Figures of palta: when you are Minister of Energy and you have no idea how much oil your country consumes
Italy does not have an exclusive on superficial and unprepared ministers. Even Biden's United States only fared very well in this ranking. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm was unable to answer two simple questions on Tuesday that anyone in her role should know by heart.
Granholm – the former Democratic governor of Michigan with zero experience in the energy sector – was asked how many barrels of oil the US consumes in a day, to which she replied, “I don't have that number in front of me. Excuse me. "
REPORTER: "How many barrels of oil does the US consume per day?"
Energy Sec. Granholm: "I don't have that number in front of me. I'm sorry." pic.twitter.com/lToOjsLNLu
– Townhall.com (@townhallcom) November 23, 2021
The average figure is 18.2 million barrels per day of consumption for the whole United States as per 2020 data, below that of recent years. So an answer like 20 million barrels would have been perfectly acceptable, but the minister had no idea what the figure was. Too bad the journalists present had it and they wanted her to admit that the latest release of reservations will not even last 3 days. Of course she had no idea of the figures on the table.
So reporters ask her the second terrible question: When will consumers be able to see a drop in gasoline prices?
Reporter: "Bottom line, how soon will Americans see prices at the pump drop, and how long do you expect that to last?"
Energy @SecGranholm : "Yeah, I'm not going to make a prediction about how much and how long." pic.twitter.com/KYrqwmmOyF
– The Hill (@thehill) November 24, 2021
Minister Granholm's answer is worthy of the best unprepared high school student: I don't know, I don't know when or in what quantity .
So the energy secretary has no idea of the measures at stake, and this may also explain why the famous strategic release of US oil reserves was, in the end, so laughable.
This figure of palta recalls the one made by the minister of the economy Padoan who, not knowing the cost of a liter of milk, showed how detached he was from life and other citizens.
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