We Used to Be Energy Independent: What Happened?

[Aldo Raine]

Start drilling more and then not one drop of oil drilled here is allowed to be shipped away. Protect our resources.

So now you want government to be in control of what businesses do. Now that is unbridled Capitalism, oh wait.
MAGA

 

[surada]

So now you want government to be in control of what businesses do. Now that is unbridled Capitalism, oh wait.
MAGA

Lol . He wants socialism. He failed to understand property rights.

 

[YoursTruly]

It's a mystery, wrapped in an enigma.

“When the Biden Administration took office, it unleashed a dangerous “Mandate and Moratorium” strategy, a green jihad of sorts against the U.S. energy sector. The strategy was simple– create supply constraints for domestic oil and gas producers by dismantling distribution systems, tightening regulations, and suspending leases and permits, therefore impacting future drilling activity. Co-conspirators like Black Rock’s, Larry Fink, then jumped in by urging institutional divestment from the oil and gas sector and wielding a pseudo-sophisticated set of investments standards known as environment, social and governance (ESG). The strategy was topped off with the complicity of social media and tech’s intolerance for a diversity of ideas, ensuring Americans couldn’t discuss the flawed energy policy, let alone dissent from it.”

We Used to Be Energy Independent: What Happened? | The Pipeline

While responding to reporters about Russia’s incursion into Ukraine two weeks ago, President Biden committed that his administration was using every tool at its disposal to protect American businesses and consumers from rising prices at the gas pump. “I will do everything in my power to limit...

the-pipeline.org

As long as US oil companies are importing oil from other countries, we're not actually energy independent. That's a farce. It's propaganda used as a stump speech by politicians who are in the oil/gas lobbyist pocket.

 

[Faun]

I said I paid 99 cents. Period. You don’t need to keep showing everyone what an ignoramus you are. We already know.
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Gas prices could hit 99 cents in some states due to coronavirus and supplies, expert says

A $1.99 national average likely soon.

www.foxnews.com

At the cost of 22 million Americans losing their jobs. You want others to suffer so you can lower the price of gas for you. Typical conservative.

 

[surada]

As long as US oil companies are importing oil from other countries, we're not actually energy independent. That's a farce. It's propaganda used as a stump speech by politicians who are in the oil/gas lobbyist pocket.

The oil companies make no such claim. That's Trump talk.

 

[Faun]

I said I paid 99 cents. Period. You don’t need to keep showing everyone what an ignoramus you are. We already know.

You lying piece-of-shitconservative -- that image is from at least 2016, not 2020...

Who’s Predicting 99-Cent Gas?

Lowest prices in more than 12 years making it “strong possibility”

www.cspdailynews.com

Like I always say, if conservatives didn't lie, they'd have absolutely nothing to say.

 

[BlindBoo]

February 2020.
God Bless President Trump.
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That was right before oil started trading for negative dollars due to the pandemic. Way to brag about the world wide economic calamity.

But that doesn't speak to the 2021 record that shows we exported more petroleum products than we imported, President Joe Biden brought the USA Energy Independence back during his first year in office

In 2021, the United States imported about 8.47 million barrels per day (b/d) of petroleum from 73 countries. Petroleum includes crude oil, hydrocarbon gas liquids (HGLs), refined petroleum products such as gasoline and diesel fuel, and biofuels. Crude oil imports of about 6.11 million b/d accounted for about 72% of U.S. total gross petroleum imports in 2021, and non-crude oil petroleum accounted for about 28% of U.S. total gross petroleum imports.

In 2021, the United States exported about 8.63 million b/d of petroleum to 176 countries and 4 U.S. territories. Crude oil exports of about 2.98 million b/d accounted for 35% of total U.S. gross petroleum exports in 2021. The resulting total net petroleum imports (imports minus exports) were about -0.16 million b/d in 2021, which means that the United States was a net petroleum exporter of 0.16 million b/d in 2021.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

www.eia.gov

 

[surada]

It's a mystery, wrapped in an enigma.

“When the Biden Administration took office, it unleashed a dangerous “Mandate and Moratorium” strategy, a green jihad of sorts against the U.S. energy sector. The strategy was simple– create supply constraints for domestic oil and gas producers by dismantling distribution systems, tightening regulations, and suspending leases and permits, therefore impacting future drilling activity. Co-conspirators like Black Rock’s, Larry Fink, then jumped in by urging institutional divestment from the oil and gas sector and wielding a pseudo-sophisticated set of investments standards known as environment, social and governance (ESG). The strategy was topped off with the complicity of social media and tech’s intolerance for a diversity of ideas, ensuring Americans couldn’t discuss the flawed energy policy, let alone dissent from it.”

We Used to Be Energy Independent: What Happened? | The Pipeline

While responding to reporters about Russia’s incursion into Ukraine two weeks ago, President Biden committed that his administration was using every tool at its disposal to protect American businesses and consumers from rising prices at the gas pump. “I will do everything in my power to limit...

the-pipeline.org

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

www.eia.gov

 

[CowboyTed]

A former Keystone XL pipeline worker said the energy industry "tried to warn" President Biden against policies hindering U.S. oil and gas production – policies the worker said have caused the country's growing energy crisis.

"We tried to warn this administration back when they canceled the Keystone Pipeline" that it was also "canceling national security, foreign policy and energy," Neal Crabtree told Fox News. "They all kinda go hand-in-hand."

Please explain how cancelling Keystone XL effects US energy independence...

Oil is a global commodity... US oil providers drill when oil prices are high enough to drill... US is not cheapest place to extract Oil..

This is just misinformation...

 

[surada]

Please explain how cancelling Keystone XL effects US energy independence...

Oil is a global commodity... US oil providers drill when oil prices are high enough to drill... US is not cheapest place to extract Oil..

This is just misinformation...

Very true. The US has the highest lift costs in the world. TransCanada has unused pipeline capacity all over the US.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

You lying piece-of-shitconservative -- that image is from at least 2016, not 2020...

Who’s Predicting 99-Cent Gas?

Lowest prices in more than 12 years making it “strong possibility”

www.cspdailynews.com

Like I always say, if conservatives didn't lie, they'd have absolutely nothing to say.

good catch

 

[BlindBoo]

So after umpteen posts the answer is in 2021 we were still Energy Independent.

Hahahahahahahahaha

In 2021, the United States imported about 8.47 million barrels per day (b/d) of petroleum from 73 countries. Petroleum includes crude oil, hydrocarbon gas liquids (HGLs), refined petroleum products such as gasoline and diesel fuel, and biofuels. Crude oil imports of about 6.11 million b/d accounted for about 72% of U.S. total gross petroleum imports in 2021, and non-crude oil petroleum accounted for about 28% of U.S. total gross petroleum imports.

In 2021, the United States exported about 8.63 million b/d of petroleum to 176 countries and 4 U.S. territories. Crude oil exports of about 2.98 million b/d accounted for 35% of total U.S. gross petroleum exports in 2021. The resulting total net petroleum imports (imports minus exports) were about -0.16 million b/d in 2021, which means that the United States was a net petroleum exporter of 0.16 million b/d in 2021.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

www.eia.gov

Still I know "Saul Bidens" fault anyway, just is!

 

[Rigby5]

So now you want government to be in control of what businesses do. Now that is unbridled Capitalism, oh wait.
MAGA

No, when government controls what businesses do, that is socialism.
Unbridled capitalism is when private businesses control what government does, like with US arms makers deciding we should invade Iraq.

 

[surada]

No, when government controls what businesses do, that is socialism.
Unbridled capitalism is when private businesses control what government does, like with US arms makers deciding we should invade Iraq.

Read Clean Break Strategy.

 

[Rigby5]

As long as US oil companies are importing oil from other countries, we're not actually energy independent. That's a farce. It's propaganda used as a stump speech by politicians who are in the oil/gas lobbyist pocket.

Not necessarily.
For example, US refineries could be importing foreign oil for re-exportation again as finished gasoline.

Another example could be a US refinery in Montana importing Canadian crude, rather than shipping gasoline up from the Gulf of Mexico.

 

[bripat9643]

Liar. It was $2.47

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Like I always say, if conservatives didn't lie, they'd have absolutely nothing to say.

LOLOL

Fucking moron, that chart is on ... Page #2

Proves you didn't even bother to look for it. Your whole reason for asking for a link was you erroneously thought I didn't post a link; and when I told you I did, all you wanted to do was bitch & moan that I posted from the same source as you.

Are you ever not a fucking moron?

Ever???

I don't bother to look at links that point to an entire book. You're just too fucking lazy to post a link to the actual page.

I'm not obligated to do your work for you, fucking moron.

 

[Faun]

I don't bother to look at ...

That's your problem, fucking moron, not mine.

Still, I proved my chart is from a reliable source and proves what I said.

 

[Rigby5]

Read Clean Break Strategy.

Yes, I agree that much of Hillary's "Arab Spring" push of toppling traditional Mideast governments, was actually motivated by Israel's desire to take over the Mideast, or at least destroy any resistance.

I do not think Iraq was actually high on their list, but it was an easy experiment since isolated from other more traditional or tribal cultures.

 

[CowboyTed]

Yes, I agree that much of Hillary's "Arab Spring" push of toppling traditional Mideast governments, was actually motivated by Israel's desire to take over the Mideast, or at least destroy any resistance.

I do not think Iraq was actually high on their list, but it was an easy experiment since isolated from other more traditional or tribal cultures.

Ever think that the start of the 'Arab Spring' had fuck all to do with US?

Not everything in the world is about US... US stayed out really until Libya and even at that they really only took out anti aircraft so European bombers could have Air dominance...

The region was unstable for a while...

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

“We Used to Be Energy Independent: What Happened?”​

This is like asking some of the stupider rightwing guys here …
“When did you lose your virginity?”

Nobody really wants to know the answer. Especially since most of these guys were jerking off for years before they found their first hooker.

What a stupid jerk-off question raised by the OP! Oil and gas have value on international markets. Uncle Sam and even domestic U.S. oil companies and tycoons (like the Rockerfellas) were never “virgins.” And of course World Wars were fought over oil and other resources for well over a century, which allowed the U.S. to increasingly dominate or profit from world markets.

Uncle Sam has been invading, overthrowing or sanctioning countries in the Mideast, Africa and Latin America (e.g. Iran, Libya, Iraq and Venezuela) and paying off oil pimps all over the world for generations. In this way the world oil market has been “managed” and oil prices kept reasonably stable. In recent decades sanctions of Iran and Venezuela have also allowed prices to be held just high enough to enable new oil/gas extraction techniques to be commercialized domestically.

But there can be no “energy independence” where free market capitalism exists and fungible resources flow across borders to the highest bidder. Now especially with the Ukraine War and sanction disruptions against Russian and NorthStream2 oil, the U.S. energy giants are again making sure they get their way to hugely expand LNG exports at high prices.

There is no “mystery, wrapped in an enigma” here. It is all the “miracle of the market” with a little help from economic war sanctions and armed force. Meanwhile the OP only reflects partisan ignorance, demagogy, and all around misunderstanding of reality.