{"id":634304,"date":"2021-08-11T17:20:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T21:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=634304"},"modified":"2021-08-11T17:20:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T21:20:44","slug":"after-cancelling-keystone-xl-pipeline-white-house-begs-opec-to-increase-oil-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-cancelling-keystone-xl-pipeline-white-house-begs-opec-to-increase-oil-production\/","title":{"rendered":"After Cancelling Keystone XL Pipeline, White House Begs OPEC To Increase Oil Production"},"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\">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%2Fafter-cancelling-keystone-xl-pipeline-white-house-begs-opec-to-increase-oil-production%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=634304&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\/08\/GettyImages-1224912162-scaled-e1615237859825.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Biden administration called Wednesday on the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to boost oil production in order to combat rising gasoline prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHigher gasoline costs, if left unchecked, risk harming the ongoing global recovery,\u201d said a statement from national security adviser Jake Sullivan. \u201cThe price of crude oil has been higher than it was at the end of 2019, before the onset of the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile OPEC+ recently agreed to production increases, these increases will not fully offset previous production cuts that OPEC+ imposed during the pandemic until well into 2022. At a critical moment in the global recovery, this is simply not enough,\u201d the statement continued.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.0257510729614\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">FULL STATEMENT: The White House urges OPEC+ to pump more oil (above and beyond the current 400,000 b\/d monthly hikes the cartel is already implementing) | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OOTT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OOTT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qnWA1l7Pnt\">pic.twitter.com\/qnWA1l7Pnt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Javier Blas (@JavierBlas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JavierBlas\/status\/1425420240616411137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe are engaging with relevant OPEC+ members on the importance of competitive markets in setting prices. Competitive energy markets will ensure reliable and stable energy supplies, and OPEC+ must do more to support the recovery,\u201d Sullivan concluded.<\/p>\n<p>OPEC+ is an international conglomerate of major oil producers that includes the 13 OPEC countries, mostly led by Saudi Arabia, as well as 10 other countries, led by Russia, that formed a deal in 2016 with the goal of having more control on the global crude oil market.<\/p>\n<p>Despite oil prices experiencing a high level of volatility lately due to the delta variant, Brent crude, the international oil benchmark, <a class=\"icon none\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/white-house-urges-opec-to-boost-oil-production-amid-covid-19-recovery-11628688236?mod=hp_lead_pos2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fell 0.8% to $70.04 a barrel<\/a> shortly after the White House\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans, however, were quick to criticize the Biden administration for asking foreign oil producers to increase their output given their domestic policies that have targeted the American energy industry. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/10\/republican-states-court-biden-haaland-interior-department-drilling-leases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Republican States Ask Court To Order Biden Admin To Resume Drilling Leases)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"12.208754208754\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Reaching a whole new level of stupid, the Biden administration asks OPEC (foreign oil) to increase production, while making every possible attempt to destroy CLEANER American oil and gas.<\/p>\n<p>Not just stupid, but anti-American. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aqMvp7ogX2\">https:\/\/t.co\/aqMvp7ogX2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanCrenshawTX\/status\/1425494139135840259?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One of President Joe Biden\u2019s first acts as president was to revoke the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have carried over 800,000 barrels of oil a day from western Canada to oil refineries throughout the Midwest and Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration also quickly moved to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/22\/joe-biden-suspends-oil-gas-lease-permits-sixty-days-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">issue<\/a> a&nbsp;suspension of new oil and gas leasing and drilling permits for U.S. lands and waters.<\/p>\n<p>The national average of gas prices has consistently <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/02\/independence-day-joe-biden-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reached<\/a> record highs since the Biden administration took office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration called Wednesday on the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to boost oil production in order to combat rising gasoline prices.\u201cHigher gasoline costs, if left unchecked, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634304","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\/634304","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634304\/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=634304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}