Let’s call them what the are.....the enemy! For sure by now you should easily see the D’s Are in charge and the RINO’s play cuckoo to them. Discussing the way the enemy is destroying US from within is a 24/7/365 day exercise . How many times are we to argue that taking away is not adding or A is A. It’s mental masterbation to discuss the nuances of why this or that. Start fighting back like “Stage Storming Commander” and threaten their financial security by using the system against them. Many public officials are required to carry a surety bond. Evidence is easy to gather that shows their malfeasance.
Now is the time to be vocally heard, in line at the cashier , or at a cafeteria or Pub. Even the doctors office. You will find the uncomfortable snide looks or scoffs will be nothing relative to your inability to acquire life supplies. Call the Coup de tate for what it is an election stolen from the people, just like our livelihood and Freedom has been slowly ripped away.. If any argue with you , start speaking in their language...baa bah baa baa
We don’t have an energy problem we have an enemy problem.

Something I've noticed is that with all the talk about gas prices going up because of "shortages" due to the russian oil not being imported, I have not heard a single report of gas lines or stations running out of gas. Has anyone heard different?

With all the hoopla, you'd think it was like toilet paper at the beginning of covid!

One thing to remember is that a 55-gallon barrel of oil only translates to about 19 gallons of gasoline. The rest is used in millions of other ways - most notably plastics. It isn't just gasoline for which the price is rising, but every single product produced in America.

Me dino read Storo's title and immediately said aloud, "Ain't that the truth."

This is the mouthpiece of the enemy. Wow I have only seen this ignorance from a handful of people
Those Including Piglosy and An Occasional Cortex
Shifty Schmitt , Eric Swallowswell, funny three come from the land of fruits and nuts and the odd ball from the city of RATS.

Joe Biden addressed the National League of Cities on Monday morning 3/14/22. During his mumbling rant Biden told the crowd that 17 Nobel Price Winners in economics wrote to him saying his multi-trillion dollar Build Back Better redistribution plan will ease inflation. Sure and 17 fireman recommended putting gasoline , bombs and explosives to protect property from destructive fires. Or like Fauci did to my daughter 30 years ago by telling Baxter to use Hepatitis C blood donors for “Gamma Guard” . He told me when I asked him what in the world was he thinking. His response was , “It was the best science at the time. We thought those infected donors would give the recipients anti-bodies” FuQing murderer.
Commie economist Paul Krugman is one of the fools who are the other 16. I’m sure the circleback whore will have no answer.

I too lived through the gas lines of the 70's and 55 mph national speed limit. But then cars were far less fuel efficient which prompted the invasion of Japanese cars. I remember the Lea Iaoccoa adds for Chrysler K cars in an effort to compete with the Japanese. Today I see the blame game on the oil industry from the W(hore) H failing to explain the difference between leases and permits. While there were many reasons for the oil embargo of the 70's today's situation is self inflected. I have no use for the federal government and deep swamp. .Bob Dylan was right: "The Times They Are A Changin."

Lets see: I recently finished "The Return to the Primitive"; and yes, I read the Fountainhead twice and Atlas Shrugged three times.
Now I am on my second journey through "The Virtues of Selfishness".and have read "Capitalism-The Unknow Idea" twice along with a few other Rand novels.
That being said for support of my comment:
Zig Ziglar was quoted as saying, " You can have anything you want as long as you provide others what they want". This was not in relation to altruism but in a business where a thinking man proceeds forward, step by logical step, building a life for himself, free from obstruction (altruism and regulatory shackles) to provide what other men consider the value to themselves.
We have an energy problem, a production problem, a creativity problem only because men don't think FOR themselves. They live for others because they are told (and they accept) that it is noble to serve others,(usually only others).
A moocher only puts his "needy" hand out to men that he feels are gullible to place value in it. Marxists (socialists, Leninists, Maoists) all feel it is in their rights that value is a community commodity. We know this (yawn!)
This is a feel-good concept only that the producer of this value doesn't feel so good when HIS efforts are taken at (gov) gunpoint. Biden as the enemy? He is a manifestation of the enemy. The enemy, in my view, is any pressure that is placed on a man's personality, character, self that he accepts which keeps him from moving forward FOR himself.
A society that is built, brick by brick, individual by individual, by an unalienable allowance to serve themselves (individually) will completely solve any void of need.
What we all must do, individually, is look deeply into the proverbial mirror and declare who do we really serve, what must I provide in exchange for my reasonable dream, and what baggage must I jettison. Calling Biden, Obama, Bush, etc the enemy is not getting to the root of our problems. The burden and expectation of living for others IS the enemy IF we accept it as a noble "cross to bear".

US used about 19 million barrels of oil (and gas equivalents) each day. in 2019 before covid.
The article claims 4.3 billion barrels plus 845 million barrels of gas equivalents, for a total of 5.145 billion barrels.

That much oil (and equivalents) equates to about 270 days of US usage (unless my calculations are incorrect.)
It sounds like a lot of oil, but the US uses a lot of oil.

Government stats on oil (and other petroleum) use:
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/o...

Gas equivalent calculation site:
https://www.justintools.com/unit-conv...

I agree that Buy-dem and the left are looting traitors.
However, there will be a shortage of energy from petroleum some day, and it could happen sooner than we wish.
We should be investing in nuclear energy instead of solar and wind.
Nuclear is the only presently known technology that can produce enough energy economically.

On top of that, complete surrender to Iran on the Obama agreement being renewed, but it seems Iran does not even care! Sending drones to fire at US facilities in Iraq.
A last minute stroke of luck?

Correct, I remember the gas lines of the 1970's. That was a gas shortage!