24 hours before Joe Biden announced he was cancelling all previously issued oil and gas leases in Alaska’s ANWR region, Saudi Arabia and Russia announced oil production limits would continue. Oil prices spiked near $100/bbl and then Joe Biden amplifies the problem by cancelling previously sold oil and gas leases.
There’s no other way to look at the timing here, other than to accept this is Joe Biden intentionally driving up the cost of domestic energy in the U.S. and creating as much pain as possible.
(Reuters) – Sept 6 (Reuters) – The U.S. Interior Department on Wednesday said it would cancel oil and gas leases in a federal wildlife refuge that were bought by an Alaska state development agency in the final days of former President Donald Trump’s term.
President Joe Biden, a Democrat, has pledged to protect the 19.6 million-acre (7.9 million-hectare) Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) for polar bears and caribou.
“As the climate crisis warms the Arctic more than twice as fast as the rest of the world, we have a responsibility to protect this treasured region for all ages,” he said in a statement.
Trump’s Republican administration had issued the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA) seven leases a day before Biden’s inauguration.
Environmentalists praised the decision, but it was lambasted by a Republican Senator from Alaska, where officials have sought to open up drilling in the reserve to secure jobs and revenues for the state.
The government also said it would forbid new leasing on more than 10 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, a 23-million-acre area on the state’s North Slope that is the largest undisturbed public land in the United States. (read more)
WHITE HOUSE – […] Canceling all remaining oil and gas leases issued under the previous administration in the Arctic Refuge and protecting more than 13 million acres in the Western Arctic will help preserve our Arctic lands and wildlife, while honoring the culture, history, and enduring wisdom of Alaska Natives who have lived on these lands since time immemorial. From day one, I have delivered on the most ambitious climate and conservation agenda in our country’s history. But there is more to do… (link)
I think the gut punch of Obama needed some balancing. People of color already leaving the Dem party, this gives the excuse. It gives everyone the excuse. Those willing to put up w Biden in front of their face now have to put up w Obama behind their backs. Kind of hard to keep pretending. Beyond leaving them limping, Godzilla Trump is stomping them like cockroaches.
Just got an ad w a lizard eating cockroaches …
Like this?
Ha! They used to screen this right before showing Reefer Madness at the cinema.
Far out, man.
No I don’t like it at all. Bambi is sweet and innocent and Godzilla is a huge clumsy oaf.
President Trump’s competitors are not sweet and innocent. Some are downright evil, selfish and greedy.
I wonder how long it will take before the pain at the pump will wake up the POC around here. Of course they have public transportation so they’re blind to it.
Lara: They will never wake up.
Leonardo DaVinci said there are 3 types of people. Those who see.
Those who see when shown.
And those who cannot see.
Unfortunately we are inundated and surrounded by masses of people who cannot see.
They will never wake up until and unless, they feel the pain!
Never say never.
PEOPLE are waking up.
Our enemies fundamental, foundational strategy is to exploit human nature, to sew division.
And far too many here “fall for it”.
Whether its youth vs old, or color vs color, all of the talk of demographics as an essential way to look at politics, comes from THEM.
“Suburban Moms”, “Urban Blacks”, etc.
One of the most absurd of the absurd,..”hispanics” lol.
Technically, those whose native language is Spanish, as if someone from Spain, Mexico, El Salvador, Cuba or Puorto Rico have ANY shared world view, lol.
America First promotes Unity, which is why it is an intrinsic threat to the Uniparty, because the one thing tyrants can not counter, much less overcome, is UNITY.
Spot on! I see and hear a lot of unhappy Americans especially in those sanctuary cities so it’s only a matter of time before it all unravels
Do you reference taxpayer paid for chauffeur-driven limos?
As long as the wokesters parents keep paying their bills, they will never wake up.
It affects everything, though. They’ll get much less with their EBT card.
price of gas going up raises costs on every single thing.
Utilities, groceries, building supplies, clothing, ghetto manicures, everything.
And WE ALL have to start doing some stomping, too!
A dire future indeed when the poor can’t live without the government, the working class is eliminated to sparse employment, the middle class grows minute in number and the rich become even more heartless and greedy.
Ha ha. How do electric army vehicles work when there are no charging stations out in the middle of nowhere??
Oh, they’ll build charging stations.
However, the charging stations will be powered by fuel-powered generators 🙂
Just going to have to call a timeout on the battlefield when the batteries start getting low, deploy some wind turbines, and those trusty solar panel arrays until we get it all charged back up again.
Of course, we will be the only nation that goes all electric, won’t have any heat or a/c in our tanks and jets, and the UN will have to make it a war crime to attack atc night, but I’m sure they got it all figured out.
The battery packs will only need to ‘receive’ a single 50 caliber bullet from the enemy to blow up our own all EV tanks, they will be sitting ducks if deployed at all. I don’t believe there will be fleet of these at war zones at all. Sure a lot of virtue signaling and spending a bunch of our tax $s and have a few units to display. the cronies/grifters will make a lot of $s in the process. Thank you.
Yep. $$$$$ and everyone taking a cut along the way.
Portable reactors. Evinci. BWXT. And a few others are developing new reactor technologoies which is long past due. But, those models will not be ready until 2030.
All electric vehicles- stupid idea. The tanks will need recharged every ten feet.
The Russians and Chinees will be contracted to provide charging stations for the U.S. Troops throughout our wars with other 3rd world countries. Fighting to the end.
Military failure is what the leftist politicians want for the US.
Notice how we have not won a war since August, 1945?
Even with our Trillion-Dollar-A-Year military, goat herders in sandals defeated us in Iraq. Afghanistan, elsewhere, because of crooked politicians.
Ever since they
changed the WAR DEPARTEMENT to the Department of Defense it’s been rough sledding for the US Military
Hey, those Viet Cong had sandally looking footwear, too!
Maybe the whole problem is the U.S. Military FOOTWEAR.
Instead of BOOTS, should have been outfitting our troops with Birkenstocks!
Alrighty then. America has officially ceded superpower status to the Communist Chinese and homophobic Russians.
That is excellent news! Our soldiers will love it. It’s a pain to stand around refueling in their high heels.
That’s a picture, right there!
Retired Vets are shaking their heads at this insanity and wondering why they risked all for this.
People like Milley and Austin are as fit for their jobs as the flea-male faux Admiral from Pennsylvania.
Dear God they are insane
Yes….very insane. And all the institutions that used to be to house these dangerous types are long gone.
Correction:
They want to appear insane and incompetent.
In reality, they are intentionally sinking the US Bloc, while briCs+ strengthens.
Based on lies about climate/energy, racism, economics, military conflicts, etc.
All part of the Plan, and the powers running the US Bloc are on the same side as briCs+ in this Plan.
This is what some suggest, at any rate.
People playing on their personal electronics simply don’t understand how destructive this BRICS+ power really is. They make a 5-alarm fire look like a single lit match
Look at what they’re doing to the dollar, and it’s all downhill from there.
Stark raving mad. Veganism does that to your brain.
Stark raving SMUG mad.
MY DOG eats more than 4 lbs of red meat per year! She is 17 and is a Bichon/Poodle mix. There is no way that she is going to spend her last years eating their plant based slop. Plus, every other week I take her to In-n-Out burger for a hamburger patty. She can barely see. She can barely hear. But her nose still works like a champion. She gets to stick her nose out of the window and smell the world go by. It brings her great joy.
With every passing day, these people are making me look forward to knowing that they are so evil that they won’t make it into the final heaven age.
Build a slop-chest!
Nautical joke.
Wait. What? Max. 4lbs of red meat per year!? But I can eat 12 burgers per year? That doesn’t compute the way I make my homemade 1/2 lb burgers … Guess I’ll need some cricket filler, eh?
Well … it appears as though I will be petitioning my local suburban city council to change the animal ordinance and allow me to raise a beef cow in my backyard. Yep. I’ll turn my lawn (that is now verboten in CA) into a dirt stockyard. Everyone will be happy except my neighbors.
They can suck a fat one. I’ll eat any damn thing I want in whatever quantity I choose. These climate cultists are un freaking real.
That’s the plan
Civil unrest and martial law is the plan. Then, they can get the guns.
IMO, we all need to either get out or obtain our own.
I heard that is why the USofA will not attack Venezuela – because every body has one.
Could this be true?
If so, behavior to be emulated.
This trend was noticed over 30 years ago by Umberto Eco in various essays (one was entitled Dreaming of the Middle Ages), in which he was noticing back then a “neo-feudalism” or a “medievalization” of the economy and society.
e.g. An aristocratic non-national elite arising, living on the tops of skyscrapers or in gated communities to avoid contact with the average people, with whom they had little in common. A top banker in Japan will have more in common with a CEO in Milan or Berlin or New York City than with an average person in Japan.
The medieval economy had practically NO “Middle Class,” serfs were indebted to the elite and had little escape, and the tiny percentage of people at the top lived well and controlled the wealth and power.
Does that sound familiar? There are a good number of differences of course, the parallel is not exact, but in these major aspects…”it rhymes.”
“Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It’s true! Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies. The bureaucracies betray the true intent of people who form such governments. Right from the first, the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands of bureaucratic aristocracies. Of course, all bureaucracies follow this pattern, but what a hypocrisy to find this even under a communized banner.
“I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.”–Actual President Ronald Reagan
I have always thought we were being forced to go in the direction of a lord-serf world again. NWO, my ***.
Just askin: does the concept of middle class make any sense when located in a feudal social/political structure?
Yes, but limited. The trades. Guilds.
Not really. Those are not social categories.
The point of the orig post, who controls the wealth, makes sense. I’m just asserting that the notion/terminology of middle class derives from a politico-economy science that does not encompass feudalism (which derived from land ownership).
Capitalism requires fungible labor. Schumpeter explains more clearly than I can the relationships in Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy.
The thing is, they are deluding themselves, as they can not function, without constant contact with “the average people”.
Who connects their wi-fi, drives/services their autos, etc.
Nailed it!
I’ll be calling him ‘Hitler Joe’ from now on. He’s literally trying to destroy us.
The targeting, and systematic dismantaling of a country’s ability to acquire and/or produce the critical fuel and power it needs, are neither sane nor a plausible defense for high treason… they are initial strategic military objectives historically initiated upon a sovereign nation by hostile enemy forces.
These Lunatics that have infiltrated our government and the levers of power are frantically dismantling every last layer of our national security under the fascade of unbridled incompetence, and mere traditional differences in political party agendas.
It’s a Blitzkrieg… and they are racing to finish before there isn’t a single torch or pitch fork to be found on any shelf in Anerica. When that happens they are going to be climbimg over each other’s backs, and begging for cells at Gitmo.
And we are past the time for that happening by nearly three years.. Thanks for stating the truth so succinctly, Mojave Green.
I agree with you EXCEPT that this is not “incompetence” nor “political party differences”. THIS IS ON PURPOSE.
The “party differences” are UNIPARTY versus MAGA. This is not RINO versus Commie Dem.
He said the USA was being dismantled UNDER THE FACADE of “incompetence” and “traditional party differences”… not that, that was what was really happening.
I took the literal definition of “facade” which is the face of a building in the French language. For me, it meant that talking heads (particularly RINO ones) choose to blame what they are doing to us is because of “incompetence” or “democrats”. That is the “face” of their argument. They choose not to look past the facade and delve deeper. They are pretending.
But I do see that in American English “facade” means “a false appearance that makes someone or something seem more pleasant or better than they really are.”
What an idiot
As always, Sundance is spot on with this article, almost. I only have one correction/request. Stop saying Joe Biden did this. Joe Biden did that. You want to call it the Biden Administration, the Biden Regime, the Biden radicals, Socialists, Marxists, Communists, fine. But, Joe Biden, it ain’t. Joe Biden is just a clown, in a suit, doing what he is told. Just like a marionette puppet or a ventriloquist dummy. My apologies to Sundance. These people Really get under my skin for what they are doing to our once Great Nation.
Look, we ALL know, Joe Biden signed something he was told to sign. Joe Biden said something he was told to say. Joe does what he is told to do. Biden, likely, doesn’t know where the pisser is in the White House, much less where he is. Barry Soetoro (aka Barack Obama) is fully in charge of his third term as president along with all his liberal Socialist, Marxist and Communist cohorts running the government (into the ground). If the November 2024 Presidential election is stolen like it was in 2020, We are ALL F’ed including the dumb a$$ Democrats that vote like they are told.
The year of 2024 is very likely to be much like the year of 2020, except on Steroids. Lockdowns. Riots. Nutsville. Better keep your head on a swivel 24/7/365 and ‘be prepared’ for anything. Who knows what these clowns have planned. And believe me, this is already planned or being planned out for execution in 2023 and 2024. It started with all the indictments, by Democrats, across the country, not just with President Trump.
Feudalism, Lords, vassals and serfs all over again. We were on the slow steam locomotive to that destination. With Barry in ’08 we got to the ‘train station’ and we were transferred to the diesel locomotive and picked up speed. With the stolen 2020 election we arrived at the next train station and we were transferred to the bullet train, rapidly on our way to “we will own nothing, and be happy”. Taking back the U.S. Presidency in 2024 is our next to last hope. If the Democrats steal that, will that be the Lexington/Concord and Sumter spark?
To ALL you liberal clowns who read this blog, F you too. Suck on that.
Sorry for the long rant, er, post.
Well said and written!
Obama “fully in charge?” You then clarified it was “along with all his liberal Socialist, Marxist and Communist cohorts running the government (into the ground).”
But it also irks me when Obama is given any more credit than Chauncey Gardiner.
“Democracy is like a tram. You ride it until you arrive at your destination, then you step off.”
Tayyip Erdogan
I think you are right about Biden. Look to see who is standing next to the military officer who is carrying the “football.”
Never in the history of this country has the ??president?? unilaterally decided to foist hardships on the citizenry to supposedly ease hardships upon future generations. What happened to trusting these generations to deal with the problems they incur themselves? It is as if the admin. is keeping secrets away from this husk to string out his destruction as long as he is allowed to hold the office he should have been disqualified for years ago, them being the petty, vindictive children they are now willing to show openly. Communists have implemented the perfect storm through using our strengths against us with far too many traitors showing up to grab their piece of the pie. Why is the opposition scared of this child, who has no idea where he is at much less his account statements courtesy of the communist cabal.
Because the Uniparty is compromised of the vast majority of “Republicans” who were never more than Democrats & got elected because they “professed” to be conservative but never were.
Most moronic administration in history. You could simultaneously solve inflation (mostly caused by high input costs) and end or hasten the end of the war by driving the price of oil back down to the 30/40 a barrel range.
Climate crisis manufactured by the ruling elites to impoverish the middle and lower economic class of people. The foolish people who support this charade think they are better people but in reality they are the worst of people as their support is destroying civil society and will bring on war, death and destruction on a scale never witnessed before..
Joe is so concerned about the well-being of future generations that he is leaving them with trillions of dollars in additional debt….
But we’re doing it for Ukraine and all future wars to “save democracy”.
Listen to la la land dwellers and it’s pretty easy to understand another key aspect of what is happening. The use of pain as an election campaign tool … cause a crisis … solve the same crisis … repeat. This actually provides some measure of distraction from the climate change BS, these same “smart” people are not buying.
Here in Collin County TX … the bouncing fuel cost range Starts at $3.99 (Regular), drops to $3.00 (Regular), then bounces back up. The other fun part is watching the prices by companies holding US Government Fuel contracts … they get to use a 10 cents/gallon subsidy advantage.
It never ceases to amaze when having conversations with folks who actually pretty smart, when they give credit to Sock Puppet JoeBama’s regime for reducing fuel costs. It is not by accident that fuel costs bounce upward $1.00/gallon and then bounce downward by the same amount … over and over … after some hyping headline supporting JoeBama’s clowns. The same “smart” la la land dwellers give you the same clueless look when it is pointed out to them that even the lowest fuel cost under JoeBama is still over $1.00/gallon higher than costs on 20 January 2021.
And what happens in Texas when they have a few days of not enough wind? They urge people to reduce their energy usage. Just happened yesterday. And it’s always a problem year-round. Texas, a state that’s been churning out oil & gas for decades, has been reduced to this by the utility commission.
Agreed and it is also not well known that beside petroleum, TX also has a rather large COAL deposits.
I have noticed over the years that when encountering the la la type and look into their eyes l get a sense of evil, not just naive
Can’t agree with this one.
The big thing with la la landers is maintenance of the status quo and nothing bad directly smacking them in the head.
This is the purpose of the yin and yang policies of the Uni-Party. The goal is preserve the status quo while minimizing the direct smacks to the head. The G7 nations are unique in character as they actually still have very large la la land segment in their populations that have to be carefully managed for the time being.
They are not evil but I would go so far as to call them selfish cowards.
“Opposite Joe”
Always does the opposite of what’s good for Americans.
” You will own Nothing” “You will eat Bugs” You will also drive Electric Vehicles! Amish style horse and buggy will be popular.
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest oh I meant to say White House.
Ahh, those golden days in Rome when their leaders evolved from a simple leader to Emperor, Dictator–then the fall of Rome took place. Wrong leaders would be a smart guess, but the real issue was giving one too much power over others.
“Fundamentally change America” do you remember who said and promised that?
Who’s winning? For how long? At what damage?
We all know Biden is just a dumb puppet and we know who has written this script.
Someone has placed a bet on how much pain the average American citizen will tolerate. We’ll see, won’t we?
“Master, give me one more taste of your whip and make it really good…please Master!”
I don’t recall ANYONE voting for The “Green” New Deal. Yet … here we are … rushing headlong toward energy poverty and the elimination of a Capitalist economy.
Theory: did the Saudis tell him to do this? Since he’s drained SPR He needs their production to keep gas prices low before election.
Yes.
A oil producing countries that hate our guts did too!
Can’t “blame” ANY oil producing country for hating “our” (i.e. U.S. Govt.)guts, as the WEF led BY the U.S. (or the U.S. Govt., led bythe WEF) has obviously declared war on oil, and therefore on any country that produces oil.
Barack HUSSEIN Obama – fundamentally destroying America. The closet homosexual is a beast.
No, he was JUST an Avatar, manufactured to serve a purpose, as a “front man”.
It’s time to impeach sleepy, corrupt Joe and his criminal family- he is a disgrace- cannot hide his senility or his misdeeds…the Dems are doing themselves NO FAVORby backing this obviously incompetent and evil guy and his entire grifting family- Joe and Jill refused to aknowledge their granddaughter for 4 years (great example of Family values), then we learn that they opened bank accounts in the names of Joe’s grandchildren (the ones he DOES acknowledge) into which they deposited the money from their international criminal activities- which makes those kids leagally liable for changes. And this is a First Family we are supposed to admire? Historians wil NOT be kind to the Bidens, nor should they be.
“There’s more to do, but we’re taking action to meet the moment for future generations.”
Why is an eighty year old career politician from Delaware with cognitive issues using the language of a twenty five year old climate zealot churning out copy for the PR department of Vanguard or Blackrock?
Oh, that’s why…
Still not getting an EV. I’ll just budget for gas.
69 Dart with a slant six converted to alcohol…make your own fuel
Loved the plymouth Valient, with the slant 6 engine, your cars cousin, lol.
Had several, 63,65,67….GREAT cars!
The more self-sufficient you are, the less enslaved you are.
We are toast without the oil&gas industry. This closes the door. There are now no drilling leases that are worth bidding for in the USA. This will never fly for very long, but while it does the industry is paralyzed. We might as well push for nuclear energy, which was paralyzed a couple of generations ago. We are toast without enough energy to sustain our lives. We have to elect Trump again and that is looking like a pipe dream that will be doused before the election is even completed. I am not optimistic at all anymore. The morons in Big Government will have their way and the destruction of the USA is just now beginning.
Why don’t you have a link to GAB?!
FJB and his puppetmasters!
More more for Biden’s paymasters in the KGB
He’s given 20x more $ to Russia with his energy policies than what he gave to Ukraine
How deep is the hole ?
Former Clowns In Action directors on the same company boards at hunter and so much more.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1699985908395606426.html
The MAGA punishments are only going to get worse every day that we get closer to the 2024 elections.
I wonder what our Satanic Overlords have planned for 9/11 this year.
Recall the picture issued the first week of this sh*t-show’s administration, Biden sitting at the Resolute desk with stacks of executive orders he was signing. Real or staged for optics, this told us all we needed to know about things would be handled and what was to come. Has anyone seen or heard a Republican addressing any of this? I mean other than appearing on Vannity and whining about it.
Sure, there’s always more to do!
We’re not completely starving, homeless, alien-invaded, penniless serfs just yet. You miserable ventriloquist dummy!
the Joe-Bawma administration, guided by the bastard child of the commie Frank Marshall Davis.
Certainly, glaringly obvious that that statement was not composed by brandon… it’s coherent.
if one looks at 1970’s maps there is NO ANWR
I was called the NAVAL STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE
Didn;t PTrump ok this drilling at the request of Lisa Murkowski who then
stabbed him in the back? Oh well…
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.”
― George Orwell, 1984
This move is treason against our national energy security
The puppet string pullers need to be identified and eliminated.
How can he nullify a contract?
People need to start adding Obama’s name when they use Biden’s name! Biden is NOT running anything! Nor is he making a single decision! Biden doesn’t even know where he is or who he is standing next to. He is a mental disorder, walking. We have to start calling out the truth for what it is because people need to know they are not crazy. What they are seeing is real and the destruction of our Country is real!
This is what happens when u have a so called pres. Beholding to our enemies just sad how much damage he’s done
More proof that they hate us.
Me n my spouse live quite comfortably, on our limited SS income, despite the Gummint saying we are just enough above their “poverty level” to not qualify for food stamps, etc.
We got off the credit trap merry-go-round, 20+ years ago.
Got into older (back when they were well built) airstream type trailers, bought outrite, …used formerly commercial vehicles (so well maintained and sold when 10 years old) we finesse healthcare, opting out of medicare parts B and D, …
Living in Mohave desert, at 2800+’ elevation,…have dual inverter A/C units, reduced our electric bill from high of $200/mo., to high of $100/ month, and thats only for July, as once the monsoons hit the temp, and so our electric drops.
Sorry to read how you are hurting financially, but maybe you need to look into making some changes?
Please don’t do much commenting about how much easier it is for desert folk to live on a modest income. We don’t really need more people moving in around us.
It’s not so bad.. Brandon only banned drilling on the land that has all the under it. I’m sure new leases will be approved where there’s no oil.. The bridge to far keeps lengthening.
They who cannot see will feel the pain in their wallets
They virtue signal. We pay at the pump and everywhere else due to the high cost of diesel fuel for trucks. TRUMP 2024!
My ex-husband said a man he knew voted for Biden because he expected Biden would give poor people more money. Wonder how that working for him now.
Wildlife refuge, cute.
Since this will lead to a spike in gas prices this tells me that they are planning on stealing the 2024 election and have no fear about the impact of their policies on the voters. They are behaving as if elections are irrelevant because they now are.
‘Crisis’ and ‘Protect’. Two words that in Biden’s mouth are utter self-serving bullshit.
It’s interesting because before President Trump left office he stated that under Joe Biden, a gallon of gas will be ten dollars. $10.00 a gallon.
Looks like he was correct again.
This is really scary stuff.
joey wants to do as much damage to the American people and our economy as he can before he loses office. Perhaps he is attempting to save (or sell the land and mineral rights) of our resources for/to China…
Has prices in small to town Missouri just went from $3.49 to $3.89 a gallon overnight.