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US Oil & Gas Association
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Representing America's oil and gas producers and their awesome workers. Account run by USOGA President. Blame him if you are offended. But he won't care.
Washington DC Katılım Ocak 2013
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US Oil & Gas Association retweetledi
California’s sky-high gas prices aren’t some unavoidable act of God or “Big Oil greed.” They’re Gavin Newsom’s deliberate gift to Beijing, and ordinary Californians are footing the bill.
Will O'Neill does a good job of laying out the facts in a @nypost New York Post op/ed today [Link in the next post.]
While the rest of America benefits from domestic energy abundance, the Golden State has spent years strangling its own refining capacity and locking itself into a boutique fuel formula almost no one else produces.
The result? When the #StraitofHormuz tightens, California has nowhere to turn but Asian imports, exactly where #China sits as the dominant buyer of Iranian and Russian oil.
Key points worth remembering:
• Refineries have dropped from 20 to 7 over two decades under layers of regulation that treat energy infrastructure like the enemy.
• Phillips 66 and Valero exits wiped out roughly 17% of in-state capacity in under two years.
• California now imports 20% of its gasoline from Asia, with refined product imports up 36% this year—hardly the “green” outcome climate warriors promised.
• A specialized blend and no meaningful pipeline links to the rest of the U.S. leave the state uniquely exposed to overseas chokepoints.
• China purchases ~90% of Iran’s oil exports and props up Russia’s energy revenues, turning California’s vulnerability into a strategic opening for the Axis of Autocracy.
Newsom’s reflex is always the same: blame oil companies, market “speculation,” or Washington. Reality is simpler. Sacramento chose to close capacity faster than demand fell, mandate a one-of-a-kind fuel, and ignore repeated warnings about import dependence.
Other states with flexible supply chains weathered the same global shock. California did not, and that is by the Newsom government's design.
Energy security is not a slogan. It is the ability to keep molecules moving when geopolitics turn ugly. California surrendered that ability in pursuit of an ideological purity test. Working families now pay the premium while Beijing consolidates leverage.
Americans outside the Golden State should take notes. Ideology that deliberately weakens domestic supply chains does not deliver climate utopia. It delivers higher prices, greater vulnerability, and a quiet subsidy to our adversaries.
#energy #oil #refining #california @GavinNewsom
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US Oil & Gas Association retweetledi
Energy security IS national security.
By crippling domestic production with sky-high gas taxes and green mandates, CA’s policies weaken American energy dominance and outsource our supply chain to China.
My latest in @NYPostOpinion 👇 🔗 nypost.com/2026/08/02/opi…
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US Oil & Gas Association retweetledi
"Climate change" boils down to exporting your entire industrial base to Asia, where the emissions don't count.
NGO's get billions to promote the imaginary crisis. Blue-collars get unemployment.
Michael A. Arouet@MichaelAArouet
European Net Zero achieved two things: 1. Deindustrialization in Europe due to high energy costs, many well-paid jobs lost. 2. The same products come now from Asia, but with higher emissions to build and ship. Cars, for example, cause 70% more emissions. Isn’t that genius?
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This is your reading material for today and you'll be the smartest person at the BBQ this afternoon.
It will prepare you to slap down your neighbor Kyle when he starts spouting off again.
(You'd think he would know by now not to talk smack when you are around but Kyle's are gonna Kyle...)
⚡️David Blackmon⚡️@EnergyAbsurdity
🚨Energy Transitions are happening - just not the ones promised by the climate alarm activist/media complex. My new piece at Substack tells the story. Link in the next post. The so-called “energy transition” sold by activists, media, and politicians for years is a marketing fantasy. What’s actually unfolding in 2026 looks nothing like the wind-solar-EV utopia they promised. Real transitions are happening, and they’re driven by policy failure, market reality, and the stubborn dominance of reliable energy. Here are the highlights: • BP is putting its entire North Sea oil and gas business up for sale after more than 60 years. New CEO Meg O’Neill’s polite line that the assets will “be better positioned as part of another company” is corporate-speak for “the UK made this basin toxic.” • Punitive windfall taxes, the Energy Profits Levy, and successive governments’ determination to throttle domestic production in the name of net zero have driven one of the world’s largest energy companies out of the basin it helped build. That’s not resource depletion or market forces - it's deliberate self-sabotage. • Britain’s former industrial strength is being dismantled by ideology. When a major operator walks away from a core producing region, the transition is real. It’s just not the green one the climate industrial complex celebrates. • Meanwhile, global demand for oil, gas, and coal keeps growing. Energy addition, not substitution, is the actual story. Subsidized intermittent sources are layered on top of the system, not replacing it at scale. The same dynamic is happening throughout the Western world. • Net-zero timelines are slipping or being abandoned as capital, minerals, and physics refuse to cooperate. The real transition underway is governments rediscovering that energy security and affordability still matter more than slogans. The climate alarm activist/media complex promised a rapid, inevitable shift away from hydrocarbons. Reality is delivering the opposite: policy-driven retreats from domestic production in the West while the rest of the world keeps burning more fossil fuels. That’s the transition that is actually happening.
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Hmmm.
Where to start, where to start......
Daily Mail@DailyMail
Scientists say we need to HALVE Earth's population to just 4 billion to save the planet trib.al/YMCtvhT
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Make this man President on this answer alone.
Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh
🤣 LMAO! Q: If you got 1 full week off and nobody had access to you, what would you do? SEC. MARCO RUBIO: "My wife's gonna hate this answer. I'd love to sit down and watch every college football game from noon eastern until the west coast games end at 2AM eastern."
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If you're going to tokenize something, start with the commodity that powers the world.
It's been 20 years since the shale revolution began and we demonstrated how aggressively innovative we can be when it comes to getting oil out of the ground.
Yet we still use a 20th century approach as to how it is traded.
It's interesting because in 20 years of fintech and crypto, nobody has thought to tokenize physical oil.
Until now it looks like. Well done @energyrwa!
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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US Oil & Gas Association retweetledi
David essentially lays out the energy policy Must-Do list for the next five years here....
⚡️David Blackmon⚡️@EnergyAbsurdity
🚨 Lost In The Iran Noise: American Energy Leadership Still Matters - my new op/ed at the @DailyCaller tells the story. The breathless coverage of Iran and the Strait of Hormuz is drowning out a critical fact: record U.S. oil and natural gas production has kept a historic supply disruption from becoming a far worse price shock. American energy leadership still matters, and if we want it to keep mattering, we need to stop shooting ourselves in the foot. Oil prices can spike on a tweet or missile launch. Tankers, pipelines, and trucks move in weeks. That’s reality, not “price gouging.” • New England still lacks adequate natural gas pipeline capacity thanks to New York’s roadblocks. • West Texas and Appalachia face ongoing takeaway constraints even as the Permian and Marcellus set records. • California is steadily losing refining capacity under a regulatory climate that treats energy infrastructure like the enemy. Producing more energy is only half the job. Without serious infrastructure investment and genuine permitting reform, abundance never reaches consumers efficiently. Yet some politicians are dusting off the same failed “solutions," like windfall profits taxes and export bans. These are the policy equivalent of pouring sand in the gearbox. They deliver less investment, less production, more volatility, and higher prices. Capital is not patriotic. Punish producers and they invest elsewhere, handing more of the market to OPEC. The shale revolution wasn’t designed in a Washington committee room. It was built by engineers, roughnecks, and risk-taking capital. That same system is buffering American consumers from the full force of Middle East turmoil right now. American energy leadership still matters, perhaps more than ever. The physical market doesn’t care about virtue signaling. It only cares about supply, infrastructure, and the ability to move molecules where they’re needed. Everything else is just noise. Link in the next post.
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US Oil & Gas Association retweetledi
We built the Panama Canal, but because of the Jones Act, a cargo ship from Shanghai cannot stop at LA on the way to Houston. A tanker from Saudi Arabia can’t stop at New York on the way to San Francisco. They have to go all the way back and make a direct trip, so they don’t.
Now that Trump is granting waivers, look what’s happening. Massive trade flowing between our coasts via the Canal. Puerto Rico, which used to be forced to depend on foreign imports, now has massive trade with the mainland US. Lift the Jones Act permanently and lower cost of living across the Empire.
Colin Grabow@cpgrabow
Beautiful
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Kids today have no idea the effort it took to convince our parents to finally get cable TV.
And not just the basic package.
The more expensive one that had MTV.
Music Jim 🎩🪄@MusicJim2
MTV launched on August 1st, 1981🎩🪄 And music television was never the same. Here are the first 10 minutes of that iconic debut, the moment that changed music, pop culture, and a generation forever. Ladies and gentlemen... the beginning of MTV! 45 Years Ago Today😍😍😍
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This is true.
Glenn Beck@glennbeck
Want cheaper gas and true energy independence? BUILD LIGHT SWEET CRUDE REFINERIES IN AMERICA. For decades, the government's hostility towards fossil fuels has scared everyone away from building the refineries we need to make our own 100% AMERICAN gasoline. Thankfully, @SecretaryWright tells me that under Trump, the U.S. is building its first new oil refinery in over half a century, exactly for this: “We do have a new light sweet crude refinery planned to be built in South Texas… But it does take a few years to build, so it won't impact gasoline or diesel prices in the near term. But it's a hugely positive message to the market that a new refinery is coming, tuned exactly for the kind of crude we're producing in South Texas." KEEP IT COMING! DRILL BABY DRILL! AND BUILD BABY BUILD!
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US Oil & Gas Association retweetledi
Rich World Net Zero has a tiny impact
Even if the US, EU, UK, Australia, Canada, Japan, and the rest of the rich world go Net Zero by 2050
it will only reduce global temperatures by 0.10°C (0.18°F) in 2100
Still, it will cost $100s of trillions
data.ene.iiasa.ac.at/ngfs, , t.co/FwQYq8ri6H
You can see all the references in my Twitter thread:
x.com/BjornLomborg/s…
Bjorn Lomborg@BjornLomborg
Rich World Net Zero has a tiny impact Even if the US, EU, UK, Australia, Canada, Japan, and the rest of the rich world go Net Zero by 2050 it will only reduce global temperatures by 0.10°C (0.18°F) in 2100 Still, it will cost $100s of trillions data.ene.iiasa.ac.at/ngfs, live.magicc.org, worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S2…
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US Oil & Gas Association retweetledi
On this day in 1943, 177 American bombers strike the Nazi-controlled Ploesti oil fields of Romania. More than 100 planes are lost or damaged in the raid. It's among the worst defeats suffered by the Allies in the air war.
Read about the operation here and how the Allies learned from the disaster: t.co/anrKsa2UYs
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@MrGlobal2025 Aside from 30 years doing oil and gas oil policy for dozens of companies and helping start or grow three new ones and set aside we are raising for the next one - you are right.
I've worked in the industry.
Any other observations from you - Mr. Six Piece Chicken McNobody?
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Hello Hunter Biden.
Thank you for sharing your views on the oil and gas business.
We know you worked for foreign oil and gas entities primarily Ukraine’s Burisma and China’s CEFC China Energy.
This is interesting given your lack of measurable talent or experience in this business.
Burisma Holdings is the Ukrainian natural gas producer that put you on their Board of Directors in April 2014 - again despite your lack of talent or experience - while your father oversaw U.S. Ukraine policy as Vice President.
You earned approximately $1 million per year ($83,333 per month) but that was reduced to roughly $500,000 per year starting March 2017 when your father was no longer in office.
You served until April 2019 - which is surprising despite your lack of talent or experience - but it was a good gig while you had it.
You and your associates (including partner Devon Archer) earned approximately $6.5 million for being your father's son.
Not too bad for not having any experience in the energy sector or any discernible talent in deal making.
But lets not forget your work with the Chinese.
You worked for CEFC China Energy, the Chinese oil and gas conglomerate with reported CCP and military intelligence ties from 2017–2018.
CEFC and related entities paid approximately $4.8 million to companies controlled by you and your Uncle.
Your total work for for CEFC and related Chinese energy entities to the Biden family/associates was over $8 million.
These figures come from bank records, IRS search warrant applications, congressional memos, court documents, and contemporaneous reporting.
(We will leave out your work with Kahzhakstan and other questionable enterprises.)
And what is surprising to all of us is that after earning nearly $20 million working for foreign owned oil and gas companies when you post stupid things like this it is clear that after 10 years and $20 million dollars.
YOU STILL DON"T UNDERSTAND THE OIL AND GAS BUSINESS.
But thank you for sharing your views anyway.
Good luck on your comeback tour.
Hunter Biden@HunterBiden
Chevron just posted $12 billion in profit. Up 400% in a year. Their biggest quarter ever. Exxon made $14.5 billion. You paid for all of it at the pump. Say what you want about Trump. He’s making something great again. And who’s more deserving than Big Oil. In 2024 he asked them for a billion dollars and promised their whole wish list in return. This morning they collected.
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Aside from 30 years doing oil and gas oil policy for dozens of companies and helping start or grow three new ones and set aside we are raising for the next one - you are right.
I've worked in the industry.
Any other observations from you - Mr. Six Piece Chicken McNobody?
Mr Global@MrGlobal2025
@US_OGA This is interesting coming from someone who also never worked a day in the oil and gas industry. (The guy who runs the USOGA)
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