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and one more thing when Biden went to the Saudi's to increase production and try to keep prices from going up so fast the reason they said no was not even 6 or 8 months before Trump went to them and threatened to take their Military aid away if the didn't cut production and raise prices.Perhaps if you had read the entire thread it would make sense to you. We are not as productive now as we were in 2019 because a lot of domestic production (around 8%) was shut down in response to the drop in demand and the bottoming out of prices due to Covid. OPEC, after a price war between Russia and the Saudis, curtailed its production as well. As the economy started back up, so has demand, but it takes time to restart wells. Notice also that there is no shortage of oil - no lines at the pump. It's prices that are high; that benefits producers.
Also, "need to go buy from Saudi" tells me that you don't understand how global a commodity oil is. We consume oil produced all over the world and sell oil all over the world. Right now, US producers are shipping a lot of LNG to Europe because they are having a cold winter and Russia has slowed the flow for political reasons.
Dipping into the strategic reserve is a political move. It's like 2 days worth of oil and doesn't impact prices.
so they said no and that we needed to make up our minds on what we wanted and stick to it
Have a nice day