Not endorsing the idea, but the irony is funny.
Posted on 03/09/2022 12:49:53 PM PST by Signalman
An intelligent U.S. president assessing the current energy situation would conclude that now might be a good time to loosen regulations on oil and gas drilling, rethink the Keystone XL Pipeline project and maybe open up drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. After all, the world has suddenly become a more dangerous place, and energy independence is essential to national security.
Nope.
With oil prices at record highs, and likely heading higher, the Biden administration refuses to put the brakes on its anti-fossil-fuels agenda. President Joe Biden and his minions have made it clear they’re not about to let a little old war in Ukraine get in the way of their green dreams.
Brian Deese is the director of the president’s National Economic Council. As he commented on the path to energy independence outside the White House on Tuesday afternoon, Deese’s words recalled the old slogan, “If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, then baffle them with mind-numbing, incomprehensible, hogwash.”
“The only viable path to energy independence for the American economy is to reduce the energy intensity of our economy overall. And ultimately to reduce it to zero and get ourselves to a position where we’re no longer reliant on fossil fuels,” he told Bloomberg.
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Why were we energy independent about 15 months ago.
Also, if prices are high due to oil company greed, where was the greed a little over a year ago.
the lies have to get bigger and bigger for the left to believe them anymore since they never come true
What a lying piece of slime.
Thorium reactors.
Why were we energy independent about 15 months ago.
Also, if prices are high due to oil company greed, where was the greed a little over a year ago.
we had to destroy the village to safe it... right???
The only way is too abandon the dim party
We weren’t energy independent 15 months ago. About 3/4 of a million barrels of oil flow down the Obama (Keystone) pipeline from Canada every day
Then put of forests of windmills that also become obsolete and useless over another short period of time.
Not endorsing the idea, but the irony is funny.
We are being run by incompetent fools.
I can’t even look at these people on television anymore without revulsion.
A heartbeat away from the presidency, we have a simpleminded idiot can only speak in childish prattle and has no understanding of how the world works; and Psaki is so ignorant of so many things she pronounces upon from her podium that it’s very hard to determine which is greater - her dishonesty/dissembling, or her ignorance.
Don’t get me started on Mother Butt-gig. Completely useless.
Enemies domestic...
Easy, there is no such thing as a fossil fuel. Lets use our God given minerals.
Thanks. But even if shipped overseas?
Thanks. But how does it help us if it’s exported?
Sounds like a winning strategy 7 months before the midterms!
It’s a value added product. American workers transport it, refine it, and if we don’t need it, sell it overseas. If we do need it, we get first dibbs.
or elect Trump again.
If we had huge refineries built across the country and refined leaded gas only, did not have to fight tooth and nail against regulations, enviro-wackos, NIMBYs, etc, gas would be $2 a gallon or less here.
When people say they want to eliminate fossil fuels they are showing a severe lack of understanding of how the world functions. I say force them to live in the world the claim to want. They will be begging to return to fossil fuels.
You are right that the processes that create oil and coal and natural gas are ongoing. As sediments settle in basins around the world they will ultimately be pushed deep enough into the lithosphere to go through the oil window or the coalification process. Natural gas is either biogenic or kerogen that has passed the oil window in pressure and or temperature and been cracked to small C1 hydrocarbons. The problem is humans are burning hydrocarbons at millions of times the formation rate in the lithosphere. We are burning oil from the Permian basin which is from the Permian geologic time it took millions actually tens of millions of years to form and humans will tap the Permian basin out on under 100 years that clearly is not sustainable. Same for every other basin on earth on under 250 years humans will use every bit of recoverable liquid hydrocarbons at our current consumption rates. Faster when the huge middle classes of China and India continue to grow. China and India added half a billion to their middle class in the last twenty years dwarfing the middle classes of the EU. I say EU because of those people burn oil like Americans at four times the rate of the Asian middle class it quadruples the consumption rate globally. I have spent twenty plus years chasing hydrocarbons on 6 of 7 continents all the major basins have been mapped, characterized and every major total hydrocarbon system identified on the face of the planet. We have at most 45 years left at present consumption rates this is well known by petroleum geologists. It’s a race to the bottom the boomers will be long dead but Gen Z will still be around when the last of the liquid hydrocarbons get pumped it’s not if but how soon. 45 to 20 years is my professional analysts based on decades of geological work. It all depends on how much the growing global middle class uses. Abiotic oil is a myth not a single sample anywhere on earth from any sedimentary basins which has had three way geochemical analysis has ever not had a biological marker not one. Professional geochemists and geologists have never seen a single abiotic oil sample.
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