Home Democrats will need to have political amnesia—or hope People do. On Wednesday they’re holding one other political battle session to lash oil and fuel CEOs for surging gasoline costs. However solely final autumn they have been demanding that these identical corporations produce much less oil to scale back the worldwide provide of crude.
In the course of the Oct. 28 listening to, California Rep. Ro Khanna praised BP and Shell CEOs for pledging to scale back their oil manufacturing. Then he requested U.S. oil execs why they weren’t doing the identical. “Are you embarrassed as an American firm that your manufacturing goes up whereas the European counterparts are happening?” he requested Chevron CEO Michael Wirth.