by islander on March 10, 2022 1:17 pm
The more astute among us know what energy independence means and we understand why "Drill baby drill" will never bring us energy independence !
"Despite the oil and gas industry’s vigorous and incorrect public relations campaigns aimed at convincing people that their opportunism to drill more is a legitimate policy solution, the United States is already the world’s largest producer of oil and gas. Domestic oil production is at 90 percent of America’s all-time, prepandemic high, and the United States is producing more than twice as many barrels of oil per day as it produced in 2008. But energy independence won’t be found at the bottom of a well. We can never be energy independent while we rely on a fuel source that is both controlled by the global market and highly susceptible to international conflict and manipulation by autocratic regimes.
The fossil fuel industry’s wish list—more taxpayer subsidies, more land opened for dirty drilling, and fewer environmental and health safeguards—will not help people struggling with the price of gas today. But granting them free rein will lock the United States into decades of higher and more volatile energy prices; higher toxic emissions; and greater climate destruction. Now is the time for the United States to finally achieve real energy security by reducing our dependence on fossil fuels."
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by HatetheSwamp on March 11, 2022 6:32 am
Dang, isle. 3 or 4 nights a week, I lay awake at night, thrashing, in torment, wishing that I could be astute like you.
And, Joe, too.
He keeps picking up the phone, trying to get some despot dictator somewhere...any despot anywhere...to drill, drill, drill.
Wouldn't it be a joy if the Roaring Bear from Delaware could be as astute as you?
Bahahahahahahahahahaha, ahhhhhhhhhhh.
by islander on March 11, 2022 7:44 am
If you really want to become more astute Hate, I think you too could become more aware of and have a better understanding of why we are not going to find energy independence at the bottom of an oil well.
But it would require you to pull yourself away from Fox News and the celebrity right wing commentators, and instead spend more time learning about why fossil fuels are not the answer and will not be the answer to our energy needs in the future.
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