Don’t forget, the Poles stood up to Lenin’s army in 1920, repelling them in the “Miracle on the Vistula”. Poles hate Russians. My family is from outside Lviv and they hate the Russians with similar passion. Whole generation of men were wiped out in the WW II.

It's not up to them. There is plenty of private land available to produce, most especially as rising oil prices offset development costs. I've got rights in MT that are already under contract just waiting for a certain price point... been in the family for 100 years, but just now moving towards production due to oil prices and technological advances.

And with enough economic pain they'll either bend to the will of the people, or lose the next election.

And also plenty of overseas production... oil is a global commodity, a change in price/supply anywhere affects everywhere (a few exceptions for special cases involving sanctions). OPEC, at al are now cautious about driving prices too high for too long... they realize that if they drive consumers to other energy sources (or reduced energy use), those consumers probably aren't coming back.

The administration doesn't do the drilling. Private oil companies do.

Very few people in the West have ever heard of it, so they can't even forget.
Obviously while under Russian control that bit of history was not taught in the schools.
During the USA invasion of Iraq I used that bit of history a few times to draw comparisons of spreading Democracy by point of a gun to Lenin's attempt to spread the Revolution in the same manner.
None of my business, but did your family identify as Polish, Ukrainian or some other group? Lwow/Lviv area civil war at end of WW2 was especially gruesome.

I’m sure you’re not trying to be pedantic here; the general point is that the federal government has a huge say on if private companies are allowed to do so.

No leases on federal lands to exploit energy, no authorizations to use pipelines to transport it in a cost effective way, etc.

It’s so obvious that I think I must have missed your point.

Oil is the lifeblood of the airlines, full stop. At some point, it gets too expensive and airlines start disappearing.

I give it about 30 more days and you we will see the airlines start pumping the brakes on any growth. Most like SWA are just trying to get back to 2019 employee levels. As soon as Airlines start feeling the cash crunch first thing do is try to shrink to get that profit margin back up. This time will be no different.

his house looked like ****

Interesting question. I always thought of myself as Ukrainian, that’s what I was taught. Mom’s an old Yankee family. My father’s parents came to the US in 1915 from a village near Ternopil, farm families, many children. They met and married in the US,but we’re acquainted in the “old country”; fully expecting to return. Grandma, who died at 105, thought of herself as Austrian-Hungarian, said so on her immigration papers, IIRC. When granted US citizenship in the ‘20s, she was Ukrainian, although many thought of my grandparents as Polish. Very fluid borders. My father’s cousin (grandma’s sister’s son) survived by joining the Germans after the Russians invaded that part of Ukraine. All his male siblings as well as grandpa’s make siblings were killed, one way or another. My “generation” over there are still in the village.

My father’s cousin, received a letter welcoming home from the new Ukrainian government in 1992, Sloko says, he was likely arrested on return before that time. He visited frequently with his English wife and children over the years. Now, 96, he can’t go anymore obviously. He calls frequently, but jot since this war started. I last visited him in Toronto a few years ago. Mom would send money and Xmas cards over to the family, but I’ve lost track, sadly.

I spent time in Warsaw on long layovers, great city, lots of history.

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https://wsbt.com/news/nation-world/oil-prices-surge-5-per-barrel-despite-release-of-supplies

Inevitability. More to come.

I think it will be temporary based on speculators. Supply will crank up and all those speculators will have to sell and oil will be lower than it was before.

It's cyclical. Every time. And every time you guys complain "oh, here comes oil! It cost me $396 dollars to fill up my F-550 DEEZNUTS yesterday!"