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It Took Just Four Days For Biden’s Oil Price Scheme To Go Up In Smoke

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Oil prices shot up Monday despite President Joe Biden’s plan to curb gasoline prices by releasing a million barrels of emergency oil reserves daily.

The Brent crude index, the global oil benchmark, increased to $108.07 per barrel Monday morning, surging more than 3.1% overnight. The U.S. WTI index skyrocketed more than 3.4% past $103 per barrel Monday.

“Will the release of barrels from strategic reserves fill a shortfall caused by sanctions and buyer aversion to Russian oil? In a word, no,” Stephen Brennock, an analyst at PVM Oil Associates, told Reuters.

Biden announced Thursday that he ordered the Department of Energy to release a million barrels of oil stored in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) every day for six months. The following day, the International Energy Agency said its 31 member nations pledged their own separate release of 62.7 million additional barrels of oil.

The president remarked Thursday that the U.S. release of emergency oil reserves would lead to gas prices declining by up to 35 cents a gallon. However, White House economic adviser Jared Bernstein noted that SPR releases were a “time-limited function” during a press briefing on Friday.

“It’s not a ‘strategic price reserve.’ It was never intended for this and it won’t do anything, just like the last one,” Institute for Energy Research President Tom Pyle told the Daily Caller News Foundation after Biden’s announcement. “This is about nine days worth of demand, but even less because a barrel of crude from the Reserve does not equal a barrel of gasoline.”

Biden released 50 million barrels of oil in November and another 30 million barrels on March 1. Both previous stockpile releases were followed by temporary decreases in gasoline prices before prices then shot up again.

The average cost of gasoline hit its highest level ever mere weeks after Biden’s March 1 release of oil.

On Monday, oil prices again seemed unfazed by the historic global oil stockpile releases, rising on continued concerns about the impact of declining Russian energy output and lack of progress on a renewed Iran nuclear deal, Reuters reported.

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3 Comments

  1. He has a Midas touch, however everything he touches turns to shite. Can’t stand Brandon.

  2. It’s not a joke. Every single thing.
    “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f^*k things up,” Obama told a fellow Democrat during the 2020 presidential primary.

  3. Yes, Catboss this latest shenanigan at the border just proves that we are not unlike Ukraine. I believe they are out to demolish us as well. Piece by piece he is dismantling this country.

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