🇺🇸 Thank You, President Biden 🇺🇸

@laotzu92 What you said is essentially that America cannot ban oil imports in foreign countries.

@canusernamebemyusername Thank you for your courteous reply, sir.
The current amount of oil produced in the US is below pre-pandemic levels. It can be ramped up quickly with encouragement
Despite your "true believer" rant, there is NO coherent plan for replacing fossil fuels in the foreseeable future. There are only mandates and "beliefs" that there are some sort of "renewable" sources which will replace oil and gas.
Please have a very nice, if insulated from reality, day.

@helenS What I said is that Biden or his handlers have not taken the essential step to provide for not only America's energy independence but its ability to produce much of the oil and gas Europe needs.

@laotzu92 I posted my reply in the wrong sub-thread. Please accept my apologies 🌷

@laotzu92 I see you are of the mistaken impression that if one phrases a comment with enough big words, no one will understand they are being insulted.

@CorvusBlackthorne No, you are unfortunately incorrect. I believe you were responding to my reply to .......username. Did you read his comment? I do not deny that there was irony (i'm sure you know what that is) in my response. Every word I used in that response is in general use among reasonably educated English speakers. No jargon, no technical words.

@laotzu92 That's a huge lie. The U.S. is and has been the leading producer of oil and natural gas for over 10 years. Even during the pandemic the U.S. outpaced the next closest producer by a margin of 19% to 16%.....Saudi Arabia. What has happened during the pandemic is a 100% increase on made up bullshit from ultra radical right........because the shit shovelers would bet all they own not one single one of you will ever do anything in the way of fact checking the bullshit you're fed by FOX and NEWSMAX to know how badly you are being lied too. Truly the last 6 years has been the death of truth in America.

Oil production during the pandemic dropped.........because demand for gas and oil dropped. With highways empty............less gas was being bought. Our strategic reserves are full. No place to put excess gas or crude if they kept production at pre-COVID amounts.........so drilling ractched back to match demand. But...........it also dropped back in every foreign oil producing country for the same reason..........less drivers on roads to buy gas because of COVID. That pullback here and internationally did not affect who still sits in the top production spot.....by the same percentages.

@laotzu92 The implication, of course, being that your opponents are not educated.

At any rate, your deceptive argument drawing a false equivalence between recognizing the need for alternative fuels and a blind religion falls flat on its face before it can even gain any momentum. You are the one blindly adhering to the religion of oil and coal.

@CorvusBlackthorne Look at the EIA projections and you'll see that it is impossible to replace oil and gas (coal was not mentioned but you ARE sly) for 15 to 20 years whatever technological solutions are proposed.
Again, referring to your slyness, my response to educated speech was in response to your allegation of my using big words. Sloppy.

@anythingoes477 Simply not true. Please avoid bull____ remarks.
Biden just does not want to alienate the only base he has, the progs.

@laotzu92 You know what, bend over so the gop can get better access fuck face.

@laotzu92 You know, we could just stop whining and demanding that which we should've been decreasing all along.

[quote]The United States became a net annual petroleum exporter in 2020
In 2020, the United States exported about 8.51 MMb/d and imported about 7.86 MMb/d of petroleum1, making the United States a net annual petroleum exporter for the first time since at least 1949. Also in 2020, the United States produced2 about 18.40 million barrels per day (MMb/d) of petroleum, and consumed3 about 18.12 MMb/d. Even though in 2020, total U.S. annual petroleum production was greater than total petroleum consumption and exports were greater than imports, the United States still imported some crude oil and petroleum products from other countries to help to supply domestic demand for petroleum and to supply international markets.

The United States remained a net crude oil importer in 2020, importing nearly 5.88 MMb/d and exporting about 3.18 MMb/d. However, some of the crude oil that the U.S. imports is refined by U.S. refineries into petroleum products—such as gasoline, heating oil, diesel fuel, and jet fuel—that the U.S. exports. Also, some of imported petroleum may be stored and subsequently exported.

U.S. petroleum imports in 2020 were the lowest since 1991
The United States imported about 7.86 MMb/d of petroleum in 2020, which included 5.88 MMb/d of crude oil and 1.98 MMb/d of noncrude petroleum liquids and refined petroleum products. These were the lowest levels of imports of total petroleum and of crude oil since 1991.

After generally increasing every year from 1954 through 2005, U.S. total gross and net petroleum imports peaked in 2005. Increases in domestic petroleum production and in petroleum exports helped to reduce total annual petroleum net imports every year except one since 2005. In 2020, annual petroleum net imports were actually negative (at -0.65 MMb/d), the first time this occured since at least 1949.
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-products/imports-and-exports.php
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[quote]Since the Arab oil embargoes of the 1960s and 70s, it's been conventional wisdom to talk about American dependence on oil from the Persian Gulf. But the global oil market has changed dramatically since then.

Today, the U.S. actually gets most of its imported oil from Canada and Latin America.

And many Americans might be surprised to learn that the U.S. now imports roughly the same amount of oil from Africa as it does from the Persian Gulf. African imports were a bit higher in 2010, while Persian Gulf oil accounted for a bit more last year.

America is one of the world's largest oil producers, and close to 40 percent of U.S. oil needs are met at home. Most of the imports currently come from five countries: Canada, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Venezuela and Nigeria.
https://www.npr.org/2012/04/11/150444802/where-does-america-get-oil-you-may-be-surprised[/quote]

@Graylight There is nothing untrue in what you quote. The US is a major oil and gas producer. BUT there is ample evidence that the Biden administration, in accord with its progressive base, is doing everything it can to discourage domestic energy production and distribution.
The evidence for this can be easily found and i am not going to go through the list of actions via regulation, court challenge or influencing lenders.
The achievement of US energy independence was one of the great truly geopolitical accomplishments of the United States and it has been foolishly squandered by the greenies.

@laotzu92 It is not about trying to [quote]discourage domestic energy production and distribution.[/quote]

It is about encouraging reliance on renewable resources that will not accelerate the transformation of Earth into Venus 2.0.

@CorvusBlackthorne sure thing. encouraging renewables and discouraging (in a major way) current energy production are not the same.

@laotzu92 The problem is that you and your ilk are focused entirely too much on maintaining current petroleum levels, opening coal mines, and so forth. I have a friend on Facebook who lives in West Virginia, and can attest to the fact that there are hundreds dying as a result of the coal mines being reopened. Standing opposed to that is not the same thing as discouraging energy production.

@CorvusBlackthorne again the coal mines. i have never mentioned coal.
"ilk"? what ilk?
This may come as a surprise to you but i do not post to convince the invincibly ignorant or sophist climate religionists. (please ponder whether you might be one of those.) i post because there are some impartial readers who want open and fair discussion.

@laotzu92 [quote]again the coal mines. i have never mentioned coal.[/quote]
Donald Trump did. I mention it, though you did not, as a way of keeping you honest about the way in which America was maintaining "energy independence". Coal mining, fracking, and other destructive practices.
[quote]"ilk"? what ilk?[/quote]
The sort who worry more about keeping our own supply of petroleum, rather than finding alternatives.
[quote]i post because there are some impartial readers who want open and fair discussion.[/quote]
I do not see any in this conversation.

@CorvusBlackthorne So, you raise irrelevant issues just for fun? Stop smearing lines between topics. Fracking is not destructive.
There are NO current [i]alternatives[/i] to petroleum and none on the horizon for at least 15-20 years.

@anythingoes477 There you go using facts instead of falsehoods. The replies here seem to indicate many people have no clue about supply and demand.

@laotzu92 would the downvoters on my comment "He has done the easy part" reveal themselves? Cowardly.

@laotzu92 [quote]There are NO current alternatives to petroleum[/quote]

@laotzu92 [quote]would the downvoters on my comment "He has done the easy part" reveal themselves?[/quote]
Good evening.

@CorvusBlackthorne You obviously don't mean that greeting.