Paul Ragna <
tpragn...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:XnsB0A4C37FA92...@135.181.20.170:
> Biden is a disaster.
>
> "Biden Missed Chance to Refill SPR at Lower Rates After Draining It
> for Political Reason"
>
> <
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/10/21/cnbc-biden-missed-chance-to
> - refill-spr-at-lower-rates-after-draining-it-for-political-reasons/>
>
> "On Friday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” co-hosts Becky Quick
> and Joe Kernen reacted to news that the Biden administration wants to
> try to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) at a price of $79
> a barrel or less by noting that there was a time when the SPR could
> have been refilled at a lower price, but we didn’t and the reserve is
> low because it was drained “to help stem an inconvenient price rise
> for an administration.”
It was sent to the Ukraine and China. Dirty Joe Biden sold American
resources to enemies of the USA and personally profited from it.
> Kernen said, “[T]he Department of Energy says it wants to buy six
> million barrels of oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. It’s
> hoping to get a price of $79 or less. The department is working to
> refill the Petroleum Reserve after President Biden ordered a historic
> release to try to stem high gas prices. Buy low, sell high. I’m not
> sure that’s what we’re doing here. There was a time.”
>
> Quick responded, “Very briefly, yeah, where we could have filled it at
> lower rates.”
>
> Kernen then said, “[I]t does get a little scary with — no one was
> expecting the Middle East to totally be a different place than what we
> saw or what we thought it was six months ago.”
Biden cut off the Canadian oil pipeline deal.
> Quick stated, “No. And if you looked at oil prices three weeks ago, we
> were talking about how energy prices had come down 10% in ten days,
> WTI. And that was something we were watching really closely. It was on
> concerns that there wasn’t going to be as much demand around the globe
> with a potential recession. … So, it turned very quickly.”
>
> Kernen then asked, “If there was a real situation, how much do — we
> don’t have that much for the emergency — what it was designed for.”"
>
> "Quick then cut in to say, “Yeah, but we also produce far more energy
> today.”
We waste more energy today.
> Kernen responded, “Right. But it was not designed to help stem an
> inconvenient price rise for an administration.” Quick responded,
> “No.”"