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They just want healthcare. Is that too much to ask?
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'Beto O'Rourke flips LIFELONG Republican in EPIC display'
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She says the Republican party left her, she didn't leave them. I don't know what she ever saw in the Republican party, but I agree that it is even more horrible now.
'They're just mean'
Often it's an expense needed to save you life. After, housing and food (and income
to have both), healthcare is the most important for people to stay alive.
It's strange that I should remind you about that.
but he's doing better than expected.
The keystone pipeline would increase your supply by only 3%.
It would not lower your oil price, because the oil price is set by the global market.
The global oil shortage is caused by sanctions on Russia and by oil companies ramping down drilling during covid and not ramping it up again. They now make more profits than ever. Adding 3% more oil to the supply of the US would not lower the global oil price. There is more than enough capacity in the US, to increase the supply by 3% today.
But my reason to be against the keystone pipeline is not because of the oil price,
but because Canada is destroying their forests, to scrape away a thin layer of dirty oil.
One cause for climate change is deforestation. Even phart agreed with that.
Canada destroys forests for your gas and you're ignorant about that.
I have never said that you did not have the means to refine all of it.
You either made that up, or you didn't understand. There probably would be
the means to refine it, but it's irrelevant to my point.
Supply and demand, controlled by the free market economy,
of privately owned oil companies, controlling supply and choosing
to not ramp-up production enough, to keep prices high.
That's what I have been saying all along, but it's not the Democrats, stupid.
It's the strategy of the oil companies, who are making record profits.
The Democrats proposed anti-price gauging laws and all the Republicans voted against it, so it's the Republicans who are helping the oil companies, keeping the
oil and gas prices high.
How about thinking of solutions for once? Canada has about six billion barrels of remaining oil reserves located outside the oil sands. The US could make a deal with Canada to stop destroying forests and only extract the six billion barrels that is extractable with much less damage to nature. Than you only need to go around the lands of natives, to restart the Keystone XL pipeline project.
Think about it for a moment.
Do it a bar somewhere
ex-president, America was in really good shape. Now thanks to him and all the idiots that follow him, this country is severely divided and democracy is in danger of leaving this once glorious land. There's a lot of things that should stay the same, but, as a liberal, I know this country should get rid of this Chritian ultra right. They are NOT Christians and destroying this country using the uneducated or semi-educated to do so.
(They are republicans)
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Well, what do you know. The Repuckers were right. Voter fraud is rampant………..they ought to know 🤣
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At the end, the presenter said he would love your comments.
There are no right-wingers there commenting on it. Only 'loony lefties'.
One comment that I liked was: "Tis better to remain Silent & thought a Fool,
than open one's mouth & remove all doubt." ~ Abraham Lincoln
Don't you think you need to go set them straight?
Bet I can guess the interest. Do our politics really affect your country so much?
There are a lot of countries I prefer over the US, so no thanks.
'Do our politics really affect your country so much?'
The US will decide the fate of humanity in the next (few) decade(s).
Or less, if the worst comes to pass.
They only make a profit on people buying snacks, sandwiches and so on, in the store.
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Gas prices go up, Fox 'News' vilifies Biden.
Gas prices go down, Fox 'News' vilifies Biden.
Oil closed today july 12th at $95.84
Wholesale gas, 3.26
Now, the reason I bring this up is that biden is going over to the middle east to "ask", more like "beg" the arabs to make more oil. note the date of this web article.
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Note the dates of this web article.
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The price fell today, BEFORE biden made the trip.
BUT I am willing to bet, that the media will try to make it appear this is a result of bidens visit, which has not happened yet.thus a destined to fail attempt to save votes perhaps?
And to top it off, the opec folks had already decided to increase production 50% in july.
What do you want Biden to do? What would Trump do?
Democrats initiated a law against price gouging by the oil industry. All Democrats
(apart from 4 corporate, oil industry funded assholes) voted in favor of the law.
ALL REPUBLICANS voted against it. So the oil industry can keep price gouging you.
biden could withdraw his order on that and it would show the world we won't be held captive to the middle east.
Trump could easily fill the oil reserves, because demand for oil was at a minimum, due to Covid. The price of oil was below zero. Any dumb-ass would fill the reserves to the absolute maximum. However, when all the reserves were full and oil tankers filled to the brim and not allowed to unload, oil companies stopped production. That takes time to ramp up again. They are almost back to the previous record production.
The only reason why they didn't ramp it up further, was to increase the price and
recover the loss they made during the crisis. But since then, they made record profits. That is price gauging. No pipeline will fix that.
It was a good decision to lower the oil reserves. You fill them when prices are low
and you drain them when prices are high. That's what they are intended for.
The oil market operates on a global level. Higher prices are the results of changes
to supply and demand on a global basis, not just in the US. Selling oil to countries
that have an even higher demand than the US, will lower the price of oil globally.
If you only listen to right-wing media, you don't learn anything.
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We should use our own resources and if theirs are cheaper ,then buy from them.
THat would allow us to get the best price.
Letting other country's decide what we pay is WRONG.
the profits of oil companies. Don't complain to me, because that's capitalism.
Europe is leading the fight against cartels. Republicans are trying to weaken antitrust laws or its enforcement constantly. Remember the baby formula shortage?
The people will suffer the consequences, when the government lets one company (or just a few) buy up all the others or when they are allowed to conspire on supply and price with each other.
But I don't think you are correct that you would get the best price. Your country doesn't own the oil companies, drilling away the oil from under your feet. They will just sell their oil to the highest bidder. When everyone pays the same, there is less incentive to play all the refineries in different countries off against each other.
So on the one hand that global oil price can screw you sometimes,
but on the other hand it could screw you even more when it's abolished.
One benefit of renewables is that there is a whole lot of different technologies, manufacturers and providers competing with each other. It's getting so much cheaper now that staying with fossil fuels is just dumb financially. Sure, the investments are expensive initially, but the return is just awesome. I'm so happy
with my solar panels right now. I'm working on changing our gas hob to induction,
but it's just a little complicated. I want to have it done before my power contract expires, because the next one is sure to be 5x more expensive on natural gas.
But in europes case, solar may be a more viable option than here in the US because of the lack of natural resources at home.
what is a gas Hob?
Ananas is right. Price of gas goes up and Biden gets blamed. Prices of gas goes down and Biden is trying to screw the Ma and Pa gas owners. Biden has little to do with that.
He guaranteed foreign country's control over our energy resources and their cost for the next several years until we can get back on track. biden did that with a ink pen the first few hours he was in office.
The gas prices are going down because everyone has burnt up their credit cards thinking the increase was temporary and they could catch back up later.think about that.
I can understand the need for oversight to make sure pipes can withstand pressure and not leak. This helps protect the losses of profit from oil and protects the environment folks are so concerned about.
but to just flat out stop a pipeline because it is going UNDER a lake or something is stupid. you can bet if it was low income housing and the indians lake was in the way it would be condemed and taken from them for a song and dance and the housing would be built pronto. But since it is for oil,oh fuck that,we don't Americans traveling and enjoying life and being able to get to work any way.
If all the revenue goes directly back into the treasury, the government doesn't need to tax you, after all the oil executives and shareholders got their cut.
Now you have some strange loophole, where the government decide where oil companies can drill for oil, the oil companies make their profits and pay their executives and shareholders AND they pay your politicians, to keep supporting the system that enriches those executives and shareholders.
Unless you are a big shareholder, you are not profiting at all from that system.
A nationalized system would profit you, like it does for countries like Norway, where the people enjoy a Government Pension Fund, because of their oil. only registered users can see external links
And that oil has also paid for their complete transition to renewable energy.
Now Norway is one of the biggest electricity exporters in Europe, selling via cables to the UK, Germany, The Netherlands and Denmark.
According to google translate, a 'gaskookplaat' is a 'gas hob'.
It's a cooktop on natural gas.
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You might be right that natural gas is more expensive in Europe, but in Groningen, which is in the north of The Netherlands, we have the largest natural gas field in Europe, which is just a bit smaller than the natural gas field in Hugoton, USA. It's just that Iran, Qatar and Russia have much more.
Russia used to provide it cheaply and reliably mainly to Germany, Austria and
the Baltic countries. That deal is not looking as 'convenient' as it used to.
It's not like I was writing Chinese:
在愚蠢盛開的花園裡，智慧像野草一樣不受歡迎
You can only ridicule Democrats, because you were taught to do so,
but you have no other ideas than the propaganda that is fed to you.
I know, because I inform myself about that propaganda on a daily basis
and understand how weak of a mind it takes to believe it.
Gas prices have dropped for 7 straight weeks. Did Fox News give him credit?
No off course not, they came up with some BS story about it affecting gas stations.
and blamed Biden, because it would be bad for 'Mom n Pop' gas stations.
What part of it didn't you understand?
If the US is not just involved in our politics directly, which is often.
Americans here were debating if Biden should stop The Nord Stream 1 pipeline.
Ever looked on the map where that pipeline goes?
You don't like it when I have opinions about The Keystone XL pipeline, which would make up 3% of U.S. crude oil imports, a tiny part of your oil demand, but a big impact on Canada's forests and your natives. The US oil reserves are large enough compensate for that. However, your oil companies would rather import even more and then export the products to the rest of the world. Understandable, but not indispensable.
However, destroying forests is affecting climate change and thus everyone.
Before the start of Russia's war in Ukraine, 55% of natural gas consumed in Germany was imported from Russia. Germany is the strongest economy in Europe. Any disruption to their economy affects the whole of Europe and potentially loosing 55% of a vital resource is a huge disruption. I am a big supporter of the transition of natural gas (especially from Russia) to renewable energy sources, but we can't do it overnight. Many countries are starting to use coal again, which is worse for climate change.
I have heard that saying before and I can confirm it's true.
European leaders really have their work cut out for them, to change that.
We should be a lot more self sufficient, economically and military.
Because we cannot not trust the USA anymore to protect our democratic values.
There was some truth in the things Trump said. However, he wanted us to pay more for our protection, by paying the USA. That we shouldn't do. We should not just buy arms from the USA, we should make our own. And not by making arms dealers rich, so they have an incentive to keep the world at war, but by public funding of our own arms industry, which would create the arms we need at cost price, provide honest pay to workers, engineers and leadership, but wouldn't enrich an unnecessarily large top management, not any shareholders and off course no politicians.
For a military weapons industry, I support a communist system; fully owned and controlled by our government(s) and directly funded by taxes. And those weapons shouldn't ever be sold outside of Europe. If Hungary keeps electing fascists like Orbán, they shouldn't have European weapons to protect themselves from Russia either. Because they cannot be trusted to use them wisely or might even use them against us. They will need to chose between democracy, judicial independence and human rights or being a bitch for Putin.
Or because the US sells Europe weapons to give to Ukraine?
All your wars after WWII were because of American interests only.
The only thing close to 'helping' is that the US was our friend,
so the other bullies wouldn't dare attack us. But you did want our
lunch money and copy our homework for that.
Republicans and their supporters are immune to hypocrisy.
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