[seadan83]

Oil production is at all time highs (AFAIL). Further, drilling locally for oil does not directly reduce local prices. It is still shipped abroad to the highest bidder. That is ignoring the refinement issues that not all oil is equal and needs to be refined.

'Just' stop wars short of surrendering is easy to say. No evidence Republicans actually could deliver or prevent. Just talk.

The tariffs were largely kept in place between Biden and Trump. The criticism here would apply equally to both but also ignores trade wars.

The pipeline bit is perhaps viable, but a drop in the bucket (with respect to at least the keystone XL [1])

[1] https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-895299166310

"Even if the Keystone XL pipeline had been completed, the amount of oil it was designed to transport would have been a drop in the bucket for U.S. demand, experts noted. The U.S. used nearly 20 million barrels of oil a day last year, while global consumption of oil was near 100 million barrels. The pipeline would have contributed less than 1% to the world supply of oil, according to AP reporting.

“The total volume of additional supply is negligible in a market that uses 100 million barrels of oil every day,”"

[hokumguru]

I think the way I am interpreting the parent comments is that whether or not these Republican promises are true or viable is beside the point.

The right still has them as talking points, where the left has failed miserably. Talking about any potential solutions seems to have enticed American voters more than trying to sweep it under the rug.

[hirako2000]

> Just' stop wars short of surrendering is easy to say

Also easy to observe that it would be better than conducting wars and surrendering anyway.

[throwaway48476]

Conventional oil drilling peaked in the 70s exactly as predicted in peak oil. It was made up for with fracking, except fracking has always lost money.