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[-] eltimablo@kbin.social 12 points 11 months ago

Natural gas is produced as a byproduct of gasoline production. He hasn't done shit besides screw us out of access to a cleaner energy source we're already producing.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 83 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You can re-inject it into the reservoir instead of burning it and dumping the resulting CO2 into the atmosphere. He's done a good thing here, especially light of the incredible death toll from the by-products of combustion.

[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 37 points 11 months ago

Yeah i criticize Biden all the time and while I'll always say "he could go further" i can't find enough to hate here. It actually looks kind of good. Ill have to dig deeper if i want to hate this move.

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