flockofseagulls104 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 09, 2022 9:20 pm
Of course, bob. Nobody understands anything but you. More wind to piss into.
No, Flock, you don't understand. You demonstrate that you don't understand by screaming at the Bobs (and ignoring me other than to occasionally refer to me as the stalker) and cutting and pasting various talking points from right wing sources.
You blindly accept that giving oil companies free rein to do whatever they want at the expense of the environment is good policy. A lot of other people don't see it that way. And, as Bob said, all of Biden's reforms don't have an immediate effect on oil production. The biggest reason that oil production didn't increase that much in 2021 was the pandemic and related economic fallout which cratered oil production in 2020 and took it a long time to build back up again.
As for the Keystone Pipeline, it would carry what's known as tar sands oil, which is very dirty oil. It presents more of a danger to the environment and more hazardous byproducts when it is refined. It requires considerably more refining than light crude oil to produce gasoline, diesel, kerosene, and the other common types of usable end products. For that reason, it's not cost effective to refine heavy crude oil for those purposes. Instead, it's used for cheaper products like road surfacing material, plastics components, and petrochemicals. Most of those products are sold overseas, not here in the U.S. It's considerably more likely to cause a leak than other types of oil, and a massive oil leak from the pipeline in the United States could be an environmental disaster. What's more, there's no showing that the oil being transported through the pipeline couldn't be transported by other means. In fact, rail transport has already increased to pick up a lot of the slack.
The U.S. currently gets about 3% of its oil from Russia. This ban won't affect our capacity to get the oil we need very much. But we are very concerned about our European allies who get much more of their oil from Russia. The reason we're trying to increase supply is primarily to help them avoid the pinch. The UAE is now trying to help to increase production.
Flock, if you would avoid the hyperventilating and screaming, people would be far more likely to have a reasoned discussion in response to your posts. For example
BUT YOU KNOW IT, BOB!
Sorry for the sarcasm, but you show yourself to be an elitist, ultra partisan, egghead snob every time you post here.
I *#&$& pointed to the @^#% executive %#^@^ order told all the denizens of the swamp to ^&^%# find all the things that trump did they didn't like and go back to where they were before trump, BOB. And the &&*#^& did it, which is *&(#^ why the price of gas and all other &*#^% things that use oil has been going up for months, BOB. Putin just added an additional surcharge, BOB. *&#*$^ you, BOB