International
Biden Releases 30 Million Barrels of Oil from Reserves while Pushing Zero Emissions
On Tuesday, the International Energy Agency (IEA) held an emergency meeting to respond to Russia’s advancement in its invasion of Ukraine. U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm released a statement following the meeting:
“Today, I chaired an emergency ministerial meeting of the International Energy Agency (IEA) – founded 50 years ago by the U.S. and other allies – where the United States and 30 other member countries, supported by the European Commission, agreed to collectively release an initial 60 million barrels of oil from strategic petroleum reserves. This decision reflects our common commitment to address significant market and supply disruptions related to President Putin’s war on Ukraine.”
The statement continued that “President Biden authorized me to make an initial commitment on behalf of the United States of 30 million barrels of oil to be released from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. We stand prepared to take additional measures if conditions warrant.”
“We will continue advancing ongoing efforts to accelerate Europe’s diversification of energy supplies away from Russia and to secure the world from Putin’s attempts to weaponize energy supplies.”
Instead of any admittance that the United States is energy dependent on foreign oil, Granholm touted the Biden administration’s obsessive push for electric energy. The statement reads:
“The United States believes that investing in clean energy is the best way to reduce domestic and international dependence on Russian oil and gas. Clean energy technologies are available and cost-effective today and offer the surest path towards a world where energy supply cannot be used as a means of political coercion or a threat to national security, and where families and businesses are protected from volatile prices and markets. Accordingly, we continue to support ambitious international clean energy goals and near-term action, including strong domestic climate action, and the pursuit of a net-zero emissions economy by 2050.”
Former President Donald Trump stated bluntly on Truth Social, “FIRST COME THE TANKS, THEN COME THE NUKES. Get this crazy war ended, NOW. So easy to do!”
Trump was referring to the escalation of war in Ukraine. He, like many other commentators and lawmakers, are warning that the decision to continue sending weapons – and now tanks – could potentially lead to the use of “nuclear weapons.”
It’s mission creep and it’s dangerous, they say.
Why? Because Russian President Valdimir Putin has indicated in two different speeches that he would use nuclear weapons to defend Russia, if needed. Those warnings are not just bluster but a very real possibility.
And the escalation of war is visible.
Russia launched 55 missiles strikes across Ukraine Thursday, leaving 11 dead. The strikes come one day after the United States and Germany agreed to send tanks to Ukraine in an effort to aide the country. 47 of the 55 missiles were shot down according to Ukraine’s Air Force command.
Eleven lives were lost and another 11 were injured additionally leaving 35 buildings damaged in the wake of the attacks. According to The New York Times, Denys Shmyhal, said in a post on Telegram. “The main goal is energy facilities, providing Ukrainians with light and heat,” he said.
Ukraine is now demanding that they need F-16 fighter jets. In a post on twitter Ukrainian lawmaker, Oleksiy Goncharenko said, “Missiles again over Ukraine. We need F16.”
Morning. Missiles again over Ukraine. We need F16.
— Oleksiy Goncharenko (@GoncharenkoUa) January 26, 2023
The US has abstained from sending advanced jets in the chances that a volatile decision could foster more dangerous attacks like former President Trump’s post on Truth referred to. If the US did authorize the decision to lend Ukraine the F-16 jets Netherlands’ foreign minister, Wopke Hoekstra, would be willing to supply them. According to The New York Times, Hoekstra told Dutch lawmakers, “We are open-minded… There are no taboos.”
F-16 fighter jets are complex to work on, they are not the average aircraft that can be learned in a matter of weeks. It can take months for pilots to learn how to fly these birds. European and US officials have the concern that Ukrainian forces could potentially use the jets to fly into Russian airspace and launch attacks on Russian soil.
Western allies are trying to avoid such a provocation, because that could lead to nuclear warfare in reference to what Putin has said he would do to defend his country.
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Keith Christy
March 2, 2022 at 9:31 am
STUPID S.O.B.!! JUST START THE PIPELINES UP AGAIN & QUIT KISSING ASS!
Lisa Bell
March 2, 2022 at 9:39 am
Appeasing foreign interests ahead of domestic needs, is the hidden outcome and the net value is killing the US economy, placing the largest burden on the working class.
Jim daniel
March 2, 2022 at 9:44 am
4 or 5 days of oil supply? The fact that the U.S. allows these creeps running the country are allowed to get away with this crap Saya hard truths about America.
Alabaster Mc Gillicuddy
March 2, 2022 at 11:12 am
Does this seem stupid to anyone else? We have a national petroleum reserve for emergencies. The world is proposing to release 60 million barrels of petroleum to stop the price increases. How much is 60 million barrels equal to in world usage? Probable a day maybe two?? There is enough oil/ natural gas in the ground to leave Putin high and dry. Yet we refuse to use it because of climate change yet no one can define what climate change really is. They say the world is getting hot! Maybe the world is returning to the temperatures of a few hundred thousands of years ago. Over the past few thousands of years we could have been in a climate change and the world got cooler. Now it is just returning to the original temperatures that are hotter than we are used to. Use the damn oil that is in the ground! Quit screwing around!!!
Daniel Kahawaii
March 2, 2022 at 4:55 pm
THIS Strategic Petroleum Reserve
: wouldn’t by chance be the stores Trump was PAID to have and to hold?
Michael Souther
March 3, 2022 at 9:35 am
Biden has To be the most corrupt and stupidest SOB on the planet. The dirt bag is a puppet for the nit wit marxists. Allowing the purchase of Russian oil and feeding Vlad the destroyer Putin and his megalomania. The USA is going down the drain.
George
March 3, 2022 at 10:48 am
BFD!