Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show podcast.

Welcome in Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show. I appreciate all of you hanging out with us.

We roll through the Wednesday edition of the program. Gas prices, Buck are not cheap.

Everybody out there listening to us right now as you drive around your different states,

your different cities and go to fill up at the pump. You have probably noticed the gas prices

after coming down during the summer are now headed back up and that is probably going to give

worse. Let me give you a quick little rundown of what happened. Joe Biden came into office,

gave into the green new deal and effectively decided we do not.

G independent in the United States of America anymore. He shut down to a large extent our ability

to produce large amounts of oil and gas. In particular, the Keystone pipeline, which would have

been bringing around 800,000 barrels of oil and gas into the marketplace shortly, early next year,

if it had been completed, instead shot it down. He has not been very expansive. We talked about this

buck. Wall Street Journal had a front page discussion about how Biden had provided the

fewest oil and gas leasing opportunities of any president basically going back to the point when

we began to create oil and gas and substantial numbers 50, 60 years ago in this country.

Then, despite the fact that he was not allowing the United States to unleash its full fruition

of oil and gas related production capabilities, he traveled all the way to the Middle East,

and this guy who basically doesn't go anywhere except the Ukraine border in his beach house,

traveled all the way to the Middle East. He begged the Saudis to please produce

more oil. He fist bumped MBS, Mohammed bin Salman, who he had previously called a

pariah state and tried to isolate on the world stage. He basically got down on his hands and

knees and begged for the Saudis to produce more oil because the United States wasn't able to

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