Biden begs OPEC for oil for political preservation — after kneecapping America’s energy industry

For the third time in fewer than eight months, Saudi Arabia has deliberately humiliated President Joe Biden on the world stage. Biden, lauded as a preeminent foreign-policy expert after a half-century in the Senate, couldn’t get the Saudis to answer his phone calls in March. 

He made a personal visit to the kingdom in August to ask them to increase oil production, and they declined. And on Thursday, the Saudis provocatively released a statement confirming the Biden administration had asked them to hold off oil-production cuts until after the midterm elections to “avoid bad news.”
 

Biden, after shooting America’s oil industry in the foot, asks OPEC for first aid.