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French President Macron Basically Tells Biden That His Plan to Get the Saudis and UAE to Produce More Oil, Rather Than the US Producing It, Is Already a Failure and Cannot Work
Michael ShellenbergerAs Michael Shellenberger points out, Macron could have delivered this information to Biden privately. Instead, he chose to deliver it in front of the cameras and within range of the microphones. He doesn't just want Biden to know that the Saudis and UAE can't produce more oil -- he wants the world to know that Biden knows.
@ShellenbergerMD Biden was counting on Arab nations to produce more oil but a few hours ago French President Macron was overheard telling Biden that the United Arab Emirates is at max capacity & the Saudis can't produce much more. It appears to be a direct appeal to Biden to produce more oil.
“I had a call with MBZ,” Macron said. (MBZ is the leader of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan.) “He told me two things. I’m at a maximum [production capacity] and [the] Saudis can increase by 150 [thousands barrels per day].”
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) June 27, 2022
Biden’s refusal to expand oil and gas production in the US in the midst of the worst energy crisis in 50 years was insane *before* Macron’s revelation.
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) June 27, 2022
Now, if Biden doesn’t act, he is effectively renouncing America’s standing as the leader of the free world. https://t.co/wkT9G2ABo5
It is extremely interesting that Macron chose to deliver the information in the way he did, which was within earshot of journalists. It’s almost as though Macron wanted the international news media to report on Macron’s intel, perhaps as a way to pressure Biden to finally act.
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) June 27, 2022
It's true that the U.S. can't just turn a switch to produce more oil and gas, but we could start producing more within 12 - 18 months, and the longer we postpone production, the longer the crisis will last. https://t.co/MMarK1xswy pic.twitter.com/8UwZ3m5ax9
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) June 28, 2022
Just now Biden said: “We need more refining capacity” and “This idea they don’t have oil to drill & to bring up is simply not true.”
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) June 21, 2022
In fact, Biden killed a refinery on May 14 and killed a 1M acre oil & gas lease in Alaska in May 12. pic.twitter.com/a4HcqeIWrK
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at June 28, 2022 01:24 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at June 28, 2022 01:24 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 28, 2022 01:25 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 28, 2022 01:25 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 28, 2022 01:25 PM (ex2Cx)
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at June 28, 2022 01:26 PM (0/z0P)
Somebody tell Macron that he's talking to Biden's handlers, not Biden
so, deaf ears
Posted by: DB at June 28, 2022 01:26 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Some Ugly Idiot's Mediocre Voice Acting at June 28, 2022 01:26 PM (M9uuh)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 28, 2022 01:27 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at June 28, 2022 01:27 PM (5HBd1)
Posted by: Brandon at June 28, 2022 01:27 PM (us2H3)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 28, 2022 01:27 PM (RkC6l)
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at June 28, 2022 01:27 PM (wmDcS)
Posted by: Catherine at June 28, 2022 01:27 PM (ZSsrh)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at June 28, 2022 01:27 PM (V6f9+)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 28, 2022 01:27 PM (RkC6l)
Jeebus. We're doomed. Hello, higher gas prices.
Oh, and Howard Stern is seriously considering running for president. "I'm not f***ing around."
Clown. World.🤡🤡🤡
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2022 01:28 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 28, 2022 01:28 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: ... at June 28, 2022 01:28 PM (JUHl9)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 28, 2022 01:28 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: Brandon at June 28, 2022 01:28 PM (us2H3)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at June 28, 2022 01:28 PM (5HBd1)
Have you considered that restricting carbon emissions and switching to solar and wind will save the lives of many children over the next fifty years? Real conservatives think of the kids.
Regards,
Tim Carney
Posted by: Tim Carney at June 28, 2022 01:28 PM (zcPgo)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2022 01:28 PM (/NCI4)
Now, if Biden doesn’t act, he is effectively renouncing America’s standing as the leader of the free world.
All part of the plan.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at June 28, 2022 01:28 PM (zhLdt)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2022 01:29 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: brak at June 28, 2022 01:29 PM (j5Tg0)
-Scranton Joe
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 28, 2022 01:29 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: Portlandon at June 28, 2022 01:30 PM (+oR7L)
@ShellenbergerMD
Biden’s refusal to expand oil and gas production in the US in the midst of the worst energy crisis in 50 years was insane *before* Macron’s revelation.
Now, if Biden doesn’t act, he is effectively renouncing America’s standing as the leader of the free world.
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I'm pretty sure that already occurred on January 20, 2020.
Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at June 28, 2022 01:30 PM (pzI/F)
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at June 28, 2022 01:27 PM (wmDcS)
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I do not believe Eurotrash was really a factor in the selection of Biden. I think it was an op wholly financed by China.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 28, 2022 01:30 PM (5pTK/)
https://tinyurl.com/3mwwnyv6
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at June 28, 2022 01:30 PM (5HBd1)
so, deaf ears
Posted by: DB at June 28, 2022 01:26 PM (geLO
Macron was actually looking at Joey's handlers. He knows the turnip didn't understand a thing he was saying.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2022 01:30 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: kraken at June 28, 2022 01:30 PM (Vr12I)
Posted by: Colin at June 28, 2022 01:30 PM (YVx1O)
Dec-2019 400219
Mar-2020 397298
Jan-2020 396329
Oct-2019 395900
Nov-2019 388984
Aug-2019 386725
Sep-2019 377169
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 28, 2022 01:30 PM (ex2Cx)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 28, 2022 01:28 PM (5pTK/)
Especially after last year calling the Saudi leadership murderers over that journalist-shanking.
Posted by: Thrawn at June 28, 2022 01:30 PM (Rl7KJ)
A realistic streaming series about the first 72 hours in a post-electrical and post-running-water big city would leave most normies sobbing and curled up into a ball on the floor. There's a reason why they don't make and broadcast stuff like that during the good times.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 28, 2022 01:31 PM (4NlP1)
Posted by: Archer at June 28, 2022 01:31 PM (gmo/4)
-Gropey Joe's last partially functioning brain cell
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 28, 2022 01:31 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: Some Ugly Idiot's Mediocre Voice Acting at June 28, 2022 01:26 PM (M9uuh)
https://youtu.be/nTY9JimeXuw
Miracle of Sound.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 28, 2022 01:31 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at June 28, 2022 01:31 PM (5HBd1)
Posted by: MaureenTheTemp, Ultra Dark MAGA at June 28, 2022 01:31 PM (rWFyW)
Posted by: Is my name Joe or Brandon? at June 28, 2022 01:32 PM (a/dOO)
Posted by: SFGoth at June 28, 2022 01:32 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2022 01:32 PM (ptqGC)
Don't ask me how I know...
Posted by: That one bathroom stall in the Paris Airport at June 28, 2022 01:32 PM (AD14M)
Drilling for oil in the US is BAD BAD BAD for the Earth and you must want the world to die from global warming if you allow it.
Drilling for oil in ANY other country though is GOOD GOOD GOOD. Because the Earth then knows you care because you are willing to pay more to someone else.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 28, 2022 01:32 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Portlandon at June 28, 2022 01:30 PM (+oR7L)
This could have been written in 2019
Posted by: ... at June 28, 2022 01:32 PM (M7y1b)
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 28, 2022 01:33 PM (ex2Cx)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at June 28, 2022 01:31 PM (5HBd1)
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Arguably, Granholm is an even bigger dunce than Biden.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 28, 2022 01:33 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: DaveA at June 28, 2022 01:33 PM (FhXTo)
Hey those were some really, really mean tweets!
Posted by: Naomi Wolf and Michael Shellenberger at June 28, 2022 01:33 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: t-bird at June 28, 2022 01:33 PM (D6lWx)
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 28, 2022 01:33 PM (nByzo)
Posted by: Jane D'oh
hey- maybe he'll bow to the king, like 0bama did
Posted by: DB at June 28, 2022 01:33 PM (geLO8)
This is the only way to bring down energy costs, grow the economy and reduce inflation (by hardening money). Biden has a binary choice, do these things or cause deliberate poverty.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 28, 2022 01:33 PM (P8xjS)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at June 28, 2022 01:33 PM (VWp7G)
https://tinyurl.com/3mwwnyv6
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at June 28, 2022 01:30 PM (5HBd1)
Just think of how much the planet can heal once all those people starve. -- Lefties everywhere
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at June 28, 2022 01:33 PM (zhLdt)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2022 01:30 PM (ptqGC)
thank you, that is why Macron looked so shifty, he was looking like he was trying to explain why the payments weren't dropped off at the cigar shop like usual
Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2022 01:34 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: kraken at June 28, 2022 01:34 PM (Vr12I)
That moron couldn't even setup a fake kidnapping plot to help her get re-elected!
Posted by: Fuhrer Whitmer at June 28, 2022 01:34 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Jane D'oh
hey- maybe he'll bow to the king, like 0bama did
Posted by: DB at June 28, 2022 01:33 PM (geLO
Or {{shudder}} shart himself.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2022 01:34 PM (ptqGC)
You know, like how I get all the food I need, but don't have to see all those dirty foodworkers.
Posted by: Typical Dem at June 28, 2022 01:34 PM (UEzis)
Posted by: JoeF. at June 28, 2022 01:35 PM (mR6Gs)
AOC, Nancy, and Uncle Joe wet their panties at the thought of this happening in the USA.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 28, 2022 01:35 PM (ex2Cx)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at June 28, 2022 01:35 PM (5HBd1)
Posted by: Joe Trool at June 28, 2022 01:35 PM (vrz2I)
Evict 15M illegals, probably about 3-4% right there (lets call it 1/30th of the population).
But of course that's not an option...
Posted by: Scott_T at June 28, 2022 01:35 PM (2waQ7)
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Plz. He's a bought and paid for stooge for the ChiComs.
Posted by: its staring you right in the face at June 28, 2022 01:35 PM (QGczm)
The population went to 8 billion because of capitalism and fossil fuels...get rid of either and that population will drop back - quickly and painfully.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 28, 2022 01:35 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 28, 2022 01:35 PM (84qeE)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at June 28, 2022 01:36 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2022 01:32 PM (ptqGC)
I am not humiliated by Biden acting the fool. I'm angered.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at June 28, 2022 01:36 PM (zhLdt)
OPEc countries have been struggling to meet their quotas for a good number of months, actually underproducing relative to their assigned limits.
Posted by: Someguy's at June 28, 2022 01:36 PM (cfxeF)
Posted by: Undercover Easter Bunny at June 28, 2022 01:36 PM (qH9kz)
Posted by: Catherine at June 28, 2022 01:27 PM (ZSsrh)
Almost. I had that same thought.
Posted by: Prime Sister at June 28, 2022 01:36 PM (tQL7r)
Biden - I like ice cream. Who likes ice cream? We all like ice cream. ice cream. ice cream. ice cream...
Posted by: Archer at June 28, 2022 01:36 PM (gmo/4)
It would also reduce housing costs. Something I always point out to the young LIVs I know complaining about rent and how a mortgage is out of reach.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 28, 2022 01:36 PM (ESjRY)
I don't buy the dementia ploy anymore.
During the campaign, Biden said repeatedly -- no more drilling on his watch, he would bring an end fossil fuels, etc.
The senility and confusion are only meant to obfuscate reality, to create the impression that the administration might change course once they come to their senses.
That's a facade that they're using to buy time until their true objectives are reached. The destruction is intentional.
Posted by: Greasy Thug at June 28, 2022 01:36 PM (1dzqn)
What the junta does or doesn't do does not involve me.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 28, 2022 01:35 PM (84qeE)
Government is just the word for the things we choose to do together.
/s
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 28, 2022 01:36 PM (nByzo)
Posted by: 18-1 at June 28, 2022 01:35 PM (ESjRY)
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Norman Borlaug was also a huge factor.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 28, 2022 01:36 PM (5pTK/)
It may be much simpler and much less manipulative than that. Macron may honestly not know who is *Really* in charge of the Biden administration, and he wants to deliver his message to who's *really* in charge, and he knows he can't trust Biden to remember the message long enough to deliver it to who's *really* in charge, and even *if* Biden could accomplish that, who's *really* in charge may not trust Biden's memory with such a dire warning. So he used the news media as a sort of shotgun, sure a lot of people know what he said, but certainly who ever is *really* in charge heard it first hand too and now knows the situation.
Posted by: mikethemoose at June 28, 2022 01:37 PM (T/vhV)
Judges would have also accepted worthless cvnt.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 28, 2022 01:37 PM (ex2Cx)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at June 28, 2022 01:37 PM (5HBd1)
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This^
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 28, 2022 01:37 PM (84qeE)
At least we can rest easy that everyone in the military will be able to choose among 14,000 pairs of pronouns and genders, and thus we're ready to take on the next global challenge!
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at June 28, 2022 01:38 PM (a/dOO)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 28, 2022 01:38 PM (cj0nW)
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 28, 2022 01:38 PM (84qeE)
Same woman who published a book saying Victorian Brits were executing (many) people for sodomy as recently as the mid-18th century 'cause she didn't understand that "death recorded" meant pardon of a death penalty offense and not literal execution. You don't want her on the red pill side unless she's only there to lure other equally crazy people into the fold, and I'm not sure you do.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 28, 2022 01:38 PM (4NlP1)
Posted by: kraken at June 28, 2022 01:34 PM (Vr12I)
Part EPA type stuff, part actual ownership of land.
Posted by: Someguy's at June 28, 2022 01:38 PM (cfxeF)
AOC, Nancy, and Uncle Joe wet their panties at the thought of this happening in the USA.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 28, 2022 01:35 PM (ex2Cx)
They view this as a golden opportunity, one that may not come their way again.
Posted by: JoeF. at June 28, 2022 01:38 PM (mR6Gs)
He doesn't just want Biden to know that the Saudis and UAE can't produce more oil -- he wants the world to know that Biden knows.
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It's almost like he's assessed that Biden is a liar and an incompetent with a controlled press and that he determined that the only way to get the information out was to deliberately engage in a massive breach of etiquette on a public stage...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 28, 2022 01:38 PM (WWh8n)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 28, 2022 01:38 PM (4NlP1)
Posted by: N.L. Urker
ask the shadow presidential junta
they are calling the shots
Biden's just the official meatsack
Posted by: DB at June 28, 2022 01:38 PM (geLO8)
What kind of ignorant dumb ass thinks he can just magically "transition" the country from fossil fuels to "green" energy when we can't generate anywhere near enough "green" energy to fuel our energy needs? And what kind of pig-ignorant voters are stupid enough to vote for an idiot who announces that he's going to destroy our country's main source of energy?
We are in this situation because Biden is a clueless, senile dumb ass, and also because tens of millions of equally stupid and ignorant Americans voted for him because he wasn't Trump, who their imbecile twatter buddies and the media couldn't stand.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at June 28, 2022 01:38 PM (MvHI3)
It seems to be a committee - you've got Soros, Bezos, etc but who knows who is really pulling the shots within that committee.
It is a truly sad state of affairs that as a subject of Soviet America I don't even know who my real despot is.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 28, 2022 01:38 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2022 01:32 PM (ptqGC)
This administration has no agility whatsoever. They must spend so much time in deathmatches trying to establish the next function that they have no ability to pivot, and if they pivot they leave their backs unguarded from their "colleagues"
Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2022 01:39 PM (xhaym)
...that might be settled on Wednesday when the Supreme Court decides the four EPA cases.
Posted by: t-bird at June 28, 2022 01:39 PM (D6lWx)
In fact, Biden killed a refinery on May 14 and killed a 1M acre oil and gas lease in Alaska in May 12.
Still all Trump's fault. And his Big Oil buddies. And presidents can't do anything about gas prices, anyway.
- your typical Masshole.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 28, 2022 01:39 PM (2JVJo)
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To be fair, Macron does bear a striking resemblance to the Easter Bunny.
Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at June 28, 2022 01:39 PM (pzI/F)
Posted by: Wally at June 28, 2022 01:39 PM (UEzis)
As long as it is US Government Policy that oil is going to be verboten in just a few years, NO rational Investment firm will put large amounts of Capital, into the risky venture of Oil Exploration.
It would be like investing in the Cigarette industry, during all the Cancer crap. OF COURSE stocks tanked, and Investment Capital was hard to come by.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2022 01:39 PM (oHd/0)
Reigning in the EPA and the admin state would be a good start. Hopefully the SC will take that first step
Posted by: brak at June 28, 2022 01:39 PM (j5Tg0)
By refusing to see the light and get the US crude and refined products industry running in high-gear, Idiot Joe is putting the USA AND OUR ALLIES at risk of economic disaster. Good grief.
Posted by: Here we go! at June 28, 2022 01:39 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: kraken at June 28, 2022 01:34 PM (Vr12I)
Because for decades courts have tortured the commerce and necessary and proper clauses of the Constitution to allow the federal government to grow well beyond it's permitted limits.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at June 28, 2022 01:39 PM (zhLdt)
Posted by: TATER THE EUNUCH at June 28, 2022 01:39 PM (z9V4B)
Mustn't forget viciously partisan and corrupt.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at June 28, 2022 01:40 PM (eGTCV)
Biden campaigning: I'm going to raise the price of gas!
LIVs for Biden: Woohoo no mean tweets.
Later LIVs for Biden: Oh no gas prices went up...a lot...who could have predicted that?!?
Posted by: 18-1 at June 28, 2022 01:40 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: ... at June 28, 2022 01:40 PM (bt0mc)
Posted by: kraken at June 28, 2022 01:34 PM (Vr12I)
Part EPA type stuff, part actual ownership of land.
Posted by: Someguy's at June 28, 2022 01:38 PM (cfxeF)
And that is the battleground. The Feds need to be muzzled.
Posted by: kraken at June 28, 2022 01:40 PM (Vr12I)
The left genuinely wants to shut down oil production and end "dependence on petroleum" so that we shift over to a magical utopia of wind and solar for electricity everywhere.
At the same time, they demand oil from other nations, apparently not concerned that they are "destroying the planet" with their oil production.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2022 01:40 PM (llsW/)
Posted by: jewells45 at June 28, 2022 01:41 PM (nxdel)
It seems to be a committee - you've got Soros, Bezos, etc but who knows who is really pulling the shots within that committee.
It is a truly sad state of affairs that as a subject of Soviet America I don't even know who my real despot is.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 28, 2022 01:38 PM (ESjRY)
Lots of favors called in for 2020. Lots of different interests to accommodate. Leads to lack of unified direction.
Posted by: Someguy's at June 28, 2022 01:41 PM (cfxeF)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at June 28, 2022 01:35 PM (5HBd1)
In fairness, the men on his cabinet are also incompetent.
Thank goodness we have the Senate looking out for us.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at June 28, 2022 01:41 PM (zhLdt)
Posted by: Roy at June 28, 2022 01:41 PM (Ge3Mu)
Biden's refusal to expand oil and gas production in the US in the midst of the worst energy crisis in 50 years was insane *before* Macron's revelation.
Now, if Biden doesn't act, he is effectively renouncing America's standing as the leader of the free world.
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Refusal is one thing, but there's also inability. Biden probably can't do it. If you were in the oil business, would you answer a panicked call from this government to engage in massive capital outlay to resume activity? Would you put up your money and energy and recruit manpower and negotiate with the gigantic number of suppliers - all of whom have to do the same thing, by the way - to work to resume production when the payout from that is at least a couple of years away and the government's overall policy is still anti-energy and they want to curtail your business by 2030 anyway?
Even if the latter weren't true, would you do it without some guarantee that all this destructive crackdown won't happen again? No, you probably wouldn't. At least not very much.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 28, 2022 01:41 PM (WWh8n)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2022 01:40 PM (llsW/)
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NIMBY and affects only brown people. What's not to like?
Posted by: Karen McBrandymom at June 28, 2022 01:42 PM (5pTK/)
At least some of the drilling is being done on public lands (i.e. federal land). But then that raises the question "why the hell does the federal government own any land other than for military bases and offices for government?"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2022 01:42 PM (llsW/)
Enjoy, America. The slow moving degradation you were permitting and suffering for decades was contrasted with the exact opposite after January 2017, and you ...... jumped at the chance to *return* to the path of self-inflicted decline.
No amount of feasible fraud could have saved a preposterous "candidate" like Biden announcing in a "debate" that he would end the oil industry, in a country populated by voters who weren't self-destructively stupid and/or ignorant.
Enjoy, America!
Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2022 01:42 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2022 01:42 PM (/U27+)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at June 28, 2022 01:35 PM (5HBd1)
Maybe they are positioning Kamala for success.
Posted by: Roy at June 28, 2022 01:42 PM (Ge3Mu)
Posted by: kraken at June 28, 2022 01:42 PM (Vr12I)
Posted by: Here we go! at June 28, 2022 01:39 PM (AMIL/)
Don't look at what it is doing to our allies. Look what it is doing for our enemies.
Posted by: ... at June 28, 2022 01:42 PM (bt0mc)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2022 01:40 PM (llsW/)
Well there are Chinese analysts who think it is a US plot to deplete foreign oil reserves and so be the last man standing. But really, it is just that Greens are stupid NIMBY types.
Posted by: Someguy's at June 28, 2022 01:42 PM (cfxeF)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at June 28, 2022 01:42 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: mikethemoose at June 28, 2022 01:43 PM (T/vhV)
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That is HOT! Like, I'm making a puddle hot.
Posted by: Gennifer at the DOE at June 28, 2022 01:43 PM (6hJ5m)
So we have a robust nuclear fuel reprocessing industry today, right? No, of course not. The capital did not return to that industry, not when the next Carter can just take it all away again with the stroke of a pen.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 28, 2022 01:43 PM (WWh8n)
Canuckistani who couldn't answer basic daily energy production numbers when asked during a softball press conference. I can only imagine what the press would have said if a white male secretary in a Republican administration had done the same. Bare minimum, it would be a repeat punchline on all late night shows whenever they mentioned high gas prices.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 28, 2022 01:43 PM (4NlP1)
Reminder:
"World is going to end in 12 years" if we don't stop climate change.
-- sandy cortez, genius goblin leader
January 2019
So, we have only 8.5 years left.
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 28, 2022 01:43 PM (iMZgs)
Posted by: kraken at June 28, 2022 01:42 PM (Vr12I)
The most super conservative Republican president ever?
Posted by: ... at June 28, 2022 01:43 PM (bt0mc)
Posted by: kraken at June 28, 2022 01:42 PM (Vr12I)
L....literally Hitler?
(I can't remember how this game is played)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at June 28, 2022 01:43 PM (V6f9+)
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The secretary of Health and Human Services had the ability to grant obama care waivers. She was also the chairman of Obama reelection finance committee.
phone rings: Hello this Sec of H and HS? Oh hello UAW local 225, yes I recall seeing your obamacare waiver on my desk somewhere. While I'm looking for it, I don't seem to recall your organization making a donation to the president's re election campaign. You will? Great. I"ll look for it in the mail and maybe then I'll find your Obama care waiver somewhere on my desk. Tootles!
Posted by: the ability to award/punish is the key to graft at June 28, 2022 01:43 PM (SCt2+)
Biden doesn't get this fixed, Marron knows Trump wins if he runs.
This was self preservation.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at June 28, 2022 01:43 PM (NW9xb)
Posted by: Rbastid at June 28, 2022 01:43 PM (USckO)
Posted by: 18-1 at June 28, 2022 01:40 PM (ESjRY)
You left out: Damn that Putin!
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 28, 2022 01:43 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: kraken at June 28, 2022 01:34 PM (Vr12I)
Part EPA type stuff, part actual ownership of land.
Posted by: Someguy's at June 28, 2022 01:38 PM (cfxeF)
Bingo!
Posted by: kraken at June 28, 2022 01:43 PM (Vr12I)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2022 01:43 PM (ptqGC)
And given the last election, its highly unlikely an oil exec will ever even see the next president be friendly toward their work again.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2022 01:44 PM (llsW/)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 28, 2022 01:44 PM (Xrfse)
-- sandy cortez, genius goblin leader
IIRC they started saying we had 12 years left sometime around 2004.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 28, 2022 01:44 PM (ESjRY)
The left genuinely wants to shut down oil production and end "dependence on petroleum" so that we shift over to a magical utopia of wind and solar for electricity everywhere.
At the same time, they demand oil from other nations, apparently not concerned that they are "destroying the planet" with their oil production.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2022 01:40 PM (llsW/)
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Pollution that happens on the other side of the world, in poor and backward countries, doesn't exist.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 28, 2022 01:44 PM (WWh8n)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2022 01:44 PM (63Dwl)
BREAKING: Court lets Tennessee's 6-week abortion ban take effect after overturning of Roe v. Wade - AP
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 28, 2022 01:44 PM (yikp0)
It takes on average 2 days to process an application to drill on private land in Texas.
Now you put in place an administration that can just cancel your permit at anytime for political points, and why bother?
Posted by: brak at June 28, 2022 01:44 PM (j5Tg0)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2022 01:42 PM (llsW/)
Mostly acquired in the Mexican-American war(or in the case of Alaska, Seward's folly). It is being auctioned off at the pace of bureaucracy.
Posted by: Someguy's at June 28, 2022 01:44 PM (cfxeF)
But then that raises the question "why the hell does the federal government own any land other than for military bases and offices for government?"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2022 01:42 PM (llsW/)
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To keep low-lifes like you and me from using it productively.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2022 01:44 PM (/U27+)
Drilling for oil in the US is BAD BAD BAD for the Earth and you must want the world to die from global warming if you allow it.
Drilling for oil in ANY other country though is GOOD GOOD GOOD. Because the Earth then knows you care because you are willing to pay more to someone else.
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That's what's so freaking laughable about it all. How incoherent can that be???
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 28, 2022 01:44 PM (sVtYq)
They are based by the technological and industrial nature of their business and woke by the political nature of their business, so I would say it varies.
Posted by: mikethemoose at June 28, 2022 01:44 PM (T/vhV)
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 28, 2022 01:45 PM (yikp0)
Posted by: Diplomatic Droolin' Joe Biden! at June 28, 2022 01:45 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: Javems at June 28, 2022 01:45 PM (AmoqO)
That's the best question I've heard on this oil production business. Why, indeed? Other than politically expedient, of course.
Posted by: Prime Sister at June 28, 2022 01:45 PM (tQL7r)
Posted by: Someguy's at June 28, 2022 01:45 PM (cfxeF)
Posted by: jewells45 at June 28, 2022 01:41 PM (nxdel)
The motivating factor isn't fear, it's $$$$$.
Posted by: ... at June 28, 2022 01:45 PM (zDOov)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at June 28, 2022 01:36 PM (eGTCV)
You don't understand, these fools under me know nothing and any failure reflects directly on the President!
Posted by: Zombie LBJ while directing a firefight in the jungle from DC at June 28, 2022 01:45 PM (xhaym)
Yeah I remember Bush ordering decomissioned military bases to be available for nuclear power plants to be built on them as well. And like six of them being worked on the starting point but then nothing ever came of it.
Nuclear Power is like the oil delay: it will take too long to get them on board, we need power now!
Yeah, but if we'd started work on them years ago we'd HAVE THE POWER NOW YOU JACKASS. Every time you say that, we delay having them further.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2022 01:46 PM (llsW/)
Miracle of Sound.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 28, 2022 01:31 PM (ufFY
Forgot how beautiful Fallout 4 was... did they ever remaster to 4K? May have to go look.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2022 01:46 PM (oHd/0)
Mustn't forget viciously partisan and corrupt.
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Embrace the healing power of "and."
I'm not saying Biden isn't mentally defective. I'm saying he is, but that's not the reason why the administration is pursuing daft policies. It's just a convenient camoflauge for those policies.
It's just a happy accident that it's impossible to distinguish the insanely destructive plans of radicals from the misguided brainfarts of a demented old man.
Posted by: Greasy Thug at June 28, 2022 01:46 PM (1dzqn)
I google inflation by accident yesterday.
About half the links google supplied straight up blamed Putin.
The other half correctly pointed out inflation is caused by printing more money.
It was almost comical how heavy handed google is though with the propaganda.
Putin has had almost 0 effect on inflation, and we stopped buying Russian oil - he didn't stop selling it. So *he* has had 0 effect on the price of oil/gas.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 28, 2022 01:46 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2022 01:46 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 28, 2022 01:46 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at June 28, 2022 01:38 PM (MvHI3)
People who give no thought to anything beyond what they're going to shove up their bottoms next.
Power comes from the plug. Food comes from the store. Car batteries come from Tesla...they just appear, man.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at June 28, 2022 01:46 PM (zhLdt)
@ShellenbergerMD
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Jun 27, 2022
Replying to @ShellenbergerMD
This is a game-changing revelation since Biden was counting on Saudi Arabia & UAE. They were the only two OPEC nations perceived to have spare capacity.
Jesus H. Christ.
WE HAVE SPARE CAPACITY. WE CAN PUMP ENOUGH OIL.
Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 28, 2022 01:46 PM (05ST2)
Biden last year: You bastard Saudi's killed khashoggi! I'll ruin you! I will not rest until he is avenged!!!
Biden now: Hello old friends! I've always loved the Saudis. I am your biggest ally.
Posted by: Portlandon at June 28, 2022 01:46 PM (+oR7L)
Oil is a massive market. It operates on futures contracts and derivatives. Even having production 12-18 months out will make a difference to current prices. For the same reason these idiots don't understand that the price of oil may dip while gasoline does not (along with refining and tons of other factors they remain wilfully blind to)
Next, this sounds suspiciously like the backwards argument they make about keystone pipeline and other big projects. It might provide jobs NOW but when the project is over they'll be gone!
And if you said that about every single individual project, that none of them matters, then you'd never build or do anything. Which is what they want, yes I know.
It's like never building a single house again and saying it won't impact the construction industry because all their projects are finite anyway.
Posted by: Who is Brandon Galt? at June 28, 2022 01:47 PM (0YDob)
The City of Portland periodically boasts that Portland's CO2 emissions are less now than in the 1990's.
That's because all the heavy industry in Portland got shut down.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 28, 2022 01:47 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at June 28, 2022 01:47 PM (nByzo)
And it really is time to take a look at how much land the Feds can own or control in a state. How can it be a sovereign state when 50 or 60% is out of the state's control?
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at June 28, 2022 01:47 PM (5HBd1)
Posted by: Someguy's at June 28, 2022 01:45 PM (cfxeF)
Hmmm.... kind of an amateur historian here.
Never heard Lincoln criticized for that. LOTS of other things, but not that.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2022 01:47 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 28, 2022 01:46 PM (5pTK/)
They wouldn't and don't.
Posted by: Someguy's at June 28, 2022 01:47 PM (cfxeF)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2022 01:47 PM (llsW/)
The Laptop Class is always willing to offshore dirty stuff to Third World countries and not ask questions.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2022 01:47 PM (/U27+)
Yeah, but if we'd started work on them years ago we'd HAVE THE POWER NOW YOU JACKASS. Every time you say that, we delay having them further.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2022 01:46 PM (llsW/)
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30 years ago, or more, the claim was always, "So what if we start now, it will take 10 years to bring that stuff online!" McCain was especially fond of saying that. May he rot.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 28, 2022 01:48 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: Joe Trool at June 28, 2022 01:48 PM (vrz2I)
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 28, 2022 01:48 PM (Vrvfq)
Posted by: Here we go! at June 28, 2022 01:39 PM (AMIL/)
No worries there. Iran is about to go nuclear and we all know that they've long been a stabilizing and peaceful presence in the region.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at June 28, 2022 01:48 PM (zhLdt)
probably that's a major reason to suppress oil and gas domestically. because "we can afford it" - and coincidentally a bunch of Ivy grads running these firms make a fortune - but it's for a good cause tho!
Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at June 28, 2022 01:48 PM (w0NJk)
Always fun to ask eastern or midwestern students student about fed ownership of land in western states. Yes, Virginia, the Bureau of Land Management is a thing, and you should read more than one book per year.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 28, 2022 01:48 PM (4NlP1)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 28, 2022 01:33 PM (P8xjS)
Biden's handlers want deliberate poverty. They want a disrupted food supply. They want stratospheric gas and heating fuel prices. They want us on our knees. This way lies power.
Posted by: troyriser at June 28, 2022 01:48 PM (ogIek)
Posted by: ... at June 28, 2022 01:48 PM (zDOov)
Never heard Lincoln criticized for that. LOTS of other things, but not that.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2022 01:47 PM (oHd/0)
Giveaway to the railroads and corporatism? Which to be fair is true but generally the starting point of privitization.
Posted by: Someguy's at June 28, 2022 01:48 PM (cfxeF)
This is the deliberate murder of a nation. I am not sure Biden is aware of what he is doing, but even if he did, I don't think he'd care. As long as he gets his and his useless progeny stay out of prison, he couldn't care less what happens to the rest of the american citizens.
I hope the part of hell he resides in is especially hot and that his mind is so acutely aware of the sum of his life and his current sufferings that no other human would have ever suffered in this way, save Hitler.
Posted by: Miss Issippi - TRANSparent-Pronouns Who/Where at June 28, 2022 01:48 PM (sI15f)
Are the energy companies woke?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench
Duke Energy is.
https://tinyurl.com/5afsznym
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2022 01:48 PM (63Dwl)
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The same kinds of sh*t-for-brains that think we can overnight quit eating meat and start feeding a globe of 8 billion with bugs.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 28, 2022 01:48 PM (sVtYq)
A serious opposition would put significant poison pills into a contract for if a later Fedgov tries f*cking with oil/nuke production.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 28, 2022 01:48 PM (ESjRY)
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Trump made it look easy - that's why Stern and others think they can do it.
Posted by: 496 at June 28, 2022 01:49 PM (VJsqe)
Same kind of ignorant dumbass who thinks he can just magically transform from man into a woman.
It's magical thinking all the way down.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 28, 2022 01:49 PM (SseOZ)
Posted by: Lost In Space - Protesting Peacefully Since 2020 at June 28, 2022 01:49 PM (mOs5Q)
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 28, 2022 01:49 PM (Vrvfq)
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Coitus.
Posted by: andycanuck
Coitus Interruptus?
Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 28, 2022 01:49 PM (05ST2)
Why would an oil company spend the time and effort to bring those plants back online, only to have them shut down again, once the political winds change?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 28, 2022 01:46 PM (5pTK/)
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Diesel used to be less expensive than gasoline. New regulations on sulfur content made it more expensive.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2022 01:49 PM (/U27+)
Posted by: Someguy's at June 28, 2022 01:42 PM (cfxeF)
If that were the case, we'd be going balls to the wall nuclear.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 28, 2022 01:50 PM (nByzo)
argh it's Enron on steroids.
Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at June 28, 2022 01:50 PM (w0NJk)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at June 28, 2022 01:42 PM (eGTCV)
BP = Beyond Petroleum.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 28, 2022 01:50 PM (nByzo)
Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 28, 2022 01:46 PM (05ST2)
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Thank you. I've been saying that for 18 months now.
None of this is inevitable. We know the road back. We need to get on that road before it's too late.
Posted by: 496 at June 28, 2022 01:50 PM (VJsqe)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 28, 2022 01:48 PM (5pTK/)
Yeah... but somehow we can build a high speed rail project from Bakersfield to Merced?
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2022 01:50 PM (oHd/0)
My last company was in oilfield services. Outi n the field or any of our regional offices, the people would have fit right in commenting here.
At corporate? Ehh a whole lot of laptop/gentry class types that were probably nevertrump, and an increasing number of woke type liberals, despite the industry. They're everywhere.
Posted by: brak at June 28, 2022 01:51 PM (j5Tg0)
https://tinyurl.com/3mwwnyv6
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward
This article from Vice still peddles the lie that global economic problems started with the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Posted by: Blue Hen at June 28, 2022 01:51 PM (VYjdj)
Well from the business standpoint their are two types of oil rights. Oil you own (I.e. mineral rights you own), and drilling rights you lease. If you lease, it's use/loose, so a lease encourages near term production. If you limit oil companies to oil rights they *own* however, there is no time limit, and therefore no impetus to drill, the oil in the ground is growing in value year after year which from an investment standpoint says wait for maximum return. Oil companies are very strategic in their use of oil rights they own.
Posted by: mikethemoose at June 28, 2022 01:51 PM (T/vhV)
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 28, 2022 01:51 PM (Vrvfq)
The hag Clinton says Thomas has "been a person of grievance for as long as I've known him - resentment, grievance, anger".
Posted by: fd at June 28, 2022 01:23 PM (vrz2I)
I went back and looked at my copy of Thomas's autobiography, My Grandfather's Son. Thomas's radical and grievance period was when he was at Holy Cross. He had an epiphany after being a participant in a mob anti war riot in Boston. After that he started becoming the stoic but firm Clarence Thomas we know. Hillary didn't know him at Holy across. I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that it was his upbringing by his grandfather ( Daddy ) that allowed him to have that epiphany.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 28, 2022 01:51 PM (+MrFO)
Yeah I have seen some criticism of that but honestly I think that was a valid and effective proper use of government power to build infrastructure (like freeways). The train companies were a bit fast and loose with the financing and were corrupt as hell but it got the job done. Ditto with telegraphs. Both were enormously important in developing our nation.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2022 01:51 PM (llsW/)
It works in a small niche market. It doesn't scale up. There isn't enough raw materials to scale up.
Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 28, 2022 01:51 PM (05ST2)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 28, 2022 01:51 PM (+YsAH)
Mayors who drive away his opponents voters faster than his own voters get re-elected. It's called the Curley effect. It will bottom out when Portland looks like Goblin-town from The Hobbit.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 28, 2022 01:52 PM (44ww/)
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2022 01:50 PM (oHd/0)
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And power it with the electricity CA doesn't produce....
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 28, 2022 01:52 PM (5pTK/)
Unless, of course, it's all Putin's fault.
Posted by: Not Zombie Milton Friedman! at June 28, 2022 01:52 PM (I2/tG)
But that's the last time Russia went to war with Ukraine...so obviously it must have happened then too right?
Posted by: 18-1 at June 28, 2022 01:52 PM (ESjRY)
Yeah yeah the inexorable monster of state expansion of its authority if given any toehold, but the original motivation and purpose were reasonable.
A wildly prosperous yet increasingly dumbed-down society was the worst sort of enabling environment for the sort of massive authoritarian vandalism and grift that "environmentalism" has become, but hard to say the folks in the early 70s should have foreseen all that.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2022 01:52 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2022 01:49 PM (/U27+)
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Only in part. The other factor - and it's huge - is that we now permit exports where we didn't before. In other parts of the world where diesel demand is a lot higher, it runs at a premium. Being able to export refined products again removed the buffer against world price changes from the domestic market. There's a reason diesel prices started rising well before the recent troubles, and it correlates strongly with the lifting of export controls when we went into surplus.
Those export controls have not been reimposed since we started running in deficit again under Biden, and they should be. Oil - crude and refined - are strategic issues. Only surplus should be exportable. No surplus, no exports. This was, I think, a Trump mistake. When he moved to permit exports again, there were no surplus requirements.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 28, 2022 01:52 PM (WWh8n)
And making sure the Chinese couldn't even sniff investment and ownership in Australian mining (uranium) companies.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 28, 2022 01:52 PM (4NlP1)
Posted by: Toad-O at June 28, 2022 01:53 PM (cct0t)
Posted by: Archer at June 28, 2022 01:53 PM (gmo/4)
Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 28, 2022 01:46 PM (05ST2)
Thank you. I've been saying that for 18 months now.
None of this is inevitable. We know the road back. We need to get on that road before it's too late.
Posted by: 496 at June 28, 2022 01:50 PM (VJsqe)
If you look at US Oil Production numbers... it decreased 25% in 2020 when they instituted the Covid Lockdowns.
25%! We have still not recovered, because a lot of SMALL companies who supported oil drilling, went out of business, and has not come back.
Another Government caused Crises... so the solution is of course, more Government.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2022 01:53 PM (oHd/0)
It's the best search engine to come around in a while. I find things. It's what I do.
Posted by: ... at June 28, 2022 01:53 PM (99LNR)
.......
Good thing America will outlive this asshole.
Posted by: wth at June 28, 2022 01:53 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: 496 at June 28, 2022 01:50 PM (VJsqe)
Spoiler Alert!: It's too late.
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at June 28, 2022 01:53 PM (QYPq3)
Posted by: Joe Trool at June 28, 2022 01:48 PM (vrz2I)
I'm sold! I can't wait to buy a shiny EV with my 650 credit score and finance it at a 10 percent or more interest rate for 6 years or more!
Posted by: Said few people, ever at June 28, 2022 01:53 PM (AMIL/)
The Dems do better when there is little difference between the two parties. Remember 2012?
So Bitch McConnell and co really have to buckle down on this reformers and Trumpkins. They might just give the people something to believe in.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 28, 2022 01:54 PM (ESjRY)
Before that, gas companies jacked the price up. I remember when it happened in the 70s, people started buying diesel cars because they ran well and on like 2/3rds the cost of gassers. So the oil companies went "well hell look at all that profit we're not getting!" and raised the price of diesel.
Yes, the government is a serious problem and messes things up constantly but its good to remember that big corporations are also awful and will do anything to make more money, as corruptly as they can get away with.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2022 01:54 PM (llsW/)
Posted by: BignJames at June 28, 2022 01:54 PM (AwYPR)
It's the best search engine to come around in a while. I find things. It's what I do.
Posted by: ...
I was saying this months ago
and they are not giving the nsa your searches
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 28, 2022 01:54 PM (Vrvfq)
Look, Joe is busy trafficking Russian teens with his crackhead son, he has NO TIME to deal with this at all!
Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at June 28, 2022 01:54 PM (DYmlj)
argh it's Enron on steroids.
Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp
The "elites" private jets run on AV Gas. No oil = No diesel = no kerosene = no AV gas.
Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 28, 2022 01:54 PM (05ST2)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at June 28, 2022 01:35 PM (5HBd1)
I had a conversation with my friend Bill (occasional poster) about this. He defied me to name even *one* competent member of Biden's Cabinet.
Try as I might, I couldn't do it. And I was really trying to find one. Biden doesn't even have one.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 28, 2022 01:54 PM (ZHiO7)
I've been saying this for a while. Millions of us live in a fantasy world where you can choose your sex from among many options, the oceans are boiling, and the police are hunting down young black men to murder. Reality will eventually reassert itself, as it is doing, but a fantasy world can persist for a long time. My example is the USSR, which lasted more than 70 years based on an insane theory of economics. It's going to get worse before it gets better.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 28, 2022 01:54 PM (7B5FA)
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 28, 2022 01:51 PM (Vrvfq)
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baked in trucks and ready to eat
Posted by: wth at June 28, 2022 01:54 PM (v0R5T)
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I rate this as partly true. They had accomplished most of what they set out to do, but they still had some work to do on the Animus River.
Posted by: 496 at June 28, 2022 01:55 PM (VJsqe)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 28, 2022 01:52 PM (WWh8n)
At the time we were on our way to being a major global oil supplier. Quite a turnaround since then.
Posted by: Someguy's at June 28, 2022 01:55 PM (cfxeF)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2022 01:55 PM (llsW/)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 28, 2022 01:55 PM (MkYsY)
Posted by: 18-1 at June 28, 2022 01:55 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 28, 2022 01:54 PM (Vrvfq)
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But probably are giving them to the FSB. But the FSB is far less of a threat to the average American.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 28, 2022 01:55 PM (WWh8n)
Because he's a fucking imbecile.
Posted by: Sharkman at June 28, 2022 01:55 PM (Lqf5w)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 28, 2022 01:55 PM (dFdKA)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2022 01:54 PM (llsW/)
Do you know a great way of making more money? Selling more of your product, so... no.
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at June 28, 2022 01:55 PM (QYPq3)
I want to know where they are going to get steel, concrete, asphalt, and plastic in a carbon-free world.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 28, 2022 01:56 PM (7B5FA)
Posted by: Someguy's at June 28, 2022 01:55 PM (cfxeF)
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Astonishing decline.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 28, 2022 01:56 PM (WWh8n)
Oil, and the major products, are fungible. Lifting the export restrictions means that companies have incentive to drill, refine and ship, yes, to include exporting.
Restrictions do not merely prevent exportation, but the entire process.
Posted by: Blue Hen at June 28, 2022 01:56 PM (VYjdj)
Posted by: The FSB and SVR! at June 28, 2022 01:56 PM (I2/tG)
The corporation for public broadcasting was set up on a charter of things to accomplish and problems to address. All of that was solved decades ago.
Yet here we are pumping half a billion dollars a year into it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2022 01:56 PM (llsW/)
And making sure the Chinese couldn't even sniff investment and ownership in Australian mining (uranium) companies.
Posted by: Walter Freeman
Thorium Salt Reactors.
Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 28, 2022 01:56 PM (05ST2)
Posted by: Skip's phone at June 28, 2022 01:56 PM (pUpgc)
Posted by: Bete at June 28, 2022 01:57 PM (F9322)
every 4 to 8 years this country gets whip-sawed back and forth between Right and Left. EOs from one administration are undone by the next. Public policy swings back and forth erratically. One step forward, two back. The two more sideways.
Maybe the Executive branch has too much power. I don't know, just a thought bouncing around my head today.
Posted by: DB at June 28, 2022 01:57 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at June 28, 2022 01:57 PM (fj2YZ)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2022 01:54 PM (llsW/)
Do you know a great way of making more money? Selling more of your product, so... no.
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at June 28, 2022 01:55 PM (QYPq3)
It is fair to note that big corporations are run by people and people have other interests than making money for their firm. Status seeking at company expense is another form of embezzlement.
Posted by: Someguy's at June 28, 2022 01:57 PM (cfxeF)
Posted by: J
in fairness, the fsb is not as much a worry as the nsa for Americans, day to day
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 28, 2022 01:57 PM (Vrvfq)
Not an executive action. Congress changed the law.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 28, 2022 01:58 PM (7B5FA)
"Resentment, grievance, anger" is just another way of saying "race treasonous Uncle Tom" and I have little doubt that's what many of his classmates at Yale thought of him from day one.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 28, 2022 01:58 PM (4NlP1)
Do you know another way of making more money?
Cutting costs as much as possible, even if it means destroying the environment, screwing your workers over, and producing shoddy product.
Do not trust corporations any more than you do government. The big difference used to be that at least with government you can vote them out but these days I'm not so sure.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2022 01:58 PM (llsW/)
Posted by: ... at June 28, 2022 01:53 PM (99LNR)
Well, that and making cool flaming skull photoshops.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 28, 2022 01:58 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at June 28, 2022 01:58 PM (fj2YZ)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 28, 2022 01:58 PM (+MrFO)
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at June 28, 2022 01:55 PM
Why, yes, yes we do.
Posted by: Federal Reserve at June 28, 2022 01:58 PM (a3Q+t)
Seems like they should be in favor of burning more fossil fuels because they believe it would bring on a mass extinction event, which is what they want.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 28, 2022 01:58 PM (es0Dj)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon
I want to know where they are going to get finite supplies for batteries.
Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 28, 2022 01:58 PM (05ST2)
Hi there!
Posted by: The FSB and SVR
1. no shit
2. and?
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 28, 2022 01:58 PM (QztM0)
Dear FSB I know everything about the American tech industry, I am a terrible pillow talker, and I have a weakness for redheads.
/Anna call me!
Posted by: 18-1 at June 28, 2022 01:59 PM (ESjRY)
DC has too much power. Fortunately, the coming fiscal austerity will force some of it to be devolved to the states.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 28, 2022 01:59 PM (7B5FA)
Restrictions do not merely prevent exportation, but the entire process.
Posted by: Blue Hen at June 28, 2022 01:56 PM (VYjdj)
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True, once domestic demand is satisfied. If domestic demand is not satisfied, then the ability to export doesn't act as all that great an incentive unless there's an arbitrage opportunity (which there is in diesel and some other refined products) because increased production will still be sold domestically. Exports should absolutely be maintained, but only for surplus production. That would also maintain the incentive to produce, because excess production can still be sold off in the world market.
The problem isn't lack of demand or size of market, it's non-market disincentives like the government declaring that they want to wreck the industry and putting up giant obstacles.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 28, 2022 01:59 PM (WWh8n)
Posted by: nurse ratched, just call me Pollyanna at June 28, 2022 01:59 PM (W2Pud)
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Think through the concept of "As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be. World without end. Amen"
Now, insert True Greenie beliefs about oil being "subsidized. " They believe subsidies were part of the founding, and continue to this day.
Extend it further. If your mind can twist itself that far, then "There are better sources of energy just waiting to explode into being, once "subsidized" oil's influence is eliminated" isn't much more of a twist.
Posted by: Gennifer at the DOE at June 28, 2022 02:00 PM (6hJ5m)
The left's view of hell in 1999 (as presented in the Matrix): Living in a pod, eating refuse, only interacting with the world through the internet
The left's view of heaven in 2022: Living in a pod, eating refuse, only interacting with the world through the internet
Posted by: 18-1 at June 28, 2022 02:00 PM (ESjRY)
True, but they've been five or ten years over the horizon for decades now, and I'm not hopeful for mini and micro scale commercial nuke reactors anytime soon.
US and Australia are number one and two in thorium reserves though.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 28, 2022 02:00 PM (4NlP1)
==
Its why the commies took over the universities. They took the high ground. Knowing, of course, it is easier to
degrade the upper classes than it is the working man. Our elites a idiots. They care more about their social standing than they do about anything else. They'll wipe with only one square, and eat tofu.
Posted by: Ludicrous Speed!!! at June 28, 2022 02:00 PM (2je/G)
and they are not giving the nsa your searches
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 28, 2022 01:54 PM (Vrvfq)
Never saw it. Maybe I should listen to you more often.
Posted by: ... at June 28, 2022 02:00 PM (bx8PF)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2022 02:00 PM (/U27+)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 28, 2022 02:00 PM (6hJ5m)
25%! We have still not recovered, because a lot of SMALL companies who supported oil drilling, went out of business, and has not come back.
Another Government caused Crises... so the solution is of course, more Government.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2022 01:53 PM (oHd/0)
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The only thing that can save us now is nationalizing the energy sector and all related businesses. Agriculture and food production will be next. What could go wrong?
/
Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at June 28, 2022 02:00 PM (P59V4)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 28, 2022 02:01 PM (MkYsY)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2022 02:01 PM (OTzUX)
And just for completeness, every study done in the last couple of years has shown those lock downs did NOTHING to stop the spread of COVID
Posted by: 18-1 at June 28, 2022 02:01 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Gennifer at the DOE
If there were, it would have already happened. Congress knows HOW to get bought.
Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 28, 2022 02:01 PM (05ST2)
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 28, 2022 01:58 PM (DRSnL)
Heh. Well you know what I say - you're only good as your last skull.
Posted by: ... at June 28, 2022 02:02 PM (bx8PF)
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 28, 2022 02:02 PM (QztM0)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 28, 2022 02:02 PM (+MrFO)
Posted by: MBZ, leader of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan at June 28, 2022 02:02 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 28, 2022 02:00 PM (4NlP1)
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And a lot of our thorium is locked up in another energy source: coal. This is a good thing. Thorium processes have high process heat - enough that it could run a gassification operation essentially for free. Extract the thorium and gassify the coal. We would be able to use the coal twice instead of burning it once.
Lots of nasty byproducts and engineering challenges, but it could be done and we won't.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 28, 2022 02:02 PM (WWh8n)
______________
Congress, with help from Judiciary, have been shoving power to the Executive for decades. All the 'progress' (i.e. WEF's agenda) is done by nameless bureaucrats. Perhaps you could call this the 'deep state'.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 28, 2022 02:02 PM (fs1hN)
Deciding what is, or is not "surplus production" would be best determined by the spot price on the world market, not by Delaware's own Joe Biden or his half-trained pack of hyenas. Certainly not by anyone within the beltway.
If that price declines, there's where the surplus appears.
Posted by: Blue Hen at June 28, 2022 02:03 PM (VYjdj)
They all got the call from Kalorama to humiliate Biden. That's why Macron did this on camera.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 28, 2022 02:03 PM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 28, 2022 02:03 PM (+MrFO)
Begging the Saudis for help after literally calling them murders is an obvious one, but hell the whole Uke-Russian war is because of Biden's inability to do diplomacy
Posted by: 18-1 at June 28, 2022 02:03 PM (ESjRY)
EOs from Republican administrations are undone by Democratic ones, but the reverse is illegal.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2022 02:00 PM (/U27+)
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It is known.
Posted by: 496 at June 28, 2022 02:03 PM (VJsqe)
Posted by: nurse ratched, just call me Pollyanna at June 28, 2022 01:59 PM
Whud I do now??
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 28, 2022 02:03 PM (a3Q+t)
Canada has already proclaimed "Why go half way around the world to negotiate, and then pay the shipping? WE have it right here, have offered it to you over and over..YOU refuse it"
Posted by: Birddog at June 28, 2022 02:03 PM (uAI4S)
Posted by: ...
not saying you did, just nice to see everybody gettting to the same place
however,
you would be wise to listen to me more often
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 28, 2022 02:04 PM (QztM0)
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I.e. the culmination of his presidency.
Posted by: Axeman at June 28, 2022 02:04 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: john carter at June 28, 2022 02:04 PM (4QJOq)
What have you skulled for me lately??
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2022 02:04 PM (llsW/)
If that price declines, there's where the surplus appears.
Posted by: Blue Hen at June 28, 2022 02:03 PM (VYjdj)
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Absolutely. I never meant to imply that "surplus" should have anything other than a market definition, with downstream effects on export capacity. The last thing anyone should want is some Blue Ribbon Committee on Natural Resources Balance to determine what is or is not surplus.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 28, 2022 02:04 PM (WWh8n)
Posted by: Midnight Rambler at June 28, 2022 02:04 PM (i7hvJ)
I hate all this Cabinet-level 'rule-making' shit
I hope SCOTUS sorts this out
Posted by: DB at June 28, 2022 02:04 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Silent at June 28, 2022 02:04 PM (CrU4U)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 28, 2022 02:04 PM (kf6Ak)
Posted by: ... at June 28, 2022 02:04 PM (dUAyt)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter
This.
Let's make them all the same proven fail-proof design this time around.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 28, 2022 02:05 PM (MkYsY)
Posted by: mikethemoose at June 28, 2022 01:51 PM (T/vhV)
Cool. This is like Paul Krugman's fear of "liquidity traps" in a deflationary economy:
"Every consumer sees that the value of his money is growing against the cost of purchasing, so everyone sits on their money instead of buying things, so the velocity of money goes to zero and the economy stalls"
Which is inept, because he ignores time-preference. Some things you can't wait on, some things you want to push off, and even then there are things that need to be done even if you are waiting for later.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2022 02:05 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: kraken
You're just itching for me to say it, ain'tcha?
Posted by: SFGoth at June 28, 2022 02:05 PM (KAi1n)
Oh, its me now? I'm allowed to go? I'll uh...get two scoops of Rocky Road - I'm allowed to get two scoops right Jill? And Jill let me just say you are my favorite nurse! So...uh...I get two scoops right?
Posted by: Joe Biden at June 28, 2022 02:05 PM (ESjRY)
>>>Seems like they should be in favor of burning more fossil fuels because they believe it would bring on a mass extinction event, which is what they want.
They figure the necessary die off could potentially occur via starvation once we go back to farming from the ass end of an ox.
Posted by: mikethemoose at June 28, 2022 02:05 PM (T/vhV)
Macron should have insisted on a meeting with the person with his hand up Joe's ass. The person that is controlling his mouth.
Posted by: Maj. Healey
Macron meet Melakon
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2022 02:05 PM (63Dwl)
*slightly less than half of Canada
Alberta will be the 51st state before they are ever given free rein to develop their natural resources.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 28, 2022 02:05 PM (4NlP1)
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 28, 2022 01:54 PM (Vrvfq)
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FSB maybe
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 28, 2022 02:05 PM (pcpun)
Posted by: Keyser Sose at June 28, 2022 02:05 PM (KUUa6)
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And 90% of their foodstuff comes from the mainland.
When famine hits the US, Hawaii will be the first to feel it.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 28, 2022 02:06 PM (84qeE)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2022 02:01 PM (OTzUX)
Russian tech billionaire founded. I am not surprised it offers viewpoints contrary or complimentary to Western tech oligarch favored gluag results. I don't harbor any illusions that my search information is safe, however.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 28, 2022 02:06 PM (nByzo)
Posted by: DB at June 28, 2022 02:06 PM (geLO8)
Jan 6 killed him. It's a terrible thing.
Posted by: fd at June 28, 2022 02:06 PM (vrz2I)
Posted by: Blue Hen at June 28, 2022 02:03 PM (VYjdj)
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Absolutely. I never meant to imply that "surplus" should have anything other than a market definition, with downstream effects on export capacity. The last thing anyone should want is some Blue Ribbon Committee on Natural Resources Balance to determine what is or is not surplus.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Then we are in agreement.
My concern was that it being tied to legislation or an EO is a recipe for disaster.
Posted by: Blue Hen at June 28, 2022 02:06 PM (VYjdj)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 28, 2022 02:06 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: Walter Freeman
Thorium Salt Reactors.
==
Mr. Fusion
Posted by: Emmett Lathrop Brown Ph.D. at June 28, 2022 02:06 PM (J/ijT)
probably a booster shot
Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at June 28, 2022 02:06 PM (w0NJk)
The more measured one is given to making fairly harsh comments and asking tough questions, rhetorically, about Russia's current military operation, which is interesting. It's not your grandfather's Russia when it comes to open grousing about sensitive topics.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2022 02:06 PM (OTzUX)
Because we've become use to people dying when it is useful for the elites.
I remember after Ron Brown was assassinated that I was sure people wouldn't stand for it and yet...
Posted by: 18-1 at June 28, 2022 02:06 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 28, 2022 02:06 PM (84qeE)
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I'd not want to be a white person living in Hawaii when that happens.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 28, 2022 02:07 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: kraken
You're just itching for me to say it, ain'tcha?
Posted by: SFGoth
Nixon.
Here's a cookie.
Posted by: DB at June 28, 2022 02:07 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 28, 2022 01:54 PM (Vrvfq)
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FSB maybe
Posted by: H
1. would you rather?
2. which is going to cancel you or throw you in the graybar?
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 28, 2022 02:07 PM (QztM0)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2022 02:05 PM (xhaym)
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That is America increases its savings rate, which is characteristically low, and has been whined about by economists for a long time.
There is no event upon which an economist cannot set their hair on fire.
Posted by: Axeman at June 28, 2022 02:07 PM (krQz2)
I was gonna say that Stern's closet skeletons will be worse than Hunter Biden's, but on second thought, I'm not so sure about that.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 28, 2022 02:07 PM (4NlP1)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 28, 2022 02:07 PM (lTGtQ)
I think there might be a strategic incentive to curtail exports and keep America's fossil fuels here at home. I assume our reserves are finite. I'm pretty sure we'll miss them very badly when they're gone. Petroleum and natgas are miracle minerals. They aren't just fuel; they are vital feedstocks of our production of a myriad of materials.
Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at June 28, 2022 02:07 PM (qpX6U)
Posted by: ballistic at June 28, 2022 02:08 PM (oXNqT)
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When famine hits the US, Hawaii will become a Chinese brothel.
Posted by: Correction Dept. at June 28, 2022 02:08 PM (9ruD0)
Posted by: S
It is going to be known as the great spamine
no rice and spam bars by the registers
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 28, 2022 02:08 PM (QztM0)
Properly done, Executive Orders are simply directives to the executive departments on how to do their job, with the weight of law behind them. But every president since, I dunno, FDR at least? Has been abusing them to be quasi-legislature.
And since congress is very risk-adverse, they are glad to have someone other than them take the heat for taking any action at all on anything.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2022 02:08 PM (llsW/)
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And 90% of their foodstuff comes from the mainland.
When famine hits the US, Hawaii will be the first to feel it.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 28, 2022 02:06 PM (84qeE)
.........
Let them eat pineapples.
Posted by: wth at June 28, 2022 02:08 PM (v0R5T)
No they won't but they will demand that you do!
Posted by: Silent at June 28, 2022 02:08 PM (CrU4U)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 28, 2022 01:31 PM (4NlP1)
Dies the Fire by SM Stirling comes close
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 28, 2022 02:08 PM (kf6Ak)
One man's meat is another man's poi, son.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at June 28, 2022 02:08 PM (p+nWY)
They'll have to go out hunting feral goats, hogs, and chickens.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2022 02:09 PM (llsW/)
https://tinyurl.com/Gina-C-on-Rogans-Show
Good show. She's "Old StoneFace" as an actress, but I still like her. At least there is more life in her face than Barely Animatronic Plank of Wood Kevin Costner.
Posted by: Sharkman at June 28, 2022 02:09 PM (Lqf5w)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 28, 2022 02:09 PM (pcpun)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 28, 2022 02:09 PM (WKPeU)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2022 02:09 PM (OTzUX)
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Congress, with help from Judiciary, have been shoving power to the Executive for decades. All the 'progress' (i.e. WEF's agenda) is done by nameless bureaucrats. Perhaps you could call this the 'deep state'.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 28, 2022 02:02 PM (fs1hN)
Over many decades, Congress gave the Executive Branch a lot of power and discretion regarding oil production and imports/exports, to help ensure we have enough oil. Who would have believed a President would use the power and discretionary acts to ensure we do not have enough oil?
Posted by: Here we go! at June 28, 2022 02:09 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 28, 2022 02:09 PM (05ST2)
They want rationing. Look at everything this regime does economically, and tell me how its anything other than a repeat of FDR.
Posted by: Once More With Feeling at June 28, 2022 02:09 PM (Jtj4f)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
White people can be tasty!
Posted by: Native Hawaiians...ALOHA! at June 28, 2022 02:09 PM (vcOmj)
A samoan could feed half of hawaii for days
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 28, 2022 02:09 PM (QztM0)
She wants zero carbon, but is against nuclear power. derp.
Also, I got her to agree that we can't flip a switch and not use any petroleum tomorrow... It will be years/decades at the earliest. So why not have the US pump it? We have the cleanest drilling in the world. Why wouldn't we want oil pumped by the country that pumps it the cleanest? Plus, it would curtail Putin's aggression. Why not pump here?
The whole conversation ended when she started trying to play up 'first responders' like EMT's and firemen. I replied "But not cops, right? All cops are bastards, right?"
She got on her bike and pedaled away angry.
Posted by: 496 at June 28, 2022 02:10 PM (VJsqe)
Posted by: kraken
You're just itching for me to say it, ain'tcha?
Posted by: SFGoth
There is no good legislation that can't be turned bad by the Left.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 28, 2022 02:10 PM (+MrFO)
Begging the Saudis for help after literally calling them murders is an obvious one, but hell the whole Uke-Russian war is because of Biden's inability to do diplomacy
Posted by: 18-1 at June 28, 2022 02:03 PM (ESjRY)
I'm absolutely convinced that Putin made his decision to try to take all of Ukraine after that video summit with Biden in December 2020 (IIRC). After seeing that Vlad was talking to a literal puddingbrain, he must have thought 'there's no way that the world is rallying behind this idiot against me'.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 28, 2022 02:10 PM (ZHiO7)
Yeah we lose basically all our remaining open space and natural habitat, but "green"!
Posted by: Zek at June 28, 2022 02:10 PM (OzNIz)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 28, 2022 02:10 PM (sJHOI)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 28, 2022 02:10 PM (4NlP1)
Posted by: Silent at June 28, 2022 02:04 PM (CrU4U)
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Because there is nothing suspicious about it. We already looked into it and let the media know what they needed to know. And, like always, the media had no follow up questions. If they're all good, that should be enough for you, citizen. Or do you want a 4am knock on your door, hmm?
Posted by: J6 Committee at June 28, 2022 02:10 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: Once More With Feeling at June 28, 2022 02:09 PM (Jtj4f)
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Oh, they don't want a repeat of FDR. FDR didn't go anywhere near too far enough.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 28, 2022 02:10 PM (WWh8n)
I have no loyalty to any state, much less this thing that used to be the USA.
A lot of people are going to die, but all I feel is apathy.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 28, 2022 02:11 PM (84qeE)
25%! We have still not recovered, because a lot of SMALL companies who supported oil drilling, went out of business, and has not come back.
Another Government caused Crises... so the solution is of course, more Government.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2022 01:53 PM (oHd/0)
That and oil prices. Oil wells deplete. You have to keep drilling to keep up. Oil prices went from $110/ BBL in Jan 2020 to $19/BBL in April 2020. You cant drill for $20/.BBL oil, banks wont sustain it. Look at oil prices vs rig counts for the last 5 years or so. Rig counts are going back up. Takes time. I went through plenty of these troughs in the last 50 years.
Posted by: Javems at June 28, 2022 02:11 PM (AmoqO)
https://tinyurl.com/3dw8hr8n
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2022 02:11 PM (llsW/)
Posted by: wth at June 28, 2022 02:08 PM (v0R5T)
Let them eat obama and zuckerfuck.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 28, 2022 02:11 PM (nByzo)
Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT
"The law is a ass."
Posted by: DB at June 28, 2022 02:11 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: ... at June 28, 2022 02:11 PM (JNBbP)
Posted by: wth at June 28, 2022 02:08 PM (v0R5T)
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You want them on the Dole?
Posted by: 496 at June 28, 2022 02:11 PM (VJsqe)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 28, 2022 02:09 PM (pcpun)
I saw that and think he is being optimistic.
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at June 28, 2022 02:11 PM (QYPq3)
Posted by: Valiant at June 28, 2022 02:11 PM (cy2xC)
Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 28, 2022 02:09 PM (05ST2)
Surprise!
Posted by: Texas state judges from Hawaii at June 28, 2022 02:11 PM (AMIL/)
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And 90% of their foodstuff comes from the mainland.
When famine hits the US, Hawaii will be the first to feel it.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 28, 2022 02:06 PM (84qeE)
.........
Let them eat pineapples.
Posted by: wth
and burn coconut husks for heat. Poi heads have to be the most ignorant people on Earth.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 28, 2022 02:11 PM (MkYsY)
Posted by: Big Moke at June 28, 2022 02:12 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration
VCM & other vinyls and plastics.
Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 28, 2022 02:12 PM (05ST2)
Posted by: anachronda at June 28, 2022 02:12 PM (4QJOq)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 28, 2022 02:12 PM (4NlP1)
https://is.gd/7tCDr0
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 28, 2022 02:12 PM (WWh8n)
Posted by: Kindltot
That is America increases its savings rate, which is characteristically low, and has been whined about by economists for a long time.
There is no event upon which an economist cannot set their hair on fire.
Or maybe, just maybe Paul, people aren't spending because they're SCARED of what is to come, and holding on to their money.
At some point in every inflationary spiral, some people just QUIT buying.
Posted by: Axeman
Posted by: Bozo Conservative......Living on the Prison Planet at June 28, 2022 02:12 PM (vcOmj)
Posted by: 496 at June 28, 2022 02:10 PM (VJsqe)
This makes me smile.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 28, 2022 02:13 PM (nByzo)
1. It has never been against the law to export refined products, but for many years since the Carter era it was illegal to export crude oil. This was an implicit subsidy for domestic refining, which was (and is) far more expensive than refining offshore, even in Canada. The Caribbean has a lot of refining capacity devoted to the US market. (The West Coast is its own market, with completely different supply-demand fundamentals.)
2. During the Trump Administration, we did have a glut of domestic crude oil because of lack of domestic refining capacity to handle it all. The WTI crude price (US) disconnected from the Brent crude price (rest of world) for the first time ever. Indeed, the WTI crude price went negative very briefly, implying that the holders of crude oil would pay people to take it. This is not a sustainable way to run an energy sector. (An aside- Canada had it even worse than us, because we are their crude oil market. Keystone XL was intended to alleviate the Candians' problems somewhat.)
3. Congress, not Trump, changed the law to allow crude oil exports (although there are still to this day issues with export infrastructure like pipelines and terminals).
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 28, 2022 02:13 PM (7B5FA)
Sometimes people just need to fail and not be shielded from their failures.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at June 28, 2022 02:13 PM (V6f9+)
Good show. She's "Old StoneFace" as an actress, but I still like her. At least there is more life in her face than Barely Animatronic Plank of Wood Kevin Costner.
I noticed she plays a Russian special forces solider in one of the old Red Alert games.
Looked good too.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 28, 2022 02:13 PM (ESjRY)
That's a tall order. No idea how that will work.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 28, 2022 02:13 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 28, 2022 02:10 PM (+MrFO)
Government governs best what governs least. We have lost our way.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 28, 2022 02:14 PM (nByzo)
Posted by: Valiant at June 28, 2022 02:11 PM (cy2xC)
Well they never wanted to sanction Venezuela or Iran. The US forced them to.
Posted by: Someguy's at June 28, 2022 02:14 PM (cfxeF)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 28, 2022 02:03 PM (+MrFO)
I imagine they could do some wicked levels of geothermal generation. You know, with that magma pocket right there.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2022 02:14 PM (xhaym)
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That's pretty much where I'm at.
And that includes members of my family that need to learn some harsh lessons.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 28, 2022 02:14 PM (84qeE)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions
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Got to warn a moron. That made me laugh my beer out of my nose. ouch!
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 28, 2022 02:14 PM (WKPeU)
Posted by: Once More With Feeling at June 28, 2022 02:09 PM (Jtj4f)"
Abso frickin lutely. A weaker grid coupled with hugely increased demand from electric vehicles means either electricity rationing or constant brownouts. To follow: mandatory travel bans or "need to travel" permission, mandatory "work"/starve from home, pods and bugs.
But Green !
Posted by: Zek at June 28, 2022 02:14 PM (OzNIz)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2022 02:14 PM (llsW/)
Posted by: Darrell Harris
This. Like when they unleashed that insane PSA, and that was when the Taliban decided to go for the whole show.
Posted by: Blue Hen at June 28, 2022 02:14 PM (VYjdj)
++++
I didn't know point 1. I did know points 2 and 3. Refinery capacity is its own problem, and the EPA has a lot of the blame for that.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 28, 2022 02:14 PM (WWh8n)
Because Wheels doesn't have the balls to send in law loyal to him and enforce his will.
Posted by: Once More With Feeling at June 28, 2022 02:14 PM (Jtj4f)
https://is.gd/7tCDr0
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 28, 2022 02:12 PM (WWh8n)
Busty indeed.
That fabric is nearing its failure point.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at June 28, 2022 02:14 PM (V6f9+)
Posted by: Kindltot
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Only on the Big Island
The other islands would be SOL.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 28, 2022 02:15 PM (84qeE)
Posted by: Ian S. at June 28, 2022 02:15 PM (3cXfB)
https://tinyurl.com/2p8wbec6
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2022 02:15 PM (FZ2cV)
___
That's pretty much where I'm at.
And that includes members of my family that need to learn some harsh lessons.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming
Welcome to the dark side.
Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 28, 2022 02:15 PM (05ST2)
then the oil will flow as water, snail darters and trannys be damned
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 28, 2022 02:15 PM (QztM0)
BREAKING: Junior Meadows staffer tells J6 Committee that Trump attacked a Secret Service agent and tried to take control of the presidential limo
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lmao
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2022 02:15 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 28, 2022 02:15 PM (6FeV1)
Its extremely unstable, though. And they cannot blanket the island with solar panels and fill the seas with wind turbines despite abundant wind and sunlight because... it would destroy their tourism.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2022 02:15 PM (llsW/)
Posted by: wth at June 28, 2022 02:08 PM (v0R5T)
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You want them on the Dole?
bob dole is not amused.
Posted by: bob dole at June 28, 2022 02:16 PM (4QJOq)
Posted by: ... at June 28, 2022 02:11 PM (JNBbP)
This is my shocked face (- -)
Posted by: Miss Issippi - TRANSparent-Pronouns Who/Where at June 28, 2022 02:16 PM (sI15f)
Because Wheels doesn't have the balls to send in law loyal to him and enforce his will.
Remember when Biden threatened to close down the border with Florida because DeSantis was done playing COVID games?
And DeSantis threatened to send the Florida NG to arrest anyone trying to?
Give me 28 Republican governors like that and we still might save this country.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 28, 2022 02:16 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at June 28, 2022 02:14 PM (V6f9+)
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Odd definition of failure!
Posted by: 496 at June 28, 2022 02:16 PM (VJsqe)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 28, 2022 02:16 PM (6FeV1)
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 28, 2022 02:16 PM (QztM0)
Posted by: Democrats and Conservative Inc. (But I repeat myself) at June 28, 2022 02:16 PM (KV2pV)
https://is.gd/7tCDr0
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 28, 2022 02:12 PM (WWh8n)
. . . because she has big brains.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 28, 2022 02:16 PM (nByzo)
BREAKING: Junior Meadows staffer tells J6 Committee that Trump attacked a Secret Service agent and tried to take control of the presidential limo
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lmao
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2022 02:15 PM (ptqGC)
Are they trying to be funny?
Posted by: Miss Issippi - TRANSparent-Pronouns Who/Where at June 28, 2022 02:17 PM (sI15f)
Posted by: andycanuck
Good!
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 28, 2022 02:17 PM (kf6Ak)
She wants zero carbon, but is against nuclear power. derp.
The conversation would have ended right then with a simple "You are too stupid to talk to".
Posted by: Roy at June 28, 2022 02:17 PM (Ge3Mu)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 28, 2022 02:17 PM (Xrfse)
I mean, I wouldn't put it past the committee to trot out something that ludicrous and fake, but Poso is not exactly king of accurate fresh information.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2022 02:17 PM (llsW/)
https://tinyurl.com/2p8wbec6
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2022 02:15 PM (FZ2cV)
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Good for him.
Unlike the times before when the Democrats protested at the home of a prominent black man, they forgot the burning crosses.
Posted by: Axeman at June 28, 2022 02:17 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 28, 2022 02:18 PM (6FeV1)
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at June 28, 2022 02:11 PM (QYPq3)
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I get your point, on an energy switcheroo from the Junta being too much to hope for, but the second part, deflation, is depression-level stuff.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 28, 2022 02:18 PM (pcpun)
BREAKING: Junior Meadows staffer tells J6 Committee that Trump attacked a Secret Service agent and tried to take control of the presidential limo
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lmao
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2022 02:15 PM (ptqGC)
Now they're just trolling. Fantastic.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 28, 2022 02:18 PM (ZHiO7)
The J6 Committee just jumped the shark with "the protesters had AR-15s" claim. Liz Cheney is Fonzie.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2022 02:18 PM (ptqGC)
Hey honey, how were the materials your bike is made off produced? How were they shipped to the factory they were made at? What did the factory use for power? How did they get shipped to the shop you bought it from...etc...
Posted by: 18-1 at June 28, 2022 02:18 PM (ESjRY)
Forget the bugs, pods, and happily enjoying ownership of nothing. I'm worried about everyone being forced into monotone pant suits.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 28, 2022 02:18 PM (4NlP1)
Posted by: DB at June 28, 2022 02:18 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Boffo the Clown at June 28, 2022 02:18 PM (qdRGj)
Posted by: Axeman at June 28, 2022 02:07 PM (krQz2)
I think that is my main emotional attraction to the Austrian school. The most they do is say "this will end in tears, it did the last five times. Want to see my cites?"
Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2022 02:19 PM (xhaym)
https://tinyurl.com/Gina-C-on-Rogans-Show
Good show. She's "Old StoneFace" as an actress, but I still like her. At least there is more life in her face than Barely Animatronic Plank of Wood Kevin Costner.
Posted by: Sharkman at June 28, 2022 02:09 PM (Lqf5w)
The thing about her acting for me is that she's so often stoic and unblinking when she DOES smile or react, it seems to completely change her. It's fun to watch.
Plus she still has a banging bod.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at June 28, 2022 02:19 PM (V6f9+)
Imagining Trump trying to squeeze through the partition is kinda funny.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 28, 2022 02:19 PM (4NlP1)
Our fossil President is getting pantsed on TV by a piano teacher's catamite.
America Is Back, Baby!
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 28, 2022 02:20 PM (IXpV7)
GET OFF MY DAMN LIMO!
Posted by: Harrison Trump at June 28, 2022 02:20 PM (vrz2I)
One of the "protesters" brought an ice axe and was attacking windows with it, directing people into the capitol building with detailed information on the layout.
If that's not a plant, then the word has no meaning at all. Who the hell brings an ICE AXE to a protest???
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2022 02:20 PM (llsW/)
(haven't done this in a while, so)
DUDE THAT'S MY SISTER
Posted by: DB at June 28, 2022 02:18 PM (geLO
Uh, is she like.... single?
Can I haz her number?
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2022 02:20 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 28, 2022 02:20 PM (DcKNO)
https://is.gd/7tCDr0
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 28, 2022 02:12 PM (WWh8n)
========
The bra is flowery. I repeat: the bra is flowery.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at June 28, 2022 02:20 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Miss Issippi - TRANSparent-Pronouns Who/Where at June 28, 2022 02:17 PM (sI15f)
I tuned in to the circus a couple of minutes ago, and Meadows' former junior staffer was weaving a tale about Trump being full of rage and trying to grab the steering wheel of his limo.
She's getting her 15 minutes of fame, and looks like an idiot.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2022 02:20 PM (ptqGC)
(haven't done this in a while, so)
DUDE THAT'S MY SISTER
Posted by: DB at June 28, 2022 02:18 PM (geLO
Dude! Your sister has giant cans.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 28, 2022 02:21 PM (nByzo)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 28, 2022 02:21 PM (xu2px)
BREAKING: Junior Meadows staffer tells J6 Committee that Trump attacked a Secret Service agent and tried to take control of the presidential limo
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lmao
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2022 02:15 PM (ptqGC)
The ambitious RINO mid-level political aide-type lady is simply gossiping to the J6 circus this afternoon. Another one who wants her 15 minutes of fame when she senses the opportunity to get it.
Posted by: Here we go! at June 28, 2022 02:21 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: DB at June 28, 2022 02:21 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 28, 2022 02:18 PM (pcpun)
I agree on deflation/stagflation/recession for sure... except on the essentials. Their purpose is to kill us and they are not going to reverse that course without physical intervention. The die has been cast.
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at June 28, 2022 02:21 PM (QYPq3)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at June 28, 2022 02:14 PM (V6f9+)
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Odd definition of failure!
Posted by: 496 at June 28, 2022 02:16 PM (VJsqe)
Failure can lead to some wonderful things.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at June 28, 2022 02:21 PM (V6f9+)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 28, 2022 02:21 PM (6FeV1)
Posted by: DB at June 28, 2022 02:18 PM (geLO
I want to slip my tube steak in your sister. What'll you take in trade?
Posted by: Pvt. Joker at June 28, 2022 02:21 PM (ZSK0i)
Posted by: 18-1 at June 28, 2022 02:21 PM (ESjRY)
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There is precedent however if you count President Harrison Ford.
Posted by: ... at June 28, 2022 02:21 PM (8BH94)
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 28, 2022 02:21 PM (DcKNO)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 28, 2022 02:22 PM (lTGtQ)
I am actually surprised that coal plants are not being restarted in the US, like Germany is doing. Anything to avoid allowing petroleum to save everyone.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
You can't restart a plant that has been razed.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2022 02:22 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Live testimony from the J6 committee at June 28, 2022 02:22 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Pvt. Joker
whaddya got
Posted by: DB at June 28, 2022 02:22 PM (geLO8)
https://tinyurl.com/2p9e2cur
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 28, 2022 02:22 PM (84qeE)
It'd be more believable if she said Trump tried seizing control of a semi truck air horn.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 28, 2022 02:22 PM (4NlP1)
Not being aroused by her boobs, I appreciated the expression on her face which either indicates that heavy hooters are not always a happy happenstance for her, or that she's thinking, You son of a b. You're going to send this picture into "Cow Demon," aren't you?"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2022 02:22 PM (FZ2cV)
Posted by: 496 at June 28, 2022 02:22 PM (VJsqe)
Posted by: mrp at June 28, 2022 02:23 PM (6eRlp)
This idiot is not only destroying the US, he is endangering the entire first and second world.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 28, 2022 02:22 PM (lTGtQ)
Now that there is no more Soviet Union, I'd argue that the second-world is the American Socialist-aligned nations.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 28, 2022 02:23 PM (IXpV7)
Pretty sure the "cops saw protesters with rifles but no one did anything about it before the sitting president took an outdoor stage and every national lawmaker was in town headed to the Capitol" isn't going to go the way Liz Cheney hopes.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2022 02:23 PM (ptqGC)
Bull. Fucking. Shit.
If the GOP actually wanted to be a real opposition party, they would be taking down the names of every asshole testifying in order to arrest them for perjury and toss them into fucking GITMO the day after the November election.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 28, 2022 02:23 PM (2JVJo)
The political class has this delusion that they can remain above it with no personal consequences. They have chosen - poorly.
Posted by: Once More With Feeling at June 28, 2022 02:23 PM (Jtj4f)
--
*raises hand, straining*
OOO OOO PICK ME! PICK ME!! I KNOW!!!!
Posted by: Zombie Trotsky at June 28, 2022 02:23 PM (+Iwpx)
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 28, 2022 02:23 PM (84qeE)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 28, 2022 02:23 PM (MkYsY)
Posted by: 7man at June 28, 2022 02:23 PM (qwO6y)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 28, 2022 02:22 PM (4NlP1)
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lol
Idiots will say any stupid thing to be "famous."
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 28, 2022 02:23 PM (DcKNO)
Because Wheels doesn't have the balls to send in law loyal to him and enforce his will.
Posted by: Once More With Feeling at June 28, 2022 02:14 PM (Jtj4f)
Paxton is on this. Hearing set for July 12th. The Left is going to use every thing they have. Not unexpected.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 28, 2022 02:23 PM (+MrFO)
Posted by: The Chicken at June 28, 2022 02:24 PM (VYjdj)
I am just sitting back and waiting for all the other shoes to drop. I do hope that Joe is suffering mightily in his dementia brain, tho.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 28, 2022 02:24 PM (Zz0t1)
She's getting her 15 minutes of fame, and looks like an idiot.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2022 02:20 PM (ptqGC)
So, this Junior staffer somehow was in the Trump Limo? and knows what Meadows was thinking?
Fucking Psychics are now out to get Trump?
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2022 02:24 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: 496 at June 28, 2022 02:22 PM (VJsqe)
False alarm. Premature epostalation.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 28, 2022 02:24 PM (ZHiO7)
Posted by: Bim Barney at June 28, 2022 02:24 PM (qLyhZ)
Posted by: Marcus T at June 28, 2022 02:24 PM (VF4WI)
Posted by: Axeman at June 28, 2022 02:24 PM (krQz2)
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But my doctor wants me to cut down on Mexican!
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 28, 2022 02:24 PM (yikp0)
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 28, 2022 02:21 PM (DcKNO)
Inmates, Air travelers, Mental detectives...
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 28, 2022 02:24 PM (6FeV1)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 28, 2022 02:24 PM (2NHgQ)
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Folks that have nothing better to do.
Posted by: SMH
So, wine Karen's and Blue Hairs.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 28, 2022 02:24 PM (MkYsY)
Bullshit. We were JUST PRODUCING THE MOST IN THE WORLD.
Turn those machines back on.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 28, 2022 02:24 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Seems Legit
Or to "not be found dead"
Posted by: zombie sergeant at arms at June 28, 2022 02:25 PM (VYjdj)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 28, 2022 02:24 PM (2NHgQ)
....aaaand we're off.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 28, 2022 02:25 PM (ZHiO7)
and the PTB are dead set against deflation like vampires are against garlic
Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2022 02:25 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 28, 2022 02:21 PM (6FeV1)
I literally just fell over laughing!
Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to get back up at June 28, 2022 02:25 PM (XKZwp)
Posted by: fd at June 28, 2022 02:25 PM (vrz2I)
Posted by: zmdavid at June 28, 2022 02:25 PM (xqRaG)
Posted by: Axeman at June 28, 2022 02:26 PM (krQz2)
At some point, you either quit deferring to the judiciary, or you just admit that the judiciary is in charge.
Posted by: Once More With Feeling at June 28, 2022 02:26 PM (Jtj4f)
Trump was in the front passenger seat of the limo? Because you sure as fuck can't do that from where the President normally sits.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 28, 2022 02:27 PM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 28, 2022 02:24 PM (ZHiO7)
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Figures. For the record, I was first. And apparently last.
Posted by: 496 at June 28, 2022 02:27 PM (VJsqe)
Better than the current arrangement of sending trillions over to the sheiks and Putin.
Posted by: Blago at June 28, 2022 02:27 PM (PwNLq)
Posted by: Axeman at June 28, 2022 02:27 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 28, 2022 02:21 PM (6FeV1)
I literally just fell over laughing!
Me too.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 28, 2022 02:28 PM (Xrfse)
We're back, und ver Be-uti-full darlinks!!
Posted by: imaginary peeing hookers at June 28, 2022 02:28 PM (VYjdj)
Posted by: Braenyard at June 28, 2022 02:28 PM (d/n5K)
_______
Well, I think Joe is already lobotomized, so that's at least one down.
Posted by: J6 Committee at June 28, 2022 02:28 PM (fs1hN)
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So the stars are right?
Posted by: Axeman at June 28, 2022 02:26 PM (krQz2)
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Huma & Janet Yellen are aligned beneath her gunt.
Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at June 28, 2022 02:29 PM (wAnXw)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor a
You're telling me!--Leon Trotsky
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at June 28, 2022 02:29 PM (7ULmC)
Posted by: Crooked Pump Head Bill at June 28, 2022 02:29 PM (GeUe0)
Posted by: Once More With Feeling at June 28, 2022 02:26 PM (Jtj4f)
Yeah at some point but we just had a huge victory at the SC . This is just their last gasp. It's not necessary to create a different issue.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 28, 2022 02:31 PM (+MrFO)
Posted by: TexasDan at June 28, 2022 02:31 PM (D7KiO)
Posted by: DB at June 28, 2022 01:33 PM
He could blow the king and it won't make any difference.
Posted by: mpfs, We are not a serious people anymore at June 28, 2022 02:32 PM (t3/qz)
yeah they want the energy crisis, but they want to win in November.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2022 02:35 PM (llsW/)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at June 28, 2022 01:35 PM (5HBd1)
-/---
And yet, even surrounded by incompetents, its not enough to make Biden and Harris look good. Go figure,
Posted by: Chillin the most at June 28, 2022 02:36 PM (6znwQ)
yeah they want the energy crisis, but they want to win in November.
==
When they = china
winning in November means something completely different
Posted by: its that bad at June 28, 2022 02:36 PM (2je/G)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2022 02:20 PM (llsW/)
Might have been hoping to run across Leon Trotsky?
Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2022 02:37 PM (xhaym)
THIS. Too bad now we're all stuck in the death spiral.
Posted by: Esperman at June 28, 2022 02:53 PM (AqwWg)
Attacked driver screaming g "I am the fucking president... "
Can we haz thst video? Yku know just to see if it is really true
Posted by: Steve at June 28, 2022 03:07 PM (FfHat)
Because oil companies sell to the highest payer.
Why would oil co.panies change ANY of their policies when profits are at record highs?
Profits are the goal of capitalism. Who wants to limit them?
Posted by: Steve at June 28, 2022 03:11 PM (FfHat)
Posted by: t-bird at June 28, 2022 01:33 PM (D6lWx)
That’s what I call a night in Vegas.
Posted by: Hunter Biden at June 28, 2022 03:19 PM (8NIFr)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 28, 2022 03:29 PM (Wg1SU)
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Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)