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OkMudDrankin t1_ium82fa wrote

The same energy industry that is currently recording record profits? get real you delusional morons This has nothing to do with Joe Biden get it through your thick Trumptard skull. Holy shit it’s like dealing with Kindergarteners

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moderntechguy t1_ium91vf wrote

This has everything to do with Joe Biden. He's openly stated we are de-transitioning from a fossil fuel economy. Banks and other private investors have stopped investing in energy because of that. The primary bottleneck right now is refining. We simply cannot make enough gasoline, diesel, and heating oil. The profits from a barrel of oil turned into diesel have gone from $10 to $100 in less than a year due to lack of capacity. So of course whoever owns the refineries are going to make bank. That's not their fault. All of these products are bought and sold on public markets and the public sets the price through supply and demand. Right now there is very little supply due to the bottleneck. So they are making money. But refineries cost tens of billions of dollars and take decades to recoup their expenses. Absolutely no one is interested in investing in new ones. Why? Because, as Biden goes around saying, "We're detransitioning from fossil fuels", so they'll never get their money back.

High gas prices, lack of natural gas supply, lack of diesel, high oil prices, high heating oil prices, high electricity prices, all of energy being so expensive is all directly the result of this administration's war on fossil fuels before replacement renewables were in place. They got rid of our energy before what was replacing it was even built. That's the problem.

This is a big part of the reason that according to PredictIT, he's about to lose both the House and the Senate and become a lame duck President and polls show him hovering at a 40% approval rate, lower than Trump was at this stage of his Presidency.

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OkMudDrankin t1_iumbnr1 wrote

They didn’t get rid of anything. America has produced more oil than any country in the world for 2022. The process to refine the oil has not changed, the only thing that has changed is the global supply do to russias war in Ukraine and OPEC+ turning down production. I don’t understand why you guys are parroting Fox News talking points. If America has produced more oil than ever before shouldn’t the prices be going down? No they are not because oil companies have 0 incentives to lower prices because idiots like you will just keep buyin. Hey maybe here’s a solution buy solar panels, get an electric car. Stop subjecting yourself to the whims of the fossil fuel industry because you’re so afraid of change.

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OkMudDrankin t1_iume2wq wrote

Yes refining rates have dropped. Once again you blame Joe Biden and simply that’s not the case. I’m not going to bother explaining to you why something is the way it is because you just blame Biden for literally everything. Well you know why refining rates are down? Because I’m 2020 when the entire global economy shut down refiners started losing incredible amounts of money. Obviously this makes sense and hmm maybe if Trump did more to protect America then we wouldn’t have been hit so hard by Covid and refineries could’ve kept doing there thing. But since that wasn’t the case and refiners aren’t going to open up the old mothballed refineries when like I just said above they are turning record profits. And it makes no sense to pay for more refining when OIL IS NOT THE FUTURE.

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JoshSidekick t1_iumwfz5 wrote

> Well, then why hasn't this administration done anything to increase refining capacity?

Glad to see you're like two seconds away from getting on board with nationalizing the oil industry.

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