Today’s Brent Crude Futures price!

[Tbird19482]

Because of expense, environmental concerns, transportation issues (we already nixed the XL tar sands-carrying pipeline for those two latter reasons). We produce enough crude to cover our domestic needs. The problem is that it's a global commodity so if the oil companies can sell it overseas for more than they'd get keeping it at home, they will.

No we do not produce enough oil for our demand,
We produce about 13,7 MBPD and we consume about 20.3 MBPD.

US oil production per day - Bing

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In 2025, U.S. total petroleum consumption averaged about 20.25 million barrels per day (b/d),

Oil Consumption by Country 2026

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worldpopulationreview.com

The Keystone XL pipeline could have been built , the EPA gave the okay to build it IF they would have run it next to the old Keystone pipeline that runs to the gulf, but they didn't want to do that they wanted to run it in places where it would have put peoples drinking water in jeopardy and with the spill record Canada pipeline company has they wouldn't let them .
As I said we need to build a refinery that can use it and make the type of gas we need.
here is some reading on the Keystone XL pipeline.

https://www.nrdc.org/stories/what-keystone-xl-pipeline#impact

 

[Walt]

It's capacity is 7 billion BPD.

There is no pipeline on planet earth with a capacity of 7 billion BPD. The entire planet earth produces/uses in the neighborhood of 106 million barrels per day. That would be a pipeline that has a capacity of about 70 times the entire world's production. It would be pointless.

The pipelines capacity is 7 million BPD, only if they cut all natural gas shipments, which they could not do at the moment. There is no one to replace that natural gas.

Even if they did that, they would still be 18 million barrels short a day. Major cities would lose much of their heating, and still you did not solve the problem.

The Strait is still open to shipping

It is considered effectively closed. No one is willing to insure commercial ships going through the Strait of Hormuz, so no major cargo ships are going through the Strait. They are not willing to risk an uninsured ship.

The solution is for trump to put taxpayer money up to be the re-reinsurer of ships. It would give the Iranians a way to bleed us dry, and all be to have oil that is not coming to us continue to flow. It is not a good solution, but do you see another solution?

The UAE can easily defend it's own pipeline.

Pipelines have proven difficult to defend. The UAE pipelines get us nothing. The two pipelines that get us a little are the Saudi East-West, and the Jordanian. Neither get us enough.

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

No we do not produce enough oil for our demand,
We produce about 13,7 MBPD and we consume about 20.3 MBPD.

US oil production per day - Bing

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In 2025, U.S. total petroleum consumption averaged about 20.25 million barrels per day (b/d),

Oil Consumption by Country 2026

Comprehensive overview of oil consumption by country through the years, including which country consumes the most oil in the world.

worldpopulationreview.com

The Keystone XL pipeline could have been built , the EPA gave the okay to build it IF they would have run it next to the old Keystone pipeline that runs to the gulf, but they didn't want to do that they wanted to run it in places where it would have put peoples drinking water in jeopardy and with the spill record Canada pipeline company has they wouldn't let them .
As I said we need to build a refinery that can use it and make the type of gas we need.
here is some reading on the Keystone XL pipeline.

https://www.nrdc.org/stories/what-keystone-xl-pipeline#impact

Thanks. Interesting. I got this result from the Google AI just now:

I'll look at it in depth later, but I wonder if my query using the word "energy" includes all forms of it from solar to wind to natural gas to oil, whereas yours is strictly about oil?

 

[gfm7175]

If hostilities continue, it will go up much, much more.

In the short term, gas prices will probably keep going up due to fear mongering.

In a few weeks from now, gas prices will stabilize.
During the weeks after that, gas prices will start coming down again.

In the long term, gas prices will come back down to where they were before the bombing started (and maybe even LOWER!)

 

[Tbird19482]

Thanks. Interesting. I got this result from the Google AI just now:

I'll look at it in depth later, but I wonder if my query using the word "energy" includes all forms of it from solar to wind to natural gas to oil, whereas yours is strictly about oil?

Yes from what I read about that it includes everything.
We are the biggest producer of NG since they can now frack the Marcellus NG fields, sending it to the EU and other places, prices of NG in this area are still very high even though we are sitting right on top of it and electric is out of sight even if we have one of the worlds largest hydro electric producing plants in the world right here.
IMO we were NEVER energy independent we have always had to import oil for the last 50 or more years, we were one of the largest importers of energy and have now become one of the largest exporters of energy all because of the NG thing.

 

[Jake Starkey]

In the short term, gas prices will probably keep going up due to fear mongering.

In a few weeks from now, gas prices will stabilize.
During the weeks after that, gas prices will start coming down again.

In the long term, gas prices will come back down to where they were before the bombing started (and maybe even LOWER!)

gas prices will probably go up because of imbalances in supply and demand.

 

[gfm7175]

Mines

With what navy?
Iran's navy is decimated.

and air strikes.

With what air force?
Iran's air force is decimated.

You don't read and research, do you?

Obviously YOU don't.

Your behavior does not support the troops and America.

Projection.

 

[Tbird19482]

gas prices will probably go up because of imbalances in supply and demand.

I was just reading in the morning news price of gas is over $300 a gallon in ALL 50 states.

 

[archives]

Yup. That's what you do.

Oh, oh, really going juvenile now, “I know you are, but what am I,” maybe next we’ll see, “I’m rubber your glue, whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you,” dismissive irrelevancy was too high an appraisal

 

[Jarod]

@TOP

 

[TOP]

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Keep me posted ...I hope you filled up on the way home.... And spring break is coming up!!!

 

[Jarod]

Keep me posted ...I hope you filled up on the way home.... And spring break is coming up!!!

Been home for almost a day…. Saw gas at $4.15

 

[Poor Richard Saunders]

No we do not produce enough oil for our demand,
We produce about 13,7 MBPD and we consume about 20.3 MBPD.

US oil production per day - Bing

Intelligent search from Bing makes it easier to quickly find what you’re looking for and rewards you.

www.bing.com

In 2025, U.S. total petroleum consumption averaged about 20.25 million barrels per day (b/d),

Oil Consumption by Country 2026

Comprehensive overview of oil consumption by country through the years, including which country consumes the most oil in the world.

worldpopulationreview.com

The Keystone XL pipeline could have been built , the EPA gave the okay to build it IF they would have run it next to the old Keystone pipeline that runs to the gulf, but they didn't want to do that they wanted to run it in places where it would have put peoples drinking water in jeopardy and with the spill record Canada pipeline company has they wouldn't let them .
As I said we need to build a refinery that can use it and make the type of gas we need.
here is some reading on the Keystone XL pipeline.

https://www.nrdc.org/stories/what-keystone-xl-pipeline#impact

Don't use AI for your research because they are likely to get it wrong.
The Crude production is different from the Crude and Petroleum Products. The US has enough field production of petroleum products to surpass products supplied. The numbers Bing provided mix Crude oil production with all Petroleum products and fail to account for field production of products where the totals exceed supplied products.

 

[TOP]

Been home for almost a day…. Saw gas at $4.15

You'll be fine... Sounds like they had gas?

 

[Poor Richard Saunders]

With what navy?
Iran's navy is decimated.

Deploying mines doesn't require a "navy." It simply requires boats of some kind, any kind that is large enough to carry a single mine.

I guess being in a cult like you are, you accept all the shit fed to you by your cult leader and happily eat it before you regurgitate it.

With what air force?
Iran's air force is decimated.

Drones work great for attacking transport ships. Iraq can manufacture drones and we can't prevent it without a full scale invasion.

Obviously YOU don't.

Projection.

 

[Jarod]

You'll be fine... Sounds like they had gas?

THey did, I will be fine. I have money, the nation will suffer.

Start thinkinking up a new screen name... because after the Iraq war most posters had to go away and come back as someone who was opposed.

 

[QP!]

No, we haven't "won." Nor has Iran lost. Iran just is in no position to make much of an offensive effort and the outcome largely lies with how determined Trump is to win as well as how much tolerance the US public has for this war. Right now, outside Democrats and the Left I'd say it's somewhere between support and indifference. Only Democrats and the Left are set against it.

You got that backwards.

Only a small portion of the worst of Magats support this.

Broadly most of maga who believed Trump when he proclaimed he would not engage in these ME wars and would not send US sons or treasure to the region and would instead invest at home are firmly against this along with the majority of independents and Dems.

So your entire narrative is a lie, as usual.

 

[QP!]

Deploying mines doesn't require a "navy." It simply requires boats of some kind, any kind that is large enough to carry a single mine.

I guess being in a cult like you are, you accept all the shit fed to you by your cult leader and happily eat it before you regurgitate it.

Drones work great for attacking transport ships. Iraq can manufacture drones and we can't prevent it without a full scale invasion.

Yup.

Iran had/has a very robust drone manufacturing sector that they certainly can reconstitute in a more under ground way to drive a war based economy going forward, if they need to. Similar to how Ukraine has focused on their own 'home made drone program' as a counter to Russia's conventional weapons.

Those drones can target and cause enough fear in the shipping lane that Shipping companies simply will not risk using the Strait.

How Iran's drones supercharged Russia's 1,000-day fight in Ukraine​

Ukraine war: The sea drones keeping Russia's warships at bay​

Iran can easily pivot to making sea based attack drones if they decide that is where they want to focus their efforts.

 

[Matt Dillon]

For much of the country, it seems as if the sky is falling. And you have no proof of your suggestion. You are hoping the water level will fall before you drown.

Where were you when Biden drove the price of fuel in America higher than it ever has been due his EO?

U too, @Nomad, I have you on ignore, but have not forgotten your bullshit.

 

[Matt Dillon]

Been home for almost a day…. Saw gas at $4.15

Pics or it didn't happen.