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Biden Bans drilling in the Gulf

One has to wonder why now? after 4 years in office. My idea is that he is trying to
keep energy prices high, which will keep prices high on everything. He knows Trump
will lower prices on energy by reduced regulations, and more drilling.

Biden does NOT want the people to see how easy it is for a POTUS to lower energy costs.
So by banning drilling in the gulf, he will slow Trump down, while making up reasons that
energy costs will eventually come down under Trump.

Newsom was able to throw another .45 cents per gallon tax on California gas, to keep his
gas prices high. Biden did not have enough time to do that.
oldguy73 · 70-79, M
yup, biden wants to make life hell for trump, giving money away, free 4 billion free money to college students,trump will inherit a mess, which is what the f democrats want
Aysel · F
@oldguy73 He's truly doing everything he can right now. Isn't it a shame he didn't devote as much energy when it mattered?
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smileylovesgaming · 31-35, F
Joe Biden is one of the worst Presidents in history. We need Trump to make things better
smileylovesgaming · 31-35, F
@swirlie that is true I don't know who Trump really is. But he was a better choice then Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Kamala Harris in 2024
swirlie · 31-35, F
@smileylovesgaming
Better choice in what way?
nudistsueaz · 61-69, F
@smileylovesgaming 100 percent better.
hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
Sadly for him his ban will be as effective as a screen door on a submarine. An order by a president can be undone by an order from a president.
akindheart · 61-69, F
@hippyjoe1955 Trump's motto is drill baby drill
hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
@akindheart I have to smile at legislation or presidential decrees (royal decree) that can simply be changed by the next session of the legislature assembly or by the next president. No president can tie the hands of those who will follow him in office.
Patriot96 · 56-60, C
Bathhouse Barry banned drilling in Anwar too.
To put it in perspective: Anwar is to Alaska as a postage stamp in the endzone is to a football field
Lets realize what we’re seeing from Biden, is most likely him being told by his handlers what to do in his final days in the WH.
If you saw his rant against the media the other day you could see he is not mentally stable. Definitely not “fit”.
His handlers are the hopefuls who want certain things that at some point they THINK will hurt Trump and serve their purposes.
They take advantage of Biden!s mental shortcomings but let him be the face on these actions.
Patriot96 · 56-60, C
@soar2newhighs fjb will say anything and sign anything. He is incompetent to understand anything. Been that way for past 4 years. Media and administration covered for him
trollslayer · 46-50, M
You need another antenna on your tin foil hat, and all will be clear.
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trollslayer · 46-50, M
@DogMan i am smart enough to know that “drill baby drill” promises are a ruse to gain votes from the ignorant, and the supply of crude has very little to do with the price of fuel. I do wish fuel prices were more stable, but that has more to do with speculation and demand than how many drill rigs are turning. Adjusted for inflation, the price of gas now is the same or less than what I paid in the 1990s. And domestic output of petroleum is at an all time high.
Heartlander · 80-89, M
It’s like Biden is scattering nails in the roadway to recovery from the mess the Democrats created.

Hopefully the Trump administration will pick up some of those nails and use them on Democrat political coffins.
Gas prices are already historically low.
trollslayer · 46-50, M
@swirlie he wants the president to have more power than he has. This is anti-conservative mindset.
swirlie · 31-35, F
@trollslayer
The Republican/MAGA Party cannot have it both ways. They either want government powers reduced which also means a reduction in the power of the POTUS, or they want the POTUS to have uncompromising powers which means the government has uncompromising powers as well.
smileylovesgaming · 31-35, F
@DogMan gas prices never really went up around here after COVID. I think I paid about the same
MarkPaul · 26-30, M
Energy prices are as low as they were when Convicted Felon Insurrectionist-Cry-Baby-trump shut down the entire economy and there was no use for energy.

nudistsueaz · 61-69, F
Just trying to put up speed bumps for the incoming Administration. It's sour grapes. 🍇
swirlie · 31-35, F
Biden did not actually 'ban' oil drilling, he merely cancelled all permits and government regulation which had previously authorized drilling.

The reason Biden did that specifically, was so that Trump could not start drilling for oil in that region since regulations were already in place that would have allowed Trump to start massive drilling operations to occur.

Those oil reserves however, are considered America's 'Emergency Oil Reserves' which don't otherwise get tapped-into for day to day consumer demand.

The reason Biden did this was to slow Trump's ambitions way down when it comes Trump's massive oil drilling expansion, which now means that if Trump wants to drill for oil, the regulatory process must be started all over again which will involve establishing oversight committees and voting in Congress etc, etc, which will take months to complete if not years to bring to fruition, assuming Trump gets the required votes to pass regulatory laws that would enable drilling to actually occur.

By the time that any of that happened, Trump's Term as POTUS will have ended and Trump's ambition to "drill baby, drill" will not ever occur.
DogMan · 61-69, M
@swirlie High energy prices only hurt the poor and disadvantaged. Hopefully Biden's message
will be seen by the people it hurts the most, and they will think twice about voting for Democrats
that DO NOT have their best interests in mind.
swirlie · 31-35, F
@DogMan
Keep in mind that as it stands right now, the USA imports almost ALL of it's crude oil from foreign countries, 75% of which is imported by pipeline from Canada. Those crude oil prices that the USA pays for imported oil is actually cheaper per barrel than it would be if America drilled for it's own oil.
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DogMan · 61-69, M
@3Dogmatic True, but he is agreeing with them, and signing off on it.
3Dogmatic · 46-50, M
@DogMan He’s a puppet. Nothing more.
@3Dogmatic And Trump is Musk’s puppet. It’s like George Soros being part of a Democratic administration.
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DogMan · 61-69, M
@jshm2 Sure Trump can't just lower prices. He could raise prices like Newsom did, by passing
new taxes and regulations.

Trump will lower prices on energy by reducing regulations, and changing policies that effect
energy production. I'm sure as a Trump hater ( Democrat ) you would like to see high
energy prices for the poor and fixed income folks, because you think it will fix the climate,
right?
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