10 posted on 10/24/2022 4:53:39 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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The oil industry counteroffer should be that, going forward, only 50% of the oil that they produce from land pursuant to new Federal leases will be sold to the government at slightly discounted price to the prevailing market price to accommodate Biden’s scheme to refill the reserve. This will pressure him to open Federal lands to drilling while rubbing his nose in the foolhardiness of having restricted domestic production. All other existing production and the half they retain from producing on Federal lands will be distributed to industrial and public consumers. The net effect is it forces an overall increase in domestic production under a oil hostile political regime


11 posted on 10/24/2022 4:55:41 AM PDT by chuckee
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The oil industry counteroffer should be that, going forward, only 50% of the oil that they produce from land pursuant to new Federal leases will be sold to the government at slightly discounted price to the prevailing market price to accommodate Biden’s scheme to refill the reserve. This will pressure him to open Federal lands to drilling while rubbing his nose in the foolhardiness of having restricted domestic production. All other existing production and the half they retain from producing on Federal lands will be distributed to industrial and public consumers. The net effect is it forces an overall increase in domestic production under a oil hostile political regime


12 posted on 10/24/2022 4:55:41 AM PDT by chuckee
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Too little
Way to late


13 posted on 10/24/2022 4:57:11 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: Leaning Right

Too little
Way to late


14 posted on 10/24/2022 4:57:22 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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What this really is, is a statement that Bidet knows the economy is going to go into at least a deep recession, if not an outright Depression. There’s no way, otherwise, that prices drop to $72 or lower, when we have a global shortage of inexpensive energy, and all of this Administration’s barriers to production in the way.


15 posted on 10/24/2022 4:58:09 AM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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I’m sure the producers are halfway tempted to tell him to go to hell.


16 posted on 10/24/2022 4:58:27 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Some men want to see the world burn. It is they that want you to buy an electric car.)
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To: HandBasketHell

It takes two years to get up to speed again. It will take two years before the economic activity gets to the point where the reserves can be filled again.

That is how damaging the regime has been.


17 posted on 10/24/2022 5:00:11 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Some men want to see the world burn. It is they that want you to buy an electric car.)
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Meanwhile...

Exxon selling Montana oil refinery to Par Pacific in $310 million deal

Check out the rationale...

..."ExxonMobil is focused on investing in facilities where we can manufacture higher-value products such as lubricants and u.....

Ruh roh.

18 posted on 10/24/2022 5:02:56 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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Will some please suggest to Larry Kudlow that he should stop calling petroleum products “fossil fuel”?


19 posted on 10/24/2022 5:10:57 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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Producers have every reason to trust Old Joe, right?

Right?


20 posted on 10/24/2022 5:22:17 AM PDT by moovova
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