7% of US oil comes from Russia

[justoneman]

Thanks Joe Biden.

 

[justoneman]

In 2018 the USA became energy independent and actually started exporting. Biden promptly put a stop to that upon taking office. Nice job Biden.

 

[Monica33]

Dopey stopped pipe developments , fracking and turned the US into a net importer .
Brilliant stupidity .
And Oh boy, look at the lengths he has gone to further delay NS2
Provoked a war no less ..

 

[RetiredUSN]

Dopey stopped pipe developments , fracking and turned the US into a net importer .
Brilliant stupidity .
And Oh boy, look at the lengths he has gone to further delay NS2
Provoked a war no less ..

Even a dumb **** like me knows that Biden didn't provoke Russia.

Doesn't say much for you.

 

[mrjurrs]

Thanks Joe Biden.

• Russia was the United States' 20th largest supplier of goods imports in 2019.
• U.S. goods imports from Russia totaled $22.3 billion in 2019, up 6.8% ($1.4 billion) from 2018, and up 22.3% from 2009.
• The top import categories (2-digit HS) in 2019 were: mineral fuels ($13 billion), precious metal and stone (platinum) ($2.2 billion), iron and steel ($1.4 billion), fertilizers ($963 million), and inorganic chemicals ($763 million).
• U.S. total imports of agricultural products from Russia totaled $69 million in 2019. Leading categories include: snack foods ($8 million), tree nuts ($6 million), other vegetable oils ($3 million), essential oils ($3 million), and other dairy products ($2 million).
• U.S. imports of services from Russia were an estimated $1.8 billion in 2019, 2.2% ($38 million) more than 2018, and 50.6% less than 2009 levels. Leading services imports from Russia to the U.S. were in the transportation, travel, and financial services sectors.

Russia

ustr.gov

Your claim would indicate that US imports of energy would amount to less than $763 million. I find that difficult to believe.

 

[Mr Person]

If only one of the parties had been relentlessly pushing to switch us over to non-fossil energy sooner than later.

Oh wait.

Thanks Joe Biden.

Yeah, Joe Biden personally controlled the entire world oil market for his whole life, making it totally his fault. Yup.



Such hyperpartisan dumbassery...

 

[justoneman]

Biden stopped federal land contracts for oil exploration and has curtailed fracking. That will do it.

 

[Craig234]

Biden stopped federal land contracts for oil exploration and has curtailed fracking. That will do it.

Because you are happy to cause unlimited environmental damage, to cause a disaster from harming the climate. Your argument is like criticizing that Biden could drive a car faster if he didn't stop at red lights.

 

[Jezcoe]

Biden stopped federal land contracts for oil exploration and has curtailed fracking. That will do it.

How can that be true ? Biden outpaced Trump on granting Federal Drilling Permits.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/01/27/oil-gas-leasing-biden-climate/

 

[Schism]

If only one of the parties had been relentlessly pushing to switch us over to non-fossil energy sooner than later.

Oh wait.



Yeah, Joe Biden personally controlled the entire world oil market for his whole life, making it totally his fault. Yup.



Such hyperpartisan dumbassery...

Go ahead and claim Biden had no control over oil imports from Russia. I want everyone to read your lies.

 

[eohrnberger]

It's not so much how sizable the US imports oil from Russia, but even a little isn't good.
It's how much oil and LNG the EU nations import from Russia, which is so much that they've become dependent on those imports, with no immediate alternative sources.
The EU nations are the constraint as to how severe the sanctions which can be placed on Russia, due to this dependency.
The EU nations clearly appear to have thought that Putin would 'play nice', and clearly he hasn't.

So right now, Putin's leverage on the US, minor, but has major leverage over the EU nations which depend on Russia's exports they import.
Strategically, this was a significant mistake on their part.

The 7% of US oil being imported into the US from Russia could easily be made up with greater domestic production, should the New Green Deal radical environmentalists, both in and outside of this administration, permit it, which they won't.
They've been wet dreaming of $10 / gal gas for a long time now already, and won't let this crisis go to waste, regardless of how damaging to the US economy and damaging to the US population, particularly from the middle class on down.

Flashback: Obama’s top energy aide advocated for $10-a-gallon gas prices

Today's entertainment gossip and chatter

dailycaller.com

Bottom line is that the New Green Deal radical environmentalists both in and outside of this administration have placed the US in this very weak and very vulnerable position which causes their president, Biden, to go begging to OPEC and the Russians for more production, a rather weak and stupid move, over increasing domestic availability and production.

Biden is more afraid of the New Green Deal radical environmentalists both in and outside of his administration than going begging internationally for more supply?
Man, they really must have him by the balls, and are squeezing, just the same way those New Green Deal radical environmentalists both in and outside of this administration are squeezing the balls of everyone in the US. Sure hope that this realization is taken into the voting booth next time.

 

[Jezcoe]

Bottom line is that the New Green Deal radical environmentalists both in and outside of this administration have placed the US in this very weak and very vulnerable position

How does reducing dependence on fossil fuels for energy production place any country in a weak and vunerable position?

 

[justoneman]

How can that be true ? Biden outpaced Trump on granting Federal Drilling Permits.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/01/27/oil-gas-leasing-biden-climate/

That gulf lease ended not happening.

 

[Jezcoe]

That gulf lease ended not happening.

Blocked by the court. Not the Biden Administration.

The argument that the Biden administration is somehow putting a stranglehold on leasing rights on Federal land is not backed by reality.

 

[eohrnberger]

How does reducing dependence on fossil fuels for energy production place any country in a weak and vunerable position?

Right now, the in present system, everything that moves from manufacturer to distribution center to end consumer is transported by what?
Semi trucks.
What do Semi trucks use as fuel? What do freight locomotives use as fuel? What does air freight and sea freight use as fuel?

Right now, the most prevalent fuel used to generate electricity is what?
LNG from fracking.

It's called living in the present reality, rather than some fictitious imagined reality of rainbows and Unicorns, where just deciding something means the reality has changed. Hate to break it to you, reality doesn't work that way.

You have to deal with the reality as it presently is, and this is something the New Green Deal radical environmentalists both in and outside of this administration, continue to ignore, regardless of the economic damage their policies inflict.

Constraining the supply of the fuels which drive the economy forward is going to have nothing more than economic damage as a result of those constraints.

Constraining the supply of the fuels which drive the economy forward isn't 'reducing dependence on fossil fuels', those are 2 completely separate things. Constraining those supplies only makes those fuels more expensive, costing everyone in the economy, but especially cost those in the middle class and below.

The bottom line is that the New Green Deal radical environmentalists both in and outside of this administration are economic and reality illiterates and are New Green Deal radical ideologues, very similar in nature to religious zealots.

 

[Jezcoe]

Right now, the in present system, everything that moves from manufacturer to distribution center to end consumer is transported by what?
Semi trucks.
What do Semi trucks use as fuel? What do freight locomotives use as fuel? What does air freight and sea freight use as fuel?

Right now, the most prevalent fuel used to generate electricity is what?
LNG from fracking.

It's called living in the present reality, rather than some fictitious imagined reality of rainbows and Unicorns, where just deciding something means the reality has changed. Hate to break it to you, reality doesn't work that way.

You have to deal with the reality as it presently is, and this is something the New Green Deal radical environmentalists both in and outside of this administration, continue to ignore, regardless of the economic damage their policies inflict.

Constraining the supply of the fuels which drive the economy forward is going to have nothing more than economic damage as a result of those constraints.

Constraining the supply of the fuels which drive the economy forward isn't 'reducing dependence on fossil fuels', those are 2 completely separate things. Constraining those supplies only makes those fuels more expensive, costing everyone in the economy, but especially cost those in the middle class and below.

The bottom line is that the New Green Deal radical environmentalists both in and outside of this administration are economic and reality illiterates and are New Green Deal radical ideologues, very similar in nature to religious zealots.

This is an all or nothing fallacy that is happening here. There is no one that is seriously proposing that the use of fossil fuels be abandoned before there is a replacement infrastructure.

Building that infrastructure is what the Green New Deal is about.

How does reducing the dependence on fossil fuels... not eliminating... though that should be an end goal... leave a country in weak and vunerable position?

 

[CaughtInThe]

How can that be true ? Biden outpaced Trump on granting Federal Drilling Permits.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/01/27/oil-gas-leasing-biden-climate/

Uh oh

 

[eohrnberger]

This is an all or nothing fallacy that is happening here. There is no one that is seriously proposing that the use of fossil fuels be abandoned before there is a replacement infrastructure.

Building that infrastructure is what the Green New Deal is about.

How does reducing the dependence on fossil fuels... not eliminating... though that should be an end goal... leave a country in weak and vunerable position?

You see the vulnerability with the impact that the increase in world oil prices will have on the US economy. For a historic reference of this impact of which I speak, see the impact of the OPEC oil embargo in the '70's. This is what the US is looking at in the near future. How long, who knows?

The substitutes are not yet ready for prime time. The US middle class and down can't afford to replace their existing vehicles with EVs and they need to travel on a daily basis. EV semi's are not ready either, especially on the long haul routes.

Constraining a vial supply when the replacements / substitutes are not yet viable make any logical sense at all?

Just a sample of the problems yet to be solved for to make them a 'ready for prime time' substitute:

20 Drawbacks Of Electric Vehicles Drivers Overlook

For almost 10 years now, electric vehicles have been the talk of the car industry....

motor-junkie.com

This Tesla Owner Blew Up His Car to Avoid a $22,000 Repair

A modern problem requires a modern solution. If you can call it that.

www.roadandtrack.com

The sinister nature of electric cars

The Democrats are doing everything they can to get Americans into electric cars. However, those cars come with the risk of a serious loss of power — not just for the car, but for those who buy those cars. We have to begin with ask...

www.americanthinker.com

Developing countries pay environmental cost of electric car batteries

Global consumers are warming up to electric cars, whose sales are expected to jump from 3 million vehicles in 2017 to 23 million in 2030, according to the International Energy Agency. Similar growth is expected for rechargeable batteries, with the market for cathode – the positive electrode of...

unctad.org

Even the USPS has looked at the viability and concluded:

USPS Seals Gasoline-Trucks Deal, Shunning Biden EV Plea

This is great news. Decisions being made in the interest of the American taxpayer. Of course, the usual suspects are apparently going to sue. Not sure what rational standing the environmental groups have, but they will make their case. Cost effective electric vehicles for a project this large do...

debatepolitics.com

 

[Jay59]

How does reducing dependence on fossil fuels for energy production place any country in a weak and vunerable position?

Deck chairs on the Titanic.

We are decades from significant reduction of oil and as the dominant source of vehicular fuel. Nuclear power could significantly reduce both GHG and environmental impact but there are political issues.

Blocked by the court. Not the Biden Administration.

True.

The argument that the Biden administration is somehow putting a stranglehold on leasing rights on Federal land is not backed by reality.

No, it isn't. Biden administration initiatives to stop O&G development and production leases were also blocked in court. However, the Biden administration can and has sharply reduced lease auctions and made renewals more difficult.

 

[Gateman_Wen]

Go ahead and claim Biden had no control over oil imports from Russia. I want everyone to read your lies.

Why don't you prove he did?

 

[Gateman_Wen]

Thanks Joe Biden.

Hasn't really changed much in decades.

U.S. Imports from Russia of Crude Oil and Petroleum Products (Thousand Barrels)

www.eia.gov

 

[justoneman]

Hasn't really changed much in decades.

U.S. Imports from Russia of Crude Oil and Petroleum Products (Thousand Barrels)

www.eia.gov

We had a net export of energy under Trump. Yes things changed at one point.

 

[MaryP]

We had a net export of energy under Trump. Yes things changed at one point.

You need to look at the info Gateman posted.

 

[Schism]

Why don't you prove he did?

No problem.

However, high levels of oil shipment from Russia have continued since March.

“Last month we saw a record 5.75 million barrels of Russian crude discharged in the US, and we’re projecting a further record this month of 7.5mn bbls,” ClipperData, a commodity intelligence company that monitors cargo shipments worldwide, reported this month.

Biden’s agenda is harming the American producer while “buttressing the Iranian and Russian industries,” Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance, said in a statement. He has “tipped us into oil dependence on Russia just a year after complete independence,” providing “a geopolitical gift” to the Kremlin.

Biden’s policies have resulted in U.S. oil production falling by 1.715 million barrels per day from a year ago, a void in large part being filled by Russia, Phil Flynn, senior energy analyst at the Price Future Group wrote in a recent Fox Business op-ed.

US importing more Russian oil

 

[Jezcoe]

We are decades from significant reduction of oil and as the dominant source of vehicular fuel

So... what is wrong with starting now?