OPEC Delivers a Smackdown to Biden With Latest Move That Could Drive Prices Up
By Nick Arama | Sep 06, 2022 8:30 AM ET
White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain — the guy who reportedly pulls the strings behind the scene — was trying to brag about gas prices coming down some even though they are still far higher than they were under President Donald Trump.
https://twitter.com/WHCOS/status/1566788215306166272Of course, Klain being part of the Biden team, he can’t help but spin — the national average is still over $3.75.
https://twitter.com/GasBuddyGuy/status/1566803732339335170While they falsely tried to blame Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine for the gas prices going up, they want all the credit for prices coming down a bit. But these claims aren’t going to age well, for a few reasons.
First, they haven’t addressed the real problems; they’ve just tried to artificially suppress the real price with releases for the past six months from the Strategic Petroleum Reserves as they empty our emergency supplies to help the Democrats’ chances of winning in November. Some of our reserves even went to China. That’s leaving our reserves at the lowest levels in almost 40 years — that’s also concerning. The Biden administration said they would be doing that for six months, starting March 31. So that’s going to end soon, which may contribute to the prices going back up.
Second, the drop in prices has been largely attributed to lower demand and fears of recession, not anything that the Biden team did to resolve any of the underlying issues.
Meanwhile, rather than concentrating on increasing our production, Joe Biden went to Saudi Arabia — hat in hand — begging for OPEC to produce more in an embarrassing display. Even a Saudi Arabian prince mocked Biden calling him “much diminished” and saying essentially the problem was Biden cut pipelines and hurt the U.S. ability to produce.
Now, the word is that OPEC is going to be cutting production by 100,000 barrels a day, in a smackdown to Joe Biden.
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