Yes, that there is the world’s most powerful Democrat (okay, at least top 20, he is nominally the President) telling ExxonMobil and the gang to go get ‘Merica more oil. Now!
Fossil fuels: only a problem until you don’t have them.
Combine this with the NYT trial balloon about Biden being a one-term President (which seems optimistic at this point), and the Democratic internal poll numbers must be in full-on 10,000-feet-a-minute wings-coming-off dive mode.
"Fossil Fuels" is a Rhodes-inspired myth, propagated by the Rockefellers, to imply scarcity, when there is no evidence that hydrocarbon resources are, indeed, scarce.
No, don't think there has, the "ethanol" hoax would indeed take the all time, bogus, pull the wool completely over their eyes, top prize... but then there is the windmill and solar panel hoax to consider for the grand prize. All benefit China while costing the average citizen more and more. I have some ideas from a little researching I've done, but I would LOVE to know the exact cost (to us, to humanity) of just one gallon of "ethanol" ! One source stated it takes about 22 to 25 POUNDS of corn; can this be true ? Could it maybe be 22 to 25 OUNCES to make a gallon, not pounds ? Just THINK how many pounds of FOOD goes into the tanks of Americans every single day !
It would be very frightening to figure out just how MUCH corn is taken out of the food chain, and what the fall out from that is really costing us in our bottom line.... our OWN POCKETS... is there no end to the "smoke and mirrors" people will buy into "lock, stock, and barrel" ??? About as silly as that member of congress (believe from Michigan ?) who proudly proclaimed last week that she drove her electric car all the way to D.C. and .... it didn't cost her ANYTHING...said she just whizzed past the gas stations could not have cared less what the prices were ! Guess she must known how to get her electricity FREE on the drive to D.C. ? ... wonder where that is, where is electricity is FREE ?? I'd like to get some of that ! Wonder if the batteries are also free ? Such a deal !
Those spiffy new rides touted as being powered by energy that’s ‘free and clean’ have a dirty little secret. If you know anyone that’s in the market for one of these Jetsons cars of the future, direct them here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHvq-8np1o.
Oh it would work ! I spent a career in public school administration and watched how the parents demanded an end to the stress of "homework", achievement testing, and the rigorous grading system that put so much stress on their children. It has certainly worked, high school graduation is now less than 50%, and those who do graduate could not even come close to passing the 8th grade test my grandmother had to take in 1937 in order to go on to public high school... they could not even pass half that test covering our form of government, the branches, duties and responsibilities of each, the constitution and all amendments, had to know every right in the Bill of Rights, pass all math facts, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division .... each in 5 minutes or less, and had to write two paragraphs, minimum of 10 complete sentences in each, and with no (zero) grammatical errors. So, we decided as a society, this type of pressure and unreasonable expectation, together with the barbaric practice of making mandatory 12 years of education, needed to end ! Then we decided that cell phones, once banned from the classroom and "condemned" to spend their days in dank, dark, lockers until after school, were invited into the classroom. That greatly helped the students pass the boring classroom hours as their teachers sat at their desks with their own personal cell phones (once required to be left in their personal autos during their paid teaching hours) and checked their home security cameras, ordered personal items and gifts from online stores, texted messages to their spouses and children, and set up appointments and made vacation plans and reservations. All this technical progress made everyone happy, almost jubilant. Everyone was no longer stressed. "Grades" were relegated to the status of unimportant, or, eliminated all together, as the tended to stigmatize certain groups of students (those who did not study and/or who did not attend school on a regular basis).
So now we are finally able to tell the population anything, no matter how ridiculous, and the "masses" will believe it. They would believe anything they are told to the point where they can be convinced that turning food commodities, such as corn, into gasoline, is an intelligent move ! That diverting food to fuel has no unintended consequences. They might also shake their collective heads in agreement, that if the gather 50-60K, the most "intelligent" purchase is NOT a home, but an electric auto which would allow them to drive absolutely FREE, for the rest of their lives. Not a mention of the minerals that go into a battery, or WHERE those minerals reside in the world, or the HUMAN COST of the unprotected children forced into slave labor to mine those minerals, why not talk about that COST ? What happens when we run out of those rare minerals, and children to mine them ? Perhaps a MANDATORY classic traditional education in classrooms WITHOUT cell phones, is not such a terrible idea after all ? Wouldn't it be interesting to institute this type of education for ALL, no matter how wealthy or poor, and then do a comparative study to determine the affect on the mental health of children (including suicide, mass shootings, crime, etc. ) of the "stress" of homework and study on students, as compared to the affects of drugs, alcohol, aimlessness and lack of immediate goals, that not making mandatory education a foundation of our nation. Would mental health improve ? Would mass killings go down (in other words, could mass killing be a combination of mental illness and limited education that results in an inability to
analyze one's own circumstances rationally ? Would life for everyone improve if everyone received an education in the classical areas of study rather than the newest social or cultural "fad" that comes along ?
That kind of "thinking" is similar to "Freedom is indeed, FREE". After all, our own president said he chooses "facts" over "truth", and now we do too !
So, so true: " ....and those who do graduate could not even come close to passing the 8th grade test my grandmother had to take in 1937 in order to go on to public high school... "
It's really MORE than just "frightening" to think what it took to build the most literate population on the globe for a country of this size, and then what it took to destroy it to the degree that we've been able work our way down the list so we rank below Russia and Cuba (to use an example of a very large diverse country, and a very small, more homogeneous country). Also interesting to ponder: Mandatory attendance, rote learning, regular review, and frequent testing, all once cornerstones of U.S. public education, along with (truant officers, fines for blatantly irresponsible parents, homework that included flash cards of basic mathematical computations, vocabulary words, and basic grammatical structure such as nouns, verbs, adverbs, etc., an A,B,C,D,F grading scale that "labeled" students, "honor rolls", and all those unfair, unequal, shameful practices our country once engaged in, have proved to be immensely successful in Japan and other countries which have left us steadily dropping from the literacy rankings. Now I am pondering, has this abandonment of pressure on our children resulted in a a LOWER suicide rate ? A LOWER drug addiction rate ? A LOWER percentage of eventual adults who are unable to support themselves ? Fewer "gangs", less violence, and less aimlessness ? That would be a priority to study and compare if we actually WANTED to improve our system of free public education !
There was no "We" involved with the fascist plan to dumb down our schools, including the exclusion of American history for social studies, rhetoric, CRT and sexual perversion training. Too many of us ignored who were running our school and what they were teaching. It's time to take them back! The quickest and easiest way to that end is to attach education money to the kids. When parents choose a quality school over an indoctrination factory, the money goes with the kid -- towards the good school and away from the factories of hate & incompetence. Crush them financially!
This is an excellent summary. Albeit a depressing one. The NEA produces ( used to anyway, I stopped looking at it years ago it was so sad) an annual score card which assesses themselves. The respective 8th and 12th grade proficiencies in the “ 3 Rs “ was shockingly poor. Embarrassing. I wonder how much of this degeneration was due to immigration and race pandering.
I believe your are correct, not certain, but I believe they have dropped that type of annual report. Those types of actions were necessary to demonstrate the difference in a professional organization and a union, but would no longer be necessary once the organization if deeply inculcated into the very fabric of our educational system. Once organizations who looked like a duck, walked like a duck and talked like a duck had to work HARD to prove they were NOT DUCKS. But once just an accepted part of the culture, no longer have to deny they are... DUCKS !
Probably a GREAT DEAL can be traced directly to the pandering and immigration. Presently, the UNRESTRAINED immigration by illegal means is not going to help raise us out of this abysmal state we find ourselves in presently, where the average person easily falls for any scapegoat (target) set up by any politician. From "evil" corporations, to "evil" profits, to "evil" CEO's (and of course there ARE such), to a particular culture or religion, no one even stops to think anymore when such claims are made by both political parties ! The book S. Blumenfeld wrote years ago, N.E.A. Trojan Horse in American Education, frightened that union to the point where the book was largely suppressed. This "works" because, for the most part, people do NOT want to think of individual members, teachers, as part of an "evil" plot. For the most part, teachers were members of the community, with "middle class" values, so typical of the USA. But like most union members, they believe the only objective of a union is to protect people from "abuse", it's always worked and it still works today. Teachers were convinced, while still in college, that the N.E.A. was NOT a union, it was a PROFESSIONAL organization, and that they (students) should join immediately, while still students, to demonstrate their "professionalism" before they could be confronted with pressure to join a "teacher's union", like A.F. of T. Then, all over the USA, communities "closed shop", if an applicant refused membership in the N.E.A. and refused automatic payments from their salary, the community, the parents, the school board, simply did not want those kinds of people teaching their children. In this way, P.A.C.T.'s, organizations such as planned parenthood, etc. were guaranteed a endless funding from the earnings of teachers, some of whom did not even want to support the causes they were making automatic donations to from every paycheck ! Now, we are where we are ! Parents stopped attending school board meetings, or caring even who the members of the board were, sincere dedicated individuals, whose life's goal was to be that "wonderful, inspiring, teacher they had when in school", were forced to just shrug, hand over part of their earnings to causes they did not believe in, all to be allowed work in an area they loved. And the big lie became, that without the salary negotiations demanded by the union, and the contractual agreements, the teachers would be shamefully abused by the community. So, where do we draw the line ? When do we begin to look for the MANIPULATIVE, hidden, Machiavellian origins of many of the issues surrounding us ?
Who can resist the idea ? Drive past any gas station now and think: IF ONLY I can get that 50-60K, a ONE TIME expenditure for $$$ free driving for the rest of your life ! And just think, we have finally achieved the goal that the "average" high school graduate is giddy with delight at that idea !
Sure am cynical... and to think BEFORE I spent years in the administration of public education, and then years as a university professor, I used to think of my own undergrad professors as: HOW CAN they be so CYNICAL, HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN TO SOMEONE ? LOL !
What isn't ? Just nonsensical isn't it ? It's just impossible to apply what we learned to be the steps in "rational" thought (such as those taught long ago when public schools offered optional activities such as debate clubs, and debate teams) to what is fed to the masses daily now ! Just the one small example that saving for years for an electric vehicle will reward you with a life time of free driving ? Just think of all the things you can buy and do to enrich your life by never having to pay for gasoline again.... ever ! Think of that as a debate team topic 30, 40 years ago ? How would the teacher/leader of the team or club guide the student team to find the "holes" in that "logic" ?? Now, few doubt it !
Throw in Cloward and Pivan’s “Overwhelm the System” and it all makes sense…
I don’t know how following a “playbook” to attack America and the Constitution isn’t treason…especially when you follow step by step…
Once the biden* administration inflicts real poverty on the American Middle class…then maybe they will be willing to do as they say…mandates experimental drive injections…
No shot…no food…no life…they are killing people openly to accumulate power…
Funny thing is, they already suggested and enacted “laws” that would do just that…starve to non-compliant…
Completely agree. A person saying "fossil fuels" may as well be saying "I am a certifiable idiot." Berenson included. Where did the dinosaurs or ancient ferns get the carbon? Did T-Rex rub 2 diamonds together to free up trapped carbon? Nope. All the carbon in the universe has been here since . . . your choice - big bang or God made it. The dinosaurs and ancient ferns simply were the beneficiaries of this most wonderful of elements. Just like us.
I probably shouldn't comment (germanely); could get banned. Though the freaks fret about carbon dioxide (and worse, hydride - methane; fluoride also pretty bad) rather than the element, though they call their obsession that. When they talk about a "carbon footprint", I wonder if they somehow imagine a trail of charcoal briquettes.
Means "relevant" https://www.dictionary.com/browse/germ My condolences only frozen apple juice, but not grape, is affordably available now. The nongermane comments could have addressed char-grilling. Germans enjoying steak tartare?
I'm referring to the available carbon on Earth being recycled and re-utilized through history. Carbon is critical to our existence. It's not something to be feared.
And most people have NO CLUE how many Consumer,Medical,Industrial products are made with Petrol.....Remember the Movie The Graduate?? I'm all for finding lower carbon substitutions for consumer products...Bamboo, Corn, Hemp etc...WAY TOO MUCH Post Consumer Plastic Waste
Biologists like to pretend they understand photosynthesis, but they don't. It is at its core a mystery, just as all of life is. Science can never understand it, because the mystery is not accessible to the scientific project or method. Science tries to solves this problem by denying the reality of the mystery. The hubris of scientists is monumental. And it is dangerous!
I’m reading “ Believing is Seeing” right now by Guillen & I believe you. Science & Christianity is not that far apart scientifically & certainly not opposites like most think. Great book!
Years ago a popular science writer posited that most scientists are inherently dishonest as they consciously or unconsciously work to produce their expected outcomes. And I suspect our current crop of scientists are the most dishonest of all, as they justify cheating for the common good (as they see it).
Indeed! Do you happen to recall the name of the popular science writer who said that? Was it by any chance Ben Goldacre? He published a book over a decade ago called Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks, and followed that with another called Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients.
Yup. Takes high pressure and high heat to attach protons to make new elements. Think you can only get up to iron, with nucleosynthesis. Think it was only in the early 1940's that they realized that's how elements were made. Anything having more protons than iron has to be created via supernova.
Think that's right. Don't hesitate to correct if I'm wrong.
Anybody else read the "making of the atomic bomb" Richard Rhodes? Fantastic book, almost as good a RFK's "The real Anthony Fauci" <kidding. more interesting than POS Fauci>
Yes, I read "The Making of the Atomic Bomb." It's a monumental book!
Richard Rhodes wrote an equally impressive sequel a number of years later:
"Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb."
But Kennedy's book is even more spectacular and impressive (in terms of the massive investigation required to write it) than either or both of these two books combined, and I'd say it's even more important. "The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health" is the most important non-fiction book of our era.
Slightly beyond, but not much. (Significant nickel in "iron" meteors and asteroids.) Absolute stop at silver. (WP: "Both isotopes of silver are produced in stars via the s-process" - ref 21.) Iron is at the bottom of The Curve of Binding Energy (title of an extremely entertaining Ted Taylor book).
Did you make a joke about H. G. Wells' 1895 "The Time Machine"?
So T-Rex put what into his stellar nucleosythesis kiln to make the fossil fuel?
Can we at least agree that all of the carbon within 9,000 miles of the center of the earth has been here since there was an earth so my original point of the term "fossil fuel" is asinine?
Anyway, all those stellar nucleosynthesizing carbon factories are too far away and the cost of gas is too high to get those carbons here anyway. Also Biden shut down the stellar nucleosythesizing pipeline to protect our climate from all of that additional carbon being fusioned by white supremacists.
Get with the program! The term is White Nationalists now. It’s a twofer... casting aspersions on Caucasians AND Patriots by tying Patriots to White Supremacists. What’s the opposite of a Nationalist? A Globalist.
Is this a crackemup? Yeah, lots of carbon deep in the earth. Some even surfaces as diamonds, other portions as graphite. While ca 1900 Mormons thought men were on the moon and in the sun, I dunno about any T-rex critters in the sun.
There is nothing wrong with the term “fossil fuels”. The term does not imply scarcity. Scarcity is not why people want to stop depending on fossil fuels. They think fossil fuels cause climate change. That is the idea we need to fight. Not the use of the term “fossil fuels.” Let’s keep our eye on the ball.
Even rational liberals (sometimes not an oxymoron) like Shellenberger (who is running for Ca gov) realize that the Earth isn't going to warm up to harmful levels. But there are those who certainly use that fallacy for their own power, like enviro politicians and globalists. The fallacy should be studied, and probably would be, if people like Fauci were not around to only direct research money only toward projects he had an interest in. Certainly we are paying a price for this BS, and not just financially.
It has nothing to do with intellectual interest and every tint to do with financial interests. Let the NIH get royalties on carbon production and away we go…
Scarcity is not the point. Imprecision and negative connotations are the point. The left lives on vocabulary manipulation to force emotional people to react against their own interests. Letting the idiotic term "fossil fuels" be further misused is a problem. The term is very wrong. My eye is precisely on the ball.
Then go ahead and waste your time convincing intelligent people who are already on our side to start using “appropriate” terms. Maybe you can suggest some useful pronouns to go along with that.
Well, dinosaurs lived and died for 165 million years. That's a lot of fossils and decomposition...however, if you want to increase the price of a commodity, insist that it is scarce.
No, the reason is the ESG movement, which has sought to demonize everything hydrocarbon. Big Oil has restricted their expenditures on exploration and development, continually for 7 years as a result. This is how we get to today.
Governments continue to tax, over regulate and disdain the industry as well, compounding the problem.
Pipelines anybody?
The chickens have come home to roost, created by the maniacal left and environmental radicals.
It ain’t Putin’s fault. That’s the lazy excuse for the intellectually challenged.
The other part of these phony complaints is "corporate greed." Well...how many pension plans, as well as individual shareholders, invested in corporations--so stock dividends are paid to those investors.
It’s all part of the Marxist attempt to “fundamentally change the United States of America”. Obama the Flexible used that phrase countless times and laughed at us as he said it.
Couple that with too many people who are financially illiterate. They don't understand how the economy works--along with Marxists' attempts to demonize profits/corporations/business.
Uh oh, be careful.....Gampa Joe might blame the dinosaurs next. He is looking for a new scapegoat. Trump, Ultra Magas, Parents at school meetings, Putin, and the oil companies haven't worked yet. LOL
I think subduction of oceanic algae can go pretty deep. (Deep enough they only release natural gas and carbon, but the oil is all decomposed. This leaves black shale; oil shale if not fully decomposed. And green shale if the carbon gets oxidized or eroded out from percolating hydrogen - the green is from ferrous iron, which isn't fully oxidized or it would be red, orange, or yellow.) Land plants predominantly produce coal, and precious little since the carboniferous era ended 300 million years ago when fungi degraded lignin. (Lucky us, or most life would be extinct.) However, coal inventories are rather vast.
It seems like it would be easier to continue investing in newer and more effective clean coal technologies than the current mix of solar,wind, and the hot gases coming from the ladies of The View.
If you’ve ever considered getting a gym membership, you’ve had the scarcity card played on you. “This offer is only good if you sign up while on your facility tour”. Technically the “take away close” but close enough for government work.
Nothing wrong with some pure supposition now and again. Who knows, a little pure supposition, and before you know it, you have a thought out of the box....which might even lead to an idea that leads to a whole new way of looking at a problem...
Abiotic methane (natgas) generation has significant evidence to date. This paper concludes around 4% of the total biotic methane generation is produced by ophicarbonate tectonic subduction. There will almost certainly be other geologic processes identified in the future. Assumptions had also been made that abiotic methane generation was too small a contribution as well, but apparently this was a bad assumption. You know the saying when science "assumes" something.........
If that actually occurs (less than 1% chance it's true; the fields that showed "abiotic" oil production likely had seepage from nearby fields) the rate of production is far too low to make a difference.
In 1892, at the Geneva Convention, JD Rockefeller paid scientist to call oil a “fossil fuel” to induce the idea of scarcity, in order to set a ‘world price’ for oil. The truth is that oil is actually the second-most prevalent liquid on earth next to water, and regenerates within the earth faster than it can be depleted. In 1953, the Rockefeller Foundation in agreement with the world changed the frequency of music. They changed it from it’s natural harmonic resonance 432hz to the current consciousness suppressing 440hz. We are seeing the fruits of Rockefeller in our school and medical systems. Rockefeller’s and Rothchild’s are the minds behind all the wars and the denigration of our society for hundreds of years. They are the WEF. The rest of the members are their puppets. When Trump talked about an invisible enemy he wasn’t taking about covid. Rather the WEF who believe in eugenics and total control of our brains and lives. The Great Reset motto….you will own nothing and be happy.
In fact, there is significant evidence that methane (natgas) at least is abiotically generated by geological processes including tectonic subduction of ophicarbonates (carboniferous rocks) on a massive scale. No fossils required, with methane production around 4% of the total biotic methane production from this studied reaction alone. Expect more evidence of abiotic methane production to be revealed in the future and this percentage to increase.
Begin studying the development of synthetic fuels and you will find that "Fossil Fuels" is a myth just like Peter Duke says above. During WW2 two German chemists, Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch worked on synthetic fuels because Germany had no combustible natural resource other than coal. It proved too costly to synthesize crude oil or natural gas (methane) directly and far cheaper to just extract from the ground.
After the war the scientists learned about these equations and the early fracking attempts by the Germans. Geologists discovered the reason why the Arabian peninsula had so much oil and it wasn't because they had more dinosaurs. They discovered that the earth was synthesizing natural gas and crude oil from a process known and "abiotic oil synthesis".
The scientists were able to produce methane and crude oil in a lab without having to drill into old dinosaurs. Later, other scientists experimented with attempts to fossilize reptilean flesh to see if it made crude oil and where unsuccessful. They found it to be impossible.
Countries like Saudi Arabia are "naturally fracked" which means that some of the hard layers of stone and shale in the Earth's crust are cracked and propped open with a hard porous material like sand. The earth-made methane and crude oil can then percolate up thru the fissures and pool in porous layers above.
On a grand scale they studied abiogenic petroleum synthesis and found it was cheaper to harvest it from the earth. Almost all Russian oil production is by means of fracking. Likewise, the USA grew to the world's largest oil producer under President Trump through fracking and relying on the abiogenic process.
Today, if you go buy 5 quarts of oil for a car oil change you will find almost all man-made synthetic oils; and they're purer than earth-made crude oils.
I think it is wonderful that there are advanced myth-busters among us. I suggest we take a break from challenging the climate change myth and instead work on a list of perhaps 500 other myths (starting with the “fossil fuel” myth of course) that need to be challenged. Because how can we justify focusing on one myth when there are other myths? Then, once the 500 have successfully been debunked, we can get back to challenging the myth of climate change (if it’s not too late).
Climate change is not a myth. The data show it is changing and the overwhelming forcing is the changing chemistry of the atmosphere, which causes it to trap more heat.
The three society-altering issues we are facing in the first half of this century are declining conventional oil production, the rapidly changing climate (which is already disrupting crop production) and the inevitable bursting worldwide debt bubble.
You are free to ignore all these issues and fail to prepare yourself and your community; most people who don't understand our predicaments are doing that (ignoring them).
The myth is that climate change is something to worry about. Something (like the plandemic) that governments of the world, the media, favored corporations, wealthy busy bodies, actors and pop stars need to save us from. The Earth’s climate has always changed. Life on the planet has either adapted, flourished or disappeared. Overall, life has shown quite an ability to adapt and remain here. Those who believe scientists and government bureaucrats saved us from eminent destruction from the recent plandemic likely believe scientists, media and government bureaucrats are the ultimate truth tellers and thus believe whatever is reported by the climate change industry. It is an industry as dependent on fear and falsehoods as the pharmaceutical industry. If and when mankind needs to adapt to climate change mankind will adapt. We will adapt by billions of individual choices that won’t be obvious. Government intervention will not be needed and will instead get in the way.
Can you give an example of how climate change has impacted you personally and how you have tried to adapt to it or why you think you are not able to adapt to it? Keep in mind we were fearful of global cooling 50 years ago and somehow lived through it.
All radiative forcing computer models ignore water vapor. Until I see a good computer model I can run in Matlab that includes water vapor I will continue to believe that man-made climate change is not the causative factor of the earth's slight warming trend.
Maps from 1000 years ago show a large river running east to west across North Africa and ancient maps depict large lakes where the Sahara desert is today.
Likewise, a large Pueblo-ean culture developed and thrived in remote Northwestern New Mexico in Chaco Canyon where there is currently no one today,
And, olive cultivation was on a par with wine-making in the Rhine Valley 1000 years ago.
Abiotic oil is an unproved theory. Each attempt has failed; it was oil seeping in from nearby that caused the reservoir to refill.
Besides, even if it were true, it happens too slowly to make a difference for us.
Feel free to share your evidence for it. The last time I looked at this was 10 years ago.
As for flow rates, nothing can compare to the giant and super-giant oil fields that were first found. And this is where the concept of energy return on energy invested (EROEI) comes in, which is a way to calculate the net energy profit.
Just as plenty of net cash profit gives a company more options including the ability to invest in new projects, a high energy profit (i.e a high EROEI) allows a society to do much more—which we've done.
The remaining energy sources all have poor EROEI when compared to the liquid energy gold that is oil (early fields were about 100 to 1—enormous net energy profit). Fracking has poor EROEI. I would have to look up the chart to see where it lands but it's nowhere near convention oil derived from the early oil fields.
I'm will agree on one thing. I believe it takes longer for the earth to produce one barrel of crude oil than it takes for us to consume one barrel of the same whether it is abiotically produced or from a dinosaur. Subterranean temperatures and pressures are definitely sufficient for the Tropsch-Fischer equations to be satisfied and there is carbon and hydrogen as well but in varying abundances.
With current technology, of course...Now, if the left will just stay out of science, who knows what discoveries are ahead of us...That, and if we would just stop killing the next Einstein or Newton through abortion.
As far as we know, that is...Who knows what the future will discover, seeing as the Earth's crust ranges up to 18 km, and the deepest drilling is under 2 km. The problem is the expense of the scraping, not the bottom of the barrel.
Converting hydrocarbons such as oil formed over millions of years to CO2 within 1 century is a 1 time energy bonanza that will not be repeated. Oil and gas are indeed scarce, or will very rapidly become so, when the rate of formation is << rate of consumption. Energy return on energy invested used to be 100 to 1 (100 barrels of oil for 1 consumed in extraction). Now it's about 1 tenth of that. Yes the carbon is still there in the CO2 but it is dissipated and it requires a lot of energy, materials or land to convert it back into a combustible hydrocarbon. As evidenced by Bidens uturn, we are going to use all available oil, because our civilisation and economic system depends on exponential growth. But when EROEI approaches 1, we'll be in for very unpleasant times,
Maybe eventually, but they are discovering new oil all the time--there are more reserves than they thought there were. Destroying our economy and potentially civilization because of geopoliticalstate instability and war will not provide the impetus for continued research to actually develop alternatives. At the same time they're wasting food crops (corn), driving up food prices with the ridiculous ethanol requirement that actually increases carbon emissions, and is not good for engines, because of the agricultural lobby.
The Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stones. The Oil Age won’t end when we run out of oil. We’ll find something better. Not my quote but I like it.
No, there are 500 giant and super-giant oil fields out of 15,000 in production. The oil that is being discovered now is scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Please supply source for that. We have heard that for years and then as if by magic more technology, more oil. We are a few years away from endless nuclear (and beyond) power if government and fear mongers get out of the way.
Thank you for informing folks of these important concepts. It's good to see someone who understands our predicament.
However, I would say we are in trouble long before the EROEI reaches 1. Solar is about 20 to one and civilization would radically change if we had to run on just solar.
I was being sarcastic. We've known how to use nuclear energy for 80 years. Our overlords have determined that we shouldn't have access to cheap power at scale. So here we are.
It's been a while since I've watched that and I don't have 90 minutes for that now. If memory serves, they were wrong because their evidence was actually oil seeping in from nearby once the pressure where they were drilling had been relieved.
Dementia Joe’s clearly not running the show. His woke puppet handlers are pulling his strings, but every once in a while he says something off script in a moment of clarity, like drill more supply. This causes his handlers to yell “cleanup on isle Joe!”
T2 had it right, Brandon is basically King Moonracer, the monarch of the Island of Misfit politicians. Kamaltoe Hairlip, Secretary Pete Buttplug, Rear Admiral Rachel, et al are his charges.
I would agree that Joe's not in charge. What bothers me is that more people are not constantly demanding very loudly that we should know exactly WHO (or which group of people) are actually making all these crazy decisions. This needs to be public knowledge. Everyone is tip-toeing around this subject.
Only the Intelligence would have the “dossiers” to inflict with Weismann Way…
Bribery, Extortion and incarceration…
…only President Trump has the 1st hand understanding with significant motivation to resist that, what will obviously be the MOST significantly divisive election strategy AND Brandon’s “election fraud network”
I know…I really can’t imagine the three stooges having that much power, but until Clapper, Comey and Brennan are arrested and their crimes against America adjudicated the real puppet masters can not be exposed…
…but NONE of this happens without compliant 3 letters; FBI, CIA, DOJ
Where are the whistleblowers, where are Hannity’s 99% of FBI are the “good guys”, right
Stunning circular logic on Joe's part. So, if higher prices encourage lower production, then why did eliminating unnecessary regulation under Trump lead to a boom in production? There goes your asinine theory, Joe.
The truly sad truth is, each and every policy of this administration can be successfully dissected through the very same simple process of applying logic. They are all found to be convoluted exercises in irrational thinking.
He does this because he thinks Americans are stupid. On his first day in office he signed an Executive order reversing EVERYTHING Trump had done to make us energy independent. But hey we don’t have mean tweets.
Brandon is lying again! He cut off new oil leases & the vast producing pipeline & then shortage of oil & gas are the oil companies fault. What a useless Resident Brandon is!
He killed Keystone XL on Day One. 600,000 barrels a day of Canadian crude was killed. Wonder why prices are high? Democrats hate us and want us to suffer.
And all of the associated jobs. Killed. Joe Biden, Job Killer. Don't worry, he'll pay you to stay home and subsidize your food, medical, housing, telephone, cable, car, and EV.
This, and this pretty much alone, is the reason the entire inflation thing is out of control. Everything you touch moves via diesel powered engines. If diesel is $7/gallon, your costs go up. Keep it simple, Stupid.
There was a recent headline they denied more lease applications than they intended due to a math error. We are fully into the incompetence and looting stage of collapse.
“Sec. 208. Oil and Natural Gas Development on Public Lands and in Offshore Waters. To the extent consistent with applicable law,the Secretary of the Interior shall pause new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or in offshore waters pending completion of a comprehensive review and reconsideration of Federal oil and gas permitting and leasing practices in light of the Secretary of the Interior’s broad stewardship responsibilities over the public lands and in offshore waters, including potential climate and other impacts associated with oil and gas activities on public lands or in offshore waters. ...”
This "pause", going on now for 18 months, is supposedly going to end when BLM (Bureau of Land Management) later this year resumes selling drilling rights on public lands, but 80% less land will be available for lease! And they raised the royalty rates for leases to 18.75 %, an increase of 50%. Gee, I wonder who that rate increase will be passed onto? These people hate us.
Did anyone else notice the timing of the announcement to drop testing for US international entry by air? Almost immediately after disastrous CPI increase.
But still requiring any non citizens to submit to the clotshot if they come into the US legally. If illegal, they don’t care if you’re vaxxed. Science!
Keep your pee pee to yourself and only a known and trusted long term lover and you have nothing to fear about monkeypox. Oh, and don't lick a pox laden alphabet person.
CDC was supposed to have a news conference at 1:00 pm EST yesterday and by 3:30, it didn't happen. I guess they just didn't want to eat crow (or answer questions) publically. Cool now stop the war in Ukraine so I can visit my ancestral homelands in Transylvania.
Speaking of fake pandemic bullshit, something that has got by the majority of the world because I absolutely despise this saying. This phrase. “The mainstream media.”
To me, me there’s nothing main stream about, what I call “THE NETWORK NEWS CABAL. ABC CBS NBC CNN MSDNC.” The phrase main-stream is akin to ”normal”. there’s nothing normal what this cabal does that is in direct collusion with each other, what all they do to gaslight the entire United States.
And what they refused to do, run stories / articles. What They refused to run was all the horrible intel the Trump Administration, The British Government went on to shut there country down and like us,
They did.
But who did they get their intelligence from? And fully approved by? You got it. “Fuck-em- Fauci.” every time I see a picture of him those are the words that come to mind. Because he will do that to you, To me, to the entire country in a heartbeat.
They received their goof-ball intel from the University Of Washington,
“The Hans Rosling Center for Population Health.” HDMI DEPT. The CDC Fully approved.
A major thing they refused to print the story they refuse to run is the fact the British government was given the same information concerning about how many people would die in their country. No matter what they did just like the Trump administration was given a fictitious very high number.
In a nutshell, What was given to both countries leaders and, and to each leaders team. To boil it down to gravy the University told him along these lines. “Do all you can to stop it but, no matter what you do, your still going to see around 7 million die here in America.
5 million, throughout the UK 🇬🇧 A few months ago the British government wound up suing the university to get their money back because they paid them to run similar modules like they did for the Trump Administration. They sued in British Court and won. Biiig time..
I'd love to see that announcement - I can't find it anywhere - thanks. Today someone I know tried to cross a land border from Canada to the U.S. and were turned back. Thanks for any info.
As to Canada I don't know - but an unvaccinated person cannot visit Canada. I hope the vaccination requirement in Canada is dropped ASAP, I'm in SoCal and miss you guys. We used to have Canadian licenses plates on the road EVERYWHERE - now none ;(
No, Canada did not drop their fascist regulations. They only changed the vaccine pre-testing requirement, and moved testing elsewhere. But, it’s window dressing. The airport problems will continue, until ALL requirements are dropped by the Chinada regime.
We are still prisoners in our own country. Broke no laws, stood up for our Charter Rights, and have been zealously penalized as a result, by a Rogue government.
There are no such things as Charter Rights. If the government can alienate those rights then they are not rights. God gave you rights with your creation. Your government, courts, legislature, and co-subjects of Trudeau violated those rights. Maybe the only solace is that almost every civilized citizen in the world was also thusly violated. I am most aghast at the lack of manly response to this predictable power grab by tyrannical leftist politicians. Their being evil is no surprise. Meek/no manly counter response it a horrible surprise.
I am not in Canada, but I am so hoping that there is a sort of underground that is forming. One that will help people all over Canada work around the tyranny. Is it bad in the countryside or just in cities?
Hopefully the US might drop the vaccination requirement for international visitors to come to the country. Then unvaxxed Canadians could drive across the border.
I was referring to the protesters. Not the people who committed violence in the Capitol. One of the things that the MSM won't tell you is that there were an estimated 120,000 people protesting that day. Out of any crowd of that size, you're going to have a few hundred idiots. Throw in some FBI assets to push them along and voila, you get the people who entered into the Capitol. Like Chewbacca man. Moron.
It's even worse than this. Blackrock and other ESG proxy shareholder activists convinced ExxonMobile to reduce production from 5 million barrels a day to 3.5 million barrels a day. It was seen as this huge ESG win at the time. Now, not so much.
ESG is evil. Where the hell is the Harvard Business School illuminati when you need it to counter this socialism on an intellectual and policy level? Oh yeah, they've been assimilated by the leftie-Borg. Resistance is futile.
Larry fink becoming an activist shareholder with all of the index funds they hold was the biggest most ridiculous power grab in the history of capitalism. Nobody gave him that right, he just grabbed it. Totally ignored by the press.
How can an administration be, all at the same time, incompetent, clueless, and deviously evil? If it was just one of the above, good people might be able to overcome the destruction.Makes me weep for our beloved country.
The people you 'see' are not the ones making the decisions. The 'incompetent' label is a distraction. If ever you needed proof the 'President' does not make decisions, look at the last 2.
I work in the periphery of ONG and they are not investing a dime while an openly hostile regime threatens their every financial move. They are waiting for November's results. Period. It is that simple.
Vote against democrats at every level, folks, or the "beatings will continue until your morale improves."
Correct. Probably nothing as the bureaucracy is really in charge. Democrips and UniParty republicans are determined to see how far the People can be pushed with expensive gas and diesel. It won't be far.
He assumes we don’t know the policies he put in place to destroy the industry. Granted those under the spell of mainstream media propaganda narratives will fall for it but he’ll still look bad. These people are stupid.
I am a petroleum engineer and a fifty year veteran of the oil and gas industry. Yeh Biden denies permits to drill on land the government has already leased to oil companies, it brow beats big Wall Street Investors like Black Rock who now refuse to invest in oil and gas drilling, shuts down the Keystone and then blames oil and gas companies for not drilling. Having drilled a couple thousand wells, I know it takes 6 to 12 months to get a well ready to drill onshore on private lands because of leasing, title issues and compliance with many government agencies. Now drilling and workover companies have the trucks and equipment but are having trouble finding hands to work who aren't on drugs and who want to work. Legalized drugs like marijuana with drugs coming over the border and stimulus check and rent moratorium are largely the reason. Biden if you want to find the real person to blame look at yourself in the mirror.
Thanks for the info. Unfortunately democrats are not the only guilty ones. Why are republicans more interested in sending money to Ukraine than protecting the American people? Baby formula shortage, what a joke! It’s all about climate change and the great reset, and no politician with a few exceptions cares about the people. Try and listen to Daniel Horowitz podcast on conservative review, he tells what really is going on politically in the USA. I don’t think Alex has a clue, he is still too liberal and a bit naive. Btw, I live in the UK and believe me what happens in “Merica” affects the whole world.
Would like to know the # who did who now regret they did (vote for the puppet). Although, the vast majority of them probably cannot confront the reality of being so conned or duped. That wake up reality just too much for those types.
33% approval rating (probably an oversampling of dems as historically happens so this number is high).
33% of 231 mn citizens over 18 years old = 76 Mn "approvers".
Thus, a minimum of 5 Mn regret their vote.
This assumes the non-voters approve of Brandon in the same ratio as those dead, illegal, and alive multi-voters who love Joe. That is a horrible assumption.
If we assume non-voters to be as non-approving as independents then a better assumption of regretters is about 25 million. Will they vote rationally or let their emotions and the MSM drive them to vote for incompetent tyrannical leftie control again?
So pathetically many are just shockingly uninformed about what is going on. California just had a primary with a 30% voter turnout. How do you remove people from power when the voters don't go vote?
So, if my father was still alive offering up his often a bit crude “ gems”…he would say, “ Excuses are like assholes, they all stink.” What stench is coming out of this administration.
As a farmer, we need fuel, fertilizer, grease, oil, tires, and the list goes on. You like to eat, farmers want to produce for the world. Evidently, Biden and his administration can’t see the forest or the trees. The lunatics are truly running the asylum.
We can’t even get these idiots to answer the basic climate questions, like: what’s going to happen to the price of electricity if everybody’s using it to charge their cars ON TOP of normal usage? How are people who are already struggling to fill the tank going to buy new electric vehicles? And the most important climate question of all: Why aren’t we developing new nuclear plants as we make this ‘incredible transition’? (at gunpoint)
Instead of providing answers, Biden continues to blame greedy oil companies for the increase in prices, and is now contemplating a ‘windfall profits’ tax in order to buy some goodwill with Americans. (Note how Biden & the other economic ignorants always talk about total profit in dollars, neglecting to mention that companies are impacted by inflation just like we are, and that high profit number might actually be less profit overall)
Biden professes to be doing everything possible to bring prices down — everything but the obvious: increase supply. He’s willing to inflict real pain on Americans to score political points with people who wouldn’t vote Republican if their lives depended on it. (*cough* Jay Inslee *cough*)
But don’t you worry, as Americans are slowly slipping underwater at home, Biden and Congress will be ready to help — Ukrainians. After all, that $40 billion aid package will only last about five months, and our goal is to draw Russia into a Ukrainian quagmire of Afghan proportions. How long were we fighting over there, again?
If everybody gets electric cars, the price of electricity won't be the problem. The problem will be that the electric grid can't support that much demand. Anyone notice how some states already have rolling brownouts in the summer when everyone is turning on their AC? What do they think is going to happen if everyone is charging their cars every single night?
This is what mandates do - mandate misery usually worse than what they were meant to address i hope the cities cook this summer due to lefties voting in leftists doing leftist stuff.
My sister in law bought a Chevy Volt in 2014. She's very low income, and had an 8 year loan on it, which will be paid off in November. It won't start now....probably needs a new battery already, even though the car only has 45,000 miles on it. Given the price of a new electric battery, she simply cannot afford to replace it. So I would ask Joe Biden and the other climate nuts, how is someone like her going to buy and keep an electric car running. A couple of months ago, she got stranded at the local market and had to get the car towed home. The tow truck driver said they had a special group of drivers to handle electric car towing. He mentioned that he had to tow a LOT of Teslas.
In California the gas tax is .51 and on top of that is the fed tax of .18. Newsome just announced there will be another .10 added soon, in the fall I think it was. So that's .79 tax on every gallon of gas you buy in California, no matter what the overall gas price is. Robbery.
"The beatings will continue until the morale improves."
Brandon (Obama?) has made it against the law to drill by not renewing leases and by turning off Alaskan fields. No Keystone pipeline could affect prices, too.
This leaves the oil company's no choice but to charge more for their nonexistent oil. If that sentence doesn't make sense, it's because I was attempting to emulate Biden's nonsensical logic.
This is nothing more than political posturing by Biden. He gets to look like he is puting pressure on oil companies while doing absolutely nothing that would compel them to increase drilling. His policies speak louder than his words.
This is the de facto green new deal that none of us signed up for. Suppress fossil fuels to attempt to coerce the population to transition to EVs. Wish this administration cared about high prices, but all of their actions and comments suggest they have ulterior motives!
transition to EVs…? Apparently Biden hasn’t noticed the impact of the supply chain crisis on car manufacturing. Well, I will say this, there are a lot of old cars getting “recycled” these days. Not long ago I even saw “temporary tags” on a newly purchased 1999 van. I am seeing many newly purchased 2003-2012s on the road.
The blame game! He’s pulled all their drilling permits or not renewing them (expired). Wait until goods can’t be delivered because the trucking industry is screwed too. You,think prices are high, goods are scarce now? Just wait…the plan is unfolding.
Sure, the oil companies should be chomping at the bit to invest hundreds of millions in oil drilling infrastructure even as Dementia Joe and his enablers promise to shut the industry down ASAP.
Maybe if we could help AOC finally get laid, or licked, her choice, maybe, just maybe she’d go away someplace else and play. The others, though are too doggy-like to fix up with dates, a problem.
The problem the Dems have is if Biden doesn't run in 2024, Harris has to do so or Democrats will be accused of being racist. And Kamala Harris is not a good campaigner. She's awkward and comes across as insincere.
And people didn’t know that before? They did and still voted for her as sleepy joe is no material for Full term. Even Alex says he couldn’t vote for trump. Why not? Now he gets to do complain about fuel price. Seriously? They are implementing their promises.
Said by someone who has zero knowledge of how business works!
Obviously when the prices are up producers (of anything) up production to capitalize on the market. It's very clear that there is something stopping producers from producing and participating in this high market.
How is that, aside from President Trump, we never seem to ever elect those with any actual experience in the real world?
Fox news medical correspondent now blaming Justin Bieber's facial palsy on Chickenpox when it is a clearly listed possible side effect from C19 vaccination. Despicable behavior of pushing vaccines and blocking discussion of possible C19 vaccination harm. Remember 70% of all Fox News ad revenue comes from the vaccinators. They own Fox News narrative.
Saw a video taken in Dallas, TX. A woman reporter stopped and asked black men are they agreeing with Biden the economy is great. Nope. They want Trump back. The average American knows the score. It is the woke raging lunatics that support Biden living in bubbles that have no clue how much hate people have for them. This time around they may find out. Now democrats talking about removing all guns.
Just the "select elite" economies and we are not them. The whole climate change agenda is to fleece and transfer monies from the average person who will be then be required to pay for it all thru future taxes. Someone is always making $$$ and most are losing
Finally someone realized that the electric “grid” will not be able to function when much more than 1 % of the cars and trucks are electric. The grid is on the edge now.
And just what's wrong with fuel cells running on methanol? (Other than Joe Demento's sanctions may make the necessary platinum group metals unavailable.) The methanol can be made from coal, or even forestry waste (better, since less sulfur to remove), as readily as from oil.
Mostly; see my comment about methane. "Organic" means a living organism produced it. Chemists once thought only living things could make carbon-containing compounds.
What a fuckin liar. The minute that mentally deranged pedophile took office, he issued executive orders that shut down all oil drilling and refining processes in this country. Then he said it is the drilling companies fault, that there is still plenty of gas and oil leases still not taken. A gas and oil lease DOES NOT PRODUCE ONE DROP OF OIL!! IT IS EXPLORATORY DRILLING ONLY. Because the govt makes it so expensive to do, which only happened under Biden, they usually pass because they could go bankrupt. When Trump was in charge, we produced so much oil and gas, we were selling it to other countries. Typical democrat, they fuck everything up then blame everybody else.
At least he’s not Trump my semi awake Democrat friend said to me yesterday…I asked him how his life was worse under Trump… he just said that’s not the point. We have a way to go still unfortunately.
The dive can’t happen fast enough! The entire party except for a few like Manchin and Kristin S from AZ are okay. Oh, and take that Liz Chaney with them. She is pathetic!!
thanks Alex...I never knew I could laugh so hard at your journalistic wit and yet be so absolutely horrified at the same time at your content.....keep it coming...you are indispensable...
NO Biden hasn't done a damn thing to help, only hurt us! It's competition that keeps prices down. The idiots who thought Biden regime was honest and so much better than trump can kiss my ass. Biden shut everything down day 1 and started the long waste toward 'green energy BS' They are truly ruining every facet of our economies and THEY'RE DOING IT ON PURPOSE TO CONTROL AND TAKE MORE POWER AWAY FROM THE PEOPLE.
Interesting commentary from Monica Crowley yesterday on Steve Hilton's show. She characterized this as a planned demolition of the American economy and of America as we knew it, and that this has been going on for a very long time, decades.
The problem isn't with the senile, communist squatting in the White House. He's an idiot, and we know he's an idiot. The real problem is with the weak-minded voters who are dumb enough to believe all the nonsense that the imbecile in the White House mumbles about. The problem is always the voters. The dumbing down of America continues.
They can only steal so much. I've heard estimates of 3% to 4% can be stolen. I don't believe that Biden got enough votes to win, but he did get enough votes to make stealing possible. If most Americans were well-educated (as opposed to government-school-trained), he'd never have gotten close.
Exactly. A few years ago Hugh Hewitt wrote a book titled "If it's not close, they can't cheat." Somehow we need to shift things so it's not so close anymore.
Mighty few of those. Nearly all locales prohibit ballot declarations. Thus, hardly anyone voted for anything. Minor possible exception: "The Constitution of West Virginia specifies that voters may choose to cast an open ballot, though they must also have the option to cast a secret ballot.[26. The Constitution of West Virginia specifies that voters may choose to cast an open ballot, though they must also have the option to cast a secret ballot.]"
Yeah, recount the 2020 election using only open, West Virginia ballots! The rest of the fraudulent Electoral College can go screw itself!
The answer: replace all 263 million US vehicles with Teslas! Since Tesla produces 100k vechicles per month, thats...uh...just 219 years! Yay "Joe Biden". His handlers that actually run the place behind the curtain either want to destroy the country, or they are idiots. Hard to know which one. Yay "Climate Change!" Now where's my Climate-Change-Approved private jet?
Speaking of choosing profits over lower prices for Americans...there's this business of Hunter's laptop proving the oily Biden Family Group, Inc. chose selling multimillion dollar access to China, Russia AND Ukraine (among others) for decades. How are all those bribery paybacks over the past 17 months working out?
What a lying sack of crap! He does everything he can to kill domestic oil production then blames the oil companies when what he wants comes to fruition. He stops oil which drives up the price of oil (so Putin has plenty of cash to attack Ukraine), then the cost of EVERYTHING goes up because fuel costs affect EVERYTHING. He's blaming the shipping companies for raising their prices, but they have to pay more for fuel. Next he's going to blame farmers because they have to pass on their fuel and fertilizer costs to us. Can't this old man go away. Oh wait, look what's waiting in the wings Kamela. Joy! We are all soooo screwed.
Wait- good news coming! First, it’s Camel Toe-she’s lucky to be built that way.And Willie Brown will bring to the polls all the many lads who were lucky enough to enjoyably partake of her during her lengthy previous career in participatory government.Enough so that the polls will go for her without the need for digital magic.
And- get this! The new Admiral in the Pubic Health Corps, the one with the wig and a woman’s name, just invented an innovative way to save diesel fuel- submarines with screen doors. Saves on weight.
BiDung and his wingman want to "fundamentally change America", but they are not responsible for those changes. The Gaslighter-in-thief is out of his mind.
It’s pretty obvious that Biden knows nothing about the oil business (or any business for that matter). Oil leases are bought in *anticipation* of *maybe* exploring the *possibility* of drilling at some point. It doesn’t always make sense to drill no matter how high the price of gas. 🙄
Price goes up due to supply shortage, more business jumps in to get a piece of it. Supply problems are solved and the price equalizes. Some bottom feeders lose and go out of business. The market stabilizes at a price, supply and demand equilibrium.
Then senile Uncle Joe and his clown circus start messing with the market. They print trillions and hand out to people for votes. Demand jumps. Then they stop permitting for production on federal lands. They kill the Keystone Pipeline. They implement more business-unfriendly regulations to curtail fracking. So there is much less opportunity and incentive for more producers to join in to create more supply. The big energy companies do love it... higher prices without the competition... but they are not responsible for the situation.
Biden and the Dems put the market in turmoil. And THEY are continuing the same policies that are keeping it in turmoil.
"Fossil Fuels" is a Rhodes-inspired myth, propagated by the Rockefellers, to imply scarcity, when there is no evidence that hydrocarbon resources are, indeed, scarce.
Organic Fuels. Let’s call them Organic Fuels.
I love it. I was thinking Carbon Fuels but you are right. For once all of those Organic labels will finally be indicating something useful!
Or how about “All-Natural Fuels”?
Earth’s “natural flavoring”
Mother Earth's Secret Sauce(TM)
I try to avoid most products labeled 'organic'. But I would make an exception in this case.
Maybe Exxon or Valero will make extra virgin organic 93 octane. No GMO corn ethanol!
No GMO corn ethanol… now you’re talkin’! Was there EVER a more bogus “green energy” than ethanol??
No, don't think there has, the "ethanol" hoax would indeed take the all time, bogus, pull the wool completely over their eyes, top prize... but then there is the windmill and solar panel hoax to consider for the grand prize. All benefit China while costing the average citizen more and more. I have some ideas from a little researching I've done, but I would LOVE to know the exact cost (to us, to humanity) of just one gallon of "ethanol" ! One source stated it takes about 22 to 25 POUNDS of corn; can this be true ? Could it maybe be 22 to 25 OUNCES to make a gallon, not pounds ? Just THINK how many pounds of FOOD goes into the tanks of Americans every single day !
It would be very frightening to figure out just how MUCH corn is taken out of the food chain, and what the fall out from that is really costing us in our bottom line.... our OWN POCKETS... is there no end to the "smoke and mirrors" people will buy into "lock, stock, and barrel" ??? About as silly as that member of congress (believe from Michigan ?) who proudly proclaimed last week that she drove her electric car all the way to D.C. and .... it didn't cost her ANYTHING...said she just whizzed past the gas stations could not have cared less what the prices were ! Guess she must known how to get her electricity FREE on the drive to D.C. ? ... wonder where that is, where is electricity is FREE ?? I'd like to get some of that ! Wonder if the batteries are also free ? Such a deal !
Those spiffy new rides touted as being powered by energy that’s ‘free and clean’ have a dirty little secret. If you know anyone that’s in the market for one of these Jetsons cars of the future, direct them here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHvq-8np1o.
Oh, the power of Western marketing.
It IS 22 lbs per gallon of ethanol. It also takes 10 gallons of organic gas or diesel, to make 7.5 gallons of ethanol.
Yes Obama’s solar panels and windmills that freeze up , rust , kills birds , and what to do with them when they are broken or done !
Send them to “third world” landfills, would be my guess.
Oh yeah!
That’s how we market it…none of the other “renewables” are “organic”…
…remember the masses are so dumbed down…calling it “organic” fuel oil would probably work!
Especially now, could see mass protests by the same idiots demanding more and cheaper “organic” energy
Oh it would work ! I spent a career in public school administration and watched how the parents demanded an end to the stress of "homework", achievement testing, and the rigorous grading system that put so much stress on their children. It has certainly worked, high school graduation is now less than 50%, and those who do graduate could not even come close to passing the 8th grade test my grandmother had to take in 1937 in order to go on to public high school... they could not even pass half that test covering our form of government, the branches, duties and responsibilities of each, the constitution and all amendments, had to know every right in the Bill of Rights, pass all math facts, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division .... each in 5 minutes or less, and had to write two paragraphs, minimum of 10 complete sentences in each, and with no (zero) grammatical errors. So, we decided as a society, this type of pressure and unreasonable expectation, together with the barbaric practice of making mandatory 12 years of education, needed to end ! Then we decided that cell phones, once banned from the classroom and "condemned" to spend their days in dank, dark, lockers until after school, were invited into the classroom. That greatly helped the students pass the boring classroom hours as their teachers sat at their desks with their own personal cell phones (once required to be left in their personal autos during their paid teaching hours) and checked their home security cameras, ordered personal items and gifts from online stores, texted messages to their spouses and children, and set up appointments and made vacation plans and reservations. All this technical progress made everyone happy, almost jubilant. Everyone was no longer stressed. "Grades" were relegated to the status of unimportant, or, eliminated all together, as the tended to stigmatize certain groups of students (those who did not study and/or who did not attend school on a regular basis).
So now we are finally able to tell the population anything, no matter how ridiculous, and the "masses" will believe it. They would believe anything they are told to the point where they can be convinced that turning food commodities, such as corn, into gasoline, is an intelligent move ! That diverting food to fuel has no unintended consequences. They might also shake their collective heads in agreement, that if the gather 50-60K, the most "intelligent" purchase is NOT a home, but an electric auto which would allow them to drive absolutely FREE, for the rest of their lives. Not a mention of the minerals that go into a battery, or WHERE those minerals reside in the world, or the HUMAN COST of the unprotected children forced into slave labor to mine those minerals, why not talk about that COST ? What happens when we run out of those rare minerals, and children to mine them ? Perhaps a MANDATORY classic traditional education in classrooms WITHOUT cell phones, is not such a terrible idea after all ? Wouldn't it be interesting to institute this type of education for ALL, no matter how wealthy or poor, and then do a comparative study to determine the affect on the mental health of children (including suicide, mass shootings, crime, etc. ) of the "stress" of homework and study on students, as compared to the affects of drugs, alcohol, aimlessness and lack of immediate goals, that not making mandatory education a foundation of our nation. Would mental health improve ? Would mass killings go down (in other words, could mass killing be a combination of mental illness and limited education that results in an inability to
analyze one's own circumstances rationally ? Would life for everyone improve if everyone received an education in the classical areas of study rather than the newest social or cultural "fad" that comes along ?
That kind of "thinking" is similar to "Freedom is indeed, FREE". After all, our own president said he chooses "facts" over "truth", and now we do too !
So, so true: " ....and those who do graduate could not even come close to passing the 8th grade test my grandmother had to take in 1937 in order to go on to public high school... "
It's really MORE than just "frightening" to think what it took to build the most literate population on the globe for a country of this size, and then what it took to destroy it to the degree that we've been able work our way down the list so we rank below Russia and Cuba (to use an example of a very large diverse country, and a very small, more homogeneous country). Also interesting to ponder: Mandatory attendance, rote learning, regular review, and frequent testing, all once cornerstones of U.S. public education, along with (truant officers, fines for blatantly irresponsible parents, homework that included flash cards of basic mathematical computations, vocabulary words, and basic grammatical structure such as nouns, verbs, adverbs, etc., an A,B,C,D,F grading scale that "labeled" students, "honor rolls", and all those unfair, unequal, shameful practices our country once engaged in, have proved to be immensely successful in Japan and other countries which have left us steadily dropping from the literacy rankings. Now I am pondering, has this abandonment of pressure on our children resulted in a a LOWER suicide rate ? A LOWER drug addiction rate ? A LOWER percentage of eventual adults who are unable to support themselves ? Fewer "gangs", less violence, and less aimlessness ? That would be a priority to study and compare if we actually WANTED to improve our system of free public education !
There was no "We" involved with the fascist plan to dumb down our schools, including the exclusion of American history for social studies, rhetoric, CRT and sexual perversion training. Too many of us ignored who were running our school and what they were teaching. It's time to take them back! The quickest and easiest way to that end is to attach education money to the kids. When parents choose a quality school over an indoctrination factory, the money goes with the kid -- towards the good school and away from the factories of hate & incompetence. Crush them financially!
Defund the Left. Education vouchers follow the kid.
This is an excellent summary. Albeit a depressing one. The NEA produces ( used to anyway, I stopped looking at it years ago it was so sad) an annual score card which assesses themselves. The respective 8th and 12th grade proficiencies in the “ 3 Rs “ was shockingly poor. Embarrassing. I wonder how much of this degeneration was due to immigration and race pandering.
I believe your are correct, not certain, but I believe they have dropped that type of annual report. Those types of actions were necessary to demonstrate the difference in a professional organization and a union, but would no longer be necessary once the organization if deeply inculcated into the very fabric of our educational system. Once organizations who looked like a duck, walked like a duck and talked like a duck had to work HARD to prove they were NOT DUCKS. But once just an accepted part of the culture, no longer have to deny they are... DUCKS !
Probably a GREAT DEAL can be traced directly to the pandering and immigration. Presently, the UNRESTRAINED immigration by illegal means is not going to help raise us out of this abysmal state we find ourselves in presently, where the average person easily falls for any scapegoat (target) set up by any politician. From "evil" corporations, to "evil" profits, to "evil" CEO's (and of course there ARE such), to a particular culture or religion, no one even stops to think anymore when such claims are made by both political parties ! The book S. Blumenfeld wrote years ago, N.E.A. Trojan Horse in American Education, frightened that union to the point where the book was largely suppressed. This "works" because, for the most part, people do NOT want to think of individual members, teachers, as part of an "evil" plot. For the most part, teachers were members of the community, with "middle class" values, so typical of the USA. But like most union members, they believe the only objective of a union is to protect people from "abuse", it's always worked and it still works today. Teachers were convinced, while still in college, that the N.E.A. was NOT a union, it was a PROFESSIONAL organization, and that they (students) should join immediately, while still students, to demonstrate their "professionalism" before they could be confronted with pressure to join a "teacher's union", like A.F. of T. Then, all over the USA, communities "closed shop", if an applicant refused membership in the N.E.A. and refused automatic payments from their salary, the community, the parents, the school board, simply did not want those kinds of people teaching their children. In this way, P.A.C.T.'s, organizations such as planned parenthood, etc. were guaranteed a endless funding from the earnings of teachers, some of whom did not even want to support the causes they were making automatic donations to from every paycheck ! Now, we are where we are ! Parents stopped attending school board meetings, or caring even who the members of the board were, sincere dedicated individuals, whose life's goal was to be that "wonderful, inspiring, teacher they had when in school", were forced to just shrug, hand over part of their earnings to causes they did not believe in, all to be allowed work in an area they loved. And the big lie became, that without the salary negotiations demanded by the union, and the contractual agreements, the teachers would be shamefully abused by the community. So, where do we draw the line ? When do we begin to look for the MANIPULATIVE, hidden, Machiavellian origins of many of the issues surrounding us ?
The Free driving is calling me…
Who can resist the idea ? Drive past any gas station now and think: IF ONLY I can get that 50-60K, a ONE TIME expenditure for $$$ free driving for the rest of your life ! And just think, we have finally achieved the goal that the "average" high school graduate is giddy with delight at that idea !
Oh, Ann Marie, how ridiculous! You are sooooooooooo cynical.
And, so right!
Sure am cynical... and to think BEFORE I spent years in the administration of public education, and then years as a university professor, I used to think of my own undergrad professors as: HOW CAN they be so CYNICAL, HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN TO SOMEONE ? LOL !
...and voila! Trans military! 😄
Learning is racist.
What isn't ? Just nonsensical isn't it ? It's just impossible to apply what we learned to be the steps in "rational" thought (such as those taught long ago when public schools offered optional activities such as debate clubs, and debate teams) to what is fed to the masses daily now ! Just the one small example that saving for years for an electric vehicle will reward you with a life time of free driving ? Just think of all the things you can buy and do to enrich your life by never having to pay for gasoline again.... ever ! Think of that as a debate team topic 30, 40 years ago ? How would the teacher/leader of the team or club guide the student team to find the "holes" in that "logic" ?? Now, few doubt it !
Well I for one don’t want Bill Gates supplying the world with nonorganic energy from a lab!
Personally…https://petewiggin.substack.com/p/lets-do-this-right?r=b6ybw&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=direct
It’s right out of the Alinsky playbook.
Throw in Cloward and Pivan’s “Overwhelm the System” and it all makes sense…
I don’t know how following a “playbook” to attack America and the Constitution isn’t treason…especially when you follow step by step…
Once the biden* administration inflicts real poverty on the American Middle class…then maybe they will be willing to do as they say…mandates experimental drive injections…
No shot…no food…no life…they are killing people openly to accumulate power…
Funny thing is, they already suggested and enacted “laws” that would do just that…starve to non-compliant…
Oil and gas involve organic chemistry.
As I say to Libs, “What is oil and gas there in the ground for (put by G0d - ok, dicey argument for a Lib) if not for us to use?” Crickets.
I prefer 'frozen solar energy'.
More genius! Frozen Solar Organic Energy.
Love it
Frozen...literally ...Wind Energy
This is brilliant. We need to start owning the language. The Dems have done it for too long. Here’s to natural, organic fuel!!
Which would also make they renewables!!! Oh what a quandary for the libs
Indigenous Fuels!
Brilliant!
Problem Solved!
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Deep Hot Biosphere is an excellent book, and looking more and more prescient each year that passes.
Completely agree. A person saying "fossil fuels" may as well be saying "I am a certifiable idiot." Berenson included. Where did the dinosaurs or ancient ferns get the carbon? Did T-Rex rub 2 diamonds together to free up trapped carbon? Nope. All the carbon in the universe has been here since . . . your choice - big bang or God made it. The dinosaurs and ancient ferns simply were the beneficiaries of this most wonderful of elements. Just like us.
Exactly. Most people have no idea about the carbon cycle and how it works. They just know they are afraid of carbon and want it to go away.
I like carbon. I'm about to bathe a rib eye in the sweet flava of carbon coming off my grill. MMMMmmmm Greeeeenhoouuusse.....
I probably shouldn't comment (germanely); could get banned. Though the freaks fret about carbon dioxide (and worse, hydride - methane; fluoride also pretty bad) rather than the element, though they call their obsession that. When they talk about a "carbon footprint", I wonder if they somehow imagine a trail of charcoal briquettes.
That’s just funny
What does being German have to do with it?!? They are still buying oil from Russia!
Does it show that I have enjoyed one cider too many?
I add no value right now...apologies...🙂
Means "relevant" https://www.dictionary.com/browse/germ My condolences only frozen apple juice, but not grape, is affordably available now. The nongermane comments could have addressed char-grilling. Germans enjoying steak tartare?
Oh that is great!
Do you refer to larger stars using the carbon cycle to catalyze nuclear fusion? G-type stars like our sun don't do this.
I'm referring to the available carbon on Earth being recycled and re-utilized through history. Carbon is critical to our existence. It's not something to be feared.
That's just what a carbon-based lifeform would say.
I admit it. I am a carbon-based lifeform. :o)
I’m all for warming! I hate cold winters!!
Yeah, after this winter, I could use some of that global warming they've been promising.
I’m not sure where this is going. But I like it!
Larger stars are known to eat planets close to them...like Earth.
Biden said he wants to replace oil and natural gas with ice cream 🍦
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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And most people have NO CLUE how many Consumer,Medical,Industrial products are made with Petrol.....Remember the Movie The Graduate?? I'm all for finding lower carbon substitutions for consumer products...Bamboo, Corn, Hemp etc...WAY TOO MUCH Post Consumer Plastic Waste
The vast majority of petroleum is from low yield chemical storage of solar energy over millions of years by plants and algae’s.
So nature knows how to make solar panels ….who knew? 😃
Biologists like to pretend they understand photosynthesis, but they don't. It is at its core a mystery, just as all of life is. Science can never understand it, because the mystery is not accessible to the scientific project or method. Science tries to solves this problem by denying the reality of the mystery. The hubris of scientists is monumental. And it is dangerous!
My degree is in physics and I must say - every physicist I ever knew believed in God 100%. There is no other explanation.
I’m reading “ Believing is Seeing” right now by Guillen & I believe you. Science & Christianity is not that far apart scientifically & certainly not opposites like most think. Great book!
I will have to add that to my list - thank you!
You should look into Stephen Meyer's The Return of the God Hypothesis. I think you'll find it interesting as a physicist.
Thank you I will!
Agreed. I prefer the original Shakespeare. “Hamlet” is not meant just for academics 😃
Years ago a popular science writer posited that most scientists are inherently dishonest as they consciously or unconsciously work to produce their expected outcomes. And I suspect our current crop of scientists are the most dishonest of all, as they justify cheating for the common good (as they see it).
Indeed! Do you happen to recall the name of the popular science writer who said that? Was it by any chance Ben Goldacre? He published a book over a decade ago called Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks, and followed that with another called Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients.
I believe it was Natalie Angier.
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Stellar nucleosynthesis. Big bang made little if any carbon.
Yup. Takes high pressure and high heat to attach protons to make new elements. Think you can only get up to iron, with nucleosynthesis. Think it was only in the early 1940's that they realized that's how elements were made. Anything having more protons than iron has to be created via supernova.
Think that's right. Don't hesitate to correct if I'm wrong.
Anybody else read the "making of the atomic bomb" Richard Rhodes? Fantastic book, almost as good a RFK's "The real Anthony Fauci" <kidding. more interesting than POS Fauci>
Yes, I read "The Making of the Atomic Bomb." It's a monumental book!
Richard Rhodes wrote an equally impressive sequel a number of years later:
"Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb."
But Kennedy's book is even more spectacular and impressive (in terms of the massive investigation required to write it) than either or both of these two books combined, and I'd say it's even more important. "The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health" is the most important non-fiction book of our era.
Agreed. Will open eyes of those who are wide awake.
You’re either really brilliant or well read.. or full of shit… I’d like to think the former!
I think Hans Bethe was instrumental in that discovery.
Slightly beyond, but not much. (Significant nickel in "iron" meteors and asteroids.) Absolute stop at silver. (WP: "Both isotopes of silver are produced in stars via the s-process" - ref 21.) Iron is at the bottom of The Curve of Binding Energy (title of an extremely entertaining Ted Taylor book).
Did you make a joke about H. G. Wells' 1895 "The Time Machine"?
So T-Rex put what into his stellar nucleosythesis kiln to make the fossil fuel?
Can we at least agree that all of the carbon within 9,000 miles of the center of the earth has been here since there was an earth so my original point of the term "fossil fuel" is asinine?
Anyway, all those stellar nucleosynthesizing carbon factories are too far away and the cost of gas is too high to get those carbons here anyway. Also Biden shut down the stellar nucleosythesizing pipeline to protect our climate from all of that additional carbon being fusioned by white supremacists.
Get with the program! The term is White Nationalists now. It’s a twofer... casting aspersions on Caucasians AND Patriots by tying Patriots to White Supremacists. What’s the opposite of a Nationalist? A Globalist.
Is this a crackemup? Yeah, lots of carbon deep in the earth. Some even surfaces as diamonds, other portions as graphite. While ca 1900 Mormons thought men were on the moon and in the sun, I dunno about any T-rex critters in the sun.
I wasn’t there so I’m gonna have to take your word for it.
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That could be how his arms wound up being so short! That's not a joke...think about it...
We have been running out of oil 18 months after Edwin Drake sunk the first oil well in 1859 in Pennsylvania
...and somehow those Pennsylvania wells are filling up again.
Well, well! That should qualify for inclusion in the renewable energy club!
A big truck comes every night and refills them. Really!
A few million "dinosaurs" crawled down that PA hole when we were not looking...
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There is nothing wrong with the term “fossil fuels”. The term does not imply scarcity. Scarcity is not why people want to stop depending on fossil fuels. They think fossil fuels cause climate change. That is the idea we need to fight. Not the use of the term “fossil fuels.” Let’s keep our eye on the ball.
Even rational liberals (sometimes not an oxymoron) like Shellenberger (who is running for Ca gov) realize that the Earth isn't going to warm up to harmful levels. But there are those who certainly use that fallacy for their own power, like enviro politicians and globalists. The fallacy should be studied, and probably would be, if people like Fauci were not around to only direct research money only toward projects he had an interest in. Certainly we are paying a price for this BS, and not just financially.
I like Shellenberger.
Me too, but not enough voters did apparently. Too solutions-oriented.
It has nothing to do with intellectual interest and every tint to do with financial interests. Let the NIH get royalties on carbon production and away we go…
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Scientists, “climatologists” etc know what they have to report or they don’t get funded.
That is in line with the central premise in Michael Crichton’s “State of Fear.” Written 20 years ago and still timely.
But calling them “organic fuels” annoys and confuses all the right people. Kind of like talking about gun rights as (rightly) a Civil Rights isssue.
"Gluten free organic fuels" would really make those heads spin!
Brilliant!
Non-GMO Gluten free Organic Fuels.
and Kosher?
Scarcity is not the point. Imprecision and negative connotations are the point. The left lives on vocabulary manipulation to force emotional people to react against their own interests. Letting the idiotic term "fossil fuels" be further misused is a problem. The term is very wrong. My eye is precisely on the ball.
You're right. The left is masterful at owning the language and obfuscating the truth. I agree that we need to take the language back.
Then go ahead and waste your time convincing intelligent people who are already on our side to start using “appropriate” terms. Maybe you can suggest some useful pronouns to go along with that.
Amen brother!
let's not, and say we did
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Well, dinosaurs lived and died for 165 million years. That's a lot of fossils and decomposition...however, if you want to increase the price of a commodity, insist that it is scarce.
No, the reason is the ESG movement, which has sought to demonize everything hydrocarbon. Big Oil has restricted their expenditures on exploration and development, continually for 7 years as a result. This is how we get to today.
Governments continue to tax, over regulate and disdain the industry as well, compounding the problem.
Pipelines anybody?
The chickens have come home to roost, created by the maniacal left and environmental radicals.
It ain’t Putin’s fault. That’s the lazy excuse for the intellectually challenged.
DanBC you nailed it!
And because of ESG banks won’t lend them money to drill.
The other part of these phony complaints is "corporate greed." Well...how many pension plans, as well as individual shareholders, invested in corporations--so stock dividends are paid to those investors.
It’s all part of the Marxist attempt to “fundamentally change the United States of America”. Obama the Flexible used that phrase countless times and laughed at us as he said it.
Couple that with too many people who are financially illiterate. They don't understand how the economy works--along with Marxists' attempts to demonize profits/corporations/business.
The economic illiteracy is by design and courtesy of the corrupt to the core union bosses who control the teachers unions.
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Uh oh, be careful.....Gampa Joe might blame the dinosaurs next. He is looking for a new scapegoat. Trump, Ultra Magas, Parents at school meetings, Putin, and the oil companies haven't worked yet. LOL
It’s those Macedonian Content Farmers, I just know it.
Sinclair ad?
I've heard that the found oil much deeper than could be accounted for by dying ferns and other plant life.
I think subduction of oceanic algae can go pretty deep. (Deep enough they only release natural gas and carbon, but the oil is all decomposed. This leaves black shale; oil shale if not fully decomposed. And green shale if the carbon gets oxidized or eroded out from percolating hydrogen - the green is from ferrous iron, which isn't fully oxidized or it would be red, orange, or yellow.) Land plants predominantly produce coal, and precious little since the carboniferous era ended 300 million years ago when fungi degraded lignin. (Lucky us, or most life would be extinct.) However, coal inventories are rather vast.
“the green is from ferrous iron, which isn't fully oxidized or it would be red, orange, or yellow.” Goody! This sounds like a flag!
Subduction? I think that’s illegal here in Oklahoma unless you’re married.
To a first cousin?
It seems like it would be easier to continue investing in newer and more effective clean coal technologies than the current mix of solar,wind, and the hot gases coming from the ladies of The View.
If you’ve ever considered getting a gym membership, you’ve had the scarcity card played on you. “This offer is only good if you sign up while on your facility tour”. Technically the “take away close” but close enough for government work.
pure supposition
Nothing wrong with some pure supposition now and again. Who knows, a little pure supposition, and before you know it, you have a thought out of the box....which might even lead to an idea that leads to a whole new way of looking at a problem...
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"I don't know" is a lot more honest
I still want to know how they got all the dinosaurs to go die in Saudi Arabia.
That is where the dinosaur burial ground was.
I actually laughed out loud at this comment! Thank you, it feels good to laugh.
I call oil concentrated solar power stored underground just for us.
If tuna can be marketed as “Chicken of the Sea” we can market oil as “Sunshine in the Ground!”
And I’m just doing my part to prevent the next Ice Age.
Good thing they warned us about it in the 70’s.
Fossil fuels is doubly a misnomer as there is increasing evidence of abiotic hydrocarbons produced within the earth as a source of the petroleum.
Abiotic methane (natgas) generation has significant evidence to date. This paper concludes around 4% of the total biotic methane generation is produced by ophicarbonate tectonic subduction. There will almost certainly be other geologic processes identified in the future. Assumptions had also been made that abiotic methane generation was too small a contribution as well, but apparently this was a bad assumption. You know the saying when science "assumes" something.........
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14134.pdf
If that actually occurs (less than 1% chance it's true; the fields that showed "abiotic" oil production likely had seepage from nearby fields) the rate of production is far too low to make a difference.
In 1892, at the Geneva Convention, JD Rockefeller paid scientist to call oil a “fossil fuel” to induce the idea of scarcity, in order to set a ‘world price’ for oil. The truth is that oil is actually the second-most prevalent liquid on earth next to water, and regenerates within the earth faster than it can be depleted. In 1953, the Rockefeller Foundation in agreement with the world changed the frequency of music. They changed it from it’s natural harmonic resonance 432hz to the current consciousness suppressing 440hz. We are seeing the fruits of Rockefeller in our school and medical systems. Rockefeller’s and Rothchild’s are the minds behind all the wars and the denigration of our society for hundreds of years. They are the WEF. The rest of the members are their puppets. When Trump talked about an invisible enemy he wasn’t taking about covid. Rather the WEF who believe in eugenics and total control of our brains and lives. The Great Reset motto….you will own nothing and be happy.
"Peak oil" has come and gone so many times that you hardly ever hear the term any more.
In fact, there is significant evidence that methane (natgas) at least is abiotically generated by geological processes including tectonic subduction of ophicarbonates (carboniferous rocks) on a massive scale. No fossils required, with methane production around 4% of the total biotic methane production from this studied reaction alone. Expect more evidence of abiotic methane production to be revealed in the future and this percentage to increase.
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14134.pdf
Begin studying the development of synthetic fuels and you will find that "Fossil Fuels" is a myth just like Peter Duke says above. During WW2 two German chemists, Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch worked on synthetic fuels because Germany had no combustible natural resource other than coal. It proved too costly to synthesize crude oil or natural gas (methane) directly and far cheaper to just extract from the ground.
After the war the scientists learned about these equations and the early fracking attempts by the Germans. Geologists discovered the reason why the Arabian peninsula had so much oil and it wasn't because they had more dinosaurs. They discovered that the earth was synthesizing natural gas and crude oil from a process known and "abiotic oil synthesis".
The scientists were able to produce methane and crude oil in a lab without having to drill into old dinosaurs. Later, other scientists experimented with attempts to fossilize reptilean flesh to see if it made crude oil and where unsuccessful. They found it to be impossible.
Countries like Saudi Arabia are "naturally fracked" which means that some of the hard layers of stone and shale in the Earth's crust are cracked and propped open with a hard porous material like sand. The earth-made methane and crude oil can then percolate up thru the fissures and pool in porous layers above.
On a grand scale they studied abiogenic petroleum synthesis and found it was cheaper to harvest it from the earth. Almost all Russian oil production is by means of fracking. Likewise, the USA grew to the world's largest oil producer under President Trump through fracking and relying on the abiogenic process.
Today, if you go buy 5 quarts of oil for a car oil change you will find almost all man-made synthetic oils; and they're purer than earth-made crude oils.
I think it is wonderful that there are advanced myth-busters among us. I suggest we take a break from challenging the climate change myth and instead work on a list of perhaps 500 other myths (starting with the “fossil fuel” myth of course) that need to be challenged. Because how can we justify focusing on one myth when there are other myths? Then, once the 500 have successfully been debunked, we can get back to challenging the myth of climate change (if it’s not too late).
Climate change is not a myth. The data show it is changing and the overwhelming forcing is the changing chemistry of the atmosphere, which causes it to trap more heat.
The three society-altering issues we are facing in the first half of this century are declining conventional oil production, the rapidly changing climate (which is already disrupting crop production) and the inevitable bursting worldwide debt bubble.
You are free to ignore all these issues and fail to prepare yourself and your community; most people who don't understand our predicaments are doing that (ignoring them).
The myth is that climate change is something to worry about. Something (like the plandemic) that governments of the world, the media, favored corporations, wealthy busy bodies, actors and pop stars need to save us from. The Earth’s climate has always changed. Life on the planet has either adapted, flourished or disappeared. Overall, life has shown quite an ability to adapt and remain here. Those who believe scientists and government bureaucrats saved us from eminent destruction from the recent plandemic likely believe scientists, media and government bureaucrats are the ultimate truth tellers and thus believe whatever is reported by the climate change industry. It is an industry as dependent on fear and falsehoods as the pharmaceutical industry. If and when mankind needs to adapt to climate change mankind will adapt. We will adapt by billions of individual choices that won’t be obvious. Government intervention will not be needed and will instead get in the way.
Over course the climate has always changed. The problem is that it's changing too quickly for us to adjust.
Can you give an example of how climate change has impacted you personally and how you have tried to adapt to it or why you think you are not able to adapt to it? Keep in mind we were fearful of global cooling 50 years ago and somehow lived through it.
All radiative forcing computer models ignore water vapor. Until I see a good computer model I can run in Matlab that includes water vapor I will continue to believe that man-made climate change is not the causative factor of the earth's slight warming trend.
Maps from 1000 years ago show a large river running east to west across North Africa and ancient maps depict large lakes where the Sahara desert is today.
Likewise, a large Pueblo-ean culture developed and thrived in remote Northwestern New Mexico in Chaco Canyon where there is currently no one today,
And, olive cultivation was on a par with wine-making in the Rhine Valley 1000 years ago.
Abiotic oil is an unproved theory. Each attempt has failed; it was oil seeping in from nearby that caused the reservoir to refill.
Besides, even if it were true, it happens too slowly to make a difference for us.
Feel free to share your evidence for it. The last time I looked at this was 10 years ago.
As for flow rates, nothing can compare to the giant and super-giant oil fields that were first found. And this is where the concept of energy return on energy invested (EROEI) comes in, which is a way to calculate the net energy profit.
Just as plenty of net cash profit gives a company more options including the ability to invest in new projects, a high energy profit (i.e a high EROEI) allows a society to do much more—which we've done.
The remaining energy sources all have poor EROEI when compared to the liquid energy gold that is oil (early fields were about 100 to 1—enormous net energy profit). Fracking has poor EROEI. I would have to look up the chart to see where it lands but it's nowhere near convention oil derived from the early oil fields.
I'm will agree on one thing. I believe it takes longer for the earth to produce one barrel of crude oil than it takes for us to consume one barrel of the same whether it is abiotically produced or from a dinosaur. Subterranean temperatures and pressures are definitely sufficient for the Tropsch-Fischer equations to be satisfied and there is carbon and hydrogen as well but in varying abundances.
Exactly. Even if abiotic oil existed it will be not help to us as the giant and super-giant oil fields inexorably go into decline.
Technically, there are a lot of fossil fuels, that's true.
However, there is a limited amount that is economically available in terms of money and energy.
With current technology, of course...Now, if the left will just stay out of science, who knows what discoveries are ahead of us...That, and if we would just stop killing the next Einstein or Newton through abortion.
No, there are about 500 giant and super-giant oil fields out of 15,000 in production.
Believe it or not, more technology can't get oil that isn't there. We are starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel.
As far as we know, that is...Who knows what the future will discover, seeing as the Earth's crust ranges up to 18 km, and the deepest drilling is under 2 km. The problem is the expense of the scraping, not the bottom of the barrel.
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Converting hydrocarbons such as oil formed over millions of years to CO2 within 1 century is a 1 time energy bonanza that will not be repeated. Oil and gas are indeed scarce, or will very rapidly become so, when the rate of formation is << rate of consumption. Energy return on energy invested used to be 100 to 1 (100 barrels of oil for 1 consumed in extraction). Now it's about 1 tenth of that. Yes the carbon is still there in the CO2 but it is dissipated and it requires a lot of energy, materials or land to convert it back into a combustible hydrocarbon. As evidenced by Bidens uturn, we are going to use all available oil, because our civilisation and economic system depends on exponential growth. But when EROEI approaches 1, we'll be in for very unpleasant times,
Maybe eventually, but they are discovering new oil all the time--there are more reserves than they thought there were. Destroying our economy and potentially civilization because of geopoliticalstate instability and war will not provide the impetus for continued research to actually develop alternatives. At the same time they're wasting food crops (corn), driving up food prices with the ridiculous ethanol requirement that actually increases carbon emissions, and is not good for engines, because of the agricultural lobby.
The Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stones. The Oil Age won’t end when we run out of oil. We’ll find something better. Not my quote but I like it.
I'm working on tabletop fusion--cold and lukewarm.
No, there are 500 giant and super-giant oil fields out of 15,000 in production. The oil that is being discovered now is scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Please supply source for that. We have heard that for years and then as if by magic more technology, more oil. We are a few years away from endless nuclear (and beyond) power if government and fear mongers get out of the way.
Methane Hydrates. Green River Formation. We have a ton left. Even the Permian Basin in the US has found a second life.
The EROEI is too low.
Thank you for informing folks of these important concepts. It's good to see someone who understands our predicament.
However, I would say we are in trouble long before the EROEI reaches 1. Solar is about 20 to one and civilization would radically change if we had to run on just solar.
If only we could figure out how to split the atom and get massive amounts of energy from that...
That would be the worst thing to happen to our species.
We have already had access to essentially unlimited energy in the form of oil. We did not manage it well.
I was being sarcastic. We've known how to use nuclear energy for 80 years. Our overlords have determined that we shouldn't have access to cheap power at scale. So here we are.
I'm saying something different. I'm saying that unlimited energy would destroy us faster.
Plus, one of our fearless Democratic leaders sold about 20% of our uranium reserves to Russia
Don’t be a racist!
If only......ha
This sounds like what Chris Martinson at Peak Prosperty argues.
Yes, 100% true!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odCZpBPfFQk
It's been a while since I've watched that and I don't have 90 minutes for that now. If memory serves, they were wrong because their evidence was actually oil seeping in from nearby once the pressure where they were drilling had been relieved.
Have anything like a published paper or similar?
Idiot in Chief.
He does everything to impede America First energy policy and then he blames someone else.
Dementia Joe’s clearly not running the show. His woke puppet handlers are pulling his strings, but every once in a while he says something off script in a moment of clarity, like drill more supply. This causes his handlers to yell “cleanup on isle Joe!”
Aisle, not isle.
Incredibly helpful correction.
No. Isle is correct. He is alone on an 'island' surrounded by water into which, if he wades, he will drown.
T2 had it right, Brandon is basically King Moonracer, the monarch of the Island of Misfit politicians. Kamaltoe Hairlip, Secretary Pete Buttplug, Rear Admiral Rachel, et al are his charges.
LoL
Dying here
Right along with ya’ !
I once dined at Coconut Joe's in Isle of Palms, SC.
Idz a dypo toopid
Ron Klain
I would agree that Joe's not in charge. What bothers me is that more people are not constantly demanding very loudly that we should know exactly WHO (or which group of people) are actually making all these crazy decisions. This needs to be public knowledge. Everyone is tip-toeing around this subject.
And I fully agree with you on this
Only the Intelligence would have the “dossiers” to inflict with Weismann Way…
Bribery, Extortion and incarceration…
…only President Trump has the 1st hand understanding with significant motivation to resist that, what will obviously be the MOST significantly divisive election strategy AND Brandon’s “election fraud network”
Obama.
Hahaha... ThAnk you for that much needed giggle!! Literally made me LoL... ; ]
“Aisle 46”
Exactly my friend. Exactly.
The Intelligence State is Ruling America...
If so, they’re not ruling it very intelligently.
I know…I really can’t imagine the three stooges having that much power, but until Clapper, Comey and Brennan are arrested and their crimes against America adjudicated the real puppet masters can not be exposed…
…but NONE of this happens without compliant 3 letters; FBI, CIA, DOJ
Where are the whistleblowers, where are Hannity’s 99% of FBI are the “good guys”, right
Stunning circular logic on Joe's part. So, if higher prices encourage lower production, then why did eliminating unnecessary regulation under Trump lead to a boom in production? There goes your asinine theory, Joe.
Bingo!!!! You caught and nailed it my friend!! Bravo 🙌 Bravo 👏 Bravo 🙌
The truly sad truth is, each and every policy of this administration can be successfully dissected through the very same simple process of applying logic. They are all found to be convoluted exercises in irrational thinking.
I couldn’t agree more with you my friend!!
Democrat - actually uniparty playbook 101.
His Teleprompter script writers blame everybody else. He’s just the idiot reading the script.
Mush for brains doesn’t know porridge from nuclear waste!
My friend says he doesn't know sh!t from high grade apple butter. I particularly like that one.
He does this because he thinks Americans are stupid. On his first day in office he signed an Executive order reversing EVERYTHING Trump had done to make us energy independent. But hey we don’t have mean tweets.
Brandon is lying again! He cut off new oil leases & the vast producing pipeline & then shortage of oil & gas are the oil companies fault. What a useless Resident Brandon is!
He killed Keystone XL on Day One. 600,000 barrels a day of Canadian crude was killed. Wonder why prices are high? Democrats hate us and want us to suffer.
And all of the associated jobs. Killed. Joe Biden, Job Killer. Don't worry, he'll pay you to stay home and subsidize your food, medical, housing, telephone, cable, car, and EV.
This, and this pretty much alone, is the reason the entire inflation thing is out of control. Everything you touch moves via diesel powered engines. If diesel is $7/gallon, your costs go up. Keep it simple, Stupid.
Came here to say. His admin just kiboshed a bunch of Alaskan drilling IIRC
the shittiest of leaders always blame. It's a sure sign of no integrity and a serious character flaw
The guy is brain damaged, severely so. Just a mouthpiece.
There was a recent headline they denied more lease applications than they intended due to a math error. We are fully into the incompetence and looting stage of collapse.
Dems can't do math. It's racist, you know.
EO14008
Yep. Here’s just one part of it.
“Sec. 208. Oil and Natural Gas Development on Public Lands and in Offshore Waters. To the extent consistent with applicable law,the Secretary of the Interior shall pause new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or in offshore waters pending completion of a comprehensive review and reconsideration of Federal oil and gas permitting and leasing practices in light of the Secretary of the Interior’s broad stewardship responsibilities over the public lands and in offshore waters, including potential climate and other impacts associated with oil and gas activities on public lands or in offshore waters. ...”
Starting right after he took office.
This "pause", going on now for 18 months, is supposedly going to end when BLM (Bureau of Land Management) later this year resumes selling drilling rights on public lands, but 80% less land will be available for lease! And they raised the royalty rates for leases to 18.75 %, an increase of 50%. Gee, I wonder who that rate increase will be passed onto? These people hate us.
Did anyone else notice the timing of the announcement to drop testing for US international entry by air? Almost immediately after disastrous CPI increase.
But still requiring any non citizens to submit to the clotshot if they come into the US legally. If illegal, they don’t care if you’re vaxxed. Science!
Happy their political survival instincts have taken so long to kick in. Too little, too late!
Like most folks with mid stage dementia, he has periods of lucidity
The prob is, he probably doesn't remember the actions he or staff took
YEAH, They want ppl on the planes to get that new strain of moneypox or covid 22 into the country so they can shut us down again!
Monkeypox is a hard sell when most of the cases are a result some sort of gay sex.
Ny times was trying to push it was airborne in a recent article. Surprised Alex didn’t write anything about it
It might be airborne in occasions like when Biden met The Royal Family.
Keep your pee pee to yourself and only a known and trusted long term lover and you have nothing to fear about monkeypox. Oh, and don't lick a pox laden alphabet person.
We just might go on a family trip to Mexico now! Quick before it costs $1 gorillion
Did they actually do this or only trial ballon this?
They did it, effective tomorrow.
I see it on the CDC website now.
CDC was supposed to have a news conference at 1:00 pm EST yesterday and by 3:30, it didn't happen. I guess they just didn't want to eat crow (or answer questions) publically. Cool now stop the war in Ukraine so I can visit my ancestral homelands in Transylvania.
You mean Hungary :-)
I have been delaying visiting my birth place in Hungary, just 90 miles from the Ukrainian border.
Missed a wedding and a graduation due to this fake pandemic bs.
No I mean Medias, Romania.
Speaking of fake pandemic bullshit, something that has got by the majority of the world because I absolutely despise this saying. This phrase. “The mainstream media.”
To me, me there’s nothing main stream about, what I call “THE NETWORK NEWS CABAL. ABC CBS NBC CNN MSDNC.” The phrase main-stream is akin to ”normal”. there’s nothing normal what this cabal does that is in direct collusion with each other, what all they do to gaslight the entire United States.
And what they refused to do, run stories / articles. What They refused to run was all the horrible intel the Trump Administration, The British Government went on to shut there country down and like us,
They did.
But who did they get their intelligence from? And fully approved by? You got it. “Fuck-em- Fauci.” every time I see a picture of him those are the words that come to mind. Because he will do that to you, To me, to the entire country in a heartbeat.
They received their goof-ball intel from the University Of Washington,
“The Hans Rosling Center for Population Health.” HDMI DEPT. The CDC Fully approved.
A major thing they refused to print the story they refuse to run is the fact the British government was given the same information concerning about how many people would die in their country. No matter what they did just like the Trump administration was given a fictitious very high number.
In a nutshell, What was given to both countries leaders and, and to each leaders team. To boil it down to gravy the University told him along these lines. “Do all you can to stop it but, no matter what you do, your still going to see around 7 million die here in America.
5 million, throughout the UK 🇬🇧 A few months ago the British government wound up suing the university to get their money back because they paid them to run similar modules like they did for the Trump Administration. They sued in British Court and won. Biiig time..
Unfortunately, that's only to stop having to test before entry, but you still need to be vaccinated.
Not traveling(returning) to the US for U.S. Citizens. There is no mandate for us to be vaccinated and there will never will be.
Yes, for us Canadians though, we're trapped here in Canada.
Did the U.S. drop their vaccine requirement effective tomorrow? Hoping ....
What is CPI?
Consumer Price Index
Deploying predator drones on illegal aliens (or is that "asylum seekers"?) seems harsh.
I'd love to see that announcement - I can't find it anywhere - thanks. Today someone I know tried to cross a land border from Canada to the U.S. and were turned back. Thanks for any info.
Think it’s just testing for entry to the US by air (I.e., doesn’t address vaccine ‘requirement’ for non US citizens).
The CDC version is here: https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2022/s0610-COVID-19-test.html
As to Canada I don't know - but an unvaccinated person cannot visit Canada. I hope the vaccination requirement in Canada is dropped ASAP, I'm in SoCal and miss you guys. We used to have Canadian licenses plates on the road EVERYWHERE - now none ;(
No, Canada did not drop their fascist regulations. They only changed the vaccine pre-testing requirement, and moved testing elsewhere. But, it’s window dressing. The airport problems will continue, until ALL requirements are dropped by the Chinada regime.
We are still prisoners in our own country. Broke no laws, stood up for our Charter Rights, and have been zealously penalized as a result, by a Rogue government.
There are no such things as Charter Rights. If the government can alienate those rights then they are not rights. God gave you rights with your creation. Your government, courts, legislature, and co-subjects of Trudeau violated those rights. Maybe the only solace is that almost every civilized citizen in the world was also thusly violated. I am most aghast at the lack of manly response to this predictable power grab by tyrannical leftist politicians. Their being evil is no surprise. Meek/no manly counter response it a horrible surprise.
I am not in Canada, but I am so hoping that there is a sort of underground that is forming. One that will help people all over Canada work around the tyranny. Is it bad in the countryside or just in cities?
Hopefully the US might drop the vaccination requirement for international visitors to come to the country. Then unvaxxed Canadians could drive across the border.
But could they return?
Yes. Unvaxxed Canadian citizens can enter Canada. They can't prevent entry to citizens. They could impose some sort of quarantine I suppose.
I hope so too.
So you tried all political and peaceful methods for change - now is the time for the next level. Make Trudeau show what a bloody tyrant he is.
reading that made me sick. All for the move, but what a bunch of 💩
Are you telling me I can’t visit Canada? This is the saddest thing I have ever heard.
Who cares about Jan 6. This entire administration is an insurrection against the country.
We should be looking at those Jan 6 protesters as heroes who tried to save us from this disaster.
I don’t see them as heroes. While brave & well-intended, they fell right into the trap that was set for them. 🤷🏻♀️
I was referring to the protesters. Not the people who committed violence in the Capitol. One of the things that the MSM won't tell you is that there were an estimated 120,000 people protesting that day. Out of any crowd of that size, you're going to have a few hundred idiots. Throw in some FBI assets to push them along and voila, you get the people who entered into the Capitol. Like Chewbacca man. Moron.
Nah
Those rioting morons gave team blue something they could pin their hopes on.
It's even worse than this. Blackrock and other ESG proxy shareholder activists convinced ExxonMobile to reduce production from 5 million barrels a day to 3.5 million barrels a day. It was seen as this huge ESG win at the time. Now, not so much.
ESG is evil. Where the hell is the Harvard Business School illuminati when you need it to counter this socialism on an intellectual and policy level? Oh yeah, they've been assimilated by the leftie-Borg. Resistance is futile.
Larry fink becoming an activist shareholder with all of the index funds they hold was the biggest most ridiculous power grab in the history of capitalism. Nobody gave him that right, he just grabbed it. Totally ignored by the press.
Unsurprising. ESG is a scourge on the working class.
How can an administration be, all at the same time, incompetent, clueless, and deviously evil? If it was just one of the above, good people might be able to overcome the destruction.Makes me weep for our beloved country.
This 🇨🇦 can relate & weeps with you & for you. They have no souls.
The people you 'see' are not the ones making the decisions. The 'incompetent' label is a distraction. If ever you needed proof the 'President' does not make decisions, look at the last 2.
I work in the periphery of ONG and they are not investing a dime while an openly hostile regime threatens their every financial move. They are waiting for November's results. Period. It is that simple.
Vote against democrats at every level, folks, or the "beatings will continue until your morale improves."
What's going to change in November?
The regulatory agencies are all executive ones.
Maybe there'll be more SCOTUS SEC rulings that force the legislature to write laws. Maybe?
What these threads all miss is it's a 10 year capx spend to get ROIC. And it's easy to stop something, but much harder to start or restart.
Correct. Probably nothing as the bureaucracy is really in charge. Democrips and UniParty republicans are determined to see how far the People can be pushed with expensive gas and diesel. It won't be far.
He assumes we don’t know the policies he put in place to destroy the industry. Granted those under the spell of mainstream media propaganda narratives will fall for it but he’ll still look bad. These people are stupid.
EO 14008
I am a petroleum engineer and a fifty year veteran of the oil and gas industry. Yeh Biden denies permits to drill on land the government has already leased to oil companies, it brow beats big Wall Street Investors like Black Rock who now refuse to invest in oil and gas drilling, shuts down the Keystone and then blames oil and gas companies for not drilling. Having drilled a couple thousand wells, I know it takes 6 to 12 months to get a well ready to drill onshore on private lands because of leasing, title issues and compliance with many government agencies. Now drilling and workover companies have the trucks and equipment but are having trouble finding hands to work who aren't on drugs and who want to work. Legalized drugs like marijuana with drugs coming over the border and stimulus check and rent moratorium are largely the reason. Biden if you want to find the real person to blame look at yourself in the mirror.
Disabled numbers are way up in the US and it looks like the jab is part of it. A lot of working aged people are permanently disabled now.
Thanks for the info. Unfortunately democrats are not the only guilty ones. Why are republicans more interested in sending money to Ukraine than protecting the American people? Baby formula shortage, what a joke! It’s all about climate change and the great reset, and no politician with a few exceptions cares about the people. Try and listen to Daniel Horowitz podcast on conservative review, he tells what really is going on politically in the USA. I don’t think Alex has a clue, he is still too liberal and a bit naive. Btw, I live in the UK and believe me what happens in “Merica” affects the whole world.
What REAL leader never takes responsibility? This puppet literally thinks the American people are this stupid
Didn't 81 million stupid ones vote for him ?
Or just the few who were in charge of counting the votes ?
LOL True!
Would like to know the # who did who now regret they did (vote for the puppet). Although, the vast majority of them probably cannot confront the reality of being so conned or duped. That wake up reality just too much for those types.
Applying some simple math:
231,000,000 voting eligible citizens in USA
154,000,000 of them voted
81,000,000 "voted" for Brandon
33% approval rating (probably an oversampling of dems as historically happens so this number is high).
33% of 231 mn citizens over 18 years old = 76 Mn "approvers".
Thus, a minimum of 5 Mn regret their vote.
This assumes the non-voters approve of Brandon in the same ratio as those dead, illegal, and alive multi-voters who love Joe. That is a horrible assumption.
If we assume non-voters to be as non-approving as independents then a better assumption of regretters is about 25 million. Will they vote rationally or let their emotions and the MSM drive them to vote for incompetent tyrannical leftie control again?
love the math! "will they vote rationally OR let their emotions" and MSM drive them" There lies the rub! The horrible assumption noted by the way :)
So pathetically many are just shockingly uninformed about what is going on. California just had a primary with a 30% voter turnout. How do you remove people from power when the voters don't go vote?
a VERY good question considering it's a little China clone now!
Half of Biden’s twitter followers were deemed to be fake. Apply that to his vote count.
and Teflon Joe got away with it...again.
So, if my father was still alive offering up his often a bit crude “ gems”…he would say, “ Excuses are like assholes, they all stink.” What stench is coming out of this administration.
As a farmer, we need fuel, fertilizer, grease, oil, tires, and the list goes on. You like to eat, farmers want to produce for the world. Evidently, Biden and his administration can’t see the forest or the trees. The lunatics are truly running the asylum.
People are the cancer of the planet and they wants us all dead. Not sure why so many are still in doubt about that.
As Thomas Sowell asked, are low gas prices a sign that oil companies stopped being greedy?
Sowell is a genius. He states things so perfectly simply and with stark clarity.
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/congressional-spending-priorities
We can’t even get these idiots to answer the basic climate questions, like: what’s going to happen to the price of electricity if everybody’s using it to charge their cars ON TOP of normal usage? How are people who are already struggling to fill the tank going to buy new electric vehicles? And the most important climate question of all: Why aren’t we developing new nuclear plants as we make this ‘incredible transition’? (at gunpoint)
Instead of providing answers, Biden continues to blame greedy oil companies for the increase in prices, and is now contemplating a ‘windfall profits’ tax in order to buy some goodwill with Americans. (Note how Biden & the other economic ignorants always talk about total profit in dollars, neglecting to mention that companies are impacted by inflation just like we are, and that high profit number might actually be less profit overall)
Biden professes to be doing everything possible to bring prices down — everything but the obvious: increase supply. He’s willing to inflict real pain on Americans to score political points with people who wouldn’t vote Republican if their lives depended on it. (*cough* Jay Inslee *cough*)
But don’t you worry, as Americans are slowly slipping underwater at home, Biden and Congress will be ready to help — Ukrainians. After all, that $40 billion aid package will only last about five months, and our goal is to draw Russia into a Ukrainian quagmire of Afghan proportions. How long were we fighting over there, again?
If everybody gets electric cars, the price of electricity won't be the problem. The problem will be that the electric grid can't support that much demand. Anyone notice how some states already have rolling brownouts in the summer when everyone is turning on their AC? What do they think is going to happen if everyone is charging their cars every single night?
This is what mandates do - mandate misery usually worse than what they were meant to address i hope the cities cook this summer due to lefties voting in leftists doing leftist stuff.
My sister in law bought a Chevy Volt in 2014. She's very low income, and had an 8 year loan on it, which will be paid off in November. It won't start now....probably needs a new battery already, even though the car only has 45,000 miles on it. Given the price of a new electric battery, she simply cannot afford to replace it. So I would ask Joe Biden and the other climate nuts, how is someone like her going to buy and keep an electric car running. A couple of months ago, she got stranded at the local market and had to get the car towed home. The tow truck driver said they had a special group of drivers to handle electric car towing. He mentioned that he had to tow a LOT of Teslas.
Wow. I hope she can get something better!
Answer: The folks coming in are innumerate wish casters.
They wish the world would be better, but cannot do basic excel modeling.
Oh, and Biden isn't sentient. This administration is leaderless
Also remember that government(s) make 3x revenue for every dollar of "profit" the oil company makes.
In California the gas tax is .51 and on top of that is the fed tax of .18. Newsome just announced there will be another .10 added soon, in the fall I think it was. So that's .79 tax on every gallon of gas you buy in California, no matter what the overall gas price is. Robbery.
The government makes WAY more profit than the oil companies do on every gallon.
In the article right here there's a breakdown of the cost of gas, it just doesn't cut/paste over :)
"The beatings will continue until the morale improves."
Brandon (Obama?) has made it against the law to drill by not renewing leases and by turning off Alaskan fields. No Keystone pipeline could affect prices, too.
This leaves the oil company's no choice but to charge more for their nonexistent oil. If that sentence doesn't make sense, it's because I was attempting to emulate Biden's nonsensical logic.
Good description. Too bad they’re taking the country down with them.
And the world. Don't forget the world.
Exactly why the “war” is happening
This is nothing more than political posturing by Biden. He gets to look like he is puting pressure on oil companies while doing absolutely nothing that would compel them to increase drilling. His policies speak louder than his words.
This is the de facto green new deal that none of us signed up for. Suppress fossil fuels to attempt to coerce the population to transition to EVs. Wish this administration cared about high prices, but all of their actions and comments suggest they have ulterior motives!
transition to EVs…? Apparently Biden hasn’t noticed the impact of the supply chain crisis on car manufacturing. Well, I will say this, there are a lot of old cars getting “recycled” these days. Not long ago I even saw “temporary tags” on a newly purchased 1999 van. I am seeing many newly purchased 2003-2012s on the road.
I am a high school economics teacher and I know more than most of this administration. That is not how it works....duh
The know it well. Destroy. Build. Back. Better. The Great Reset. All planned. Watch Glenn Beck. Daniel Horowitz.
Thanks Alex for not giving up, your voice on this and Covid and all topics political and otherwise has been an important facet to history and to truth
One term seems optimistic? Love it.
The blame game! He’s pulled all their drilling permits or not renewing them (expired). Wait until goods can’t be delivered because the trucking industry is screwed too. You,think prices are high, goods are scarce now? Just wait…the plan is unfolding.
EO 14008 stopped drilling on fed lands. Day 1 of his admin. Revoke that.
Revoke him.
Fossil Fool.
LOL 🤣
I love reading comments here and getting zingers. That is creative. thx! (I plan on stealing this, with attribution of course).
Steal away!
Sure, the oil companies should be chomping at the bit to invest hundreds of millions in oil drilling infrastructure even as Dementia Joe and his enablers promise to shut the industry down ASAP.
I wonder how AOC is going to take this news? The Squadsters must be boiling mad over the threats to our environment!
Maybe if we could help AOC finally get laid, or licked, her choice, maybe, just maybe she’d go away someplace else and play. The others, though are too doggy-like to fix up with dates, a problem.
The correct word is champing. I don’t know why. It just is.
Or is it “chomping “ at the bit, you know,like a horse does?
Another 2 years of this man and america is a third world country. We are very well underway
I know some disgruntled Dems, but unfortunately, there aren't yet enough of them.
well here is one, and my hair dresser is another one, and I am sure there are more ! Dem over for me.
The problem the Dems have is if Biden doesn't run in 2024, Harris has to do so or Democrats will be accused of being racist. And Kamala Harris is not a good campaigner. She's awkward and comes across as insincere.
It's because she is awkward and insincere. Just watch her speech about being on an electric bus. It's comedy.
It's tragedy.
They will just cheat again, doubling down on it.
And don’t question the result! That’s an Insurrection!
I can’t see her getting the nomination. She didn’t get anywhere near it last time, and her experience in office hasn’t made her any more convincing.
Put it this way, Tulsi Gabbard got more delegates than she did and Tulsi is almost as bad as Trump to the corporate Dems.
She was the first to drop out.
Comes across as insincere? How about she’s just insincere?
And people didn’t know that before? They did and still voted for her as sleepy joe is no material for Full term. Even Alex says he couldn’t vote for trump. Why not? Now he gets to do complain about fuel price. Seriously? They are implementing their promises.
Since 2010, us oil production is way up, stumbling in 2020. Then it flatlines in 2021. I wonder what changed?
https://www.macrotrends.net/2562/us-crude-oil-production-historical-chart
Great reset. W E F. Build back better.
Said by someone who has zero knowledge of how business works!
Obviously when the prices are up producers (of anything) up production to capitalize on the market. It's very clear that there is something stopping producers from producing and participating in this high market.
How is that, aside from President Trump, we never seem to ever elect those with any actual experience in the real world?
Fox news medical correspondent now blaming Justin Bieber's facial palsy on Chickenpox when it is a clearly listed possible side effect from C19 vaccination. Despicable behavior of pushing vaccines and blocking discussion of possible C19 vaccination harm. Remember 70% of all Fox News ad revenue comes from the vaccinators. They own Fox News narrative.
Saw a video taken in Dallas, TX. A woman reporter stopped and asked black men are they agreeing with Biden the economy is great. Nope. They want Trump back. The average American knows the score. It is the woke raging lunatics that support Biden living in bubbles that have no clue how much hate people have for them. This time around they may find out. Now democrats talking about removing all guns.
No modern economy was built on renewable energy but on fossil fuels.....just look at India and China.
Just the "select elite" economies and we are not them. The whole climate change agenda is to fleece and transfer monies from the average person who will be then be required to pay for it all thru future taxes. Someone is always making $$$ and most are losing
You are right about that! These misguided policies will not help.
There is no such thing as fossil fuel, it is hydrocarbon .
I saw the term Organic fuel recently (maybe on this thread). It is exactly scientifically correct and brilliant.
Finally someone realized that the electric “grid” will not be able to function when much more than 1 % of the cars and trucks are electric. The grid is on the edge now.
And just what's wrong with fuel cells running on methanol? (Other than Joe Demento's sanctions may make the necessary platinum group metals unavailable.) The methanol can be made from coal, or even forestry waste (better, since less sulfur to remove), as readily as from oil.
Mostly; see my comment about methane. "Organic" means a living organism produced it. Chemists once thought only living things could make carbon-containing compounds.
Mostly, though not necessarily so for methane, as reaction of hydrogen (in turn from water and iron) and inorganic carbon can make it.
But I get your point!
I would love to see the gaslighting tanked by changing the narrative.
"Fossil Fuel" has become as toxic as " Racist ".
and white supremacist, weapons of war, etc.
oh and I forgot....Putin's price hike
Semantics
And the whole world before the industrial revolution.
Dive! Dive! Dive! You won't even see the Rat Paramilitaries out rioting and demanding to "Defund the Police" this summer. It's magic.
What a fuckin liar. The minute that mentally deranged pedophile took office, he issued executive orders that shut down all oil drilling and refining processes in this country. Then he said it is the drilling companies fault, that there is still plenty of gas and oil leases still not taken. A gas and oil lease DOES NOT PRODUCE ONE DROP OF OIL!! IT IS EXPLORATORY DRILLING ONLY. Because the govt makes it so expensive to do, which only happened under Biden, they usually pass because they could go bankrupt. When Trump was in charge, we produced so much oil and gas, we were selling it to other countries. Typical democrat, they fuck everything up then blame everybody else.
At least he’s not Trump my semi awake Democrat friend said to me yesterday…I asked him how his life was worse under Trump… he just said that’s not the point. We have a way to go still unfortunately.
That how Alex thinks too. He said he couldn't vote for trump. Why not when the other option was this? Oh please!
The dive can’t happen fast enough! The entire party except for a few like Manchin and Kristin S from AZ are okay. Oh, and take that Liz Chaney with them. She is pathetic!!
Not only her. Most of republicans are useless too! Oh please!
thanks Alex...I never knew I could laugh so hard at your journalistic wit and yet be so absolutely horrified at the same time at your content.....keep it coming...you are indispensable...
NO Biden hasn't done a damn thing to help, only hurt us! It's competition that keeps prices down. The idiots who thought Biden regime was honest and so much better than trump can kiss my ass. Biden shut everything down day 1 and started the long waste toward 'green energy BS' They are truly ruining every facet of our economies and THEY'RE DOING IT ON PURPOSE TO CONTROL AND TAKE MORE POWER AWAY FROM THE PEOPLE.
He’s gotta be doing this on purpose. No one can be this incompetent.
Interesting commentary from Monica Crowley yesterday on Steve Hilton's show. She characterized this as a planned demolition of the American economy and of America as we knew it, and that this has been going on for a very long time, decades.
The problem isn't with the senile, communist squatting in the White House. He's an idiot, and we know he's an idiot. The real problem is with the weak-minded voters who are dumb enough to believe all the nonsense that the imbecile in the White House mumbles about. The problem is always the voters. The dumbing down of America continues.
Your logic presumes only valid ballots case by legitimate voters were processed in the 2020 election. This is faulty logic.
They can only steal so much. I've heard estimates of 3% to 4% can be stolen. I don't believe that Biden got enough votes to win, but he did get enough votes to make stealing possible. If most Americans were well-educated (as opposed to government-school-trained), he'd never have gotten close.
Exactly. A few years ago Hugh Hewitt wrote a book titled "If it's not close, they can't cheat." Somehow we need to shift things so it's not so close anymore.
Mighty few of those. Nearly all locales prohibit ballot declarations. Thus, hardly anyone voted for anything. Minor possible exception: "The Constitution of West Virginia specifies that voters may choose to cast an open ballot, though they must also have the option to cast a secret ballot.[26. The Constitution of West Virginia specifies that voters may choose to cast an open ballot, though they must also have the option to cast a secret ballot.]"
Yeah, recount the 2020 election using only open, West Virginia ballots! The rest of the fraudulent Electoral College can go screw itself!
Most Powerful? Top 20? Please, he is a complete muppet paid for by WEF and fellow travelers.
Can't we just have a vote of "no confidence" and run him out of office?
The answer: replace all 263 million US vehicles with Teslas! Since Tesla produces 100k vechicles per month, thats...uh...just 219 years! Yay "Joe Biden". His handlers that actually run the place behind the curtain either want to destroy the country, or they are idiots. Hard to know which one. Yay "Climate Change!" Now where's my Climate-Change-Approved private jet?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_vehicles_in_the_United_States
I am a high school economics teacher and I know more than most of this administration. That is not how it works....duh
You must down to your students that way, duuhh lol
Glad I graduated in 03
I am not sure what you are trying to say, but my students are well educated in economics.
Speaking of choosing profits over lower prices for Americans...there's this business of Hunter's laptop proving the oily Biden Family Group, Inc. chose selling multimillion dollar access to China, Russia AND Ukraine (among others) for decades. How are all those bribery paybacks over the past 17 months working out?
What a lying sack of crap! He does everything he can to kill domestic oil production then blames the oil companies when what he wants comes to fruition. He stops oil which drives up the price of oil (so Putin has plenty of cash to attack Ukraine), then the cost of EVERYTHING goes up because fuel costs affect EVERYTHING. He's blaming the shipping companies for raising their prices, but they have to pay more for fuel. Next he's going to blame farmers because they have to pass on their fuel and fertilizer costs to us. Can't this old man go away. Oh wait, look what's waiting in the wings Kamela. Joy! We are all soooo screwed.
Wait- good news coming! First, it’s Camel Toe-she’s lucky to be built that way.And Willie Brown will bring to the polls all the many lads who were lucky enough to enjoyably partake of her during her lengthy previous career in participatory government.Enough so that the polls will go for her without the need for digital magic.
And- get this! The new Admiral in the Pubic Health Corps, the one with the wig and a woman’s name, just invented an innovative way to save diesel fuel- submarines with screen doors. Saves on weight.
BiDung and his wingman want to "fundamentally change America", but they are not responsible for those changes. The Gaslighter-in-thief is out of his mind.
It’s pretty obvious that Biden knows nothing about the oil business (or any business for that matter). Oil leases are bought in *anticipation* of *maybe* exploring the *possibility* of drilling at some point. It doesn’t always make sense to drill no matter how high the price of gas. 🙄
81 million votes, that was the FIRST LIE!!! Joe’s gotta go. That’s TRUTH!!
Price goes up due to supply shortage, more business jumps in to get a piece of it. Supply problems are solved and the price equalizes. Some bottom feeders lose and go out of business. The market stabilizes at a price, supply and demand equilibrium.
Then senile Uncle Joe and his clown circus start messing with the market. They print trillions and hand out to people for votes. Demand jumps. Then they stop permitting for production on federal lands. They kill the Keystone Pipeline. They implement more business-unfriendly regulations to curtail fracking. So there is much less opportunity and incentive for more producers to join in to create more supply. The big energy companies do love it... higher prices without the competition... but they are not responsible for the situation.
Biden and the Dems put the market in turmoil. And THEY are continuing the same policies that are keeping it in turmoil.
Rig counts are creeping up. Slowly.
Makes sense given the price.
It’s hard to find good help these days. Drilling for oil is hard.