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richwicks says
OK, let's say a cashier works at your local supermarket, and they are making $20/hr and can't afford to live in your posh, expensive neighborhood, so they live 30 miles away in a less expensive part of town.
I thought BACAH's point was that modern transportation is an amazing bargain.
The little towns on the way to Sacramento, Vallejo, Fairfield, Vacaville, Dixon, Davis, are each a day's wagon ride away from each other. Now we can easily transport a truckload of goods across the country in a couple days.
The real tragedy for poor Californians is that there is that public transportation is poorly managed. BART was first envisioned as a comprehensive system that would eventually grow to something like this
I have not traveled by...
Instinctively, we know we've built our lives around Abundant Cheap Energy. Mainly from fossil fuels
What's wrong with that as long as it's not subsidized and is safe? It's literally a staple of quality of life, taxing it, banning it and making it more expensive will result in lower quality of life.
I thought BACAH's point was that modern transportation is an amazing bargain
BART was first envisioned as a comprehensive system that would eventually grow to something like this
Public transportation is only so advanced in Europe because it's not subsidized for the thugs and hobos
People fly because hobos can't and crazies will fail at security and you have to have a minimum amount of coherence, money and IDs in your life, i.e. you have to be somewhat stable and not a career criminal.
Kidnapping and robbed in Wrigleyville 5 times in a week. Again yuppie as fuck (and gay).
Check this out. Its a video of a black male trying to steal a relatively new large Subaru SUV while its white liberal male owner is on the hood.
If renewables can improve to the point that they could replace em it's fair game
but there's basic manners that people just don't understand. Something as simple as not running down the aisle once you're at the gate to get off the plane from row 26. Put this way my bag has shifted in flight many times from the overhead bin on those people. Whoops... lol.
It makes me fucking crazy that ENGINEERS don't realize this
richwicks says
It makes me fucking crazy that ENGINEERS don't realize this
Energy policy is dictated by politicians, not engineers.
nstinctively, we know we've built our lives around Abundant Cheap Energy. Mainly from fossil fuels.
It's the reason people like richwicks get all angry, attacking the messenger for saying so
There's no fucking little gold star for being first on a flight, in fact, you're punished for it as I squeeze by you to get to the window seat after you sat down 5 minutes ago. Why are you so eager to get into the tube first, and so eager to deboard from it first? Fuck the other passengers, let them scramble, and jostle each other about, I just wait.
This isn't even a back of the napkin calculation. It makes me fucking crazy that ENGINEERS don't realize this, and people in finance, they don't care, they only follow the money. Government gives subsidies,
We don't have to go to war with the Middle East to attain cheap energy.
You simply don't understand that energy is abundant,
Oh yes I do understand it's abundant, as I wrote so many times we have abundantly cheap energy. And at multiples of what we're paying now, it'll still be abundant and cheap.
Chill out, man. Try to see around the hate blinders.
I'm explaining the real problems of your silly belief that $1 a mile is affordable to most people.
You have no idea what it's like for the working poor.
Why Biden Favors Foreign Over American Oil
This afternoon President Joe Biden announced the sale of 15 million additional barrels of oil from America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) and his intention to release more oil this winter. “I have been doing everything in my power to reduce gas prices since Putin's invasion of Ukraine caused these price hikes.”
But what he said is simply not true. Biden has leased less public land and off-shore waters than any president since World War II. He killed the re-opening of a major oil refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands. And by releasing more oil from the SPR than any president in American history, Biden has repressed private sector investment in oil and gas production. ...
But President Biden's policies are the leading cause of the lack of supply and resulting high prices of oil and gasoline. The U.S. produces more oil in a single day than what it imported from Russia in February. ...
Biden clearly has ulterior motivates. After all, he has never made a similar plea to America’s technology companies, Meta (Facebook), Apple, and Google. Last year, their earnings were $39 billion, $30 billion, and $76 billion, respectively, compared to $23 billion, $21 billion, and $16 billion for Exxon, Shell, and Chevron, respectively. ...
It’s obvious that Democrats are pursuing a long-term strategy to shut down the U.S. oil and gas industry. ...
As such, Biden’s strategy poses real risks for Democrats, which Biden and his aides recognize, and which likely led them to hold today’s news conference. Democrats, in the spring of 2020, killed a proposal by President Donald Trump to replenish the SPR with oil from American producers, not OPEC+ ones, and for $24 a barrel, not the $80 a barrel that the Biden White House promised to OPEC+. When asked about it today, Jean-Pierre waved it away as something from “a different time.”
But Senate Democrats defeated the proposal and later bragged that their party had blocked a “bailout for big oil.” Today, Democrats are still condemning big oil. But they are also asking for nearly three times, $70 a barrel, than what Biden aides reportedly provided the Saudis and OPEC+. As such, the moment is coming soon where when Biden says,. “I have been doing everything in my power to reduce gas prices,” voters and others will have the knowledge and anger to say, “No, you’re not.”
Biden clearly has ulterior motivates.
The Hill
@thehill
23 Oct 2020
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."
#Debates2020
Biden: "I would transition from the oil industry, yes."
The Hill
@thehill
23 Oct 2020
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."
#Debates2020
Biden Created a Secret Deal with Saudi Arabia to Lower Gasoline Prices Ahead of Midterm Election, Leading to Anger Over White House Feeling Double-Crossed
October 26, 2022
The extreme vitriol against the recent OPEC+ decision to cut oil output, specifically the extreme Biden anger toward Saudi Arabia, now takes on additional context as the New York Times writes about a secretly negotiated deal between the Kingdom and White House officials that was never executed.
As the Times reveals, over the summer the White House thought their team had negotiated a deal with Saudi Arabia for increased oil production that would have lowered oil and gasoline costs in the U.S, strategically timed before the midterm election.
With that agreement in mind, Joe Biden went to Saudi Arabia a few months ago. However, as the western alliance began putting more pressure on Russia and increased the activity within Ukraine, the Saudi’s aligned with OPEC+ to support Russia via lowered oil outputs. The White House felt double-crossed, hence the fury.
As the Times reveals, over the summer the White House thought their team had negotiated a deal with Saudi Arabia for increased oil production that would have lowered oil and gasoline costs in the U.S, strategically timed before the midterm election.
However, as the western alliance began putting more pressure on Russia and increased the activity within Ukraine, the Saudi’s aligned with OPEC+ to support Russia via lowered oil outputs.
Saudis are not our friends. Never were, never will be. Times like this lay it bare.
Hugh_Mongous says
Saudis are not our friends. Never were, never will be. Times like this lay it bare.
Same with Israel.
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