Bullshit! When the price of gas goes down they'll look elsewhere for the good news. Biden can do no good and will get no credit. They'll point to all the Dem that said he didn't cause the price hikes, so therefore... Never mind that they (Republicans) said he was solely responsible for the hikes.
I was talking to my brother, who lives in the heart of red-state-land, last night, and he told me that Individual-ONE did do a good thing. I asked him what that was, and he said, uh, that he would give it some careful thought, but he was absolutely certain that he could come up with a good thing that CFEFWSG had done, to counter my assertion that he had not done any good thing.
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It's past time for people to just get over gas prices in the USA. They managed to do it in Europe a long time ago, mostly by noting that "comment is free" so go ahead and complain. but either shell out for the gas or take the shoe-leather express.
Gas should have been taxed here at a higher rate now for DECADES and the money put into helping finance higher rates of renewable energy development, generation, storage, transmission and usage. And don't get me started on how pathetic our public transportation has been and still is. We have the Republicans to thank for this, and it's on the record in vote after vote, session after session.
Our love affair with cars has been not a disaster, but a distinctly mixed blessing. Our system of bean counting guarantees companies will wring the last profit dollar out of anything that "works" until it doesn't work any more or the downside of relying on whatever it is becomes intolerable.
Our "just-in-time" mentality has already been shown to have its downsides during the covid pandemic, but maintaining that attitude during ongoing and now critical climate change will likely kill us. And why? Because for once we will have run into something where a fix in the nick of time -- you know, by the end of the quarter, preferably via making an acquisition of some other company's ability to, uh... fix climate change?!?!-- will not even f'g be possible.
And yet.... market forces are actually already reducing demand for petroleum products. It's the politicians who are still standing in the way of harnessing worker readiness to shift gears to renewable energy jobs. Interesting piece in Grist about that effect in Louisiana already.
'It doesn't have to be this way': Lessons from the slow death of Louisiana's oil industry
Louisiana is bleeding oil jobs. Here's what it tells us about a just energy transition.
I wonder if the “just-in-time” mentality plays a part in the refusal of many to get vaccinated. I saw an interview with a doctor today who said when people get really sick with COVID, they all say they wish they had gotten the vaccine, and ask for it at that time, but are told it’s too late.It's past time for people to just get over gas prices in the USA. They managed to do it in Europe a long time ago, mostly by noting that "comment is free" so go ahead and complain. but either shell out for the gas or take the shoe-leather express.
Gas should have been taxed here at a higher rate now for DECADES and the money put into helping finance higher rates of renewable energy development, generation, storage, transmission and usage. And don't get me started on how pathetic our public transportation has been and still is. We have the Republicans to thank for this, and it's on the record in vote after vote, session after session.
Our love affair with cars has been not a disaster, but a distinctly mixed blessing. Our system of bean counting guarantees companies will wring the last profit dollar out of anything that "works" until it doesn't work any more or the downside of relying on whatever it is becomes intolerable.
Our "just-in-time" mentality has already been shown to have its downsides during the covid pandemic, but maintaining that attitude during ongoing and now critical climate change will likely kill us. And why? Because for once we will have run into something where a fix in the nick of time -- you know, by the end of the quarter, preferably via making an acquisition of some other company's ability to, uh... fix climate change?!?!-- will not even f'g be possible.
And yet.... market forces are actually already reducing demand for petroleum products. It's the politicians who are still standing in the way of harnessing worker readiness to shift gears to renewable energy jobs. Interesting piece in Grist about that effect in Louisiana already.
'It doesn't have to be this way': Lessons from the slow death of Louisiana's oil industry
Louisiana is bleeding oil jobs. Here's what it tells us about a just energy transition.
The saddest part about it is that if we were first in aggressively pursuing solar production, we’d be the industry leaders, and would have created way more jobs than are being lost in the coal sector, for example. Instead, China is the big winner on solar panel production.
There was a "scandal" about the time the kenyan muslim funneled money into an American company that had designed a different kind of solar panel (PV cells wrapped around tubes, presumably to be less sensitive to sun angle). The company went TU because they could not compete with Chinese prices.
Yep, I recall that scandal; I guess the right used it as an excuse to deny any funding for renewable energy. And yet things like the Exxon Valdez and the Deepwater Horizon environmental disasters are met with a shrug by the same folks.
When a D is President, China is raping us; when a R is in office, China is making sweet, sweet love to us.
www.cnbc.com
Biden disapproval hits new high as voters give him bad grades on economy, new CNBC/Change poll says
Biden's disapproval rating reached a new high in December as more voters signaled their unhappiness with his handling of the economy.
I saw in the results that 46% of people thought the stock market was doing poorly. Um, what? Polls show us more about the people taking them than about the candidates.
I think polls are useful to tell us how people are feeling as a group. But it also tells us how uninformed about certain things a large percentage of the population is too.
Where did I say that we shouldn’t post polls? You can learn a lot from them if you read them carefully…So does this mean you aren't going to post anymore polls about how popular BBB is in WV in the Manchin thread?
