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The Beginnings of an All-Out Energy Catastrophe

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Posted By: earlybird, 10/10/2022 9:20:40 PM

Those waggish stickers we’ve been seeing at gas pumps, with President Joe Biden pointing to the inflated price, saying “I did that,” won’t be going away any time soon now that OPEC is cutting global oil supplies by two million barrels a day. But too few realize that this White House’s foreign policy is as responsible for consumer pain at the pump as its big-spending domestic policies .(snip)Is it likely that if asked, John Q. Public would think that the right man to send to Saudi Arabia to conduct aggressive oil diplomacy is a veteran of the Israeli Defense Forces,(snip)who, working in Barack Obama’s State Department, had failed in

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Biden sent the wrong man - an Israeli with a record of failed negotiations - to negotiate with the Saudis. And there were negotiations going on before Biden himself went with hat in hand and came back emptyl

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Reply 1 - Posted by: earlybird 10/10/2022 9:26:32 PM (No. 1300989)
FTA: Unbeknownst to the public until now, Biden officials spent weeks intensely lobbying OPEC countries, in person on their turf, hat in hand, not to cut oil supplies; in retrospect, this pathetic begging further exposes to the world the impotency to which U.S. influence has been reduced. One OPEC diplomat described Hochstein and his colleagues’ efforts as “desperate.” And it cannot be forgotten that the whole point of Biden visiting Saudi Arabia in the summer and meeting with the crown prince was to convince the pre-eminent OPEC nation to boost oil production in order to bring down prices for American consumers. By contrast, during the pandemic in 2020, President Donald Trump’s forceful phone negotiations with the crown prince to protect a then-revitalized U.S. oil industry from OPEC saturation amid a COVID-ravaged global collapse in demand was described as “an extraordinary display of U.S. influence over global oil output.” Trump was a master of negotiation. Biden, a pathetic bumbler.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: jalo1951 10/10/2022 10:34:30 PM (No. 1301007)
This pathetic demented fool has so f - ed up America it will take YEARS to dig out of the abyss he has thrown us down. If he was just taking up space eating pudding it might not be to much of a problem. But the puppet masters are the real enemy destroying us while enriching themselves beyond measure. God, we could use some help down here. I know we hear this all the time but this time it is true: Vote like your life/future depends on it. Because it does.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: bad-hair 10/11/2022 9:24:39 AM (No. 1301245)
Putin is up and at 'em. The only thing that keep China from being up and at 'em is If DC goes away The Republic of Texas approaches. If you take away ALL of Taiwan's microchips the Republic of Texas approaches. Joe Biden is a temporary idiot. Let's hope he doesn't launch first. He very well could.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: faceincrowd 10/11/2022 10:32:23 AM (No. 1301357)
I would advise those like myself with no fireplace to go out and buy a cold weather sleeping bag (I already have). For use in your house if you have no power/heat. At least you'll be warm.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DVC 10/11/2022 10:56:33 AM (No. 1301381)
Re #4, for medium term ability to keep the pipes from freezing, and short term ability to heat one room pretty well, a tank-top propane radiant heater is very useful. https://www.lowes.com/pd/Mr-Heater-15000-BTU-Portable-Propane-Tank-Top-Propane-Heater/1001333822 A "10 gallon" (now reduced to 9 gallons by fed nanny state; eye roll) propane tank is a tall version of the BBQ grill tanks, and costs around $100. This is an example of one, cheap emergency heat, and CAN be safely run indoors, has no monoxide output. If you run it in most homes, natural leakage is enough "fresh air". If you have a very new and VERY well sealed home, cracking a window about a quarter inch may be a good idea. It does consume oxygen, but I have run them indoors for many hours in reasonably well sealed and small mountain home with no ill effects. Normal air infiltration in most homes is actually a few hundred cubic feet per minute, WAY plenty enough to keep the air fresh and supply plenty of oxygen. The 20 lb grill small tanks will run about 24 hours with the 15,000 BTU burners continuusly running. The larger "ten gallon" or 40 lb tanks, will run twice as long. Running for shorter periods to just keep pipes from freezing....like room kept at 40-45 F, may get significantly longer burn time.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: bigfatslob 10/11/2022 12:59:16 PM (No. 1301517)
Fraud Joe Biden's big mouth got him in trouble when he called the Saudi family murderers in the Kosogi disappearance they didn't forget. Appealing to enemies in Venezrala is stupid. I don't know who fraud Biden's energy expert is, but they produce low grade/gravity oil with high Sulphur content producing H2s gas. It is not lubricant, gasoline high gravity grade. I know I used to purchase it from Pemex in Mexico very dangerous to move having to wear a gas mask on the ship's deck when measuring the containers before discharging to the refinery. Fraud Joe Biden is a total screw up when he's standing right on top of solving the energy crisis with domestic production if AOC would just let him. Let's go Brandon, "I did that".
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Reply 7 - Posted by: NorthernDog 10/11/2022 1:43:05 PM (No. 1301558)
The Saudis have a long history of protecting their self interests. Both Democrat and Republican administrations have crafted ways to work with them as needed. But somehow Joe Blow bumbled away the improved relationship we had under Trump, and is now at their mercy.
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