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Look at the chart. Look at production levels between Nov 2020 and March 2021. I wonder what happened during that election to post inauguration period. Then I wonder why it has steadily gone up since the covid recovery and political damage resulting from rapid increases in crude costs and the Russian invasion. Actually, I don't wonder, and neither does anyone with a scintilla of knowledge of the energy markets and political policy.

Thanks for being honest. There is nobody to negotiate a Palestinian State with, becasue there is no such entity that has a name, gravitas, (I hate that phrase), or basic view that Israel should be allowed to exist. All of the tears from western cultures about this issue fail to acknowledge that reality. I'm just a simple guy who has watched this for decades, but in my simple mind, in order for there to be an agreement between two parties, they have to acknowledge the other's right of existence. That's kind of day one, hour one of an agreement negotiation.

Israel has had two elections that put in place people whose primary platform was the establishment of a separate Palestinian state. Went nowhere because there is no reasonable commitment from the other side. Of course you have no clue about who would reasonably lead them in peaceful coexistence, because there is no one. How do you advocate for this without any solution? It's nonsense. Combine that with the sub-human acts in October and you get what you get. It is preposterous to demand military perfection in this environment. That is the issue. There is nobody to negotiate with, and Hamas seeks to eliminate Israel.

The "two state solution" begs the question. Who is going to lead the Palestinian component? Name some organization that has any critical political mass that doesn't advocate the elimination of Israel. Israel has had two elections in the past decades that the victor's major policy component was a two state solution. They didn't get anywhere, or at least to the finish line. One could say that that was becasue of Israel's negotiating intransigence, but my view is because of an absolute void in leadership on the other side. Major agreements bring on risks, and the other side was simply not willing to do that, or hadn't the strength to. It's similar to what's going on now. Hamas and other groups are telling their minions that elimination of Israel is a real possibility. It isn't. I very much favor a two state option, but not one where the other side insists of complete destruction of the state of the other, and the elimination of all its people. Further, if that were to occur, in my speculation, there would be yet another internal Islamic Sunni vs Shiite war.

I'm doin' OK

I thought the US Administration suggested there would be a ceasefire a week ago Monday, just prior to the Michigan primary. That didn't happen?

And I am responding. What is this new nonsense of people being angry. You have no ability to make me angry in any way. You are a phony. You questioned me/accused me a couple of years ago. I offered to pay thousands to the charity of your choice if I could not prove what I claimed. You disappeared. Never took the challenge. Never even responded. You think a clown like you could ever cause anyone to be angry? Not possible. Get over yourself. You don't have the ability to make anyone "angry." Nobody cares.

Are you completely incapable of remembering anything? I stated many times that I would never vote for him. Never have. I don't like the man. No matter how many times you and that other guy make these stupid suggestions, you embarrass yourselves. It didn't work the first time, and it won't the fiftieth time.

Which makes his refusal to do a Super Bowl interview, a custom, and an incredible "tell" with the largest US TV audience of the year, an election year, all the more revealing. They are trying to keep the man from exposing himself. He is old, infirm, incoherent, and unreliable to his handlers, and that is on his best day.

I am not going to quote an idiotic post from Billsy as they take up far too much space, with all the useless cartoons and other items that are not self authored. But....the claim that I am "angry" is idiotic. Not angry at all. Biden is a dysfunctional idiot. Always has been. A back burner Democrat that has no record of achievement beyond his totally false claims of his record of achievement, which even Democrats know are false. His energy policies have waivered and are strictly political. Impossible to deny that.

You really have no idea. The president does not control oil prices or the energy markets. What he can do, and did, it set the environment that energy companies have to operate in. It takes years to bring a project on line to the point of production, and when the environment is impacted by the statements and promises that Biden made, it would have been foolish and a violation of fiduciary responsibility to not "adjust" to the environment he created. It wasn't just drilling on federal lands, which he has since reneged on, refining and transportation was also "adjusted" making both more expensive and less attractive to produce. By the way, your stupid claim that anybody, let alone a man I have despised for decades is "my guy" is as ignorant as a host of other stupid things you repeatedly claim. Not have I ever claimed to be a "thought leader in energy markets." I watch and I pay attention. I have listened to countless interviews from decision makers in that industry, as it had a huge impact on the industry my career was dependent on. I paid close attention, including being aware of futures contracts that were reported on financial statements of various energy dependent companies and the prices they paid for those hedges. You post remarkably stupid things to the point that if you were a medical situation you would be taken off life support. Foolishly accusatory and ignorant, wasting your time and others with zero effect.

I don't take homework assignments. But....during his campaign, he stated he was going to end all drilling. On day one, to answer your challenge, he ended the Keystone Pipeline. Please don't suggest that you know anything about that being an export asset. I pay close attention to the energy markets and there were far reaching effects of that, along with his swearing to end all drilling. I was too kind in responding to you earlier. You have absolutely no idea about the energy markets and history, and expose yourself a fool when you post about that issue, as you have above. The fact is that when Trump suggested, wisely, that the Saudis limit production, oil had reached negative value due to covid. Producers were actually willing to pay to take it off their hands. There was no storage capacity available, You make the same mistake over and over, along with the other guy. The real and economic world make no sense to you because your view is so politically distorted. Not worth the time. By the way, people who have traded for years, and do it on a daily basis never talk about it, and know signs of phonies who claim to have "investments off the charts." Recognize that phrase?

Do you intentionally theorize that people here don't know of what they speak? Do you think that enough people don't care enough to scrutinize what you say that they will believe any of your nonsense? Do you think there are more than two people here who think that Trump actually claimed that "good people" included Nazis and white supremacists? Per your claim, Trump did this in April of 2020. Do you know how this claim proves my point and makes you look a fool? Do you know what the price of a barrel of oil was at the date you mentioned he suggested this. Here's a clue. High $30's, in fact companies were paying for people to take oil supply off their hands, as there was no more storage capacity. Here genius: https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/stock-market-news-042020/index.html I don't think you have any idea about any of this, and I'm becoming quite certain you don't have the capacity to understand basic stuff.

Breaks my heart, but everyone saw it coming the second he launched his helmet after the injury. Still, a great pick and a great member of the Bills.

This is where you and he completely miss. There was absolutely no need to do put his moronic policy in place the second he took office, which he did. Grossly stupid. Yet he did it, and a number of energy projects were shelved as the result. These things take close to a decade to spool up. So you get the Russian invasion. Europe, and Germany in particular are caught with potentially catastrophic supply problems heading into 2022 winter. The US is in much worse position to backstop supply and you get what you get. Totally stupid. Totally unforced. The Trump suggestion is idiotic, not that you haven't puked it out before. Trump was trying to protect the US energy industry as the Saudis were trying to get prices so low it would end further US production. Different time, and the right thing to do. Stick to the sex stuff vs. Trump. I couldn't care less, but Biden and his bizarre energy moves are indefensible from a strategic and logical perspective, as well as being exposed as grossly political and without conscience.

Shirly you can't be serious. He makes no decisions. He has no substance. His staff tells him what to do to appease voters and he is the puppet of their desires, all designed for votes. Idiotic energy policy with countless flips, including begging the Saudis to not announce OPEC production cuts until after the US mid terms. Releasing reserves from the strategic petroleum reserve for unintended reasons. He is useless.

Thankfully, Biden is a liar. "As he campaigned for president in 2020, Joe Biden responded to a New Hampshire town hall question unequivocally, adding repetition for emphasis. "No more drilling on federal lands," he said Feb. 9, 2020. "Period. Period. Period. Period." Biden repeated his stance a month later, saying at a presidential primary debate: "No more drilling on federal lands. No more drilling, including offshore. No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period, ends." Three years later, the Biden administration disappointed supporters of his climate change policy by approving a major drilling project in Alaska." See provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act to understand why Biden was legally bound to approve drilling. It wasn't his choice, not that anyone would know, it was a legal requirement. The man would drill through his mother's grave if it meant getting a vote. He is an airbag. Nothing of substance. But at least he was stupid enough to inform us at last year's State of the Union that we would need fossil fuels for at least ten years, resulting in laughter from both sides and in every household who happened to be watching.

This is the kind of suggestion that makes me think some Americans are grossly ignorant. Here's a postulate......American citizens do not control Israeli life or decisions. The Israelis are the ones who have been missiled, raped, abducted, burned, tortured, held hostage and murdered. They have every right to demand that their government eliminate this threat, and they are doing just that. They don't want a ceasefire. They want Hamas and anyone else who does this eliminated, so it doesn't happen again. That may well include Hezbollah, which is fare greater a threat. This alleged "claim" that the US citizen's view can or should drive Israeli policies, or has any right to, is preposterous. The barbaric actions on Oct 7th have sealed the fate of Hamas, and what is going on is a justified response which will, hopefully lead to the elimination of them. The claim that US citizens have any real "standing," to use a legal term, is arrogant and senseless. They have as much claim as the UN General Assembly, and Security Council. Stupid, useless actions. No effect. Just noise.

This can't be. I thought a ceasefire was going to be in place by Monday, as suggested by the Biden Administration just ahead of the Michigan primary. You mean the sides were not close? Were we played?

I would start by telling the armed killers to stop launching warhead carrying rockets into civilian populations. I would tell these "armed killers" that killing, kidnapping in order to hold hostages, torturing, raping and filming these events would not be tolerated. I would hesitate to judge the response until I had some idea of what they were actually doing, and what measures they were taking to prevent loss of life. I would never believe the casualty counts provided by the attackers, who are completely incapable of ever telling the truth while their leaders hide in foreign countries and count their riches while sacrificing thousands of innocent people. I would hold the attackers responsible for doing nothing in seventeen years of "rule" other than building an underground system in civilian areas including hospitals and schools for the sole purpose of waging war to eliminate a neighbor that is not going to be eliminated.

Israel can do its normal democratic thing. Hamas needs to be eliminated. Seventeen years, and all they have done is build an underground tunnel system designed to wage war against Israel, under the idiotic support of Iran who is determined to use surrogates to chase some foolish and unattainable goal to eliminate Israel. Again, Hamas needs to be eliminated.

Grossly off topic, but........ Do you ever care or wonder who takes you seriously here? I can't think of anyone.

At some point, rational people, if they exist in this realm, will realize that every single on of these Iranian surrogates is doing their bidding at immense cost and no hope for success. Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis are all going to lose this battle. The Palestinian civilian population will bear the brunt, but the struggle to eliminate Israel is a stupid, losing battle that will never succeed and needs to be abandoned. The faster that is realized, the lower the body count.

I think you are remarkably naive about this issue. Iran is paying individuals a ton of money to do this wet work for them. There isn't some religious devotion to a cause here. The Israelis are pretty good at getting at the people responsible, and I support them terminating them with prejudice. I have no sympathy for Iranian paid murderers.

I'll leave that to the Israelis. They have a history of getting rid of individuals. Far better a history than us and any other country. The long term mistake would be to allow them some kind of survival, so the Israeli citizenry can be slaughtered again. It is time to end Hamas. Soon enough, it will be time to end Hezbollah. Or, alternatively, end the Iranian Islamic regime, which would solve it all.