Former President Donald Trump had bragged about his success in opening the region to oil production after decades of political fighting over the resources locked under the tundra there.
Did you know there are more ways to harness energy than burning decomposed dinosaurs?
Including the leases trump signed the day before Biden took office. Fucker.
Don’t worry everyone, Republicans won’t use this to blame gas prices that their donor friends jack up before the election
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political parties always do something nice before elections never reflects on the whole career
What did Trump like this before the election?
Yeah but Dino squeezing are better than unicorn farts!
god damn it. what a worthless president. congrats democrats, you get $5 gas while financially supporting Russia and our other global adversaries. Traitors all of you.
Protecting our fragile lands has nothing to do with Russia lol
Russian oil does burn just as clean as our own I suppose. With a slight scent of Ukrainian blood though.
Crude oil is not one thing. That’s like saying all water is the same. https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/A-Detailed-Guide-On-The-Many-Different-Types-Of-Crude-Oil.html https://www.thebalancemoney.com/the-basics-of-crude-oil-classification-1182570#toc-factors-that-impact-crude-oil-prices
Yes I understand, It would be more efficient to use more US oil since in general it’s predominantly the “Sweet” type meaning a higher density of fuel, but even tar sands can be made into fuel too.
You do realize trump is OK with putin’s war in Ukraine?
So is Biden and anyone who supports exporting less oil in the US causing more oil sales in places like Russian.
Peanuts compared to the republicans who want to drop the sanctions and would actively cooperate with putin to fix oil prices
That’s a drop in the bucket that’d come from an indirect consequence of wanting to curb climate change
Get your thoughts in order
Well if you are fine with supporting Russians killing more Ukrainians by increasing the demand for their natural resources then who am I to judge.
You realize the gas companies have had record breaking profits, right? It’s greed, nothing more
The fact that you associate gas prices with the president proves how much of a gullible moron you are.
Comments like this is why the rest of the world thinks the USA is a country formed by idiots.
Idk, protecting the environment and forgoing new fossil fuel extraction sounds like a pretty big W to me, dawg.
For the Saudis and Russians, sure.
ROFL! You perfectly captured the ignorance of every trump-humping coward I’ve ever talked to! Bravo!
I do love me some parody. Well played man! Only, next time- don’t forget the /s so we all know you’re not an idiot.
I don’t recall pledging allegiance to Exxon or the house of Saud. Maybe the traitor is you!
That’s what this move does. We can get our oil from ourselves or from them, your choice, but it’s going to be one of them.
Balls to that. We need to get off of oil entirely.
No thanks, I’ve got way too many dino juice burning toys and vehicles to switch.
Well then you can kiss the Saudis’ asses, but don’t expect the rest of us to.
You might as well just say, “no thanks, I don’t care if anyone lives or dies.”
Some of you may die, but that’s a risk I’m willing to take to fill up the fuel tanks on my wakeboard boat.
Damn it, did Biden lean on the gas prices lever in the Oval Office again?
What a troll. This has nothing to do with that.
Read the room. Gas is likely going to get much more expensive in the next few decades, and that’s probably for the best. If you don’t like it then get an electric car.
It’s going to be more expensive due to an artificial scarcity. There is an abundance of oil, we’re just not drilling for enough of it
I’d gladly pay a little more for gas knowing it came from a north american oil well than have the blood children working in african cobalt mines on my hands.
A billion people are on track to die from climate change, according to some estimates.
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-warn-1-billion-people-on-track-to-die-from-climate-change
Even if we call that highly inflated, maybe it is, maybe it isn’t, some non-negligible number will certainly die as a result with some multiple of that facing harsh negative impacts. A disproportionate number of those will be in Africa.
If your argument is based in morality, it’s absolutely absurd to suggest the moral concerns of cobalt mining outweighs that of climate change.
You raised a very valid concern, let’s work to make it better instead of running back into the burning building.
The number of people killed by extreme weather events has been drastically declining for decades so I’m not too worried about the fear mongering of the “1 death per 1000 tons of carbon”. Especially when they follow it up with this: “This rule is actually “an order of magnitude best estimate”, which means it’s more of a range, somewhere between 0.1 to 10 deaths per 1000 tons of carbon burned.” So they are saying 10 billion people could die based on the high end of that estimate. That would be something.
So yes, buying a vehicle powered by gasoline is far morally superior to a vehicle powered by batteries. One is a well regulated US industry with millions of high paying jobs. The other has kids dying in mine collapses to try to make $1 per day. If the industry can figure that part out then things we be a lot more equal between the 2.
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Fuck them kids. /s
Yeah child labor is fucked up but we need to pressure our government and corporations to get more sustainable mines and better conditions for the workers.
The problem is we need the cobalt and lithium, and domestic production of that is hard to come by due to lack of deposits, and the deposits we do have are being railroaded by environmental lawsuits. Damned if do, damned if you don’t. We can’t even log off forests that are already dead from beetle kill. So taking advantage of 3rd world kids is the only option.
We got by without those lands and we can do it again. Or are you too much of a snowflake to handle it?
Can we send luckyhunter to another country please
And his kids to a cobalt mine since it’s no big deal apparently
Nothing was going to come of this, anyway.
Oil companies themselves are not building wells anymore, or exploring for new ones. Lease auctions are just sitting there with no bids. Very little of it has to do with politics; it’s all about the payback not being there in the long run combined with the risk of another bust in the short run. Only the wells with a high chance of generating profit are getting the green light.
maybe, maybe not. They certainly aren’t going to try to develop better methods and technology to drill there if there’s now no chance to do so. Financially I don’t mind $5 gas, I’m sure many people will mind though. I have a problem with conflicting government polices to both fund the fight against Russia, and also ones that will directly fund Russia to fight.
Policies aren’t causing high gas prices. That’s the whole point, here. The industry isn’t interested in developing new wells for reasons other than government policies.
The countries now buying Russian oil are the likes of China and India. US production isn’t going to be fueling either of them.
a lot of countries are buying Russian oil not just those 2. many of them backed off on the boycotts already and signed some agreement to buy russian oil, but only at “below market rates” to make themselves feel better.
America already makes more oil than it uses.
I’m not American. Explain to me how that works please.
If the oil isn’t coming out of the ground here in America, it’s going to come out of the ground somewhere else, like Russia.
But what about your #1 foreign supplier of oil? Canada.
I love those guys. OPEC is likely to be able to respond faster with production though.
So what’s your stance on us support for Ukraine?
I wish them the best. We should stop sending money and equipment to them and focus on rebuilding East Palestine and Lahaina instead.
Lolol
