America is becoming a petrostate | The Trump administration’s energy policy will make the country sicker and poorer
https://www.ft.com/content/4d2559d2-04e7-4254-a44a-40d7c7b344f6?accessToken=zwAGS3IG1CfQkc9NJVnSBOdCVNOkSkDXx7NE9g.MEQCIBhQc1N1jqpNNhWPwxafuNQdrJi50Zb1giivzAT-o7KuAiAmzVfQkeCVVxaQHfEpI636_68g0LCycNHjXoQl7V1LBA&sharetype=gift&token=7ea0cf43-6f31-46b4-80d7-b161dbdcad9e
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Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 201d
Pedostate, fixed it for you.
silence7@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 201d
The two are not mutually exclusive.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 201d
All of wealth in America goes hand in hand with pedophilia because wealthy people are above the law.
tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 200d
America is bwcoming a prostate
ElectricAirship@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 21 pts · 201d
Becoming?? A bit late for that realization isn't it?
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 12 pts · 201d
my appalachian perspective is it has been since the advent of the ironclad in the 1860s
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 2 pts · 200d
America has been the world's largest oil producer since oil production became important. It is, no joke, the actual foundation of American prosperity, and there's a reason why the oil barons made a move on Venezuela as our own reserves are running out.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 200d
coal -> oil -> natural gas -> rare earth minerals and uranium
they won't allow us to consider any possibility seriously that will reduce the importance of pulling things to make water hot out from under the surface of the earth
rbos@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 201d
Right at the start of the biggest energy transition since the invention of gasoline, I might add.
Canada has the same problem. We're too closely tied to the USA and our leadership is also doubling down.
We're so fucked.
MrMakabar@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 201d
I am not Canadian, but are Suncor and CNRL really not lobbying hard right now? I would have though they are the large players in Canadian oil sand and would be the force behind those pushes.
rbos@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 200d
I feel they don't have to lobby very hard. Kinda got gravity working for them since we're already a gas station for the USA.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 200d
Hey, how is potash export doing?
rbos@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 200d
Not an issue I have at the tip of my tongue, so if that's a gotcha, consider me got. :)
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 200d
no it's not a gotcha at all. potash is like, another thing the entire world runs on. fertilizers and shit. i just have not thought about it, and it may be being ignored right now. manipulated. idk, i am not an expert at that shit right now.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 201d
At like, the most hilariously worst and unprofitable time to do so in human history
decapitae@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 201d
Population control by policy - eugenist numbskullery
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 4 pts · 200d
America is literally the first petrostate.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 201d
just like russia.
MyOpinion@lemmy.myserv.one · 2 pts · 200d
MAGAts are a death cult so I expect nothing less.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social · 1 pts · 201d
Yeah well, I don't have to get mine checked for another 5 years take that
Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 200d
that's good news for the civilized world