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Re:U.S. to release oil from reserves in coordination with ot... by kibwen on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @09:09AM (#29317975)
India, China, Japan, Korea, and the UK are not doing this to prop up Biden's popularity. Sometimes (nearly every time), a cigar is just a cigar.
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Re:U.S. to release oil from reserves in coordination with ot... by sAbakumoff on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @09:32AM (#29318224)
but sometimes a cigar with 40% approval rating confirms that he is looking for re-election[1] in 2024 right before opening the oil reserve

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/22/joe-biden-in...

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Re:U.S. to release oil from reserves in coordination with ot... by hn_throwaway_99 on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @09:48AM (#29318397)
Voters barely remember what someone did six months ago. You honestly think they are going to remember, or care, what gas prices were 3 years before an election?
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Re:U.S. to release oil from reserves in coordination with ot... by sAbakumoff on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @09:59AM (#29318535)
I think that by lowering gas prices he slightly increases probability of "Build Back Better" to be passed because somehow republicans and radical democrats(Manchin and others) were able to couple future spending plans with the current inflation and gas prices and sell this BS to the public.

BBB is a big win for Biden and it could help him and dems in 2022 and 2024.

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Re:U.S. to release oil from reserves in coordination with ot... by treeman79 on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @10:08AM (#29318649)
Losing a war. Leaving hundreds of Americans stranded, people who helped us being slaughtered.

You don’t come back from that.

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Re:U.S. to release oil from reserves in coordination with ot... by jasonlaramburu on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @10:40AM (#29319068)
Pretty sure that war was lost a long time ago.
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Re:U.S. to release oil from reserves in coordination with ot... by sAbakumoff on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @12:14PM (#29320340)
I thought that Obama actually won this war back in 2012 when they found and killed bin laden, no?
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Re:U.S. to release oil from reserves in coordination with ot... by hermes8329 on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @04:35PM (#29323860)
That was basically the only win in that war
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Re:U.S. to release oil from reserves in coordination with ot... by trasz on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @10:38AM (#29319044)
Yeah, paying attention to a a few troubled Americans while ignoring hundreds of thousands of actual victims sounds like typical US mentality.
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Re:U.S. to release oil from reserves in coordination with ot... by hermes8329 on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @04:36PM (#29323875)
That war was lost on 2003. Biden finally put a fork in it
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Re:U.S. to release oil from reserves in coordination with ot... by dTal on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @10:36AM (#29319018)
All US presidents seek reelection. This narrative has zero explanatory or predictive power.
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Re:U.S. to release oil from reserves in coordination with ot... by sAbakumoff on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @11:58AM (#29320158)
Biden is 79 years old and he demonstrated some terrible mental health issues at times when he came out of the basement last year. it's not clear why he would seek for reelection given these conditions.
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Re:U.S. to release oil from reserves in coordination with ot... by swarnie on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @09:58AM (#29318519)
You put far too much faith in the American electorate....
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Re:U.S. to release oil from reserves in coordination with ot... by tomc1985 on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @10:18AM (#29318779)
The government is actually trying to do something for folks and yet they are still ungrateful
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Re:U.S. to release oil from reserves in coordination with ot... by zthrowaway on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @10:24AM (#29318857)
By shutting down the keystone pipeline which jump started this mess? The government doesn’t help you. You are just here, they do what is in their best interest. Big daddy government won’t solve your problems.
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Re:U.S. to release oil from reserves in coordination with ot... by tomc1985 on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @10:36AM (#29319015)
How do you extrapolate all that from such a simple statement?
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