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This is a ramble, because i just don't get it.

Women dying in hospital parking lots.

The policy of solving the nations woes by placing high tariifs on other nations.
(You don't hear much, as of late, about drill baby drill)

Planning to deport 21 million immigrants. Apparently, if they have some skin color, legal immigrants are included. Placing them in camps and giving them a "serial number."
And for kicks, tent cities for the homeless. Definitely out of sight. Away from commodities, of course.
They can be delivered in rations. You know, like the native americans.

Excuse me...im watching a pair of eagles hunt my property....

Talk about executing the unfaithful. Or simpy imprisoning them.

He takes no responsibility for his actions.

He bowed to putin and the world watched. He kissed Kim's ass as the world watched.
He allowed the woman he called weak and stupid to rattle him over crowd size. Crowd size. Could you imagine if someone he idolizes critiqued him, in person?

His lies are repeated so often and with such conviction that he has millions believing.
I have a brother than can do that. He is a sociopath.
Remember that in just these past weeks, the maga crowd has vehemently insisted that haitians are eating pets. They argued, showed videos and photos. They were convinced of this absurdity, because trump said so. The idea that it put people's lives in jeopardy is of no concern.

He lies about the state of the economy. (It is the best recovery in the world). He says, as he did in 2020, that the stock market will crash if she is elected. If anyone that reads this has investments, they are doing pretty well with them.
Unless of course it's trump stock. That isn't doing so well...

He lies about crime.

I could go on.
And on and on.

I won't even go into his legal woes. That's a whole thing...

So, tell me maga people. What is it? How do you support a guy with these flaws? Do you people ever listen to a full speech or interview with him? I am not an educated individual, but what comes from his mouth has no meaning. He says what floats in his aging head. He's laughable. Seriously.
And his truth social posts. Come on people. Potus? Really?
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@Carla says

(You don't hear much, as of late, about drill baby drill)
That's because under Biden we've been setting records for energy production!

Our AMAZING 2023 oil production numbers

The US produced more oil in 2023 than any nation ever produced in a one year span. It's funny how the right wing pretends Biden curtailed oil when in fact we set a world record, LOL!!!

the United States set a new record in 2023 by averaging 12.9 million barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil production, including condensate. This figure surpasses the previous US and global record of 12.3 million b/d, set in 2019. What’s even more impressive is that this record-breaking trend culminated in December 2023, when average monthly U.S. crude oil production soared to over 13.3 million b/d, marking a historic milestone.
https://mansfield.energy/2024/03/18/the-united-states-leads-the-world-in-crude-oil-production/

Also see Oil & Gas Journal
https://www.ogj.com/general-interest/economics-markets/article/14310211/eia-us-currently-produces-more-crude-oil-than-any-country-in-history
Same facts confirmed by Fox Business
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/us-led-global-oil-production-sixth-straight-year-2023
Carla · 61-69, F
SW-User
@ElwoodBlues To be honest, I'd rather Biden had curtailed oil and promoted renewables to a FAR greater degree, despite the IRA.
@SW-User I hear you. I think, hidden in the reports, is the " including condensate" number, which I take to mean natural gas. Natural gas has about 1/2 the carbon footprint of coal, 2/3 that of oil, so it could be worse. I don't know what percent of our production is natural gas though.
sree251 · 41-45, M
@ElwoodBlues
The US produced more oil in 2023 than any nation ever produced in a one year span. It's funny how the right wing pretends Biden curtailed oil when in fact we set a world record, LOL!!!

Don't laugh too loud. Oil production is one thing but oil reserves is another. At the current rate of production, the US reserves can last only 5 years. Venezuela has the most oil reserves (300 billion barrels), more than Saudi Arabia ranked at No.2, twice as much as Iran (No.3) and Iraq (No.4). This is why we are always messing with Maduro and has such a strong presence in the Middle East.
@sree251 Are you ignoring shale oil?

sree251 · 41-45, M
@ElwoodBlues
Are you ignoring shale oil?

Shale oil is costlier to produce and our refineries are not designed to refine this lighter crude. We will have to export it at a discount in a buyer's market.
@sree251 Funny, EIA.gov disagrees.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that in 2023, about 3.04 billion barrels (or about 8.32 million barrels per day) of crude oil were produced directly from tight-oil resources in the United States. This was equal to about 64% of total U.S. crude oil production in 2023.

Kinda sounds like you're just making stuff up, doesn't it?
sree251 · 41-45, M
@ElwoodBlues
Kinda sounds like you're just making stuff up, doesn't it?

I did not make up the stuff. Morgan Stanley did.

Key Takeaways

1. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, opened up more natural gas for production, but the technology added costs to the oil extraction process.
2. Shale oil costs more than conventional oil to extract, but cost-per-barrel of production can be as low as $35 a barrel as of 2020.
3. The cost of conventional oil varies so much that Saudi Arabia can produce at under $10 per barrel.
@sree251 So the baseline truth is that if we extract only CHEAP oil, then we have 5 years of CHEAP oil.

But since 63% of the oil we're already extracting is tight oil, that estimate is meaningless.

No, on second thought, it's not meaningless, it's designed to frighten people, especially low information voters.

You see, expensive oil, tight oil, makes the prices of renewable sources competitive. High priced oil is part of the pathway to renewable energy. If your business is based on keeping the nation addicted to oil, you can't allow renewables to become competitive. Coal is already dying. Renewables are DEATH to big oil.
sree251 · 41-45, M
@ElwoodBlues
So the baseline truth is that if we extract only CHEAP oil, then we have 5 years of CHEAP oil.

Correct.

You see, expensive oil, tight oil, makes the prices of renewable sources competitive.

True. Our oil shale is an oil resource; although massive, it is not our reserves which last 5 years. Extraction of oil from shale need an enormous amount of water causing environmental impact that woke people wouldn't like.

High priced oil is part of the pathway to renewable energy. If your business is based on keeping the nation addicted to oil, you can't allow renewables to become competitive. Coal is already dying. Renewables are DEATH to big oil.

Oil will be phased out eventually but in a manner dictated by market forces.