re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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Sadly, ours isn't "state controlled"

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Functionally, it is

When a journalist writes an article in Washington, their working for their source, not for you the reader.

All the leaks, and inside accounts, are just the various departments putting out the stories they want the public to hear.

Journalists in Washington are mostly just stenographers. They’ll continue to get these scoops, stories, provided they faithfully pass on the message.

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What if this is a long-term side effect of the Saudi-Russia oil price war?

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What if all that is a lie and it's just the side effect of trying to implement the green new deal?

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have more oil than any country in the world. We were energy independent under Trump. It is absolutely ridiculous that we refuse to drill right now when if something goes terribly wrong we’ll be fricked.

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Anyone that would down vote your post is either a idiot or hates America or both

You are ignorant as can be and know nothing.

1. The USA does NOT more oil than anyone in the world in known reserves. Canada and Venezuela each have more, a helluva a lot more.

2. Idiots keep telling me that there is 200 billion barrels of oil in the Permian Basin, its in the neighborhood of 50 billion per Trump's own administration.

3. Much of the oil from tight shale drilling is very light and refineries don't actually want it because to run the crude unit at or near nameplate capacity will vapor lock the plant. Go ahead and already cut finished gasoline and diesel produced in the USA by 30% if all refineries used it.

4. We do know of oil in the eastern 1/3 of the Gulf of Mexico, but Florida has kept that off limits for decades.

5. The USA might have been "energy independent" a few years ago but that is about total BTU values from all sources (oil, gas, coal, wind, solar, hydro, nuke, biomass). We have HAD to import oil every single year since 1943 to keep refineries running near capacity.

I did because he is clueless with such a lie

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We have more oil than any country in the world. We were energy independent under Trump. It is absolutely ridiculous that we refuse to drill right now when if something goes terribly wrong we’ll be fricked.

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I suspect we are drilling everything we can that can be permitted on private and state property. I'm not talking about ultra deep water which is a different animal. Perhaps federal rules are slowing down some permitting. We have produced much more oil underneath the US than remains to be produced. It is not an unlimited resource. So this energy scarceness stuff is really in the early stages.

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Your Amazon order might be important to you, but these shortages are having for more impact to everyone

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The shortages is due to shutting our country down unnecessarily for 2 years and giving thousands of dollars away for free

Plus what is coming up that is new is too light for refineries. That is why we are still exporting 2 million barrels per day

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IMO, it's a pay me now or pay me more later. This considers Putin's actual publicly stated goals of restoring Russia to the borders of the USSR which includes countries now members of NATO which the USA is bound by treaty to participate in defending.

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That's exactly what I think. It's clear that Russian security concerns are just an excuse on the part of Russia to justify whatever extraterritorial ambitions it wants. We shouldn't have let them get away with annexing part of another country in 2014, which is among the greatest of Obama's many foreign policy mistakes. We will pay for a long time with his approach, which was psychotic in hindsight. He thought he was being visionary, taking the Brent Scowcroft model, but in reality he just kicked the can down the road so that another generation would pay. Everything he touched in terms of foreign policy went to shite.