Posted on 10/22/2020 8:20:29 PM PDT by Helicondelta
Trump: "Would you close down the oil industry?"
Biden: "I would transition from the oil industry, yes."
Trump: "That's a big statement."
Biden: "That is a big statement."
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If you have ALL the other states right, and he wins any ONE of those, he wins.
Steam will be outlawed too, produces carbon.
The Dems are burning through all their early voters.
But a LOT of the suburbanites are either shy Trump voters or sitting out. Those riots shook a lot of quiet Scandahoovians.
That one line just lost him the election, which he was losing anyway
“If you told them it’s either abiotic or plankton remnants, they’d look at you like you were from Mars.”
And when you tell them that we have found oil in formations so deep they couldn’t have ever possibly been on the surface of the Earth, they get that “Dial Tone” look that is the hallmark of vacuity.
lol
I wonder who the major oil companies donate more to.
One would think Rs but it seems politics is more important than the actual business one runs these days in many cases
At least he is honest about that. I’m so glad he is.
Creepy Uncle Joe wants to build 50,000 electric vehicle charging stations around the country.
So, where does he propose to get the electricity to run those stations? Solar cells? Windmills?
I’m not so sure Biden lost PA with the oil deal. I live here and there are so many older, stupid people here who still think Democrats are for the working people or who don’t like the way Trump talks. These aren’t working people and don’t care about PA industry.
Prayers up but I see a lot of Biden/Harris signs in my area. Can’t fix stupid.
[Biden: “I Would Transition From The Oil Industry, Yes.”]
Yeah, because everybody hates the cheap gas prices right now.
WHO is stupid enough to vote for Joe Biden????
Wait, don’t answer that!
Transition away from does not mean the same thing as eliminate. We can get plenty of power from wind and solar, and many jobs that cannot be outsourced since wind and solar are here and will not be used up. I have four grandchildren and I want there to be enough oil left in US soil for all the things we use it for besides travel and heat. What about plastic and other useful commodities? My son is now on his third tour in Afghanistan, plus a fourth in Iraq. We need to conserve our own oil so we don’t have to try to control other nation’s oil. We shouldn’t have to bail out British oil and related policy like we have for a century in the middle east.
People also don't want to stop for 10 minutes every 100 miles.
Well, there IS one group...
Those wells drilled in the Dakotas will eventually run dry. Dakotas have strong steady winds, like Texas has lots of sun. Oil workers can learn many jobs like solar and wind installation and maintenance. They don.t have to do wimpy sit down jobs like coding. I travel in West Virginia. I don’t see coal coming back. I do see lots of wind towers on mountainsides. I wonder how coal employment there compares with wind jobs?
Actually, many of the big volume plastics can and readily are already made more efficiently from natural gas. Saudi Arabia is spending many billions of $$ to develop an industrial base to take advantage of this, and not be dependent on just selling oil and gas.
Maybe the answer is to end all subsidies for all forms of energy, and just let the suppliers duke it out.
When I heard Biden saying people were heating their homes with barrels of oil, I couldn’t believe he was that out of touch. Most heating is done with natural gas, electricity from natural gas and electricity from coal fired electric generators. This also includes hydroelectric and nuclear. We need oil for gasoline and other derivatives.
Because...….???
In 2019, 63% of USA electrical energy was produced using “fossil fuels” (coal, natural gas, oil, etc.)
Hmm. Maybe ask Joe about those nasty nuclear reactors (20%) and dams (7%) blocking the fish?
That’s 90% of production he needs to make up for. Of course nobody will have cars - so lots and lots of bikes. With little generators attached to the wheels to generate electricity!
Maybe the answer is to end all subsidies for all forms of energy, and just let the suppliers duke it out.
This is always the best answer. Subsidies can sometimes support bad ideas that are simply not ready to face the market on their own. Ethanol is one example of this for me and wind power in many areas is another.
Wind is not clean and its too expensive. The battery technology is not clean for vehicles or storage and it is also expensive. Solar has some of the same downsides - the return on the investment is generally poor and it is not suitable for many climates where it is found.
I support ANY form of energy that meets our needs with an acceptable downside. The market will sort out the best technologies and actually improvements in these techs will come about faster WITHOUT government intervention.
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