There Biden Goes Again - Plans to Reduce SPR

Reading comprehension problems or a lie? Go back and reread post 1. I never said what you are claiming about 2024. As a matter of fact, Biden hasn't made any public comments, just those attributed to him by his closest energy adviser. However, with Biden saying privately that he wants it done, it will highly likely end up being done.

 

You really are this obtuse. Again, I didn't say 2024. (shaking head)

If you want to see when and what Biden did, go back to 2021 after he was sworn in. There is plenty there as he made it the highest priority of the federal government to fight climate change and end fossil fuels regardless of his timeline.

Moving on, I'm done with your being ridiculous.

 

No, my argument is it is wrong to continue to drain the SPR in an attempt to buy votes in the 2024 election. Biden did the same thing in 2022.

 

I said it was secondary to what is in post 1. Done, I'm bored with you being so obtuse.

 

No, md and I are not both right. I never said Biden was 100% emptying the SPR or that fossil fuels would be gone by 2024, his inaccurate claim.

Fact for Article 1: Biden released more than 180 million barrels, his 180 million plan plus more on top of that, and "wants" to do more this summer like he did in 2022. At no point has it been mentioned that Biden intends to 100% drain the SPR, a strawman argument. The article does say Biden is comfortable with a significantly lower SPR. Other presidents including Obama never took the SPR down to these national defense dangerous levels, lowest since the early 1980s.

Fact for Article 2: The SPR does have a capacity of 714 million barrels. Biden had a plan in 2022 to replenish the reserve at $70 per barrel as the article states, but the Biden Administration failed to do so. The SPR today stands at 367 million barrels, a 42% drawdown by Biden along with the likelihood of more this summer as that is what Biden is wanting to do according to his closest energy adviser, see post 1.

In May, Biden announced a 1-million-barrel drawdown of gasoline from the NE Gasoline Reserve which was set up for emergencies. The plan is to have ten 100,000-barrel releases over the course of the summer. This will likely not keep gas prices down as the amount being released amounts to one day of US gasoline consumption.

Biden has presided over high gas prices throughout his term. The SPR releases in 2022 were used to attempt to buy votes. If the SPR is further drawdown in 2024, Biden will again be attempting to buy votes.

US national defense deserves a president and party in the White House that cares more about the American people than their own political power ambitions.

 

Strategic Petroleum Reserves drawdowns go up.

Military and national security goes down.

Better hope China doesn't decide to go to war with Taiwan or Russia decides to take on eastern NATO or Russia through Syria goes after Israel. We couldn't support our military operations around the world with such a low and likely to get lower SPR.

The SPR is for national emergencies. Biden using it as a piggybank to reduce gas prices in an election year is not an emergency.

This isn't about Trump and Biden. It is about Biden making the US a target of the bullies around the world because the US becomes weaker as the SPR goes down. This is 100% on Biden. No other president has done what the fool in the White House is doing and especially so as the military functions on oil, not renewables.

 

Your glib comment shows you have zero respect or concern for the national security of the US.

While Hamas is on the verge of destruction without Israel getting the help needed from the US, Hezbollah in the north is a dangerous extension into a regional war that would likely end up with the US needing oil for our military there.

The same is true if the US had to fight China in the south Pacific or in Europe against Russia.

If being concerned about the painfully poor decisions being made in the White House and about an increasingly dangerous world under O'Biden's watch means I'm a snowflake, yes, I'm guilty of being a snowflake.

 

Ukraine, Gaza, Lebanon next, and China on the verge of attacking Taiwan plus the added bonus of becoming masters of the south Pacific.