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4 minutes ago, toomuchbaloney said:

You asked for the link to the data and I provided it. 

LOL....I don't think so.

It's a rough time for those trying to unobjectively defend every action, or inaction, of the current administration.   Isn't it?

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1 hour ago, toomuchbaloney said:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60661611

Meanwhile, it just doesn't take that much public pressure for both business to change their practice...it certainly shouldn't take government mandates to get them to do the right thing. 

There were others, too.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-02/top-u-s-buyer-of-russian-oil-among-refiners-halting-imports

Interesting how some try to demonize the oil industry in a effort deflect from the lack of leadership of the Biden administration.

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I do think we have differing definitions of "demonizing the oil industry".  

There was widespread support for us halting buying Russian oil.  But where to go from there is perhaps where things might differ. 

I will say Biden isn't necessarily showing the best leadership.  Instead of moving away from oil dependency he's letting the oil industry and Republicans write the narrative that he's demonizing oil.

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Republicans are calling for more oil drilling. Europe says it’s doubling down on clean energy. But as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues into its second week, President Biden has stayed mum about how tectonic shifts in global markets should affect the future of U.S. energy........

Biden has avoided linking the diplomatic and economic isolation of Russia — one of the world’s top three oil producers — to his goal of decarbonizing the economy, as international allies and some other Democrats have. Nor has Biden heeded calls from industry, Republicans and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.VA.) to jump-start domestic drilling to replace Russian oil.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/amid-war-biden-reluctant-to-unleash-clean-energy-rhetoric/

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6 minutes ago, Tweety said:

Bloomberg is not available to me.  Can you perhaps cut and paste (if it's a small) or summarize the part of the article that makes your point.

I do think we have differing definitions of "demonizing the oil industry".  

I will say Biden isn't necessarily showing the best leadership.  Instead of moving away from oil dependency he's letting the oil industry and Republicans write the narrative that he's demonizing oil.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/amid-war-biden-reluctant-to-unleash-clean-energy-rhetoric/

The Bloomburg article was about other oil companies before Shell who had stopped buying from Russia.

The comment on demonizing the oil companies was in response to someone else making multiple posts about how the oil companies should have taken it upon themselves to stop Russian importing, and repeating White House lies that the oil companies are passing up already present opportunities to drill.

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1 hour ago, Beerman said:

The Bloomburg article was about other oil companies before Shell who had stopped buying from Russia.

The comment on demonizing the oil companies was in response to someone else making multiple posts about how the oil companies should have taken it upon themselves to stop Russian importing, and repeating White House lies that the oil companies are passing up already present opportunities to drill.

Thanks.  

I think the poster lives in Alaska where it might have been bigger news.

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One of the Trump administration's biggest environmental rollbacks suffered a stunning setback Wednesday, as a decades-long push to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ended with a lease sale that attracted just three bidders — one of which was the state of Alaska itself.

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/06/953718234/major-oil-companies-take-a-pass-on-controversial-lease-sale-in-arctic-refuge

Of course the playing field has changed.  Gas prices have gone up dramatically  and there is a war going on started by an oil-rich nation.  

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About the White House:

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Even amid the pandemic, companies in the United States pumped more oil during my first year in office than they did during my predecessor’s first year.
 
We’re approaching record levels of oil and gas production in the United States, and we’re on track to set a record of oil production next year. 
 
In the United States, 90 percent of onshore oil production takes place on land that isn’t owned by the federal government.  And of the remaining 10 percent that occurs on federal land, the oil and gas industry has millions of acres leased.  They have 9,000 permits to drill now.  They could be drilling right now, yesterday, last week, last year.  They have 9,000 to drill onshore that are already approved. 
 
So let me be clear — let me be clear: They are not using them for production now.  That’s their decision.  These are the facts.  We should be honest about the facts. 
 
Second, this crisis is a stark reminder: To protect our economy over the long term, we need to become energy independent.
 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/03/08/remarks-by-president-biden-announcing-u-s-ban-on-imports-of-russian-oil-liquefied-natural-gas-and-coal/

I'm sure he will be fact checked on this but the statement is just a few hours old.  

Like I said, perhaps even a few months ago oil companies might have elected not to drill more oil because of a glut and low prices.  The situation has changed now.  

 

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6 minutes ago, Tweety said:

Thanks.  

I think the poster lives in Alaska where it more news there I believe.

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/06/953718234/major-oil-companies-take-a-pass-on-controversial-lease-sale-in-arctic-refuge

Of course the playing field has changed.  Gas prices have gone up dramatically  and there is a war going on started by an oil-rich nation.  

"But amid a global recession, low oil prices and an aggressive pressure campaign against leasing by drilling opponents, oil analysts have for months been predicting little interest in the sale."

And, yes.  The picture now is different, indeed.

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1 minute ago, Beerman said:

"But amid a global recession, low oil prices and an aggressive pressure campaign against leasing by drilling opponents, oil analysts have for months been predicting little interest in the sale."

And, yes.  The picture now is different, indeed.

But the question I have is Biden standing in their way with a war on oil?

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 Executives at some of the world’s biggest oil and gas producers said on Monday they are ramping up their crude production as U.S. gasoline prices surge to $4 a gallon amid expectations that President Joe Biden and Congress would ban imports of Russian petroleum — but the companies warned not to expect new supplies overnight.

Exxon Mobil and Chevron are both boosting oil production at the mammoth Permian Basin field in West Texas and New Mexico, strategies that both oil majors laid out last year but that have taken on new urgency because of the surge in oil prices to their highest level in 14 years.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/07/oil-industry-production-hikes-russia-00014778

Here's an intesting article that mentions problems with staffing and other reasons why production is slack in the US.

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"Oil and gas companies do not want to drill more," said Pavel Molchanov, an analyst at Raymond James. "They are under pressure from the financial community to pay more dividends, to do more share buybacks instead of the proverbial 'drill baby drill,' which is the way they would have done things 10 years ago. Corporate strategy has fundamentally changed."

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/02/energy/us-oil-production/index.html

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5 minutes ago, Tweety said:

About the White House:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/03/08/remarks-by-president-biden-announcing-u-s-ban-on-imports-of-russian-oil-liquefied-natural-gas-and-coal/

I'm sure he will be fact checked on this but the statement is just a few hours old.  

Like I said, perhaps even a few months ago oil companies might have elected not to drill more oil because of a glut and low prices.  The situation has changed now.  

 

The article I posted mentioned the leases.  As a reminded, the industry says they are drilling as much as they can under todays regulatory environment.   For better or worse, that's what it is.  Don't see why they would make that up.

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26 minutes ago, Beerman said:

The article I posted mentioned the leases.  As a reminded, the industry says they are drilling as much as they can under todays regulatory environment.   For better or worse, that's what it is.  Don't see why they would make that up.

I don't think they are making that up.  They are indeed drilling as much as they can with what they have and what the regulations allow.  The article I posted above states they are ramping up production even more.  

But during the pandemic recovery is seems they made a deliberate decision not to drill more oil.  Driven in part by greed, I mean stock holders.  I'm sure my retirement funds benefited from it some so I'm not complaining.

We can look to regulations as part of the problem, but for them to paint themselves as victims of an oil-unfriendly administration isn't all that accurate either.  There's plenty of mud to be slung.

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Oil companies are under a lot of pressure to keep their production down. And the call is coming from inside the house: it's oil investors who are pushing for companies to pump less oil.

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/06/973649045/hold-that-drill-why-wall-street-wants-energy-companies-to-pump-less-oil-not-more

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18 minutes ago, Tweety said:

But the question I have is Biden standing in their way with a war on oil?

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/07/oil-industry-production-hikes-russia-00014778

Here's an intesting article that mentions problems with staffing and other reasons why production is slack in the US.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/02/energy/us-oil-production/index.html

It's difficult to examine all of the facets of American oil production and then lay all, or even most, blame for what concerns us about access and cost solely on the desk of the president.  IMV

 

 

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26 minutes ago, Tweety said:

But the question I have is Biden standing in their way with a war on oil?

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/07/oil-industry-production-hikes-russia-00014778

Here's an intesting article that mentions problems with staffing and other reasons why production is slack in the US.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/02/energy/us-oil-production/index.html

Yes, as I mentioned another time, when one of your first actions as President is to cancel a project a private enterprise has spent billions on, and a "green" faction of your party help get you elected, that makes fossil fuel investors skiddish.

That is a interesting article.  Some things I hadn't given much thought to. 

I will say, it seems attracting workers shouldn't be a problem.  They typically pay high wages for not many unique skills and education required.

I lived in western Colorado during a natural gas boom.  We'll just say when I went shopping at WalMart, there were an awful lot of nice trucks of shoppers with out of state plates.....gas rig workers.

 

 

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