A special Saturday edition podcast to talk to former White House national security adviser and Department of Energy official Victoria Coates on OPEC delivering a blow to to President Biden, announcing that they are cutting oil production, just a month before the midterm elections. Coates comments, our gulf parterns and alliesa are sending a clear message to Biden, the United States is an “[oil] producing nation, you should be one of the three biggest energy producers in the world with the Russians and the Saudis, yet you act like a vulnerable consuming nation like China, or India.” Saying, "and what [Biden] doesn't understand because driving prices down, for them is bad for business, you know, they like high prices. If we want to drive prices down, why don't we maximize our production, which we have at our disposal. And so they're completely baffled, and they think the United States is not a good partner in this kind of negotiation or discussion of how you keep energy market stable, and they're not willing to carry the administration's water for them."See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.