Welcome to Topical Cream, a new, periodic UNFTR segment with an appropriately cringeworthy title for fuckery in the news. Our aim with these segments is to tackle more timely and newsworthy events that either relate to previous Unf*cking narratives or to set up future episodes. Our inaugural Cream finds us back in the world of crude oil and commodities with the recent capitulation on the part of the Biden administration to the oil and gas industry.

Resources

OilPrice.com: Oil Price Charts

CNBC: U.S. to release 1 million barrels of oil per day from reserves to help cut gas prices

The New York Times: Biden Plans to Open More Public Land to Drilling

Poynter: President Biden claimed that there are 9,000 unused oil drilling permits. That’s mostly true.

EIA: Short-Term Energy Outlook

UNFTR: Peak Oil.

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