david hahn

Your post is so f'n clueless I don't know where to start. It sounds like you got your information from a dumb meme🤦🏻First of all, the Keystone XL pipeline was never in operation so there was no supply of oil/gasoline that was limited. Less than 10% of that pipeline was even built by the time Trump left office so halting construction didn't have any impact on oil supply whatsoever. That pipeline was a doomed project from the start and it was stalled for years because American farmers and ranchers didn't want dirty crude oil from Canada being transferred through THEIR land. They were taking the permanent risk of oil spills from that pipeline ruining their farmlands or making their cattle sick. These lawsuits went all the way up to the Supreme Court. And one of the main reasons the price of oil shot up in 2021 is because the Trump University cult leader made a ridiculous deal with OPEC in 2020 to cut global oil production for nearly two years to protect the precious oil industry. The oil production cuts didn't taper off fast enough so when the global economy re-opened in the summer of 2021 and travel restrictions were lifted the global demand for oil shot up. Supply didn't meet global demand which is why gas prices increased significantly WORLDWIDE lab partner, not just America. Do you know what happens when you take nearly 6 million barrels of oil off the market every day for over a year when the world desperately needs it? Ding, ding, ding, you guessed it simpleton, the price goes up and the oil industry GLADLY gouged us to recoup their losses from 2020. No one shut down drilling in Alaska because they were still drilling there all through Biden's administration. And they were still drilling on Federal land too. Companies already held large inventories of unused leases and approved drilling permits and under Biden they continued issuing thousands of drilling permits and in some years the volume was comparable to or higher than under Trump. Oil production on Federal lands rose. Most U.S. oil comes from private and state land anyway, not federal land so who gives a fk? Biden's administration oversaw record output and record crude/LNG exports. Bottom line, Trump inherited gas prices at $3, no supply chains broken, no OPEC choking off oil production, no Strait closed, and a strong energy sector. HE fucked that up. Trying to pass it off with more Team Red vs Team Blue bullshit for the low IQ lemmings isn't going to change that.