This is from 2022, WSJ, sorry I don't have access to quote more of it.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-turns-the-us-into-a-shadow-member-of-opec-supply-profit-taxes-domestic-production-cartel-energy-11670966873"President Biden has urged the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to increase production of oil and criticized the cartel harshly when it declines to do so—most recently on Dec. 4. But actions speak louder than words. Under the Biden administration, the U.S. has been acting as shadow member of the cartel.
America has committed itself to constrain its own supply through regulations and legislation, which has enabled OPEC to achieve record profits. The White House response to higher cartel profits was to double down by proposing a profit tax that would further limit U.S. supply. The new House Republican majority could help consumers by blocking further cartel-enabling policies."-----------------------------
I'm looking for a recent quote where he criticizes/attacks OPEC for curtailing supply, driving up oil prices, hurting the American economy (and his chances of reelection).
But wait, isn't that his policy right from canceling the Keystone XL pipeline his first hour in office? Curtail supply and drive up prices, trying to get Americans to choose some other form of energy such as EVs, which also run on the fossil fuels that power our grid, since he hasn't done jack to replace that with carbon free nuclear, even though it was in the Dem platform in 2020.
This is an Econ 101 breakthrough for Democrats led slow sleepy Joe. Curtailing supply drives up prices. Exactly what he did, and everyone knows the result, or at least the 80% who disapprove of increasing prices know.
He did it. He knows it, and he tried to cover it up with the massive release of the strategic midterm oil supply, but now he's running out of tools to cover up the damage he's done to the economy, consumers, voters and the energy sector.
It isn't that gas prices went up $1.50. It's what a tank keeps costing every time you fill up - if you work for a living or have any other reason to require mobility. It's costing you thousands per year when you figure all of the impact. Thousands you don't have for other spending and thousands you're not adding to savings. All for what?? We constrain our consumin' on a path to going broke and China and India build more coal plants.
Did anyone notice cheap flights are mostly gone as well, and rich Democrats like to travel while the rest of us work.
Someone tell what we gained from all the unnecessary pain. Pricing us out of energy is not how you clean the planet. Prosperity is. When you have more abundance and more prosperity you can work on higher pursuits. Richer countries have always been cleaner. cf. the mess we found in East Germany during reunification, and the plastic flowing through the rivers of Africa and Asia today.
If we had abundant nuclear energy, the push for electrifying transportation might have worked. Instead it's just one more unpopular Dem failure.