Eh, this is awkward… and simultaneously so typical of the current administration. The White House trotted Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to the microphones today to tell the DC stenographers how brilliant, beneficial and strategically necessary it is to release 50 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in an effort to lower gasoline prices. The enthusiastic Energy Secretary read the script, gave her talking points and then took questions.
However, after spending 15 minutes talking about the strategic brilliance of the 50 million barrel release, one of the stenographers accidentally asked: “that said, how many barrels of oil do U.S. consumers use every day?”… Granholm paused, looked down and said: “I don’t have that number in front of me, I’m sorry“… WATCH:
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♦ The amount we are giving you is so incredible and brilliant it will make everyone’s lives better. The best ever.
♦ How much do we need?
♦ I don’t know. We didn’t get that information. But the amount we are giving is awesome.
Yup, that’s the Biden administration encapsulated.
Ignorant bliss may be the right phrase…….. or down right stupid!
“President Biden’s move to tap the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve is expected to supply Chinese and Indian oil needs as gas demands have led to global shortages, reports said Tuesday.”
See :https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/oil-reserves-released-biden-expected-china-india
Good Lord, that woman has Elizabeth Warren’s manic eyes. And about as much intelligence as Chief 1/1032, as well.
She’s a pretty blond though and I guess that’s all that matters. s/
Fox News has her queued up
“She’s a pretty blond though and I guess that’s all that matters.”s/
Yeah, in a “Fatal Attraction” kind of way. She’s scary.
If a bit younger, sniffable to!
1/10321/1024We can’t let hordes of bullshitters take over the whole apparatus of society. We’ll come to a miserable end. All of us.
Talk about amateur hour. Everyone knows that the rising costs of gas and overall inflation is because
Of white supremacy. Come on man!
No. Not amateur hour.
Servant-of-Globalists Hour.
Those reserves were called “strategic” for a reason. Just like he gave away billions of military equipment, he is depleting our strategic oil reserves so we will be defenseless in what they have planned.
We have decades of complacent inability to comprehend what we are witnessing….our own destruction.
Perhaps this clueless Biden robot knows the answer to the question “who recognized the economic opportunity to build the reserves up after the Obamboozler/Biden administration ?”.
blown away lol.. immediately followed by detroit going bankrupt.
what a con artist.
Intentionally depleting our reserves to force electric vehicles onto Americans. (Not all will be able to afford or maintain)
I have lots of questions regarding the batteries and naturally the Idiots haven’t thought this through.
They don’t care.
Q: Cui bono?
A:
“You want the lithium, Mr. President? You can have it! It makes me feel funny.”
I am almost positive that is bidens brother innthe picture. Forhead os elongated mot apeaking hairlines bit bone structure
It’s unnecessary. Joe Biden is already a cheap copy of himself.
lithium batteries how are they going to dispose theme
where are all the enviromentalist
FJB
LETS GO BRANDON
Depleting our oil and gas exploration and production capability
The oil is still there if we don’t find it first.
Dumber than a door knob!! Must be a.o.c.’s older sister – same stupid look and brains fall out when mouth is open!!
My knowledge of oil reserves is non existent but I know more than she does! She looked like she was taking an oral exam and didn’t study. Total BS.
America is now a shithole.
I dare ANYONE to prove me wrong.
She could! And liberals would believe….
Par for the course. They will do and say anything, including murder, to control the daily narrative.
I’m glad the Secretary doesn’t understand that this is a drop in the bucket and won’t have any effect except leave the country without a strategic oil reserve. It’s one more reason to remove this installed regime.
That’s the point… they want to deplete the reserves in order to force everyone to accept their Green New Sh8tty Deal.
She admitted that the pain caused to Americans is necessary to transition to a green economy. Sundance has commented in the past that progs are quite comfortable with inflicting pain on society if leads to the utopia they envision reaching at some point. Yes Granholm is a moron and indicative of the Brandon administration as a whole but shes also the Fox in charge of the hen house right now.
And she was Governor of Michigan!
This encapsulates everything Democrat, not just the Biden Admin.
Competence just gets in the way of what they want, so they avoid it like the plague.
‘And she was Governor of Michigan!’
She, Buttigieg, Whitmer, Cuomo, the list goes on and on. I think one starts to appreciate how much effort went in to making these people look intelligent, capable, likeable, etc. etc. But now they can drop the stage direction and act like the doofusses and scumbags they always were.
So many of them too went to ‘higher institutions of learning’. Term paper ghost-writing, test cheating, and other ways of buying college degrees without actually doing the work have been a big business for decades, but no one talks about it. How many of these supposedly brilliant politicians benefited from them to get their credentials? It might explain how the AOCs of the world can graduate from Boston College with a minor in economics and make an assclown of of herself on a regular basis. BECAUSE SHE MIGHT NOT HAVE DONE THE ACTUAL WORK.
Michigan (gov)
From she to shining she
Detroit as their major accomplishment…
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She’s wicked smaht.
Which is why everything’s going so hunky dory in this country since the Biden Admin. came in.
They’re ALL wicked smaht, fr/ Bootedgeedge to the Border guy, ALL of ’em.
Glad there was a reporter who dared to ask the question.
That question really threw her for a loop.
Yes they do know exactly what are they doing.
It is by design.
Long range plan.
Oh, it’s brilliant alright.
Brilliant in their own minds to s….t on us little peasants.
But the peasants of communist countries overwhelmed them in 1989.
Again, repeating, Chinese man facing a tank down.
We better do the same so that we don’t become Australia, Austria and New Zealand.
Americans should have led the way, but hopefully will wake up in mass and show these elitists sons and daughters of demonic hell where they can go! ?
Imagine shutting down the Keystone XL pipeline, releasing the strategic petroleum reserve, and buying it back from foreign countries at higher prices and in effect paying salaries of foreigners after you rendered thousands of Americans working at keystone XL jobless.
The height of brilliance and common sense.
They really know how to “make things work”.
And a reporter was the one to tell the Energy Secretary that the amount of reserve they are releasing will only last three days. When he told her she stood there like a deer in the headlights.
They are transferring our energy sources away to other countries. Bridge Over Troubled Water. This is warfare.
That song was about drugs.
These people are stoned on the drugs of power and greed and perversion.
With so many women in high places these days, it’s so interesting to see how they lie as opposed to how men lie.
Women, like this one here, use body language and tone to coax the listener into agreeing with the lie in the service of collegiality–let’s try to avoid any confrontations/argument/unpleasantness here.
It’s a gentler way of lying I suppose. Killing you softly.
In any case, at least now that the feminism experiment is over and the results are in, we can safely say that women are every bit as horrid as men–and some would argue more so–especially women who work for other women.
I’m glad that this crap about the world being a better place if women ran it has now been put to bed.
I suppose we’re still left with fighting the notion that gays and trans are morally superior.
Buttgieg for Prez. He’s gay!
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is primarily intended to supply Defense petroleum requirements as a matter of National Defense, not as a political tool to cover up regulatory and policy incompetence.
US Military consumes about 117 Million bbls of petroleum / year (2006). So Grandpa Clueless just fobbed off 6 Months of US Defense capacity requirements.
The current price of WTI crude oil as of November 19, 2021 is $75.97 per barrel.
So that 50 M bbls will cost $3.8 Billion to replace. Trump bought it at $30 / bbl .
So Biden just lost $2.3 Billion, or more, for the US. Yep, smart as a sack full of hammers.
The drunk from Michigan.
I bet she worked closely with Petey Buttgagger on figuring out US transportation energy needs.
Which best describes the current American government.
1) Idiocracy: a government run by idiots.
2) Kakistocracy: a government in which the worst persons are in power.
3) Both 1 and 2.
Both. They’re idiots but the pain is necessary as far as they’re concerned. Utopia is at the end of it. Be grateful plebeians.
This dumb blonde bimbo couldn’t run a lemonade stand let alone America’s oil and gas industry!
Great post on zerohedge.com shows this will save TEN CENTS at the pump. The Bystander Admin and the devil’s army never rest… Godless, morally bankrupt beasts hellbent on destroying all that is sacred abt this Republic
Oil prices went up today.
mmmm. The nuclear power industry and weapons are usually a bigger portfolio for the Energy Secretary. Might be more embarrassing to ask her what a barrel of oil is though.
Very seldom do we have fossil fuel people near this agency, Aggie yell leader Perry not really one either.
Of course she appears totally unqualified for any energy industry.
Jennifer Granholm is another Bureaucrat Lawyer…..A Lawyer who has Zero clue about energy or running a business….She’s Canadian born which means she’s most likely a dual citizen…..I keep telling you people about Lawyers in Public Office and the overwhelming disaster they bring to governing our Republic….The undeniable proof is everywhere…
What is frustrating is the Bite Me Administration has zero alternative energy in place to replace fossil
fuel.
Yet, in unmatched stupidity, they ended all off shore drilling, Keystone Pipeline and Fracking on Federal lands on day one.
Now, Bite Me about faces, sells offshore leases, borrows from the strategic reserve and sends out a clueless Left Wing Canadian to explain how Bite Me saved the day. When day after day, he made it clear fossil fuel was enemy #1 and would be eliminated tomorrow.
Insanity.
Is there anyone with a half a brain in the Biden administration?
I doubt it. But if so, if I were that person I would be looking for an exit and quick so as not to be tainted by the idiocracy that surrounds me
This administration has shortages on everything except VILLAGE IDIOTS!!!!!
Isn’;t there allot of dystopian movies where the liberals want to bring civilization back to the stone age?
Lower income people will die this winter because of the rising price of heating oil. The administration is doing it on purpose. They want the people to rise up against the gov’t so they can declare permanent martial law
But utopia is at the end of the misery. Be grateful to your betters.
Jen-Jen is a moron. Always has been.
In other words, this is yet another example of the brilliant plan to ‘flatten the curve’. Right.
Well flatten something.?
BIDEN HAS BEEN SELLING OUR SPR TO ASIA
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/11/something_very_peculiar_is_happening_with_our_strategic_petroleum_reserve.html
China ordered Biden to eliminate the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and inject all our troops by year’s end.
I’m sure it’s fine.
Exactly
You just know when these folks get overly animated with the the hand action,they’re selling a pile of bovine excrement.
She’s pathetic.
Best way to reduce US Green House Gas emissions, lower pollution, and preserve open space/wildlife habitat would be to stop Immigration, deport illegals, and secure the border.
And how much is being sold to India and China?
Whoops … that’s embarrassing … it’s too expensive to refine here, so we send it over there … brilliant. Can’t even afford to go to Grandma’s house for Thanksgiving dinner, can we?
The amount is the awesomest amount possible!
This shambolic Administration is incredibly consistent! Every single member of their Admin. is completely f’ng useless and is there because of their race, gender, or gender confusion.
Love how they’re admitting that yes, supply does in fact impact price.
1.The VP – can’t stop laughing but that’s about all she does so far.
2.Sec of Transportation – Apparently a pizza company had to solve the pot holes in the city he was mayor of. Disappeared to be a mother during supply chain crisis and when he returned gave a nonsensical speech about it all.
3.Dr Levine – whatever position this person is in. Took own mother out of nursing home so she wouldn’t suffer the same fate of death due to Covid as the residents who were left there.
4.The generals – withdrew military from Afghanistan too soon and left our stuff which is now being sold all over the world on the black market.
5.The AG is sending gestapo FBI after parents who found out their kids were being taught CRT – materials for which are supplied by son in law’s company.
6.The son – we all know how degenerate, evil and corrupt he is as he traveling the world selling his father’s influence.
7.POTUS – On top of EVERYTHING else too numerous to mention – he farted on Camilla and maybe pooped while meeting the Pope.
It would be an anomaly if the energy secretary knew anything about energy. Of course Xi is laughing his butt off. We are a joke.
The earth is an insane asylum to which the other planets deport their lunatics.
What are we to suspect from a full blown functional alcoholic?
She spent much of her time in the Governor’s office in Michigan as a drunk (hard liquor) and it’s very noticeable and that is from law students who did internships.
It’s interesting how we didn’t have to tap into the “strategic oil reserve” during Trump’s tenure. Why was that? Could it be because we were domestically producing all the oil we needed and were also to become a leading oil exporter? What a freaking clown show these Democrats are and they are likely to get many people killed due to being frozen to death this winter. They need to be stopped.
Speaking of energy, I just saw this:
“Glenn Youngkin Employs LGBT Activist Who Lobbied Georgetown To Adopt Green New Deal-Style Restrictions, Ban Fossil Fuels”
“Just weeks after Glenn Youngkin was elected Governor of Virginia, conservatives are already accusing him of stabbing them in the back. His communications staff includes a skirt-wearing LGBT man who lists pronouns in his Twitter biography, and Youngkin’s transition team is led by a former Bush Administration official who is pro-Black Lives Matter.”
I know many of you warned about this RINO, I guess he may be a step up from the Democrat but another virtue signaling fake Republican. Kind of shows McConnell’s mindset here. I bet McConnell is for all this energy gutting. The GOP is going to be begrudgingly put back into power with their “independent” thinkers or “mavericks” that aren’t up for election, who will backstab every attempt to right the ship. IF we can overcome the rampant fraud. I almost think the GOP is to drag the rest of the conservatives along kicking and screaming but we keep moving Left.
I forgot the link!
https://nationalfile.com/glenn-youngkin-employs-lgbt-activist-who-lobbied-georgetown-to-adopt-green-new-deal-style-restrictions-ban-fossil-fuels/
This is a cheap Thanksgiving travel publicity stunt by thieves and whores.
Clearly, industry expertise was not a prequisite for her job in this administration.
To quote Dan Bongino: “Stupid, “smart” people are the most dangerous.” Granholm is just stupid…
The Constitution illiterate journalists provide a place for the deflective lies to find a place to ferment…pandemics, global markets, blah, blah, blah…all to deflect from the fact the Department of Energy Is not producing enough product because the Biden Administration won’t allow jobs to produce our required oil and gas with our own oil and gas.
Deflecting from the real facts of life is forcing Granholm to say really stupid things to cover the fact of complete failure of the Energy Department to deliver the goods.
In spite of the public display of the lack of knowledge over the Dept she supposedly leads, the DOE can tell exactly where every barrel of oil is pumped or off loaded into this country. Likewise, how much is refined, transported and used on a daily basis. But she obviously doesn’t know who in her Dept can give her that info or who to even ask. Yep. Another star in FJB’s Admin.
Gassed up today at $4.75.
Cheapest in my Sacramento neighborhood, by a lot.
Crowded, mixed, group.
From the group conversation it is more than obvious those needing their vehicles for employment are pissed.
Good.
According to SPR, we have 604.5 million bbls. of sweet and sour oil in reserve as of 11/19/21.
Won’t take long for that to disappear under this regime.
https://www.spr.doe.gov/dir/dir.html
It’s time to end this flipping SxxT show. The Joe&Ho Clown Show has show its incompetence and corruption.
The sooner that ” The One” departs this “Blue Orb” onto another Space-Time quadrant, permanently , the better.
If anyone is curious, the United States consumes about 20 million barrels of oil per day. So our lords in DC have graciously agreed to give us about 2.5 days worth of fuel…that we paid for by the way.
A basic internet search says roughly 20 million barrels per day. I don’t know what releasing a 2-1/2-day supply will do.
Yeah, she is in way over her head just like this whole illegitimate administration. Their (Democrats, media, BLM, Antifa, etc.) goal is to destroy the US. They don’t care what you think of them. They don’t care how stupid they look.
One does not need to know certain seemingly common-sense things when one’s goal is destruction. The 9/11 hijackers didn’t know how to land planes.