Biden makes America 'beggars' as oil spikes amid POTUS attempt to delay Saudi action after election: Rubio

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President Biden has not left any doubt as to whether politics played a role in his unsuccessful pressuring of Saudi Arabia to delay an OPEC+ announcement of a decrease in oil production until after the American midterm elections, Sen.

Marco Rubio told Fox News. Rubio, R-Fla., said there is something unfortunate within the progressive politics of Biden and many in his party that they view importing oil acceptable but developing domestic production dangerous to the environment. "I believe you're messing around with it for political purposes," Rubio said Thursday. "But I also think this is indicative of how these radical left-wing Marxist misfits that control the Democratic Party have put us in the position that we are now in as a country." "It leaves us vulnerable, not just on oil, but on all kinds of other things that they refuse to produce in our country, natural gas, all the byproducts that come from that, you name it." Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman fist bumps U.S.

President Joe Biden upon his arrival at Al Salman Palace, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (Reuters) Rubio said it is also clear the OPEC+ nations are intentionally "punishing" Biden and by extension the United States, only months after the president famously fist-bumped Prince Mohammed bin Salman al-Saud prior to a summit that many stateside observers deemed a disaster.

The senator, whose state was just ravaged by Hurricane Ian, noted the Strategic Petroleum Reserve that Biden has been tapping into to try to make up for the spike in prices caused in part by his cancelation of domestic projects is supposed to be used following natural disasters or other major disruptions.