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Oil and blood: What Biden still doesn’t understand

By Mark Young

You probably won’t be surprised to learn that the Biden administration is lying to you about domestic oil production capability under his policies.

This lie is being told as this same administration turns to other dictators – and long-time American adversaries – to replace what we were importing from Russia, which wasn’t even needed until Biden took office.

Biden and his media spin master, Jen Psaki, keep telling you the same lie over and over again. Biden recently claimed that domestic oil production was at a record high and that America is producing more oil, “than my predecessor.”

In fact, according to the Department of Energy, we are producing 1.5 million barrels of oil per day less than we were before Biden took office.

Biden keeps telling the American people that it’s our “greedy” gas and oil businesses causing the price of gas to increase. Biden now includes the Russian aggression as the latest reason we have set an all time record high in America for the cost of a gallon of gas.

Here’s why Biden is lying to you on both accounts.

Psaki keeps repeating the fact that these fuel companies have 9,000 land lease permits they could be using to produce more oil in America.

There are multiple problems with that statement. First of all, Psaki and Biden aren’t telling you that before Biden took office, those companies had 40,000 permits.

Biden eliminated 31,000 leases and enacted so many costly regulations for drilling that oil companies can’t financially risk drilling those remaining sites.

If our oil companies were as “greedy” as Biden says, would it not make sense for them to drill baby drill, in order to take advantage of record prices?

Just because an oil company has a drilling permit, doesn’t mean squat. They acquire those permits to first see if there is enough to drill, and if so, then must undergo a lengthy process to begin drilling.

A drilling site, once permitted, can take up to 10 years before drilling can begin, if it’s even possible to do so.

The oil and gas industry also is being impacted by Biden’s record inflation, as well as material and labor shortages created by this administration.

To tell the American people that these oil companies are sitting on their hands and refusing to increase production is a lie.

Democrats have fully admitted that their intent is to make the price at the pump as painful as possible to force people into buying electric vehicles. It’s not me saying it. They have said it.

But there are a number of things they aren’t telling you about that process either.

For one, take a look around the next time you are out driving. Ask yourself just how many $60,000 vehicles you see on the road around you.

How many of you can afford to run out and purchase a $60,000 vehicle, much less two or three of those vehicles for the average family?

Secondly, we all know we are decades away from having a sustainable green energy program. So Biden chooses to buy oil from other countries that require much more refinery because they all drill substantially less clean than American companies.

Biden is taking credit for finally taking action in eliminating Russian oil coming to America’s shores, but as usual, he’s a day late and a dollar short. American companies were already pulling the plug on doing business with Russia so Biden’s actions were merely formal in nature.

So Biden called up Saudi Arabia to beg for more oil and the Saudi’s wouldn’t even take his call. And remember, too, that as Biden’s policies started unleashing hell at the gas pump, he begged Russia for more oil and Putin told him to stick it where the sun don’t shine.

So now instead of admitting he was wrong and that his policies are killing the American economy, Biden won’t do the right thing in getting American oil companies back in the game. On the contrary, Biden is now going to Venezuela and Iran for oil instead of Americans.

Psaki had the nerve to tell the American people that we would reach green energy sustainability before something like the Keystone Pipeline would help ease fossil fuel prices.

It’s a flat out lie and she knows it.

As I said, we are decades away from that proverbial pipe dream. But let’s take a look at the reality of it all. Biden touts electric vehicles, but fails to tell the American people that the overwhelming number of electrical plants are fueled by coal. And yet Democrats have waged war on coal for several years.

It takes 233 wind turbines to equal the needs of a single coal plant to power an electrical plant. Each turbine requires about an acre and a half. We would need massive cities of wind farms, assuming you can find that much land where wind is constant enough to turn a turbine, and you still won’t be able to achieve full green energy independence.

Our technology will get to the point where one day we can put fossil fuels behind us, but it won’t be in our lifetimes, our children’s lifetimes and probably our grandchildren’s lifetimes.

Biden’s poll numbers have seen a little bump lately, but that’s largely because the media is hyper focused on the horrors that are occuring in Ukraine. So it’s easy for Biden to say Russia, Russia, Russia during a time when the world is against Russia.

Biden also doesn’t understand how the oil markets work. It trades like a stock in the sense that investors only care about the future supply and demand. It’s priced on a global market based on those estimates.

So to be fair, the recent spike in gas prices happening at this very moment is partly due to Russian aggression, but only to the extent that investors see the global demand going up while supply decreases.

The reality of it all is twofold. First and foremost, Biden’s insane green new deal support caused inflation and rising gas prices. If Russia has any fault in the price at your gas pump, it’s because Biden intentionally put our oil production at the mercy of the global market by destroying our own energy independence.

It’s all quite insane.

I think it’s partly due to the fact that liberal minds just don’t function in a reasonable manner. But what’s mostly to blame is the fact that democrats don’t care about the working class in America. They never have. Again, they even said so in the leaked DNC emails, which were successfully suppressed with the ensuing Russian collusion hoax distraction.

What has always been effective for the democrats is Hitler’s philosophies about mass manipulation and what Hitler said about telling the “big lie.”

“Make the lie simple and keep telling it,” Hitler said.

So when you hear democrats and this administration continue to tell the same lies to the American people, you have to wonder why they believe in mass manipulation in the same vein as the former Nazi leader.

Biden is willing to beg hostile foreign nations for more oil. If he understands that we are not, and won’t be green energy sustainable for decades, then why isn’t he going to American producers instead of blaming them?

Is Biden’s big electrical vehicle push really about the American working family when he knows what it will do to gas prices in combination with his policies? Of course not.

Democrats have always said they are the party of the working family. It’s a Hitler-style lie. They keep it simple. They keep telling it and other democrats keep believing it.

It’s time for rational democrats to understand that they have more in common with Republicans than they think. Republicans aren’t against green energy. We just know the realities of the here and now. It’s why our philosophy has always been, “All of the above,” when it comes to American energy.

Biden keeps saying this terrorist action in Ukraine is “Putin’s war.” Yes, Putin pulled the trigger, but Biden gave him the will to do it and the whole world knows it except for Biden and other out-of-touch elitist democrats.

Biden has more blood on his hands. He has American blood on his hands from Afghanistan and he has Ukrainian blood on his hands now. To deny that is to deny reality.

I realize that facts don’t matter to liberals. But these are the facts and they are indisputable.