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2024 US Presidential Election
Survey: Trump Leads Biden Across Key Battleground States
Former President Donald Trump is leading President Biden across key battleground states, a Reuters/Ipsos survey found.
www.breitbart.com
Trump juniors X account hacked. where's the yellow condiment calling out the propaganda/misinformation, can't have it both ways.
when your native-born birth-rate is decreasing (as ours and other industrialized nations are) and workforce numbers/% are dropping (like ours is) then you need even MORE immigrants to do the jobs the remaining citizens refuse to do at the wages offered. immigrants both legal and illegal that work have ALWAYS been a source of economic strength in this country. if they DID NOT want to come here, we'd be fucked. 
but i agree; the borders (both northern and southern) need attention.
but i agree; the borders (both northern and southern) need attention.
joe sold SPR to 6 companies. would it surprise you to learn CEFC purchased and then resold at higher price? Russia and OPEC reductions only account for 5% of price rise. now Brent crude is pushing 98.00$ bbl and they are passing on buying to refill SPR, further raising price.so, OPEC and Russia cutting pumping have no effect on gas prices in your view? LOL! only Bidens policies can do that in your opinion. he sounds like a very powerful person. i bet The Chump is so jealous...
that was because biden policy.
U.S. to sell 26 mln bbls of oil reserves as mandated by Congress
By Timothy GardnerFebruary 13, 20232:47 PM PSTUpdated 7 months ago
Feb 13 (Reuters) - The Biden administration said on Monday it is selling 26 million barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a release that had been mandated by Congress in previous years.
The U.S. Department of Energy had considered cancelling the fiscal year 2023 sale of the 26 million barrels after the Biden administration last year sold a record 180 million barrels from the reserve. But such a cancellation would have required Congress to act.
Monday's announced sale will likely temporarily push the reserve below its current level of about 372 million barrels, its lowest level since 1983.
The DOE said bids on the oil are due on Feb. 28 and that the oil would be delivered from April 1 to June 30.
The administration sold the 180 million barrels of oil to combat fuel prices that had risen on Russia's war on Ukraine and as global consumers emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The department said it is implementing a three-part strategy to refill the reserve in the long term, including repurchases with revenues from emergency sales, returns of more than 25 million barrels of oil from previous exchanges, and working with Congress to avoid "unnecessary sales unrelated to supply disruptions to strategically maintain volume.
Last month the department rejected the first batch of bids from oil companies to sell back up to 3 million barrels to the reserve, saying it would only accept bids for oil meeting required specifications at a price that was a "good deal" for taxpayers. The administration had been seeking to repurchase oil for the stockpile at about $70 a barrel.
But U.S. crude prices have risen to about $80 a barrel on concerns about Western sanctions on Russia for its war on Ukraine and after Moscow said it was cutting production in March by about 500,000 barrels per day, or about 5%.
U.S. sources have said delivery of the first batch of oil back to the SPR after the record sale would likely begin not until after the 2023 fiscal year, which ends after September.
The DOE said it expects that companies will return 3.1 million barrels of oil to the SPR this fiscal year and 22 million barrels in fiscal year 2024 from exchanges, or short term loans of oil conducted to help deal with supply concerns in the wake of hurricanes.
Last year, Congress canceled sales of about 140 million barrels from the SPR that had been set to take place from fiscal year 2024 to fiscal year 2027, after a DOE proposal to stop them.
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U.S. to sell 26 mln bbls of oil reserves as mandated by Congress
The Biden administration said on Monday it is selling 26 million barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a release that had been mandated by Congress in previous years.
www.reuters.com
nothing surprises me when oil companies/governments do shady shit. what made you think otherwise? we both buy and sell on the world market, like damn near every other industrialized country. here, let me paraphrase every single thing you have posted here for a long time "if it's bad, then it's all because of Bidens policy. if it's good, then it is good in spite of Bidens policy". does that sound about right? feel free to copy and paste this just like the other shit you post.
Biden Admin Shuts Down Future Oil And Gas Activity On Thousands Of Acres
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September 19, 2023 9:55 AM ET
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The Biden administration announced Monday that it has moved to shut down future oil, gas and mining activity on thousands of acres of New Mexico land for the next 50 years.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), a sub-agency of the Department of the Interior (DOI), issued the Monday proposal to block new oil, gas and mineral extraction activity on 4,000 acres of land in Sandoval County, New Mexico, according to a DOI press release. The proposal is motivated by the agency’s desire to safeguard tribal cultures and recreational activity in the area, and the policy would last for 50 years if finalized.
The county sourced more than 2 million barrels of oil and nearly 10 million metric cubic feet of natural gas in 2020, the year before President Joe Biden took office, according to data from DrillingEdge. The county is also home to six gravel mines, including four of the largest in the state, according to the NM Political Report. (RELATED: Biden Admits He ‘Wanted To Stop All Drilling,’ But Was Forced To Follow The Law)
“Today we’re responding to calls from tribes, elected leaders and community members who want to see these public lands protected,” Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland said of the proposal. “We look forward to hearing more from the public to inform decisions about how activities, like gravel mining, may impact these lands, including the important cultural and natural resources.”
The withdrawn areas included in the proposal are from four tracts of land that are “sacred” and “sensitive” to local tribes, according to the DOI press release. In addition to the value of the covered land to local tribes, the proposal would also “boost important local recreation opportunities and support wildlife habitat connectivity.”
The proposal marks the latest in a string of moves by the Biden administration to clamp down on future oil, gas and mining activity on public lands. Before DOI announced earlier this month that seven remaining leases awarded from a 2021 sale of land in the Alaska and that the agency would withdraw over 13 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA) from oil and gas leasing activity, Biden designated nearly 1 million acres in Arizona outside the Grand Canyon as a monument in August, making the uranium in that area effectively off-limits to future claims and BLM moved to ban future oil activity on 1.6 million acres of Colorado land earlier in August.
The DOI referred the Daily Caller News Foundation to its press release for the proposal. The White House and BLM did not respond immediately to requests for comment.
don't think this affects pricing?
see those cowboys rolling,rawhide!
Thanks for the concern.
I don't give a wet shit about Trump or his spawn.
If you dish it, you get it... whine about fairness long enough and you should understand it in time...
LOL! Breitbart...THERE'S a "reliable" source of bullshit...Survey: Trump Leads Biden Across Key Battleground States
Former President Donald Trump is leading President Biden across key battleground states, a Reuters/Ipsos survey found.
don't fucking care. those leases should never have been let go to begin with. i wonder how much bribe money that The Chump will have to give back to the "winning bidders" when they figure out they were scammed...
Biden Admin Shuts Down Future Oil And Gas Activity On Thousands Of Acres
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September 19, 2023 9:55 AM ET
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The Biden administration announced Monday that it has moved to shut down future oil, gas and mining activity on thousands of acres of New Mexico land for the next 50 years.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), a sub-agency of the Department of the Interior (DOI), issued the Monday proposal to block new oil, gas and mineral extraction activity on 4,000 acres of land in Sandoval County, New Mexico, according to a DOI press release. The proposal is motivated by the agency’s desire to safeguard tribal cultures and recreational activity in the area, and the policy would last for 50 years if finalized.
The county sourced more than 2 million barrels of oil and nearly 10 million metric cubic feet of natural gas in 2020, the year before President Joe Biden took office, according to data from DrillingEdge. The county is also home to six gravel mines, including four of the largest in the state, according to the NM Political Report. (RELATED: Biden Admits He ‘Wanted To Stop All Drilling,’ But Was Forced To Follow The Law)
“Today we’re responding to calls from tribes, elected leaders and community members who want to see these public lands protected,” Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland said of the proposal. “We look forward to hearing more from the public to inform decisions about how activities, like gravel mining, may impact these lands, including the important cultural and natural resources.”
The withdrawn areas included in the proposal are from four tracts of land that are “sacred” and “sensitive” to local tribes, according to the DOI press release. In addition to the value of the covered land to local tribes, the proposal would also “boost important local recreation opportunities and support wildlife habitat connectivity.”
The proposal marks the latest in a string of moves by the Biden administration to clamp down on future oil, gas and mining activity on public lands. Before DOI announced earlier this month that seven remaining leases awarded from a 2021 sale of land in the Alaska and that the agency would withdraw over 13 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA) from oil and gas leasing activity, Biden designated nearly 1 million acres in Arizona outside the Grand Canyon as a monument in August, making the uranium in that area effectively off-limits to future claims and BLM moved to ban future oil activity on 1.6 million acres of Colorado land earlier in August.
The DOI referred the Daily Caller News Foundation to its press release for the proposal. The White House and BLM did not respond immediately to requests for comment.
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don't think this affects pricing?
LOL! Breitbart...THERE'S a "reliable" source of bullshit...
Only the finest of muck to rake!!
I don't guess that he's discerning much if at all...
But I will let anyone scrolling through the parrot spam be the judge.
WH Aides Walk Around 'On Eggshells' as Biden Fears He'll Die Before Hunter's Case Is Over: Report
Listen to the media prattle on about it and they almost make it sound like Joe Biden is the victim of Hunter's alleged crimes.
www.thegatewaypundit.com
Were they the people who could have been harmed by a man who, by his own admission, was in the throes of a drug habit that would have made “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” author Hunter S. Thompson tell the future president’s son, “Whoa — from one drug-loving Hunter to another, buddy, you need to check yourself before your wreck yourself”?
Were they the law-abiding gun owners of America, who are already seeing liberals pounce on the case as a reason to push for more gun control?
No, of course not. To the media, the real victim is President Joseph Robinette Biden — loving father, “devout Catholic” and family man extraordinaire.
In an NBC News report published Saturday that is unbelievable in how little blame is apportioned to either the charged son or the chronically enabling father, one source said Biden has “even lamented aloud that he might be dead before his son’s case is resolved.”
The article began with why Biden says he didn’t run for president in 2016: the loss of his son Beau.
“During the period between his vice presidency and presidency, Joe Biden was often asked about the campaign he didn’t run. In explaining why he passed on a White House bid in 2016, Biden would describe how the death of his eldest son, Beau, weighed heavily on him and his family,” the lede read.
“No man or woman should announce for president of the United States unless they can look the public in the eye and say, ‘I promise you I am giving 100 percent of my attention and dedication to this effort,’” Biden said in 2017.
(Never mind the fact that then-President Barack Obama made it quite clear that he would much prefer Hillary Clinton over Biden and that she had his support in the 2016 election, according to The New York Times. The whole thing sounds better if you ignore reality.)
That’s why, NBC reported, “people close to the president are increasingly [worried] about how the legal troubles of his remaining son, Hunter, could divide his attention at a time when he needs to be fully focused on what’s expected to be a razor close election.
“A distracted president, perhaps more prone to mistakes or missteps, is the political toll people close to Biden worry could hurt him in 2024 as his son faces at least one indictment and potentially trials in multiple jurisdictions stemming from his conduct during the height of his drug addiction.”
As NBC noted, things looked pretty rosy just three months ago, when U.S. Attorney David Weiss announced a plea agreement with Hunter Biden on gun and tax charges. The charges would all be dismissed in two years if Hunter were to abide by the terms of the deal.
Instead, U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika rejected the plea deal because it was — in her words — “confusing,” “not straightforward,” “unprecedented” and “atypical.”
In August, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Weiss as special counsel in the case. Weiss was seen as the architect of the plea deal and the move was criticized by many Republicans.
NBC described what happened next: “Hunter, his wife and their young son, Beau, joined the president and first lady during a … getaway last month in Lake Tahoe as Hunter’s legal team sparred with Delaware prosecutors over the next steps in his case, and House Republicans continued taking steps to ramp up their investigations.”
Hunter has now been indicted on the gun charges — a move that was also criticized by many Republicans.
“The emotional toll continues to weigh heavily on the president and first lady, who approach the most sensitive family matters as a father and mother above all else, according to a source familiar with their thinking,” NBC reported. “But the recent shift in their outlook has been dramatic, the source said.”
This includes Biden’s lamentations that he might be dead before Hunter’s case is resolved. Which, to be frank, isn’t exactly the best argument for another four-year term for Joe.
“So sensitive are White House aides about the matter that ‘everybody walks around on eggshells in the West Wing’ and are loath to raise the topic, another source familiar with the matter said,” NBC reported.
“Every day, this president wakes up and thinks about his deceased son and probably cries every day. And the weight of [Hunter’s legal troubles] is equally emotionally taxing,” said Michael LaRosa, Jill Biden’s former press secretary.
The Bidens, LaRosa said, are “incredibly protective of Hunter. Very much so, because he’s been unfairly made a target, but also because they’re protective of all their children and grandchildren, the way most people are. Obviously, it’s more amplified because Hunter is a political target.”
No. Hunter Biden is a serially irresponsible and thoroughly inept Beltway failson whose ticket through life has been his last name.
That ticket has suddenly been invalidated by Burisma, CEFC, the “laptop from hell,” and all of the lies — including Joe’s — that have been told to keep up the façade of the suffering drug addict who merely made a few little mistakes.
One feels sympathy for any addict and his family, but this addict’s father and chief enabler also happens to be the commander in chief, and he wants another four years in that position despite his prevarications as they relate to his son’s missteps.
If Biden is so worried about the accusations against Hunter, he should leave office when his term ends. The country needs a leader, after all, not an enabler.
