🇺🇸 Thank You, President Biden 🇺🇸

US President Joe Biden announced today (03/08/2022) the U.S. will [b]ban all Russian oil imports[/b], toughening the toll on Russia’s economy in retaliation for its invasion of Ukraine, but he acknowledged it will bring costs to Americans, particularly at the gas pump.
"We will not be part of subsidizing Putin’s war,” Biden declared, calling the new action a “powerful blow” against Russia's ability to fund the ongoing offensive.

I live in Europe, and I would like to express my gratitude. It's great to know we are not alone in this present darkness.

Thank you, Joe Biden.
Thank you, my American friends.

I kiss you 💋
helenS
🇺🇸♥️🇪🇺

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Elessar · 26-30, M

Now are we going to create some wealthy powerful dictator somewhere else, or have we learned the hard lesson on (another reason) why we need more domestically-produced renewable energy?

LordShadowfire · M

@Elessar There are still too many people afraid of renewable energy in this country.

Elessar · 26-30, M

@LordShadowfire And mine too. Unfortunately we're surrounded by dinosaurs.. with an addiction for burning their own liquefied ancestors.

jackson55 · M

@LordShadowfire Renewable energy amounts to about 4% in the US. 75% of the US economy is from fossil fuel in one way or another. It will be along time before wind and solar will be able to come close to that.

Elessar · 26-30, M

@jackson55 And so long as the attitude is "muh oil" rest assured it won't move from that 4%.

jackson55 · M

@Elessar If wind and solar were economically feasible there would be a lot more investment in those formats. Currently it doesn’t make much sense.

CorvusBlackthorne · M

@jackson55 [quote]If wind and solar were economically feasible there would be a lot more investment in those formats. Currently it doesn’t make much sense.[/quote]

Elessar · 26-30, M

@jackson55 If wind and sunlight weren't omnipresent, but could've been monopolized or oligopolized too, rest assured they would've received far more attention and far more investments, lol

If a country like China, with nearly 2x total energetic consumption as the U.S. is investing more and more in renewables, there are really no excuses. And anyway, even before going 100% renewable, nuclear power would be a much better alternative than continuing to burn oil, coal and methane.

Slade · 56-60, M

@Elessar

[b]Fuck That Shit!

Drill Baby Drill![/b]

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUjWIC4azCk]

Elessar · 26-30, M

@Slade Imagine being so r*tarded to take pleasure in destroying the environment, but from a sick Putin-war supporter what would you expect...

LordShadowfire · M

@Elessar It took me a couple of minutes to figure out who you were talking to. Yeah, that guy got so butthurt when I successfully got the admins to penalize him for harassing me that he blocked both of my accounts. He can be safely ignored.

Elessar · 26-30, M

@LordShadowfire Just a dude whose attitude in life is cutting his own b*lls to spite his wife (if he had any)

Slade · 56-60, M

@Elessar This how we wind down after full auto day at the range.

Colbert doesn't live far from here. We'll roll some serious coal on his Tesla!

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cji0ADgr6R0]

Elessar · 26-30, M

@Slade 👆
[quote]Just a dude whose attitude in life is cutting his own b*lls to spite his wife[/quote]

jackson55 · M

@Elessar I’ll agree with you on nuclear. One reason Germany is in such bad shape with energy is they shut all their nuclear plants down and have to rely on Russia for natural gas.

Elessar · 26-30, M

@jackson55 Same identical situation here in Italy. Environmentalists(!!) campaigned hard against nuclear, out of fears of a new Chernobyl primarily. Paradoxically we border with countries that have plenty of nuclear plants, France in primis, so idk maybe they think the Alps will keep any radiation leak out if it happened there? lol. And paradoxically, we're f*cking with the environment much worse than we would've done if we had nuclear energy production, rather than importing also that one.

jackson55 · M

@Elessar Chernobyl was a poor design. I know, France has nuclear plants that hum along just fine. Several nuclear plants have been closed in the US for the same environmental issues.

MethDozer · M

@jackson55 wind and solar is economically feasable now and that's why companies are scrambling to build solar and wind sites.