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I will say this about Biden: the dude's downright sneaky. It seems to be his administration's main strategy to publicly walk back a major agenda point, let right-wingers celebrate, and then after the media hype (and potential for right-wing backlash) dies out, quietly split it up into smaller programs that get pushed further than the original agenda ever could.
- He blocked the rail strike, but then went back and ensured the unions got their sick leave anyway.
- He approved historic oil projects, but then went back and curtailed more oil production than he ever approved.
- He let Senator Manchin gut EV tax credits, but then spread that money out in the IRA and IIJA with green infrastructure funding so comprehensive that it has international attention.
- He's been criticized for being soft on China's military (by the right) and emissions (by the left), but the CHIPS Act and FABS Act and ban(s) on chip and tooling exports have all but eliminated China's greatest source of geopolitical leverage: their nascent monopoly on electronics.
- The SCOTUS struck down student loan forgiveness, but Biden went back and forgave more, this time splitting it into multiple smaller programs that are harder to stop.
So yeah, it seems on-brand that the Biden administration would push for LNG exports after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and then go back later and curtail them instead.
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This should be pinned at the top of every thread mentioning Biden until the second week of November.
A great start! We're going to need to see way more of this to reverse the massive increase of natural gas production since Feb 2021 (2.6 trillion cubic ft / month then vs 3.5 trillion now, a 34% increase in less than 3 years and an all-time high for the US)
Get over yourself, we'll have global war followed by a thousand years of anarchy before this fucking travesty is over.
Yes, but a lot of it goes to the EU and they lost Russias supply. Similar story with oil. There are massive OPEC+ cuts and the US fills the void.
No wonder they all fucking hate him.
But I guess "both sides" are the same and represent the "status quo", right?
Yeah let's all continue to pretend that being better than the Republicans is good enough that is how we will see meaningful change
I don't expect the work of getting off fossil fuels to be completed in the term of any one President; it's a multi-decade project. He's been doing a lot more than 'better than the Republicans' though.
at least until after the election
Yes, yes, we know... All politicians are corrupt and bad, both sides are the same, don't vote, everything sucks, nothing matters, etc.
Or you could have just the tiniest bit of hope and diligence to improve the world...
"It's not perfect, therefore it's useless, and because it is, I'm going to vote for the worse alternative. Don't make me explain my reasoning further."
The idea that all politicians are corrupt and conniving bastards is mainly a right-wing fiction. They assume everybody acts exactly like they themselves do
That, and if you're not on their side, they want you to be screwed out of your vote and rights, or apathetic because you feel it is all hopeless.
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After the election it'll still be record level drilling, just like there is now.
The record will just be higher
You say that like most Americans wouldn't support doing literally anything that would lower gas prices. The problem is trying to make everyone happy.
I mean, most people I know bring up gas prices before they bring up climate change, if at all. I try to remind these people that while the president/Congress can take actions to increase drilling there are many of us in the US that would prefer they didn't.
I usually then make it clear how obviously easy it is for me to say that as someone that works from home and isn't as impacted by gas prices; context is always important.
That's because it's electrion year lmao
Isn't that the whole purpose of having elections? To make leaders do the right thing.
I mean I also understand the sentiment that the right thing should be done regardless, but if that’s what it takes then that’s what it takes
I am aware, but the reason we're seeing sensationalist articles right now is because it's election year, and the reason certain things were held off until now is because he wanted to look good during an election year
If it is effective I personally don't care what the motive is. Whether it's effective remains to be seen.
The argument may be that once the election is over these sorts of policies will get rolled back again, killing the effectiveness.
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.
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.
these are export terminals.. which are used by the industry to sell the product for more profit than they can get selling it domestically. it also eliminates the ocean-crossing trips made by those pollution-spouting tankers to deliver the product overseas.
This will drive down domestic energy prices as well. So naturally, Fox News cannot cover this
Na, they’ll cover it twenty four seven as an example of the radical left driving up energy prices for hardworking americans, full well knowing that anyone who would do more then take everything they say at face value has long since left.
Shit, you’re right. I was thinking of 2014 Fox News, not 2024 Fox News
Natural gas is commonly produced by fracking. And also, this is about export terminals.
Natural gas comes out of the ground naturally, and isn't necessarily a by-product of gasoline refinement. I can't speak from experience on the refinery side of things, but I can speak from experience on the upstream production side of things. The natural gas we use for power generation, and heat at the facility I work at essentially comes straight out of the ground with minimal processing. Any excess is put back in the ground. That's specific to where I work. I imagine other places, the gas is separated out like we do and sent to "the market."
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Hopefully the trend continues after re-election and this isn’t just a stunt to secure votes.
Why do I feel like every time politicians do the right thing, it's the home budgets of regular people who pay for it?
Regular people are paying for it when a hurricane destroys their city. Think of switching to clean energy as an investment, if having a planet to live on doesn't do it for you. edit: typo
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This is about blocking export terminals. Building them raises domestic prices. So it has a financial benefit for Americans who use gas for heat and has a climate benefit.
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