Posted on 01/19/2021 7:59:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
“Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up.” — former President Barack Obama.
“…I think [Joe Biden’s] been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” — former Obama Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
Keep those two quotes in mind.
Joe Biden assumes the presidency promising to base his decisions on science. He has even elevated a science adviser position to the cabinet, a first in American history. As someone who spent several years working at NASA, I strongly support science being considered in major presidential decisions. Science ought not be political. If Biden is serious about prioritizing science, one of his first calls should be to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whose state has remained largely open during the pandemic yet is outperforming similar states.
Scientists don’t always agree with one another, any more than the rest of us do. Science isn’t some priesthood of the infallible anointed. Science is about investigating, it’s about marshaling facts and context, and it’s very often about challenging orthodoxies, whatever they may be. Decision makers should consult science, but one branch of science alone is usually insufficient to provide the full range of information needed to make decisions.
Biden’s first presidential decision strongly suggests he’s not actually basing his acts on science. Biden is promising, as his first act, to use an executive order to bypass Congress and cancel the long-delayed Keystone XL Pipeline.
That pipeline would move about 800,000 barrels of oil per day from Alberta, Canada, where it’s produced, to refineries in Texas. That’s a lot of oil. The United States produces about 11 to 12 million barrels of oil per day. 800,000 barrels is a significant portion.
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How many trucks? A little quick math is in order. A single oil tanker truck holds about 190 barrels of crude oil. The Keystone XL would transport about 800,000 barrels per day. Thus, it would remove about 4,210 tanker trucks from the roads that would have to transport that oil — every single day. That’s a lot of trucks, a lot of cars, and a lot of emissions not spewed into the air. Those trucks are also burning fuel, but they would not if they are not on the roads thanks to the Keystone XL.
THE OTHER ISSUE MANY PEOPLE DON’T THINK ABOUT IS THE CANCELLATION OF THE KEYSTONE PIPELINE’s EFFECT ON OUR FOREIGN POLICY.
Besides the emissions question, there is the foreign policy question. The more energy the United States and our allies produce domestically, the less we must depend on unstable foreign sources of oil that are prone to invasion, internal strife, and the like.
So we’re less likely to have to intervene in any “war for oil” overseas. Biden bills himself as a foreign policy expert, despite the record that Gates, who is an expert recognized by both parties, highlights. Canceling the Keystone XL is bad foreign policy.
Creepy China Joe can’t spell science. He just has to say this kind of garbage to appease his base. After all, they are the “smart” ones. Just ask them.
1000 Lawsuits need to be on the ready as soon as he tries this Executive action. They did it to Trump. Do it to Biden.
Dementia joe will give the tree huggers everything they ask for, everything, just like the Kenyan interloper.
It’s okay to hate democrats...
“Follow the science!”
“Men don’t have vaginas. Women don’t have penises.”
“How DARE you! You must be driven out of public life and sent to a re-education camp!”
His Svengali handlers will guide him. Anyone who thinks there are more than two sexes doesn’t know a damn thing about “science.”
“It’s okay to hate democrats...”
Oh, I do. To an almost unhealthy level.
“…I think [Joe Biden’s] been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” — former Obama Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
Yeah, but that was back in the day, when Biden was still young and immature, still "wet behind the ears."
Now, he can consider himself lucky if he doesn't wet his undies.
Regards,
There is one thing you are leaving out of the equation. We will all be driving electric cars. We will be plugging into recharging centers. Oil is not necessary, as this power is a biproduct of Skittles that are eaten by unicorns. The resulting methane by far surpasses any known fuel properties that are known to man. It’s genius.
He is guided by foreign money. That is all that motivates him. Anyone who treats him otherwise is a total BSer.
UNIONS ENDORSED BIDEN
Aug 18, 2020
— Joe Biden earned a key endorsement Monday from a pipe-fitting and plumbing union — despite Biden’s opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline that the union wants to build.
LIUNA Endorses Joe Biden for President
Washington, D.C. (September 7, 2020) – Terry O’Sullivan, General President of LIUNA – the Laborers’ International Union of North America – made the following statement today:
Biden’s vow to kill pipeline puts Canada on defense
The Alberta government has big bucks riding on Keystone XL project — and its leader wants construction to get moving fast. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/20/biden-canada-pipeline-271543
LOL!
Joe Biden isn’t really in charge. Others are
He’s doing this because it returns the reliance and consumption of fuel from Russia and Iran and other mid east sources and he’ll be making millions more.
Says it all....even from the master f***up.
“Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up.” — former President Barack Obama. “
Rep Cortez had a dream that the XL pipeline would be good to move America to a marxist state quicker. Pres Fraud bought Cortez’ brainfart.
Why? Because he has to pay back the envirowhackos for their support. His guiding ethos is to pander to every partisan lefty group out there.
HOORAY FOR SCIENCE!!!
“Biden says science will guide him”
Well, I don’t know that Biden has any qualifications in any field that could reasonably described as “science”, so what he must mean by this is scientists will guide him.
That is actually an anti-science position, since the work of any scientist is to challenge and disprove the elite consensus. That’s how science, until about 1970, became so powerful.
Everything in most aspects of science that touch on a government is deteriorating rapidly, of course, because a statement by a politician that he “follows the science” is quite popular.
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