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LTC Kevin B.
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Oil reserves are only a short-term solution. Eventually the reserves get depleted and, if you don't replenish them, you no longer have a strategic oil reserve (and oil prices will return to the higher levels). On the other hand, if the US buys oil on the market to refill the strategic reserve, that additional buying pressure also causes oil prices return to the higher levels (and even higher in the short term). The only real options are to a) get OPEC to produce more oil, b) allow more drilling to produce our own oil, and/or c) transitioning to cleaner forms of energy and weaning ourself off oil.
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SSgt Ray Stone
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So the only option is to persuade the treacherous oil juggernauts to reduce costs per barrel?
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LTC Kevin B.
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SSgt Ray Stone - All three options are not mutually exclusive. He could do all three at the same time. The politics would be difficult to manage though. Environmentalists would hate the drilling, the oil industry would hate the investment in green technology, and the foreign policy hawks and human rights people would hate the outreach to OPEC. On the bright side, Biden's poll numbers can't go much lower. I saw do all three and bunker down for any political fallout.
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SSgt Ray Stone While I agree we should consider our own oil reserves... I question the validity of the New York Post.
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SSgt Ray Stone
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Google BIDEN AND SAUDI ARABIA. You know me better than that man...I don't post false shit
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SSgt Ray Stone - I'm not questioning you... I just stated my opinion about the N.Y. Post. I fully know about the Crown Prince... and I never said I supported Biden's decision to meet with him. Chill my friend... no inferences meant towards you at all.
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SSgt Ray Stone
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SGT (Join to see) - I'm aware where NYP leans. Peace
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