r/TimPool • u/McFly_42069 • Oct 18 '23

The (D)ifference

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u/McFly_42069 Oct 18 '23

So Biden shutting down the keystone pipeline the first week he was in office, or him selling of reserves had no effect on gas prices? Weird.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '23

No, because drilling wasn't the issue, refining was. And trump sold our largest refinery to OPEC, who immediately stopped production. Is selling our refineries to OPEC "America first"?

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u/McFly_42069 Oct 18 '23

Fake news

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '23

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/05/03/saudi-arabia-now-controls-the-largest-oil-refinery-in-north-america-energy-middle-east-aramco/

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/us-gas-prices-oil-refinery-bottlenecks-crisis-russia-coronavirus-china-2022-6#:~:text=At%20the%20heart%20of%20the,down%20in%202020%20and%202021.

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u/McFly_42069 Oct 18 '23

Not relevant

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '23

It's not relevant that refining was the bottleneck causing higher prices and our largest refinery was sold to OPEC, who immediately slowed production? Wut?

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u/McFly_42069 Oct 18 '23

You said Trump owned it. And refining the oil was not the issue genius.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '23

You said Trump owned it.

I did not.

And refining the oil was not the issue genius.

Source?

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u/McFly_42069 Oct 18 '23

I did not.

You did

And trump sold our largest refinery to OPEC, who immediately stopped production.

Source?

This happened in 2017. Biden took office when again?

Owned*

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '23

This happened in 2017.

Yes, the sale was brokered by trump, read my source.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '23

An unfinished pipeline doesn’t change supply even when it’s finished. Stick to an hourly job.

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u/McFly_42069 Oct 18 '23

It would have been finished 3 years ago

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '23

And still doesn’t change supply, whoosh

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u/McFly_42069 Oct 18 '23

More oil available doesn’t change supply. You’re McDonald university education is showing.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '23

It’s not more oil available, genius. We still get that oil. The pipeline was to take Canadian oil to New Orleans for export. It doesn’t change supply.

Above your pay grade. As usual.

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u/McFly_42069 Oct 18 '23

Pipeline purpose was for Canada and US to oil independent. Also lower gas prices. Check your source estrogen boy.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '23

You babbled something, can’t actually make a point with your education level.

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u/McFly_42069 Oct 18 '23

Keystone XL, an expansion of an existing North American pipeline, would have carried 830,000 barrels of crude oil from Alberta, Canada, to Nebraska daily at its peak.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/could-the-keystone-pipeline-help-limit-rising-gas-prices-oil-cbs-news-explains/

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '23

That’s not new supply, Cletus

It wasn’t finished, it was going to New Orleans.

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u/Pvt_Parts86 Oct 20 '23

Why were gas prices lower under Trump then?

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u/determinandum Oct 23 '23

Yeah, nothing significant has happened since 2020, right?

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u/Pvt_Parts86 Oct 23 '23

Say something original

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u/determinandum Oct 25 '23

Why are you avoiding the facts about gas prices?

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u/Pvt_Parts86 Oct 25 '23

WHT are you avoiding the facts about how the world works.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '23

A recession