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My facetious statement on bleach originated from your "fearless leader" who was not making a joke. Then again to dismiss what trump said about grabbing women as locker room talk. You might want to explain that to your wife or daughter. Doesn't fly in my world.
And yes, we are not up to speed on EV support at this time. But no one is making anyone buy one. If you start out just criticizing, you never will go forward. Kind of where politics is right now.
Oil is driving most of the prices. It still is a traded commodity worldwide. Supply and demand we all know the drill. I remember in the 80's we were supposed to run out by 2000 something. It is still out there, and I wonder how much drilling is just capped for more money later. Someone is making a lot of money. Who is a good question? The answer will be there, and "money" leaves a trail that can be proven. Then again some find ways to manipulate and hide things. Who's hiding financials. Biden or trump.
Mic-
Bleach??? OMG! It WAS a joke! You soooo typify the left stance- divert, divert, divert. Financials? It's none of their business what Trump did with his money before he was President. But if you want to go there let's talk about the heaps of money Pelosi and her husband made and make through insider trading and juicy government contracts. Then you can move on to Diane Feinstein. I can do this for days. I don't give two schitts what Trump said, locker room talk. Just like I didn't care about Clinton repeatedly screwing an intern in the oval office, consensual actions between 2 adults. I did and do care about how the media BURIED all the dirt of sexual assaults on Biden, you can start with Tara Reade and how he forced himself on her and digitally penetrated her. Explain THAT to your wife or daughter. This is about prices particularly oil and Al Hobs NAILED it. Biden killing the Keystone pipeline was huge along will cancelling millions of acres of oil exploration contracts. But you are right about the money trail, finishing the Keystone pipeline would cost Warren Buffett, sweetheart of the DNC, millions by the day as it currently moves on his railways. That's why Obama halted it when he was in office and why Biden killed it on day one. Stop drinking the Dem KoolAid and let the Trump Derangement Syndrome go, you'll feel better when you do...........
 
The growth in energy demand is faster than our ability to produce more energy. As neighborhoods develope, the need for natural gas, electricity, asphalt streets, and automotive fuel grow just as fast if not faster.

This means we have to emphasize the growth of energy supplies. Reducing the amount of crude oil produced in the USA is a huge problem, both for product avalabilty and for cost.

I do not see how we can increase electricty production to keep up with energy demand. We will be faced with a real problem just having the electricity supply to keep our houses liveable, much less add the extra demand to charge EVs.

So, how do we best make use of the facilites we have today?

Our friends and neighbors in Canada have a huge crude oil supply. Because the oil sands crude oil is heavy and sour, it is priced well below crude oils produced in the USA, the MidEast and Africa. Heavy, sour crude oils are difficult to refine. Something must be done with the sulfur. Large crude oil molecules must be broken down into smaller molecules.

Pre-2000 the USA imported a lot of Mexican Mayan crude oil. It is a heavy, sour crude oil, difficult to refine. Huge refineries along the Gulf Coast refined Mexico's Mayan crude oil.

However, the Mayan crude oil supply is about gone. We have huge Gulf Coast refineries developed to refine heavy, sour and cheap crude oil and a lack of supply. The heavy, sour crude oil in Canada can not move efficiently to the USA refineries able to make good use of it.

Build the pipelines to move the Canadian crude oils to the Gulf Coast refineries. This increases supply available to the USA and reduces average crude oil costs.

Someone please explain this to Washington, DC.

Al Hobbs
Us oil refiners are running between 92 and 97 percent of capacity. The issue is not needing more oil, it is needing more refining capacity. Most oil produced in the US is more pure than Canadian oil so it is easier to refine. Using Canadian oil will mean less gas since it takes longer to refine. The US has been slowly decreasing refining capacity while several large oil producing countries are actually building new and better refineries.
 
Us oil refiners are running between 92 and 97 percent of capacity. The issue is not needing more oil, it is needing more refining capacity. Most oil produced in the US is more pure than Canadian oil so it is easier to refine. Using Canadian oil will mean less gas since it takes longer to refine. The US has been slowly decreasing refining capacity while several large oil producing countries are actually building new and better refineries.
We are only down a tick over 4% (18.1 million barrels a day) from the all time max daily output attained in 2020 of 19 million barrels a day. We are only down about 600,000 barrels a day from 2019 and less than 500,000 a day from 2018. Refining is not the issue.........
 
Are you saying that Bow River crude oil is not as pure as Wyoming sour crude oil? Why do you say that it takes longer to refine Canadian crude oil than to refine USA crude oil? How about comparisons with Arabian Heavy or Libyan Essider? Are you only looking at oil sands production or are you also looking at Canadian Light Sweet crude oils? Not all crude oils are the same.

Each and every refinery is basically a still that seperates molecules by size. Other refinery operations, such as hydrogen units, cat crackers, cokers, reformers, etc. are used to alter molecules. Refineries are not all the same. Some have larger hydrogen units beause they were designed to run sour crude. Some have cokers to break down very large molecules.

Each refinery is designed to produce a "slate" of products. Their facilities, "units" are used to produce that "slate". Gasoline is one product in a refinery's
"slate". Some USA crude oils are waxy. Some crudes produce more diesel fuel. Some produce more gasoline. The refineries running waxy crudes provide a different "slate" than do refineries running other crudes.

The reason that refineries were built where they are and are designed to refine certain crude oils comes down to the crude oils available at the time the refinery was built. Of course that has changed over the years as certain crude oil fields are no longer in full operation and new fields come into production. The construction of crude oil pipelines, crude oil vessels, and harbors has made it possible to replace dying crude oil fields with new crude oil sources.

It is much easier to move gasoline than it is to move crude oil. It does not work to move refineries from one place to another as crude oil fields die. We need to move crude oil from the current supplies to where the refineries are today. Pipelines are the most efficient ways to move crude oil. Vessels are also efficient, but need pipelines to connect the ships to refineries.

Canadian crude oils are significantly lower in price than the crudes we import from the Mideast. Yesterday the posted price for West Texas Intermediate was $104/bbl. Canadian Sweet Crude Oil was priced at $80/bbl. If we are concerned about how much gasoline costs on the street, saving 25% on some crude costs has a huge impact. Instead, our elected leaders in Washington are asking Saudi Arabia to ramp up crude oil supplies of expensive crudes, many priced higher than West Texas Intermediate.

All of the West Texas Ingtermediate is being refined toay. To keep our refineries running efficiently, we need to import other crudes. Do you want Canadian Light Sweet crude at $80/bbl or Arabian Light at $117/bbl? How about oil sands crudes at much lower prices for the refineries able to refine heavy sour crudes?

We also need to look at products other than gasoline and diesel fuel. Light sweet crude oils do not make much heavy products, such as fuel oil and asphalt. These are products also in demand across the continent. To make fuel oils used to power ocean going vessels, or asphalt to build highways and driveways, we need to refine heavy crude oils. Other products such as jet fuel, propane and butane are in demand.

If, what we are told is true, that we need to import crude oil to keep our refineries running at efficient levels, it makes much more sense to import Canadian crudes than to import Russian, South American, and mid-eastern crude oils.

If we must import crude oil to keep our refineries running efficiantly, it also makes sense to build a pipeline to service the Bakken fields. That pipeline would connect to the pipeline coming south from Canada. Instead, our Washington insiders are saying no pipelines. They prefer to buy more from Arabia or South America.

Our Washington insiders are looking only at what makes headlines today. They also need to look at what we need tomorrow.
 
Are you saying that Bow River crude oil is not as pure as Wyoming sour crude oil? Why do you say that it takes longer to refine Canadian crude oil than to refine USA crude oil? How about comparisons with Arabian Heavy or Libyan Essider? Are you only looking at oil sands production or are you also looking at Canadian Light Sweet crude oils? Not all crude oils are the same.

Each and every refinery is basically a still that seperates molecules by size. Other refinery operations, such as hydrogen units, cat crackers, cokers, reformers, etc. are used to alter molecules. Refineries are not all the same. Some have larger hydrogen units beause they were designed to run sour crude. Some have cokers to break down very large molecules.

Each refinery is designed to produce a "slate" of products. Their facilities, "units" are used to produce that "slate". Gasoline is one product in a refinery's
"slate". Some USA crude oils are waxy. Some crudes produce more diesel fuel. Some produce more gasoline. The refineries running waxy crudes provide a different "slate" than do refineries running other crudes.

The reason that refineries were built where they are and are designed to refine certain crude oils comes down to the crude oils available at the time the refinery was built. Of course that has changed over the years as certain crude oil fields are no longer in full operation and new fields come into production. The construction of crude oil pipelines, crude oil vessels, and harbors has made it possible to replace dying crude oil fields with new crude oil sources.

It is much easier to move gasoline than it is to move crude oil. It does not work to move refineries from one place to another as crude oil fields die. We need to move crude oil from the current supplies to where the refineries are today. Pipelines are the most efficient ways to move crude oil. Vessels are also efficient, but need pipelines to connect the ships to refineries.

Canadian crude oils are significantly lower in price than the crudes we import from the Mideast. Yesterday the posted price for West Texas Intermediate was $104/bbl. Canadian Sweet Crude Oil was priced at $80/bbl. If we are concerned about how much gasoline costs on the street, saving 25% on some crude costs has a huge impact. Instead, our elected leaders in Washington are asking Saudi Arabia to ramp up crude oil supplies of expensive crudes, many priced higher than West Texas Intermediate.

All of the West Texas Ingtermediate is being refined toay. To keep our refineries running efficiently, we need to import other crudes. Do you want Canadian Light Sweet crude at $80/bbl or Arabian Light at $117/bbl? How about oil sands crudes at much lower prices for the refineries able to refine heavy sour crudes?

We also need to look at products other than gasoline and diesel fuel. Light sweet crude oils do not make much heavy products, such as fuel oil and asphalt. These are products also in demand across the continent. To make fuel oils used to power ocean going vessels, or asphalt to build highways and driveways, we need to refine heavy crude oils. Other products such as jet fuel, propane and butane are in demand.

If, what we are told is true, that we need to import crude oil to keep our refineries running at efficient levels, it makes much more sense to import Canadian crudes than to import Russian, South American, and mid-eastern crude oils.

If we must import crude oil to keep our refineries running efficiantly, it also makes sense to build a pipeline to service the Bakken fields. That pipeline would connect to the pipeline coming south from Canada. Instead, our Washington insiders are saying no pipelines. They prefer to buy more from Arabia or South America.

Our Washington insiders are looking only at what makes headlines today. They also need to look at what we need tomorrow.

Excellent, Al..... thank you for taking the time to present the overview.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden_sexual_assault_allegation
Tara Reade ???? no proof of allegations. Who is diverting?
Wikipedia?? LMFAO!! Anyone can contribute to and edit Wikipedia. Just like when the Epstein story broke within days all references to Epstein were removed from Bill Clinton's Wiki page. Clinton.... the guy who logged more flights to Epstein's island than any other passenger by far. The whole point is how you diverted the convo by going after Trump's locker room talk. Next.........
 
Are you saying that Bow River crude oil is not as pure as Wyoming sour crude oil? Why do you say that it takes longer to refine Canadian crude oil than to refine USA crude oil? How about comparisons with Arabian Heavy or Libyan Essider? Are you only looking at oil sands production or are you also looking at Canadian Light Sweet crude oils? Not all crude oils are the same.

Each and every refinery is basically a still that seperates molecules by size. Other refinery operations, such as hydrogen units, cat crackers, cokers, reformers, etc. are used to alter molecules. Refineries are not all the same. Some have larger hydrogen units beause they were designed to run sour crude. Some have cokers to break down very large molecules.

Each refinery is designed to produce a "slate" of products. Their facilities, "units" are used to produce that "slate". Gasoline is one product in a refinery's
"slate". Some USA crude oils are waxy. Some crudes produce more diesel fuel. Some produce more gasoline. The refineries running waxy crudes provide a different "slate" than do refineries running other crudes.

The reason that refineries were built where they are and are designed to refine certain crude oils comes down to the crude oils available at the time the refinery was built. Of course that has changed over the years as certain crude oil fields are no longer in full operation and new fields come into production. The construction of crude oil pipelines, crude oil vessels, and harbors has made it possible to replace dying crude oil fields with new crude oil sources.

It is much easier to move gasoline than it is to move crude oil. It does not work to move refineries from one place to another as crude oil fields die. We need to move crude oil from the current supplies to where the refineries are today. Pipelines are the most efficient ways to move crude oil. Vessels are also efficient, but need pipelines to connect the ships to refineries.

Canadian crude oils are significantly lower in price than the crudes we import from the Mideast. Yesterday the posted price for West Texas Intermediate was $104/bbl. Canadian Sweet Crude Oil was priced at $80/bbl. If we are concerned about how much gasoline costs on the street, saving 25% on some crude costs has a huge impact. Instead, our elected leaders in Washington are asking Saudi Arabia to ramp up crude oil supplies of expensive crudes, many priced higher than West Texas Intermediate.

All of the West Texas Ingtermediate is being refined toay. To keep our refineries running efficiently, we need to import other crudes. Do you want Canadian Light Sweet crude at $80/bbl or Arabian Light at $117/bbl? How about oil sands crudes at much lower prices for the refineries able to refine heavy sour crudes?

We also need to look at products other than gasoline and diesel fuel. Light sweet crude oils do not make much heavy products, such as fuel oil and asphalt. These are products also in demand across the continent. To make fuel oils used to power ocean going vessels, or asphalt to build highways and driveways, we need to refine heavy crude oils. Other products such as jet fuel, propane and butane are in demand.

If, what we are told is true, that we need to import crude oil to keep our refineries running at efficient levels, it makes much more sense to import Canadian crudes than to import Russian, South American, and mid-eastern crude oils.

If we must import crude oil to keep our refineries running efficiantly, it also makes sense to build a pipeline to service the Bakken fields. That pipeline would connect to the pipeline coming south from Canada. Instead, our Washington insiders are saying no pipelines. They prefer to buy more from Arabia or South America.

Our Washington insiders are looking only at what makes headlines today. They also need to look at what we need tomorrow.
All US oil refiners have storage facilities where they hold the oil before they refine it. Those storage facilities are currently about 50 percent full. To me that signifies that the refiners have more oil than they can refine. Crude supply is not the issue. Producing finished product is. If storage tanks were empty and refiners shut down, that is a supply issue. Currently, that is not the problem.
 
All US oil refiners have storage facilities where they hold the oil before they refine it. Those storage facilities are currently about 50 percent full. To me that signifies that the refiners have more oil than they can refine. Crude supply is not the issue. Producing finished product is. If storage tanks were empty and refiners shut down, that is a supply issue. Currently, that is not the problem.
Jim,
One of my clients owns a petroleum transport company and I asked him about this in a text this morning. He replied normally the tank farms as they call them are on average between 75 and 90% full (said tanks are never more than 90% to allow for expansion) and that currently there absolutely is a crude supply issue. This is a guy who's very existence relies on him having his finger on the pulse of what's happening on a daily basis.......
 
Jim,
One of my clients owns a petroleum transport company and I asked him about this in a text this morning. He replied normally the tank farms as they call them are on average between 75 and 90% full (said tanks are never more than 90% to allow for expansion) and that currently there absolutely is a crude supply issue. This is a guy who's very existence relies on him having his finger on the pulse of what's happening on a daily basis.......
Sounds just about right to me. Drillers are drilling, haulers are hauling, there's room in storage and refiners are refining and big oil is making big profits,

Question for your client...when the tanks get to 90% what happens. My guess is drillers stop drilling, haulers don't haul, refiners still refine, and big oil makes bigger money. Another option would be keep everything producing and export any surplus

We could also build pipelines but that may not be good for your clients business model.
 
"Another option would be keep everything producing and export any surplus"

And that is exactly what we were doing under the previous administration, one of the things that helped us be energy independent for the first time in over 5 decades.

"We could also build pipelines but that may not be good for your clients business model."

Actually he was pissed when Biden killed the Keystone project. ;)
 
Crude oil storage facilities vary from refinery to refinery. Refinery crude oil tanks are not supposed to hold long term supplies. As an example if you have a huge Gulf Coiast refinery, say 400,000 bbls/day, to be safe they probably have 400,000 crude oil storage at the refinery or nearby. If that stoarage is half full, they have 12 hours to make any major repair.

You could say that each refinery has a large supply of parts, pipes, pumps, fittings, etc. That is the case. But, the supply is there for a reason. If something goes down, it has to be repaired as quickly as possible.

Crude oil must keep moving from source through delivery systems and into each refinery. If a refinery goes down for any reasons, such as a pump failures, there must be room in the storage facilities to keep accepting crude while the failure is repaired. Storage facilities throughout the pipeline systems are rarely full as well. The pipeline is full, but the storage tanks are not.

It is also true that finished product and blending tanks are rarely full. If a supply sysrem fails, there has to be room in the product tanks so that the refinery does not have to cut runs or shut down.

It is also important to understand that crude is not purchased day to day. Most crude is supplied under long term contract. As an example, a refinery in the midwest purchases crude oil from Saudi Arabia. The crude oil is produced in Arabia, piped to terminal. loaded onto a ship, transported across the Atlantic, probably lightered in the Caribbean to smaller vessels which then take the crude oil to a harbor. There it is pumped off into storage tanks and moved into a pipeline at a ratable speed. The crude oil moves from the gulf coast harbor to the refinery hundreds of miles away where it goes into storage tanks that feed the refinery. Crude oil being refined at that location has been travelling for 60 days or more after it was produced.

Yes, crude oil is available across the planet. And, if you are willing to pay more, you can get your pick of crude oils. That to me is the problem, the crude oil prices today. We are importing expensive crude oil when less expensive crude oil is available if and when we have adequate delivery systems. And, if and when crude oil producers can develope new USA oil fields.

As to expanding refinery capacity, there might not be anything more difficult. We owned several acres of vacant land at the refinery and wanted to expand our product storage and delivery systems. The land sat vancant for more than 30 years while we applied to the feds for approval to use the property we already owned adjacent to the refinery.

The refinery finally got complete approvals and after spending more than $500,000, capacity was increased by 10,000 bbls per day. It took years, availabe land, and a lot of money to increae production by only 10,000 bbls. Think about a refinery that does not have adequate land available.

Every attempt to improve the process or increase production was met by environmental delays. In fact, local governments asked us to just move the refinery to another location. Of course that is impossible.

It is easy to say that we should have more refineries. But, who will go through decades of court battles, protests, and unbelievable high costs to expand a current refinery or build a new refinery when there is so much push back from local, state and federal agencies?

The point of this discussion is to reduce consumer cost. As with all major industries, you try to find an efficiient manufacturing rate. When a refinery is operating at its effcient rate, costs are relatively flat. Crude oil delivery costs are relativley flat orther than the current trucking and rail diesel prices. The big variable is crude oil cost. Crude oil cost makes up the largest cost of gasoline and diesel fuel.

Before, I asked, why should we buy $117/bbl sweet crude halfway around the world, when there is a comparable crude oil next door at 25% less?

The current gasoline and diesel fuel prices reflect crude oil price increases. It does not freflect refinery crude oil rates. If we want a reliable and relatively less expensive gasoline and diesel fuel supply, we need cheaper crude o
This is not just for now, it is for the next many years. The best source for crude oil supply and competitive crude oil prices is next door, in Canada. The best source used to be the in the USA. That is not the case today.
 
There has been a lot of squawk coming from Washington concerning how much money the major oil companies are making.

Just for grins, let's look at how profitable Exxon is compared to major companies in other industries.

Return on Investment (roi) is a standard measure of how profitable a company is. Of course companies like Exxon have much larger investments than most big companies.

As an example, if you put $1000 into your bank savings account, at the end of a year you will get $10 in interest income. Your return on investment is 1.00%. If you invested the $1000 in AT&T common stock, you would get abcout $50 in divident income. Your return on investment would be 5.00%.

Listed below is public information comparing Exxon return on investment to some other major companies for the period March 31, 2021 to March 31, 2022. Percentages shown in ( ) are negative returns on investment.

Exxon roi on 3/31/21 = (6.65%) Pfizer roi on 4/4/21 = 8.13% General Motors roi on 3/31/21 = 5.52% Microsoft roi on 3/31/21 = 24.01%

Exxon roi on 6/30/21 = (4.76%) Pfizer roi on 6/4/21 = 9.98% General Motors roi on 6/30/21 = 7.58% Microsoft roi on 6/30/21 = 25.81%

Exxon roi on 9/30/21 = (8.76%) Pfizer roi on 10/3/21 = 14.67% General Motors roi on 9/30/21 = 6.51% Microsoft roi on 9/30/21 = 27.90%

Exxon roi on 12/31/21 = 8.32% Pfizer roi on 12/31/21 = 16.35% General Motors roi on 12/31/21 = 5.76% Microsoft roi on 12/31/21 = 28.49%

Exxon roi on 3/31/22 = 9.29% Pfizer roi on 4/3/22 = 18.17% General Motors roi on 3/31/22 = 5.61% Microsoft roi on 3/31/22 = 28.14%

So for the 5 quarters ending March 31, 2022, Exxon averaged a negative return on investment. At the same time General Motors averaged almost 6%, Pfizer averaged about 14% and Microsoft averaged more than 25%.
 
And what did all the negative quarters have in common? They were all during the main part of the country wide shutdown. How do I know this? Where I work, many of the employees were furloughed starting in mid to late February, courtesy of one Dr Anthony Fauci and the CDC. I was supposed to be starting April 8, but in my case, I was recalled after only three days off and worked straight through the worst of it. Needless to say, the roads were clear instead of jammed and I was able to cruise to work without slowing down. When was the country allowed to start to open back up? Gee, isn't it funny that most were starting to return to work(those that wanted to anyway) after the Labor Day holiday weekend, roughly two thirds of the way through the third quarter? And when did Exxon start to turn a profit? Starting in the fourth quarter, when most were back at work, having to buy gas for the commute as well as starting to have to heat their homes as fall's cooler temperatures set it.
 
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My facetious statement on bleach originated from your "fearless leader" who was not making a joke. Then again to dismiss what trump said about grabbing women as locker room talk. You might want to explain that to your wife or daughter. Doesn't fly in my world.
And yes, we are not up to speed on EV support at this time. But no one is making anyone buy one. If you start out just criticizing, you never will go forward. Kind of where politics is right now.
Oil is driving most of the prices. It still is a traded commodity worldwide. Supply and demand we all know the drill. I remember in the 80's we were supposed to run out by 2000 something. It is still out there, and I wonder how much drilling is just capped for more money later. Someone is making a lot of money. Who is a good question? The answer will be there, and "money" leaves a trail that can be proven. Then again some find ways to manipulate and hide things. Who's hiding financials. Biden or trump.
Mic-

It was more than obvious-to the un-indoctrinated, non-sheep minds-
that Trump's bleach comment was a joke and a slam to the leftist tards out there... no?... just look at his facial gestures when he made that remark.
But, no, the leftist mind is so steeped in hatred, let alone in such a ludicrous state, all y'all missed that.

Wake up... Trump carried much more favorable numbers in matters beneficial to this nation than either Brandon or your community ghetto organizing carnival barker, Osambo, ever did.

Liars can figure, but figures don't lie.
 
The point I am trying to make is that Biden wants to blame everybody else for the current economic situation. He is not man enough to stand up and say that he made big mistakes and these mistakes hurt us all.

He wants to blame the domestic crude oil shortage on the industry, even after his administration's actions to reduce domestic crude oil production. He blames big oil for the street prices when more than 95% of the retail outlets are owned by individuals or small resellers.

Biden wants to spend highway tax dollars to make charging stations every 50 miles along the Interstate Highways system. Today, less than 1% of all vehicles in the USA are fully electric. At the same time, Biden wants to stop collectng fuel taxes. Does this make any sense at all? If there was a large enough demand for charging stations, private industry would build them.

Instead of supporting Canadian crude oil producers, he is talking about making deals with the Saudis and South American tyrants. So, while he complains about retail prices, he turns away from Canadian crude oil which would reduce our average crude oil costs.

It was fine, according to Biden, to reduce the oil industry's crude oil production. Now, when the USA economy is hurt by the same thing, he blames the industry for high prices.

The next big problem will be food shortages around the world. Food prices are going up because of higher delivery costs and because a major grain producer, Ukraine, is at war. With this going on, why does Biden think it is a good idea to increase the percentages of ethanol in the US gasoline supply? This reduces food supplies, causes food prices to go up, and makes it even more difficult for the people already starving in Africa.

Next, we will have extremely high heating bills this winter. Why is that? Because reduced crude oil drilling means reduced supplies of natural gas, propane and butane. Now that Europe has agreed to buy less gasoline, diesel fuel, and natural gas from Russia, where does the supply come from to support Europe? The USA was exporting crude oil, finished products, and LNG. Now, we don't have enough to take care of our own needs. Who will Biden blame for this?

When the US government tries to control major industries, the resultant economy is worse. Maybe you aren't old enough to remember the Carter actions to control the oil industry. Maybe you don't remember Nixon's actions to control product price increases.

Biden needs to support industries instead of shaking his finger at them and proposing actions with negative results.

In my opinion, the administration in Washington today is incompetent when it comes to leading the US economy.
 
Biden wants to spend highway tax dollars to make charging stations every 50 miles along the Interstate Highways system. Today, less than 1% of all vehicles in the USA are fully electric. At the same time, Biden wants to stop collectng fuel taxes. Does this make any sense at all? If there was a large enough demand for charging stations, private industry would build them.

Aaannnndd along those lines, this is at Bucky's Madisonville TX on I-45...

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What's the common thread here?
Zero Superchargers are in use...zero.

Drive around to the front or the side of the building, and there is a line to pump gas or diesel at over 75 pumps,, two tankers making deliveries... There's no way the United States is ready for electric cars and trucks,,,, all this stuff is, is a feeble attempt to make it look like progress.. this is a joke.
 
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