{"id":1391642,"date":"2022-03-21T10:59:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T14:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1391642"},"modified":"2022-03-21T10:59:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T14:59:39","slug":"canadian-energy-official-to-biden-why-look-to-venezuela-saudi-arabia-for-oil-were-right-next-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canadian-energy-official-to-biden-why-look-to-venezuela-saudi-arabia-for-oil-were-right-next-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Energy Official To Biden: Why Look To Venezuela, Saudi Arabia For Oil? \u2018We\u2019re Right Next Door!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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%2Fcanadian-energy-official-to-biden-why-look-to-venezuela-saudi-arabia-for-oil-were-right-next-door%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=1391642&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:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/oil.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>With gas prices soaring, President Joe Biden and members of his administration have reportedly sought to woo despotic nations like Venezuela and Saudi Arabia in a desperate search for oil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden administration\u00a0has flirted with lifting\u00a0oil sanctions on once-shunned Venezuela to temper surging oil prices, yet it appears unwilling to encourage investment in domestic energy production,\u201d Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/energy\/biden-venezuela-oil-while-shunning-us-energy-companies-keystone\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Biden\u2019s advisers \u201care discussing a possible visit to Saudi Arabia this spring to help repair relations and convince the Kingdom to pump more oil,\u201d Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/biden-saudi-trip-oil-b7a91070-8045-4155-9120-a35d59fd7603.html\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But one Canadian energy official last week expressed frustration with the Biden administration for not just turning to its neighbor to the north, which is among the world\u2019s top oil producers.<\/p>\n<p>Sonya Savage, the energy minister for Alberta, sat down for an interview with Lisa Fletcher of WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C. \u201cWhat did you think when President Biden called on OPEC and other oil drilling nations like Saudi?\u201d Fletcher asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought \u2018What?\u2019 \u2018We\u2019re right next door. We\u2019re here!\u2019\u201d Savage said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/sonya-savage-biden-oil-gas\">according<\/a> to a report by The Blaze.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s extremely frustrating when we see the United States administration reaching out to Saudi Arabia to ask for more oil production, to ask OPEC for more oil production, to look at Iran, to look at Venezuela when we\u2019re right next door here in Alberta,\u201d Savage said. \u201cThey should be looking at us as the solution to energy security, not around, not Venezuela.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With Biden cutting off all oil imports from Russia, which provides about 8% of the oil America uses every day, Savage said Canada could easily provide that amount, offsetting the loss.<\/p>\n<p>Savage has been a critic of the Biden\u00a0administration for quite a while. \u201cU.S. now looking to replace Russian barrels with Venezuelan? You can\u2019t make this stuff up \u2013 desperate times require desperate measures,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sonyasavage\/status\/1500579398545657856\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted <\/a>earlier this month.\u00a0\u201cA reminder of the folly of energy policy over the past decade. Canada, with the 3rd largest reserves, could have supplied the U.S. and the world,\u201d Savage added.<\/p>\n<p>Americans are getting hit on all sides. The consumer price index increased 7.9% over the past 12 months, hitting a 40-year high, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/cpi.t01.htm\">according<\/a> to the Labor Department\u2019s Bureau of Labor Statistics. \u201cThe February acceleration was the fastest pace since January 1982, back when the U.S. economy confronted the twin threat of higher inflation and reduced economic growth,\u201d CNBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/u-s-world\/2022\/3\/11\/22970615\/inflation-prices-jump-2021-record\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A recent poll from ABC News\/Ipsos showed Americans blame Biden for just about everything. \u201cOn inflation, President Biden has a 70 percent disapproval rating, compared to 29 percent who approve. On gas prices, 70 percent also disapprove, while 28 percent approve,\u201d ABC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/70-disapprove-of-bidens-handling-of-gas-prices-inflation-poll\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the past several months, Americans\u2019 wallets have been hit by skyrocketing inflation, and now, Biden is feeling that crunch in his approval numbers. Seventy percent of Americans disapprove of his handling of inflation,\u201d ABC wrote.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent, and ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2015. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With gas prices soaring, President Joe Biden and members of his administration have reportedly sought to woo despotic nations like Venezuela and Saudi Arabia in a desperate search for oil.\u201cThe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"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-1391642","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\/1391642","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391642\/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=1391642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}