We could all see this coming. The Ukraine-Russia conflict creates the opportunity for the Build Back Better initiatives to get triggered. None of this is happening organically. All of this is opportunism based on a series of dominos purposefully triggered. Three government solutions to rising oil prices surface simultaneously in an effort to exploit the crisis they created.
Keep in mind, this economic roadmap was strategically outlined in the World Economic Forum “Build Back Better” initiative, and that was built upon the economic ‘climate change‘ opportunity that COVID-19 created. The U.S. version of BBB was called the Green New Deal.
First, Biden proposes to trigger a useful “Climate Change Emergency” (LINK). Second, the International Energy Agency proposes a “Ten Point Plan” to change energy use in the modern society (LINK). Third, comes AOC and Bernie Sanders with the “Executive Action Agenda” (LINK).
All of this is the fundamental change represented by western government in the agenda of ‘building back better’.
(IEA) In the face of the emerging global energy crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, practical actions by governments and citizens in advanced economies and beyond can achieve significant reductions in oil demand in a matter of months, reducing the risk of a major supply crunch, according to new analysis released by the International Energy Agency today.
These efforts would reduce the price pain being felt by consumers around the world, lessen the economic damage, shrink Russia’s hydrocarbon revenues, and help move oil demand towards a more sustainable pathway.
If fully carried out in advanced economies, the measures recommended by the IEA’s new 10-Point Plan to Cut Oil Use would lower oil demand by 2.7 million barrels a day within four months – equivalent to the oil demand of all the cars in China. This would significantly reduce potential strains at a time when a large amount of Russian supplies may no longer reach the market and the peak demand season of July and August is approaching. The measures would have an even greater effect if adopted in part or in full in emerging economies as well. (more)
AOC and Bernie Sanders [LINK]
(Daily Mail) Progressive Democrats are urging President Joe Biden to take executive action to raise wages, combat climate change, cancel student debt, and lower health care costs.
The Progressive Caucus – led by Rep. Pramila Jayapal and consisting of high-profile liberals like Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar and Senator Bernie Sanders – outlined their lists of demands they said ‘would provide immediate relief to working people and their families.’ (read more)
(CNN Reports) […]”As a result of Russia’s appalling aggression against Ukraine, the world may well be facing its biggest oil supply shock in decades, with huge implications for our economies and societies,” IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said in a statement.
The proposals reflect a recognition that the world has few realistic options to quickly replace oil supplies from Russia, the world’s No. 2 oil producer in 2021. OPEC has signaled it’s in no rush to ramp up production and the release of emergency oil stockpiles has done little to ease shortage fears.
“The US and other IEA countries now realize that the potential loss of Russia’s oil exports constitutes a bigger supply shock than either strategic stock draws or accelerated OPEC+ production hikes can solve,” said Bob McNally, president of consulting firm Rapidan Energy. (read more)
Ok. Let’s put this in perspective. The “Biden/EIA” proposal is complete and utter bullcrap that effectively changes Nothing.
The World is expected to consume 100.6 Million bbl of oil per Day in 2022
Using EIA’s own estimates. https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/report/global_oil.php
Russia produces approx 10 M bbl/day for export. , of which the US buys 8 M bbl/day.
https://www.worldometers.info/oil/russia-oil/
The “Miracle” of cutting oil use by 2.7 M bbl/day, as proposed, is 2.68% reduction in Global usage over 120 Days. This means reducing oil consumption by 22,500 bbl/day if the proposed model is linear.
So, if the World uses 97.32% of its projected usage of oil, we are to believe that “everything is going to be fine”.
This is a difference of 10 Cents/gallon of gasoline on a world scale.
50 Cents/gallon if all of the Russian oil goes to the US.
Are you kidding me? Gasoline has gone up $1.50/gallon in 12 months. So, over 4 months, reducing the cost by 10 Cents/gallon is somehow going to stabilize everything? Unscrewing what Biden has done in America, alone, would be 30 Cents reduction per gallon of gasoline over the same timeframe these clowns say is “necessary”. Just get that Drooling Geriatric and his band of Idiots out of the way and you get 300% better performance .
Opening up the Keystone XL Pipeline would reduce US costs by 30% of that projected savings, all by itself.
The US consumes about 20 M bbl oil/day. https://www.worldometers.info/oil/us-oil/ .
13 M bbl/day of that is for transportation: Gas, Diesel, JP-6/8, Jet A.
If Biden would take his foot off of the neck of the Oil/Gas industry, that 10 Cents worldwide or 50 Cents in the US, would be history in short order.
This proposed approach is nothing but propaganda. This is a “bait and switch”, Nothingburger, Mis Information, Useless action, that does Nothing significant.
Beware of the Government “helping you”. It is likely cover for another power grab.
The US imports some 709,000 bbls / day of oil and gasoline from Russia.
https://www.afpm.org/newsroom/blog/oil-and-petroleum-imports-russia-explained
The Keystone XL pipeline delivers 800,000 bbl/day of oil.
Just to clarify. US does not import a majority of daily consumption from Russia. Only about 4% of US daily usage.
Libtards are Libtards. They lack; Rationale, Judgment, Commonsense. However, they are not immune to pain. It is as painful for Libtards as it is for MAGA when Libtards pay at the gas pump. This creates an uncomfortable sense of insecurity. It is a negative which is real. It takes “Green” from being someone else pays to “Green I pay and it hurts ME”.
Such an inconvenient truth. I mean really man, who the hell pays attention to reality these days? Geesh.. You some crazy conservative or what?
Seems a significant portion of the democrat base just sniff and snort because the never get near a gas pump—urbanites.
Also no clue about the realities of nature, climate, the environment, farming, ranching, hunting, logging, wildfires, blizzards, windmills, fossil fuels, the sun, hydrocarbons, irrigation, pest control, farm-to-table, drought, topsoil, packaging, predation, migration, borders, or Ukraine.
Not to mention a volcano now and then.
And earthquakes.
These pieces of human garbage are nothing if not pathetically ignorant and evil. Like to shove a gas nozzle right down their throats and fill them up with premium unleaded
Can’t we find something cheaper to use? One of my cars uses premium gas.
I’ll chip in a couple gallons of used motor oil that’s awaiting recycling. I’d guess that as little as a quart per piece of garbage would get ‘er done. so there’s the first eight down without wasting anything expensive.
Oh, and I’ve got another couple of cars needing an oil change, too. Probably close to two more gallons.
Gee, isn’t it interesting that among the IEA’s 10 point plan to drastically reduce internal combustion driven travel / gas consumption, the one solution NOT mentioned is to have the Good Ol’ USA ramp up oil extraction and gas production to replace the “missing” Russian oil.
You know, Become Energy Independent Again as the USA was during President Trump’s leadership?
Stop making sense.
am I a bad person if I pray for bad things to happen to these people?
not that it matters to me what someone thinks..
No
I pray every day that they SOON have a close face to face relationship with God.
Before you kill all the chickens you might want to keep a few eggs in the incubators.
The IEA is a department of the Democrat Party like the FBI, DOJ, CIA, FDA and CDC!
I don’t know what its like in other countries, but down under over the last 10 years or so the government has been busy turning many 2 lane roads and streets into 1 lane, and turning the other lane into a bike only lane. They are everywhere here.
Over the same period the road laws changed dramatically. Hidden speed cameras. Red light cameras and fines fines fines. They also introduced a points based system. Lose enough points and you can no longer legally drive. All the while BIG money was being poured into the public transport systems here …
Its a very weird thing. You drive around Melbourne and there’s all these bike lanes on every street and no one is using them.
Wouldn’t you know it, for the first time in Australian history we don’t produce our own motor vehicles anymore. They shutdown ALL production. Not 1 plant. ALL of them. Holden = gone. Ford = gone. Toyota = gone. These were massive plants. Full vehicle production. 10s of thousands of jobs wiped out. Secondhand car sales have exploded in Australia. ALL vehicles must now be imported, sending secondhand vehicle prices through the roof.
Multiple governments left and right alike. All on board building state of the art public transport systems, whilst simultaneously doing everything possible to force people off the roads and into the public transport system. Wouldn’t you know it, now we have fuel prices that are skyrocketing …
It all points in the same direction as far as I’m concerned. This damn green agenda.
Melbourne sounds like Seattle,WA!
Amen!
Where I work in Texas, in an industrial are with NO homes nearby, they included bike lanes when they redid one of the main roads into the area. Mind you, this is NOT a long or super important road. Never have seen anyone use it nor do I anticipate anyone even wanting to ride a bike on the road. I’ve wondered about it. Sure, i understand the leftists agenda but never considered your perspective.
Your observation is very astute. Knowing how long the powers-that-be have been pushing their nonsense with an agenda in mind, it is extremely easy now to see the fruits of their long-term work and agenda in real life. Sick bastard’s.
Many, many years ago bikes could travel safely on the road with cars because they could easily go the same speed. Not anymore and not for quite a long time. They should not be allowed on roads where speed limits exceed 25-30 mph. period. How can these traffic laws for bikes never have been changed after more than a century?
“It all points in the same direction as far as I’m concerned. This damn green agenda.”
You mean RED agenda. Just saying …
enjoy your roasted cicadas, thorn … they’re quite tasty with a dash of seasoned salt
and I’m sure I don’t need to mention ‘crunchy’ … can we talk?
I hope all the oil crackers are taken out of service for one week for maintenance while Congress is out of session and the members can be eyeball to eyeball with their constituents.
If I didn’t already have a headache, this article would give me one.
Voters are asking for none of this. All top-down. Cannot succeed. IO to cover a litany of self-failures.
I suggest the Greenies get started on this plan immediately, and allow the rest of us to go on about our business.
Agreed, but …. how can we just get on with business when the roads are all dug up? Bottlenecks being narrowed to add bike/pedestrian ways. Buildings, Woodlands, “Green Belts” all destroyed to add commuter trains to a city no one dares to go into because of rampant homeless, human excrement everywhere, rampant drug sales and use, rampant violence, criminals set free, normal folks out of work, etc.! Gee, thanks loads Greenies!
man, you got nearly the entire current catastrophic condition summarized on only 5 lines, there, Patriot
Article “Germany to Begin Confiscating Guns”. How long until…?
FTA: At a time when the world is praising Zelensky for arming citizens and praising the people for protecting their country, the rest of the Western world continues to condemn private gun ownership. Germany will begin disarming 1,500 people who they suspect (not confirmed) are extremists. Germany already has strict requirements for citizens to obtain firearms, but this measure could ensure that people with dissenting opinions are unable to defend themselves.
This will begin the trend of allowing governments to disarm people based on their political beliefs. They only want citizens to have guns when they are used to promote the government’s agenda. Any dissenters will be labeled dangerous extremists who post a threat to national security. This exact event has happened numerous times throughout history and resulted in the government murdering millions (e.g., The USSR in 1929 and China in 1935).
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/germany-to-begin-confiscating-guns/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Right! And taking away legal arms means criminals will use illegal arms (like they already use), or have to find other “legal” weapons to attack those that disagree with them!
yep – they’ll target AFD (Alternative fur Deutschland – sensible anti-immigration conservatives) while allowing fuzlims to run rampant with beheading knives and mow Christians down with tractor-trailor trucks in Christmas Markets
Ecactly!
Project Veritas… after covid we’ll focus on climate change:
https://www.projectveritas.com/news/part-1-cnn-director-admits-network-engaged-in-propaganda-to-remove-trump/
‘Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle again.’ said an old song.
These people hate us because awareness in the people is an impediment to their power. The lies are deliberate, only useful as a distraction. They could care less about which policy it is, or its effects. Power is the goal. Politics is the Art of using power.
Arise.
The Democrats are basically a communist takeover of the USA. They are flooding Texas will illegal migrants who will vote for communism and Big Brother government because they need the government to provide for them as they are incapable. Texas turns blue and the GOP never wins another presidential election. And nothing is going to stop this. Certainly not the clueless RINOs in the GOP.
2.7 million out of about 95million. Plus it is a load of dung.
We do not have serious leaders.
Politicians will have to hide when there is no meat to eat–they will be on the menu.
Politicians will *ALWAYS* have meat, or whatever they wish, to eat.
Especially when/if no one else does.
Fuel is the lifeblood of agriculture. You cannot farm the huge breadbasket of America with alternative energy. The equipment is too energy consumptive. It takes the same amount of diesel this year as it did last year, except that it is twice as expensive now. I don’t know how this will play out. But if starvation is in the future, my guess is the blue cities will feel it first. I have this nasty urge to point my finger and say “see, I told ya so”.
But they will redirect the country side food to the city. And there are many in the country that live as if they are in the big cities. Now, will the country side pull itself together and put the blue-minded elitists to work for their food? I think they will and everyone will pull the cart together.
“And there are many in the country that live as if they are in the big cities”
I don’t know one farmer today who raises his own food. Farmers go to grocery stores just like everyone else. Farmers; plant it, raise it, harvest it, sell it. Farmers go down to their grocery stores and fill their grocery carts just as everyone else. Farmers complain about the cost of bread, milk and eggs just as you do.
C’mon, man! What do we need industry for? Everything we need comes from Amazon!
They’re going to set up an AQMD like CA to phase out ICE vehicles like they are now with stringent smog inspections. They’re going to force you to buy electric.
Yes and CA doesn’t have enough electricity to charge those vehicles.
“……. and help move oil demand towards a more SUSTAINABLE pathway. ”
The meaning of words to ” the big club ” are NOT the same as you or I see them.
” Sustainable ” , always has as its underlying theme the ‘ carrying capacity ‘ of Earth in their view.
Therefore ‘sustainable’ in the long term means – A WHOLE LOT LESS HUMANS AROUND !!!
only about half a barrel of oil is used for auto or engine fuels. how about you’re also shutting down our propane heating fuel and agriculture drying. all tires, other necessary chemicals like naptha,kerosene,base liquids for other paints,coatings,etc. also “fossil fuels” include natural gas and it is not just for cooking and heating. all plastics start with “cracking ” gas to make ethylene, the beginning gas to create all plastics. look around and throw away all your plastic and polymer products in your home and it will be nearly empty. no food wrap, no tv , computer or electronics. can’t be done.
And much of our clothing. I don’t think they have thought this plan through.
Not a peep out of the Hollyweird crowd till now….right on que..like somebody in government gave them a signal to come out against a pipeline.
Our government is run by the CIA. It’s all been a Hollywood production for many many years now. I have zero faith in any of it now.
On the bright side- I don’t believe anything they say now.
They are not even good liars anymore. Like Sundance says, once you have seen the strings, you can’t unsee them.
Between the WEF and Democrat Party agenda, this country has about 6-8 months before it’s been destroyed. Since the ballot box option was stolen along with the election November 3rd, the bullet option is the only one left. I’m usually more optimistic, but not tonight for some reason. If anyone sees options that I’m missing, I’d like to hear them.
It’s quite telling how all these Communists who claim “global warming” (now “Climate Change”) will cause the oceans to rise causing massive flooding, all have luxury homes along the coasts.
It’s all just another scare tactic lie from the Communists currently running our country in the ground for more power and control and to raise money from useful idiots… They know that fear sells.
Reminds me of the Carter years.
Put a sweater on if you are cold in your house.
And with the Smart Homes..even the thermostat is WiFi.
Alexa will be snitching on the household….
This is just a mess! An unnecessary mess.
I support-
American Oil
From
American Soil
Someone should remind Psaki that ‘PRIVATE CITIZENS” do not get to travel to China on Air Force 2 and meet with President Xi…do they?
We didn’t import oil from Russia or anyone else before Joebama was installed. We had plenty. Even if the sheeple don’t pay attention, they should remember gas prices before Joebama. Maybe we need to remind them.
You can’t fix stupid.
Our energy production hasn’t returned to what it was under Trump just before the pandemic, and it won’t under Biden’s policies. We produced 12,910,000 barrels of crude in December 2019. In December of 2021, we produced 11,567,000 barrels of oil. Even high prices aren’t enticing producers to pump more because the business climate is toxic. That is the only climate that Democrats can change and not for the better.
The Femocrats are feeding off the American carcass.
Stand on your feet gentlemen or live on your knees.
The dopey Greens are getting more shrilled and talk of far-fetched notions. This could be their climax year.
Politicians and others are using Climate Change for self enrichment period! What they will eventually bring down on us is another depression, starvation, and joblessness. They will kill the goose that laid the golden egg, and all for their own purely selfish monetary reasons!
Treasonous Scum!
I am a former money manager . I said to a friend yesterday about the sanctions & effects . ” the World sees the reality of less resources coming from Russia & the Ukraine . The actual lack of those resources have yet to have been felt . “
China, India and, yes, Russia, couldn’t be happier.
Take names. When the inevitable economic decline worsens, there will be repercussions.
These people think technology is the doorway to Valhalla. Not in the timeframe they think. Not with the cultural changes that will be the next hammer to fall.
Does this mean we have to wear masks again? Or get another vaccine to protect us from climate change?
I so wanted Bernie to run against Trump and see his hair brained ideas meet the cement of reality. The sooner these kooks get a dose of reality the better. Only then will we move on. The uni party knows this so they continue to extol and sponsor this green crap but never actually let it get to a position where it’s responsible for the damage.
“THEY” don’t seem to understand that the our Sun causes our climate issues. Climate Change & Global Warming are scams proffered by sick individuals who plan to make million selling Carbon Credits. THERE IS NO CLIMATE CHANGE THAT IS NOT NATURAL TO EARTH AND THOSE aY-HOLES want to try and convince us that it is we who are the problem.
The lies coming out of the Biden Administration are so horrendous it would appear to be a joke if it wasn’t the truth. They have and are lying about everything to the point I am calling for a military coup against the Biden Cartel criminals and the handlers of that old fool, to be indited and have their cases adjudicated in Guantánamo.
There are so many issue going on now that are expressly the fault of Biden personally, we’ll be damn lucky our country even makes it to our November election. This is the kind of crap that starts civil wars because “The People” are fed up with trying to figure out who are the liars and who is not. It would be better to just get rid of all of them in one fell swoop.
When will the Democrat Party stop attacking the US Middle Class?
It’s worth noting that this isn’t exclusive to Dems. It’s always entirely to easy to keep pointing fingers and ignore that a solid 1/3 (if not more) of the Republican party are publicly running around in the middle of this mess.
We have to stop the blame game or pretending there is a benevolent side to call our own. This is federalism run amuck and that includes both parties taking advantage of every one of these situations.
My gosh these people are raging drunks on their own power.
Climate change is the LONGEST RUNNING HOAX in the democRAT stable of hoaxes. PURGE them all by any means necessary.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/abp-vigano-globalists-have-fomented-war-in-ukraine-to-establish-the-tyranny-of-the-new-world-order/
FJB and screw the GD Green New Deal, which just a repurposed old new deal whereby money from working class Americans is transferred to rich American politicians and their favored constituents.
The Democrats are the party of Evil.
Another created crisis that they are going to fix. Right.
Only liberals can think a tiny speck of dust called “Man” can change the huge energy sphere called “Earth”.
Oh, I thought comrade Bernie was still on his second honeymoon in Moscow …