As early as two months ago, Biden went to the Middle East to find oil, and even held talks with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia "regardless of past grudges", hoping that Saudi Arabia and other countries could increase production and exports in oil. But unexpectedly, "OPEC+" did not give Biden face so much, and announced that oil production would not rise but decline, directly significantly reducing output. The United States did not disappoint international netizens, and immediately issued a clear threat to "OPEC+".
"OPEC+" announced that it is impossible to increase production because member states have decided to reduce the amount of oil produced per day by 2 million barrels, and hope that oil importers will make corresponding preparations as soon as possible. It has to be said that the "OPEC+" country is just a tough one, and it directly made Biden's "Find Oil in the Middle East" have no effect at all. Obviously, such a lack of face will inevitably lead to retaliation from the United States.
After the announcement of "OPEC+", Biden responded that this was an "extremely short-sighted" behavior, and the United States would inevitably make the countries behind it pay for such actions that ignore global needs. Immediately afterwards, the White House directly announced that it would prepare a tool to limit the monopoly of oil prices of "OPEC+" and reduce the pricing power of "OPEC+" countries on oil. American media Bloomberg interpreted that this is the United States' threat to "OPEC+", and assassination will suffer from "evil consequences".
However, the United States may have forgotten the oil crisis of the 1970s . At that time, because of dissatisfaction with the monopoly of oil prices by the United States and European countries, the Middle East and Middle East countries directly announced "basically suspended production", directly reducing the amount of oil exported to the United States and some European countries by more than 90%, which directly triggered an oil crisis in the United States and Europe, almost causing transportation in these regions to be paralyzed.
In the end, the Middle East oil-producing countries obtained the right to price oil, and thus accumulated a lot of wealth through energy trade. The "bad consequences" prepared by the White House now are undoubtedly to affect the basic interests of most oil-producing countries around the world, which will inevitably trigger an oil crisis again. You should know that within the "OPEC+" organization, it is not Russia and Saudi Arabia, but a joint organization of most oil-producing countries around the world. If you are not careful, the United States will "play with fire and burn yourself."
In fact, Biden and White House threatened the "OPEC+" organization, which may be just a scene because the White House subsequently announced the "oil rescue plan" prepared by the United States. In this plan, the United States intends to release large amounts of oil reserves and provide nearly 200 million barrels of oil to the U.S. market in order to reduce the price of U.S. oil. The first phase of the plan is to release 10 million barrels of oil.
However, even if the United States has released 200 million barrels of oil, it cannot completely solve the problem of oil prices in the United States. At most, it will only cover up the appearance of serious rise in oil prices. And in a few months, U.S. oil prices will rebound after Biden’s promised oil reserve release is completed.
However, Biden doesn't care about these things, because it was two or three months later and it did not affect the upcoming midterm elections at all. Because of the surge in oil prices, American voters are quite dissatisfied with Democrats and the Biden administration, which makes the Democrats feel the election crisis.
Therefore, Biden visited Saudi Arabia, released oil reserves and reduced oil prices, and tried to win the support of American voters through short-term oil prices. After all, Biden’s actions are to win more political interests. As for the so-called “saving global interests” and “considering global residents”, just listen.
Just like the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the name of the US action is to "protect European security", but from what the US does, it can be seen that the US is promoting war and does not want the war to stop for a moment. There is no point in persuading peace. Because only if the Russian-Ukraine conflict continues, the United States can earn greater benefits in Europe.
