Inflation here? gas/grocery prices just continue to climb

dtc said

Nobody stopped any producing except for due to prices that fell through the floor during the pandemic.

Where does this narrative come from that we stopped producing oil due to some government edict?

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I didn't say it was a government edict. It was a result of the Covid complete shutdown of the economy. Demand disappeared and domestic oil stopped producing because they literally couldn't give away the oil they were producing. When the world started to open up last January, domestic companies were undermanned to begin producing again so the US had to rely on OPEC. Underemployment is still a problem, but companies are trying to get back to normal.

The only government edicts that have hampered bringing back production are the temporary suspension on new oil and gas leases on federal lands (but a judge blocked that last month, so companies should be able to pick up that slack again quickly), and the blocked petroleum sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Finishing and opening the Keystone XL pipeline would help, but with all the complications of US and Canadian companies that had to stop work on that, lay off the workers, and get rid of the equipment, I'm not even sure that can be done at this point.