Russia

[Guisslapp]

If O&G is a long game, then why does Biden shutting off drilling and the action of the Russians have an effect today? Shouldn’t the prices change 4-5 years from now?

If there are 2 producers of winter gloves in the market who sell gloves for $10 and I come along and flood the market with gloves if equal quality for $6, then the other producers have to lower their price or go out of business. Why wouldn’t oil work the same way? Genuinely asking because I just do simple supply and demand in my business with good success. Not complicated world markets.

Oil production (supply) is a long-cycle investment. Far different than gloves. Oil producers spend lots in capital investment in one year that won’t pay out until much later. The amount it pays back is a function of the price of oil in out years (not now) minus their price to produce it.

Although supply is long cycle, demand can change very quickly (as we have seen). When more demand comes along and the supply isn’t increasing at the same rate, prices go up.

Seriously, look at the XOP. It has gone down over the last 10 years. Drill baby drill, was awful for shareholders of oil producing companies. I don’t see them going back to it after the debt they took on in 2020. Biden isn’t the thing that is stopping them.

[dawg80]

We may not be able to, and want to, replace the oil China buys from Russia, but we sure as heck can accommodate just about the rest of the world with oil and natural gas (LNG). Of course, if Trump were POTUS (which he is, actually...) we wouldn't even be discussing this because 1) Putin would have behaved himself, and 2) the US would already be the #1 exporter of energy.

[techman05]

Russians shooting at nuclear power plant? Do these soldiers know they will surely die if even 1 block explodes? I know Putin doesn’t care how many of his own people die for him to win a war, but still. What happens if/when they blow up the plant and millions die?

[dawg80]

One Squadron of A-10s or F-16's could obliterate that 40-mile-long convoy parked out in the open...

Just ask the Iraqis who were trying to escape Kuwait City. Well, you can't ask them, they are all dead. The "highway of death" it is called.

[DawgyNWindow]

They've discovered the person responsible for much of Putin's power over Europe, and why the folks over there (and here) are incapable of sanctioning Russian oil. So Putin will be able to keep killing as he desires.


This person has been running the energy policy of the western nations for years, and in doing so unwittingly (I hope) peddled Russian propaganda designed to weaken the west. The "adults" have been too myopic to see what was going on, and were only interested in making this person feel good about themselves and not draw the ire of her disapproval.

Here is a picture of that person. How dare you!

[Guisslapp]

We may not be able to, and want to, replace the oil China buys from Russia, but we sure as heck can accommodate just about the rest of the world with oil and natural gas (LNG). Of course, if Trump were POTUS (which he is, actually...) we wouldn't even be discussing this because 1) Putin would have behaved himself, and 2) the US would already be the #1 exporter of energy.

I guess we know why Trump was such an antagonist to NATO and threatened to pull the US out of it. Putin had no better friend in the US.

[dawg80]

I guess we know why Trump was such an antagonist to NATO and threatened to pull the US out of it. Putin had no better friend in the US.

Stop being openly stupid

[DawgyNWindow]

Stop being openly stupid

Stupid is way too kind.

[PawDawg]

He's still helping to spread lies about bad orange man.

[DawgyNWindow]

He's still helping to spread lies about bad orange man.

Was that the bad orange man that tried to get the other NATO members to live up to their responsibilities in the event something like this happened, and who would not allow the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to be built to provide Germany (a NATO member) with energy? The one who attempted to lessen Putin's power by becoming energy independent and begging Europe to buy from the US instead of Russia because Russia is a bad actor?

Yeah, if you're a Putin fan, he is truly a bad orange man.

Well, a Putin fan or an idiot. The kind that get their energy policies from an autistic teenager.

[Guisslapp]

Was that the bad orange man that tried to get the other NATO members to live up to their responsibilities in the event something like this happened, and who would not allow the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to be built to provide Germany (a NATO member) with energy? The one who attempted to lessen Putin's power by becoming energy independent and begging Europe to buy from the US instead of Russia because Russia is a bad actor?

Yeah, if you're a Putin fan, he is truly a bad orange man.

Well, a Putin fan or an idiot. The kind that get their energy policies from an autistic teenager.

And we should be very grateful to the whistleblower that outed Trump for holding up the military aid to Ukraine.

Republicans are at least starting their pivot back to being anti-Putin. Even Tucker is getting on board!

[DawgyNWindow]

And we should be very grateful to the whistleblower that outed Trump for holding up the military aid to Ukraine.

Republicans are at least starting their pivot back to being anti-Putin. Even Tucker is getting on board!

Didn't happen.

Of course they could have really used those blankets your moron sent them to stay warm this winter as Russia destroys their infrastructure. Great move by the adults.

[dawg80]

In other Russki news...the man-child Brittany Grinder was busted at the Moscow airport trying to take drugs out of the country. He/she faces 10 years in a Putin prison. Or! Putin might allow he/she to go smash some Ukrainians into the ground, instead of a prison term.

[dawg80]

Trump sold 200 javelins to Ukraine after obummer refused to send any. Yes, 200 is not enough, but 200 > 0

[DawgyNWindow]

Get the truth, not CNN narrative.

https://youtu.be/Vpwkdmwui3k

We need this guy back immediately.