We dont need the Middle East oil like we did in 60s and 70s .... Kamala and Joe wasting America again.

Where are you living Robson? It certainly isn't in America today, or you'd already know this.

kind of ironic.....

No it isn't. By and large Democrats not elected by progressive electorates are almost all pragmatists. Make no doubt about it, both Joe and Kamala would like to see the US move from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, but neither one wants to see US consumers and industries immediately harmed during any such transition.

The best way to keep domestic oil prices lower is to increase its supply and lessen Saudi Arabia's and OPEC's ability to set global prices through manipulation of its supply.

Domestic oil production is analogous to Biden's stewardship of the post-pandemic economy - being able to bring down inflation, increase employment and wages while simultaneously keeping the economy from sliding into a recession. Heretofore, no one of seriousness thought such a delicate balance could be kept, yet here we are today, with all economic indicators still pointing the right direction and the Dow Jones continues to set new highs week after week.

Yet according to polls, Trump is thought to be better for the economy than Biden/Harris. There simply is no rational evidence for such a conclusion when all evidence and reality objectively points in the opposite direction.

Not the situation....but you're cheerleading of it.

Show me where in my 20 years here that I've ever supported OPEC and its ability to affect global oil prices by manipulating supply.

I'll save you the time, I never have. I detest OPEC from the 1970s and my opinion has never wavered. Anything that lessens their power and influence is a good thing in my book. I'm also an American worker and consumer who drives a gas-powered car. While I understand our need to move from fossil fuels, I've never been an advocate for intentionally harming Americans in the course of doing so.

And lastly, the only time I mention domestic oil production is to counter the lying narrative that Biden and Harris have stymied current production when nothing is further from the truth. The industry is still growing, but even within it, if global prices drop too low, then domestic production will cease because it isn't profitable which will put more influence into the hands of foreign producers yet again.

That's the difference between Trump and Biden/Harris. If Trump had been president over these last 4 years, Robson nor any conservative wouldn't know of the US' supremacy in producing and exporting oil. Short term, this is great. Long term, we see storms like Helene go from barely a hurricane to almost a Cat 5 in 24 hours and we see the prognostications of those monitoring rising global temperatures tied to fossil fuel usage and innately understand that our current course has to change or the planet will become less and less hospitable for human life and safety.

So no, no cheerleading here but for setting the record straight against Trump lies and distortions. When you see emerging technologies take hold and become valued on a global scale, it simply makes sense for the country with the most diverse and nimble economy to take full advantage of the opportunity to be a leader not only today, but on into the future. That's what I'm actively cheering for.

It's just that people think oil production is like some valve a president has in his office...he turns in either way at will and POOF! prices go up or down.....and the president controls it.

I'd hope you know that I'm not such a person. Presidents have very little direct impact upon our economy, but one party continually markets that they and their presidents do and we know which party that is. And in many minds, perception is reality.

I brought up OPEC because it's my rationale for saying what I'm saying. I thought that I'd made it very clear over and over again. When one talks about the global oil supply, that is talking about OPEC because it has direct influence over it due to the very nature of its cartel. It's impossible for me to talk about domestic oil production without tying it to global oil production and OPEC. At one point, OPEC allowed the markets to become saturated and prices to fall below the threshold where US shale producers could turn a profit, so they shuttered operations until prices rose again. And today, with Russia deep into its war with Ukraine, and the Saudi's influence waning a little due to our surge in production, OPEC's appetite for trying to squelch US production doesn't exist like it has in the past.

Biden isn't currently trying to restrict US production even in fracking. He innately understands the relationship between our strong domestic economy, the price of oil, and particularly inflation. His priority coming out of the pandemic has been to let our domestic oil industries thrive while still trying to protect sensitive lands and waters from further drilling at this time, while still championing the new technologies emerging in renewable energy, hoping that innovation continues to lower its costs in relation to fossil fuels.

Prior to global warming, a large storm like this one had never occurred ...

at the frequency, size, and with the rapid intensification characteristics that we're seeing in today's storms.

We seem to continue to have 100-year storm events multiple times annually as of late. When you have 100-year storms every year - sometimes in multiples - they aren't 100-year storms anymore, are they?

Comparing storms 10,000 years ago to present day,

Please STFU and go play in traffic with the other brain-dead idiots.

There are a ton of people here on the DR who disagree with you.

Sometimes I think you miss the forest for the trees. To the degree you're noting, in my eyes, it started with Trump and his incessant marketing of what he still calls "the best economy ever," which it wasn't by any objective sense.

Politicians indeed have always run on the economy being good or not so good depending upon whether they're incumbents or an outsider.

We sit here today with a remarkable economic turnaround after the global effects of the Covid pandemic. Objectively - outside of global inflation - the US economy remains the strongest, most resilient economy on the planet. Yet, if you listen to Trump, we're inches away from 1929 - which is crazy talk. And most of his base refuse to become disabused of their false beliefs.

Do liberals and progressives now use the economy to credit the Biden/Harris Administration beyond their actual input in fostering current conditions? Of course. But they have to to blunt Trump's counter-narrative based on lies and false hyperbole that so many Americans believe, even against factual evidence to the contrary.

It is what it is.