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.

1. He shouldn't have been elected.
2. He shouldn't have shut down the Keystone pipeline.
3. He shouldn't have ceased issuing new drilling leases on federal lands and offshore (or making their restrictions so onerous as to make them unattractive).
4. He shouldn't have consistently said we are detransitioning from a fossil fuel economy which disincentivizes banks and other investors from investing into long term fossil fuel projects such as drilling, exploration, and refineries.
5. He shouldn't be supporting sanctions against Russia which only hurt Europe and our other allies while Russia has plenty of other customers for its oil and gas and is making as much money as it ever was.
6. He should start an open season on drilling and fracking in America.
7. He should offer interest free loans for new refineries since that's the main issue with why gasoline and diesel prices are so high, guaranteed by the US government so if he reduces demand, no private investment is lost.
8. He should approve every fucking pipeline, including natural gas, and pass laws that state that local governments cannot stop pipeline construction as they are part of national security.
9. He should repeal the Jones Act.

Basically, it's a combination of Biden fucked up bad and got us into this situation (thank you Massachusetts voters) and now he needs to do a complete u-turn and embrace fossil fuels.

Biden's destruction of domestic energy industry.

Well put. Biden isn't going to do anything. We're in for a rough winter.

Well, Massachusetts is getting what it voted for. I'd rather have mean tweets than freeze to death.