You are correct. It is indeed supply and demand
Posted on: October 7, 2021 at 12:33:21 CT
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Biden's policy has nothing to with rising prices. They are irrelevant in the short term. Low prices during covid curtailed production and all but put an end to new drilling. Because most US production is now from rapidly depleting unconventional wells, you just cannot turn back on production. New wells have to be drilled, fracture stimulated, cleaned up and put on line. That takes time. Prices will rise until production catches up with demand. There will be a short term boom in the energy industry.
The Keystone pipeline would not be delivering oil at this point anyway and if it was in place, Canadians would have to boost their production to bring it up to capacity. Very little US onshore production comes from federal land. Offshore federal leases have no restrictions.