What a freak! MSNBC should hardly be considered a real news agency but crap like this just irks me. When asked about his thoughts on the conversation between Biden and the big oil companies, Rouben Farzad broke out in an ill-timed and misplace song.
Biden insulted Chevron CEO Michael Wirth during the meeting and later insulted him in the press calling him “He’s mildly sensitive.”
“I didn’t know they’d get their feelings hurt that quickly,” Biden said at the White House when a reporter asked about Wirth’s rebuttal.
Reporter Mike Memoli tried to focus on the story itself saying, “You heard him talk about the oil companies who are making record profits at a time that Americans are increasingly concerned about record costs,” he said.
But that’s when things got weird.
“Did you see this back and forth between Biden and the CEO of Chevron, and kind of his emotions?” Farzad asked. “It was so touchy feely, and I could see, if the oil executives had, kind of more chill to them, they’d be like ‘quit playing games with my heart, with my heart.’”
“I mean, it’s hard. You want to plan, you want to build refineries, you shut things down. And Biden, in one breath, wants to tell you ‘you guys gotta be patriotic, you gotta do more.’ In the other breath, he wants to decarbonize, and you can’t just say let’s just flip these things back online,” he explained. “You can’t just go and say let’s flood the market with all of these refined products. We have a refinery bottleneck right now. This takes years of visibility and years of guidance that the White House is pretty loath to give.”
Tur’s face during the singing says it all…
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Wirth sent a letter to Biden earlier Tuesday arguing that Chevron was doing its part to increase oil and gas production amid a period of high demand. He also argued that the industry needs more support from the administration in order to boost energy security long term.
“Chevron and its 37,000 employees work every day to help provide the world with the energy it demands and to lift up the lives of billions of people who rely on these supplies,” Wirth wrote to Biden. “Notwithstanding these efforts, your Administration has largely sought to criticize, and at times vilify, our industry. These actions are not beneficial to meeting the challenges we face and are not what the American people deserve.”