Posted on 09/21/2023 6:37:23 AM PDT by lowbridge
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) was promptly fact-checked on Tuesday after spewing a "complete falsehood" about greenhouse gas emissions.
At a House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources hearing on the Biden administration's "mismanagement of the federal onshore oil and gas program," Ocasio-Cortez claimed that nearly one-quarter of U.S. "carbon pollution" comes from oil and gas drilling on federal lands.
"As it stands, nearly a quarter of the United States' current carbon pollution comes from fossil fuel production on federal lands and waters," she claimed.
But according to Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance, the New York Democrat is wrong.
Not only did Sgamma open her testimony by calling out Ocasio-Cortez for her "complete falsehood," but with data in hand, Sgamma corrected the record.
"I just want to start off by correcting something the ranking member said in her opening statement. She claimed that oil and gas production on federal lands is responsible for about a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions," Sgamma said.
"That's based on a misreading of a USGS study of greenhouse gas emissions," she explained. "And if you actually look at the numbers, production on federal lands and waters accounts for 0.6% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions — not 'nearly a quarter.' Even the Interior Department stopped using that number after I simply pointed out the numbers from the USGS report."
Democrats often claim that a sizable chunk of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions come from drilling on federal lands to justify their push to end drilling on federal lands.
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What is “carbon pollution”? Would it be toxins like volatile organic chemicals? I can think of any number of organic (carbon-based) compounds that can be considered pollutants.
However, our EPA has been regulating those chemicals for decades. Our air and water are cleaner than they have ever been.
I wouldn’t be too worried about carbon pollution, since we mitigate it pretty well. Furthermore, when those toxic organic chemicals break down, they become carbon dioxide, which is necessary for life. No carbon, no life. It’s that simple.
Which version do you think the media will report?
Is you said AOC’s false version move to the front of the class.
The facts as presented by Sgamma will be totally ignored b/c they don’t fit The Narrative.
AOC is full of gas.
She needs someone to check her oil.
That and Occasionally took a large percentage of tips she should have shared with other workers!
https://www.dailywire.com/news/socialist-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-made-enemies-ryan-saavedra
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One waitress at the street taco and tequila bar told Page Six that during a busy Cinco de Mayo celebration in 2017, Ocasio-Cortez allegedly did something shady when splitting up the tips. Page Six reports:
At the end of the night, when it came time to split the $560 in tips she had gotten at the bar, Ocasio-Cortez gave the waitress only $50. After the waitress complained to her manager, her take was doubled to $100, a source said.
“It says so much about her character,” the waitress told Page Six. “From that point on, I wouldn’t talk to her. I couldn’t look at her.” (...Snip)
A joke I read on FR a few weeks ago...
A reporter asked Biden if he supported AOC.
He replied, “No. I think it should be lowered...”
‘”a quarter of the United States’ current carbon pollution comes from fossil fuel production on federal lands and waters,” she claimed.”
Just keep repeating it and tapping your fake ruby lips together......and it will become the truth.
Is this available at another source? Twitter has me banned because of a tweet objected to by some (probably homosexual) moderator. So I can’t read or view their content.
Democrats can’t do ‘math’... AOC’s specialty is emoting, drama and BS. If she could do math she’d be a Republican.
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