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2022-06-15 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Biden Threatens Oil Companies That He Will Punish Them If They Don't Start Producing More Oil, As His Policies Have Made It Impossible For Them to Do

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Posted by DarthVader 2022-06-15 13:58|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 He will impose an excess profit tax unless they spend those profits producing at an. ‘expected value’ loss. Watch them move corporate location to Switzerland (following a number of international drilling and service companies.)

Posted by Glenmore 2022-06-15 15:11|| 2022-06-15 15:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Nah, they will pass a bill to hit them with extra fees/taxes that can be exempted if they donate to charities and political organizations. Of course the companies will know that only left leaning ones will be accepted by the IRS so there is your new tax loophole and the money goes into more corrupt politicians and their supporters.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-06-15 15:59|| 2022-06-15 15:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Commie Comments -

Washington CNN — President Joe Biden is calling on major oil refinery companies to take “immediate actions” to ramp up supply, telling them in a new letter that “historically high” profit margins are unacceptable at a time when Americans continue to see soaring prices at the gas pump.

The letter is part of Biden’s effort to shift blame for soaring gas prices, which have become a major political problem, though the reality remains that there is not much he can do about it.

Posted by Bobby 2022-06-15 16:05|| 2022-06-15 16:05|| Front Page Top

#4 This dummy can't even demonized the refiners properly. There is no spare refining capacity. There won't be anytime soon, thanks in large part to his party's environmental policies and bureaucrats.

Posted by Oil Derek 2022-06-15 16:09|| 2022-06-15 16:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Commie Comments

More like corporate cronyism which is what we have had for over 150 years now. Just keeps getting worse.

I'm a capitalist and a libertarian. And the government I see right now is a weird mix between banana republic and facism. The "elite" are plundering the nation for all it's worth and the businesses are helping as hard and fast as they can as they get rich off it as well. Mean while the middle class gets squeezed and gets smaller every year.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-06-15 16:56|| 2022-06-15 16:56|| Front Page Top

#6 And here is the historical gas price since Biden took office for those with short term memory loss:

Joe Biden, it’s time to meet Joe Biden!

● Biden’s plan to cancel Keystone pipeline signals a rocky start with Canada.

—The Washington Post, January 19th, 2021.

● Biden pulls 3 offshore oil lease sales, curbing new drilling this year.

—The Washington Post, May 12th.

● Biden administration won’t appeal judge’s ruling revoking Gulf of Mexico drilling leases.

—The Washington Post, February 28th.

And as Kate of Small Dead Animals wrote after the CNN horror show, “Don’t make the mistake of thinking they don’t mean it.”

● Aren’t California’s High Gas Prices What The Left Have Wanted?

● NBC, the Washington Post, and the New York Times in lockstep call for higher gas taxes.

● 2008 L.A. Times headline: “The joy of $8 gas.”

Exit quote: “Under my plan, energy costs will necessarily skyrocket…”

In other words, Obama administration retreads are following the same playbook as the original Obama administration: “We’re going to keep at it to ensure the American people are paying their fair share for gas,” is the perfect Kinsley Gaffe for an Obama administration retread like Biden: As Steven Chu, Obama’s then-incoming energy secretary, told the Wall Street Journal in the fall of 2008: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”

So is it fair to ask if Biden is on the payroll of Putin? As Walter Russell Mead wrote in 2017:

If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:

Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
Blocking oil and gas pipelines
Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
Cutting U.S. military spending
Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran.

Kindly keep graphics below 250 px wide.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-06-15 17:01|| 2022-06-15 17:01|| Front Page Top

#7 Oils companies = Jews?

Posted by Angstrom 2022-06-15 18:02|| 2022-06-15 18:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Put the oil industry out of business and you're going to have grease your wind turbines with whale oil.

Posted by jpal 2022-06-15 18:42|| 2022-06-15 18:42|| Front Page Top

#9 Caracas on the Potomac, Joe?

Got to remember they disarmed the citizenry first before doing that.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-06-15 20:19|| 2022-06-15 20:19|| Front Page Top

#10 Guess the oil companies didn't donate enough to the Democrats.

Posted by ruprecht 2022-06-15 21:55|| 2022-06-15 21:55|| Front Page Top

#11 Ever hear of power blackouts or brownouts in DC? No, I didn't think so.

Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2022-06-15 22:38|| 2022-06-15 22:38|| Front Page Top

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