{"id":1548755,"date":"2022-07-11T13:19:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T17:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1548755"},"modified":"2022-07-11T13:19:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T17:19:20","slug":"ironic-for-biden-to-beg-saudi-arabia-for-oil-but-label-american-producers-criminals-ex-gop-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ironic-for-biden-to-beg-saudi-arabia-for-oil-but-label-american-producers-criminals-ex-gop-senator\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ironic\u2019 for Biden to Beg Saudi Arabia for Oil But Label American Producers \u2018Criminals\u2019: Ex-GOP Senator"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fironic-for-biden-to-beg-saudi-arabia-for-oil-but-label-american-producers-criminals-ex-gop-senator%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=1548755&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--><p>Former Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) has called President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a>\u2019s upcoming visit to Saudi Arabia \u201cironic\u201d in light of the president\u2019s sharp criticism of America\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-oil-industry\">oil industry<\/a> and what Gregg blasted as the Biden administration\u2019s \u201cgreen think\u201d undermining U.S. investment in crude production.<\/p>\n<p>Gregg, who also served as governor of New Hampshire, made the remarks on CNBC\u2019s \u201cSquawk Box\u201d in an interview that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SquawkCNBC\/status\/1546477935246409728\">aired on July 10,<\/a>\u00a0ahead of Biden\u2019s planned visit to Saudi Arabia this week.<\/p>\n<p>During his visit to the Kindgdom, the president is expected to press Saudi leaders to pump more crude in a bid to cool soaring gasoline costs that have frustrated American drivers.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to a question about whether the Biden administration should be looking to boost domestic crude production by taking measures like expanding drilling leases or reviving the Keystone XL pipeline, Gregg responded in the affirmative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2019, we had over 1,000 rigs pumping oil at $50 a barrel. Today we\u2019re down to 750 rigs and the price of oil is twice that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1.tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI5F0X8-FILEDIMAGE-1200x850-1.jpg\"><\/a> Refinery workers walk inside the LyondellBasell oil refinery in Houston, Texas, on March 6, 2013. (Donna Carson\/File Photo\/File Photo\/Reuters) \u2018Undermined by Green Think\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Gregg said it\u2019s not that the U.S. crude industry is lacking price incentives to ramp up production; the problem is that investment in oil infrastructure is done over a long time horizon, which requires a stable outlook. But that outlook has been undermined by the Biden administration\u2019s hostile attitude toward fossil fuels, he argued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s been undermined by green think and by the attitude of this Administration, which at some levels has actually called the oil industry criminals, and they are going to Saudi Arabia, which is ironic,\u201d Gregg said.<\/p>\n<p>While Gregg did not elaborate on his claim that the Biden administration has effectively labeled U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) has called President Joe Biden\u2019s upcoming visit to Saudi Arabia \u201cironic\u201d in light of the president\u2019s sharp criticism of America\u2019s oil industry and what Gregg blasted as the Biden administration\u2019s \u201cgreen think\u201d undermining U.S. investment in crude production. Gregg, who also served as governor of New Hampshire, made the remarks [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"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-1548755","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\/1548755","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\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1548755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548755\/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=1548755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1548755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1548755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}