What The OPEC Oil Cut Could Mean For The Midterm Elections

Independent oil trader Dan Dicker joins Chris Hayes to discuss the implications of OPEC and Russia’s attempt to raise oil prices by cutting production.  

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[abdulsd]

They talk about the Saudis in this nasty way, and they want them to cooperate 🤔

[luisnaranjo]

Ahhhh, we could simply revert back to being the number 1 producers of energy.

[narrogers]

It's a shame the USA isn't sitting on an ocean of oil and could be energy independent.😂😂😂😂

[monicasaturn]

Can't imagine why Russia and Saudi would do this right now 🙄🙄🙄🙄

[jojopapa]

Is it our fault or OPECs fault? Does it even make any sense to be ANGRY they are not producing more when we BLOCKED keystone and halted our production!

[beebee]

The US has no excuse for being still dependent on enemies or potential enemies to supply us with energy or even food! Our military costs are so ridiculous because we have to protect those interests. Add to that our culture of waste and it's understandable why this scenario repeats itself. Imagine if you had a "friend" that you depended on to bring you to work or care for your child...and that friendship ended. There's an opportunity here to do great things. Take it. Improve high speed mass transportation. Stop laughing at alternative energy and try it...and make it better as if life depended upon it.

[drvogel]

The U.S. needs to end its reliance on foreign oil.

[moustacheaventures]

I’d rather pay the price at the pump than vote fascists into power and lose my freedom.

[rokmare]

That's just show how unpopular Brandon is when he needs a favor nobody is willing to do him a solid

[keithbrown]

Absolutely astonishing that us oil capacity didn't come up in this conversation.

[danboyd]

Next year everyone is coming out with E Vehicles. With gas spiking high anyone who is buying a new vehicle will be buying an electric one. Anyone buying or leasing a fleet will be too.

The only thing cutting oil production does is hurry the end of oil.

[Djtherock]

We where energy dependent when Trump was President what happened

[maggie]

Why don't we take some of the 9000 land leases back from the American oil companies (that they aren't drilling) and take care of our needs while we transition to electric.

[houstonconservative]

Chris should be honest and just say Biden administration got punked

[TheAnticorporatist]

We should expand production in the U.S. put the OPEC countries under.

[mikeainsworth]

Russia Russia Russia...

Anyone wanna guess why Russia is always the bad guy?

[apolyon]

Technically America doesnt need opec, America has the ability to produce and be independent and not reliant on them or anyone else, but it goes against the green agenda and therefor, the green ideology has expectations that are not realistic and thus America is no longer a major producer! The laws they create are not beneficial to the country and therefor does not make sense, so, how about exclude production from the green agenda laws and not be dependant on others and also bring our prices down! The green agenda should be focused on the energy grid that is powered by multiple products from solar to windmill and storage of the energy, basically multiple layers of energy formats, bringing it to people over time as this takes time to do it right!! The infrastructure is not there, unless you Nationalize energy and magnify the wireless charging idea on a grand scale, basically a form of tesla tech, and charge the basic citizen a flat rate fee of one dollar a month which would amount to 258 million or more a month, as that is how many adults America has, and that is more than enough to do some cool things!

[franklingoetz]

I love OPEC, Russia and Vladimir Putin 🇷🇺. LET'S Go Brandon.

[holyscythe]

What happened to climate change? I thought the western countries don't use oil anyways, don't they just use wind and solar? Greta Thunberg?

[xlrtedzoom]

OPEC has always caused problems. In 2020 they flooded the market and our oil traded at zero. So its not a president but whatever they care to do. They cut production but so did we. If we need the oil open the Permian basin they closed 100k wells. It is the largest oil field in the US. Chevron did restart production but once booming oil towns remain ghost towns.