{"id":1048365,"date":"2021-11-23T13:13:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T18:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1048365"},"modified":"2021-11-23T13:13:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T18:13:39","slug":"donald-trump-joe-biden-raiding-strategic-oil-reserves-at-the-mercy-of-opec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-joe-biden-raiding-strategic-oil-reserves-at-the-mercy-of-opec\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump: Joe Biden Raiding Strategic Oil Reserves &#039;at the Mercy of OPEC&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdonald-trump-joe-biden-raiding-strategic-oil-reserves-at-the-mercy-of-opec%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1048365&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/49651326458_fa8f75fb73_o-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that President Joe Biden is raiding strategic oil reserves because he is \u201cat the mercy of OPEC\u201d to reduce gas prices for American consumers.<\/p>\n<p>According to the AAA, the national gas price average on Tuesday&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/\">is<\/a> $3.403. Gas prices have&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2021\/10\/11\/gas-prices-triple-crude-oil-above-80-supply-shortage-4-dollars-per-gallon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">tripled<\/a>&nbsp;since 2020.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI understand that Joe Biden will be announcing an \u2018attack\u2019 on the newly brimming Strategic Oil Reserves so that he could get the close to record-setting high oil prices artificially lowered,\u201d Trump said in a statement. \u201cThose reserves are meant to be used for serious emergencies, like war, and nothing else.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Trump, who made it a goal to become energy independent during his tenure, slammed Biden\u2019s reliance on OPEC instead of American producers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were energy independent one year ago, now we are at the mercy of OPEC,\u201d Trump said, \u201cgasoline is selling for $7 in parts of California, going up all over the Country, and they are taking oil from our Strategic Reserves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs this any way to run a Country?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.1538461538462\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Helping working class Americans battle the Biden gas price crisis\u2013what a refreshing approach to serving the people. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s5mQIEk6lu\">https:\/\/t.co\/s5mQIEk6lu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1463004989790511109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump also stated he refilled the United States\u2019 depleted oil reserves while gas prices were lower and America was energy independent. \u201cI filled them up three years ago, right to the top, when oil prices were very low,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>During the coronavirus pandemic, Trump&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/04\/24\/donald-trump-we-will-make-the-energy-business-great-again\/\">stabilized<\/a> the price of oil so American producers could stay in business.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" readability=\"51.800643086817\">\n<p>\u201cOnce this straightens out, and once you get some demand and then you\u2019re gonna reduce the supply a little bit it\u2019ll equalize and be great again,\u201d he said in April of 2020. \u201cWe want to remain independent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oil markets have since recovered following the pandemic petering out. But upon Biden assuming office, the United States\u2019 energy independence has waned.<\/p>\n<p>Biden&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/donald-trump-joe-biden-keystone-pipeline-canada-environment-and-nature-141eabd7cca6449dfbd2dab8165812f2\">canceled<\/a>&nbsp;the Keystone Pipeline in January and is currently&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2021\/11\/08\/report-biden-harris-admin-considers-closing-second-pipeline-as-gas-prices-soar\/\">weighing<\/a>&nbsp;whether to terminate another pipeline in Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/17\/joe-biden-energy-oil-companies-investigation\/\">avoided<\/a> responsibility for record-high energy prices and asked the&nbsp;Federal Trade Commission to investigate oil companies for \u201canti-competitive behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs\">\u201cI therefore ask that the Commission further examine what is happening with oil and gas markets, and that you bring all of the Commission\u2019s tools to bear if you uncover any wrongdoing,\u201d Biden wrote.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on Twitter&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><em>@WendellHuseb\u00f8<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that President Joe Biden is raiding strategic oil reserves because he is \u201cat the mercy of OPEC\u201d to reduce gas prices for American consumers. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}