That senile mofo is going to kill us all, right?
Come on libbies, quit hiding on this one. It just makes you look worse. Either call Biden out as a political opportunist willing to put the fate of the world in worse position for his own political gain, or admit to us that you don't really believe that we can do anything meaningful about climate change anyways.
FTC is now investigating the O&G industry for keeping prices high while their costs are dropping...to the detriment of you and I.
IMO, if nothing else, this somewhat brief and minor increase in oil supply should result in some minor price reductions at the pump...should that not happen, then the FTC will have more ammunition to go after the powers that be in the O&G industry...also, once OPEC starts increasing its production as it said it would, again there should be more price drops...we'll see what happens.
As for Climate Change...here's another authoritative link for you ;-), plus a few numbers...
Pre-Industrial Age Atmospheric CO2 (in GigaTons).....2,250 GTn
Added CO2 from Industrial Age......................................950 GTn
Current Amt of Atmospheric CO2................................3,200 GTn
Amt of CO2 added per year from Fossil Fuels..................40 GTn
For the CO2 being added each year, 65-80% is removed after 20-200 yrs...the rest takes a thousand or more years...bottom line...the amount keeps growing, as evidenced by the acknowledged data from Mauna Loa (see link)....more CO2 means more heat trapped in the troposphere...heat increases water and air activity...thus, more storms and climate shifts...and melting ice...at a much faster pace than we're prepared for...not good...and not necessary, given emerging alternatives (Wind, Solar...and Nuclear) to Fossil Fuels that have other critical uses.
BTW, this shift takes time and we need to "keep the plane flying" while we execute an intelligent transition (hence, short term "tweaks"...not easy, but a lot easier if everyone pulls together.
Link: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide
not nearly enough to "keep the plane flying"...not even remotely so.
It is hilarious that you cannot recognize your own stupid policy's hand in this problem. It is more hilarious that when the poll numbers drop, Biden is more than willing to dump carbon into the atmosphere to try to bring them back up.
oil rigs, lease permits and acreage the Oil & Gas Industry is letting lie "fallow"...none of that capacity is "Shut Down"...they simply aren't producing, which is keeping the prices high...not nice.
The SPR releases are not intended to "keep the plane flying" all by themselves...the numbers should make that clear to you and any rational observer...they constitute a "message" to OPEC and our domestic O/G Industry...I see it as part-and-parcel to the FTC investigation...but that's just me.
Sure wish you'd face up to the "Climate Change" info I'm providing...maybe some day.
- if they opened them up to wring them dry, then the price of the oil would have to go up as well.
Just stop. Your constant defense of EVERYTHING Dem even when indefensible, is transparent.
You can't have this both ways. Either Climate Change and the Dem solution is real, or it isn't. Biden showed us that it isn't a real solution, or he wouldn't have just dumped massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. He also showed us that he will put our national emergency reserves at risk for the sake of his poll numbers as well as his supposed belief in climate change policy.
so it's incumbent on 'Producers' to increase the supply they clearly already have available to meet immediate needs...they're not doing it...in spite of having plenty of 'Inventory' to meet that need.
For the long term, the O&G Industry needs to accept the reality of Climate Change or we'll have a succession of price hikes and gas shortages going forward...and, when 'Push comes to Shove', I suspect that they'll entertain funding Anti-Nuke ads as well, just to save their jobs and bonuses...in some regards, it's human nature, but right now we need 'leadership' not cowardice in the face of big challenges.
As for you, I've provided a substantial amount of scientific DATA, yet you never respond...just dig in your heels a spout denials without any countervailing argument...if you have a scientific explanation for why the scientific claim of CC is wrong, you need to step up and share it...otherwise, you're just someone who petulantly doesn't want to change their behavior.
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who puts his own political polling needs above the safety of the world, or is this whole effort to fix climate change by curtailing fossil fuel emissions a ruse and it really makes no difference?
Further, Biden just said that thanks to his efforts, we are already seeing a change in climate "end quote". So did he release all of this oil to be burned into our atmosphere because the terrible nightmare is now over?
Am I cute (well, yes), or are you ignoring obvious signals that your political and worldview assumptions are wrong? I can tell you that both are true.
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I'm actually trying to make sure I understand where you are coming from on this because i think we can both agree that any release of oil reserves is a very temporary and short term band aid....and it will be costly as well since the oil released was bought at far lower prices than it will be re-acquired.
And once again to be clear...I am a cutie....my wife says so.
Make fossil fuels more expensive...but not yet!
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