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$5 Gas... It's De-Ja-Vu All Over Again...

dxmnkd316 said:
This is so extraordinarily unhelpful and unhealthy
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I'm pretty close to putting him on Ignore. I like him and he's an ally but Jesus Fuck the Defeatism Litany is selfish and cringe.

Nazis want us to curl up in a little ball. They love the culture of cynicism and sarcasm and bitterness. The thing they cannot fight is idealistic, bright-eyed, indefatigable practicality: "You block the door with vote suppression, fine, we'll get in through the window. You board up the windows with your money, we'll tunnel in under the floor. Life finds a way."

Scoob is trapped in the bygone days of Democratic Learned Helpelessness. He think's he's the wise-cracking hero of the movie, but that movie's been played a million times since Reagan and it always ends the same way. He may be young, I don't know him, but he has the Old Disease that was behind the failures of Clinton and Pelosi.
 
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Why restart Keystone? The majority of the oil would be exported first of all, oil is a globally traded commodity, never mind the average monthly production of US crude has only been higher one year than it has been so far in 2022:


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[FONT=Calibri]YEAR AVE[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri]2005 5,185[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri]2006 5,086[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri]2007 5,074[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri]2008 4,999[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri]2009 5,356[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri]2010 5,485[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri]2011 5,672[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri]2012 6,522[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri]2013 7,496[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri]2014 8,788[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri]2015 9,442[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri]2016 8,845[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri]2017 9,356[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri]2018 10,937[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri]2019 12,286[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri]2020 11,324[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri]2021 11,244[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri]2022 11,525[/FONT]
 
That is what is so angry inducing. We are a net exporter of oil, yet because of "globalization" we end up paying huge gas prices and giving oil companies massive record profits this year. All while allowing them to shutdown refinery capacity that already was strained just a few years ago? I seem to remember may discussions on that and how hard it was to build refineries in the United States.
 
Also, I'm pretty sure someone on here did an explainer which showed how US refineries aren't set up to work with the gritty oil sands from Canada and Dakotas, and has to be shipped overseas anyway.


I also love the conservative talking point of "Build Keystone XL!" like oil dug by a Canadian company on Canadian soil, shipped to a Canadian owned port in Texas and sold to some overseas company whereby the Canadian firm keeps the profits somehow benefits America. Because capitalism?
 
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aparch said:
Also, I'm pretty sure someone on here did an explainer which showed how US refineries aren't set up to work with the gritty oil sands from Canada and Dakotas, and has to be shipped overseas anyway.


I also love the conservative talking point of "Build Keystone XL!" like oil dug by a Canadian company on Canadian soil, shipped to a Canadian owned port in Texas and sold to some overseas company whereby the Canadian firm keeps the profits somehow benefits America. Because capitalism?
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That's just it. Everything seems to be set up for private profit. And as has been proven over and over and over again, trickle down doesn't work. So, why our society needs to be entirely based around it is beyond my comprehension.
 
aparch said:
Also, I'm pretty sure someone on here did an explainer which showed how US refineries aren't set up to work with the gritty oil sands from Canada and Dakotas, and has to be shipped overseas anyway.


I also love the conservative talking point of "Build Keystone XL!" like oil dug by a Canadian company on Canadian soil, shipped to a Canadian owned port in Texas and sold to some overseas company whereby the Canadian firm keeps the profits somehow benefits America. Because capitalism?
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Bingo. It's exporting all of the environmental risk to the US. All of the profits stay in Canada. Fuck that.
 
I'm not going to backread. Are the last 4 pages just Sic pretending the whole world isn't seeing substantial inflation, and just blaming everything on things he doesn't like?
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Or we also start developing energy storage techniques. Reservoirs, flywheels, batteries, pressurized gas, etc.

Night loads will always be trickiest. But we're a nation of brilliant scientists and engineers. It's not like it's an unsolvable problem. People like sic are just intellectually lazy as fuck.
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I'm the one saying "large scale energy storage" is the missing link for the last decade or so.
 
Slap Shot said:
Why restart Keystone? The majority of the oil would be exported first of all, oil is a globally traded commodity, never mind the average monthly production of US crude has only been higher one year than it has been so far in 2022:
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I have been told inflation is global. Greater oil supply short term would be a relief to global inflation. And it would aid Europe to get off Russia sources.
 
I've been wondering what ever happened to vanadium batteries. Remember reading they were some massive breakthrough back in college.
 
It's going to be really interesting with gas creeping up again. Currently it's $4.59 for me...

I'm sure the R's will start playing this card openly and freely as we head into midterms. We all know how this can creep up as the #1 issue for many folks, regardless as to what else is floating around in their head.
 
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