Hacker News Reader

>> There's simply not enough gas right now for everyone. So you can either reduce demand, or you can increase supply.

Biden can increase fuel supply by approving pipelines or allowing more drilling on federal land. This would help the poor and laborer class. But he won't.

View on HN

Pipelines don't add supply, and it is my understanding that oil companies have a lot of unused leases, but that simply drilling is easier said than done. [1]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2022/03/19/1086925726/gas-prices-oil-cru...

Pipelines get production to consumers. A well with non-existent transport is not useful to lowering fuel prices because it needs to get to consumers.

What domestic wells currently have non-existent transport? What pipelines has the Biden administration not approved other than the Keystone XL (which TC Energy abandoned plans for nearly a year ago)?

Without pipelines being planned and built, there will not be new wells. As you said, pipelines are being cancelled.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com