Posted on 08/10/2019 2:14:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Bernie Sanders says the industry is a criminal enterprise. Joe Biden is vowing to take action against it. Other candidates are competing to say who will wean America from its products the soonest.
The fossil fuel industry is squarely in the cross hairs of Democrats running for the White House as they move sharply to the left on climate change, evoking growing alarm from a sector that’s found a cheerleader in the Trump administration. It has moved to rescind regulations on oil drilling and proposed extraordinary measures to aid coal mining.
“We are made to be just some kind of evil force,” said Kathleen Sgamma, president of Western Energy Alliance, which represents oil and gas producers. “They are doubling down on it and adding very hostile rhetoric.” Big oil and its Republican allies say the Democrats’ swing to the left on the issue will backfire with voters, especially in states such as Ohio that Trump won in part with an appeal to aggrieved coal miners. These critics have commissioned studies asserting that the Democratic polices would cost millions of jobs while increasing pump prices for gasoline.
But that hasn’t deterred candidates, such as Sanders, a Vermont senator.
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Democratic presidential hopefuls attack fossil fuels.
Morons, all. Most of them are too stupid to realize what a disgrace to America they are.
Some day I hope to see just one Republican give a spirited and vigorous recitation of the wonders of fossil fuels and how it has completely transformed the world. Everything from longer life spans to disease eradication to the delivery of food grown far away to cool and warm homes to elimination of food spoilage and the freedom to travel anywhere on the planet in a few hours and the lighting up of the night.
It seems hardly anybody alive can envision a world without fossil fuel.
Rats (and RINOs) have always hated oil and gas. Teddy R, Wilson, etc. They hated Standard Oil and broke it up just because they hated it. Refused to help our oil companies working in foreign countries against unfair trading practices and tariffs and gave those markets to foreign oil companies. And that was in the 1900-1920 timeframe.
Rats and RINOs hate oil and gas, IMHO, because cheap energy equals freedom for the masses. If there is one thing Rats and RINOs hate the most, it is freedom.
Motherhood is not sacred, either. Honesty, veracity, and simply symmetrical beauty are also under attack.
Dinosaur bones turned to silicate rock are a fuel source? Who knew?
A large measure of "fossil fuels" were formed by abiotic means, at a juncture in the earth's crust, known as the Mohorovičić discontinuity, the interface between the molten center of earth and the rocky crust that lies above it. Here, carbon monoxide is a supercritical solvent, and free hydrogen abounds, the raw materials for production of kerogen. The conditions of heat and pressure force the reaction to continue, under a polymerization technique known as the Fischer–Tropsch process, forming hydrocarbon products under supercritical conditions. This process can be re-created in the laboratory, and has been used on industrial scale, notably by the Third Reich in the waning days of the Second World War. Coal and water are the necessary ingredients, plus the driving necessities of demand and scarcity. The Germans had no access to petroleum, but plenty of coal.
We can make petroleum, it is not necessary to extract it from the earth. It is just easier to pump it out of the ground and refine into the fuels required by the modern industrial complex.
So, they all walked to Iowa?
Wouldn’t want the proles to be wandering about all willy nilly.
The livestock have to be herded to where their betters decide.
Stagecoach or covered wagon.
I’m sure they’ll be able to ‘harvest’ enough ballots from Mexicans to offset any loss of support from average Americans because of thos.
These fools will never stop until they have killed the goose that lays golden eggs and then all their stupid followers and the rest of us will be left without in the dark ages with our pockets empty.
They are saying they’ve found methane on Mars.
I keep waiting for the Democrats to blame cows.
Just return to whale oil.
l8r
In prehistoric times CO2 was times of what it is now and life flourished.
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