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Posts posted by Zeus
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3 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:
High oil prices are great for Texas, and you’re a “bean in my chili” scalawag if you think differently. High oil prices thank GAWD for the Texas economy.
15 gallons a week at maybe $1.50 difference is $22.50. What were you doing the entire pandemic when the rest of the world was learning new tech skills for free? Playing with your gummy belly button? 23 dollars made you a beggar? Most of this country has eliminated their work commute, but you’re over here Cosplaying bang bus and driving 100 miles a day?
It's just another hidden tax on the working class, inflation. It's not just going to be gasoline bub, everything gets to where it needs to be using the same gas. The cost of living just went up (again) while the working class wages aren't catching up fast enough.
They kept saying inflation was under control last year, it was supposed to be 2-4% or something? It was like 7%. It's going to get worse this year.
You or I being professionals may not get hurt that much, but the majority of the working class has a much tighter budget.
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1 hour ago, Bookman said:
If people can't afford gas maybe we should provide some type of low-cost transportation that is available to the public.
You can ride the city bus I'll keep living 2 mins away from my office.
Also what about people who have to drive around to job sites or wherever for work? You want them to spend most of their day waiting around at bus stops with homeless people?
It's just not realistic in most of Texas. People live in the burbs.
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The U.S. did not double oil imports from Russia in the last year
IF YOUR TIME IS SHORT
The most recent data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration shows that the U.S. increased its oil imports from Russia by about 28% in the first 11 months of 2021.
The U.S. did double the amount of crude oil imported from Russia last year. But Russia accounts for only about 3% of overall U.S. crude oil imports in 2021.
I'm fact checked out boomers
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Other countries make like $200/month on average
Some people live on like $40/month in total shitholes
Americans are marketed to infinity and consumerism is king, it's totally normal to live beyond your means and have a car you can't afford, house you can't afford, ect and live paycheck to paycheck. Doesn't mean Americans are poor. We are the fattest county on the planet lol nobody is starving. Drug addicted homeless people are given money and paraphernalia to shoot up and smoke crack all day if they want.
If the solution is the WEF great reset where they shut off the internet in a "cyber pandemic" the middle class in America is gonna get obliterated. Enjoy it while you can
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3 hours ago, Neonmoon said:
Do you fucking read what you post?
They EPA denied these EXEMPTION petitions, because these already existing refineries didn't want to comply with the stupid RFS program that is mandated by LAW.
Do you know what the RFS is?
https://www.epa.gov/renewable-fuel-standard-program
George Bush decided the way to decrease foreign oil was to make everyone include fucking ethanol.
These already existing refineries don't want to include that bullshit. None of that has anything to do with regulations preventing NEW refineries from being constructed
Here is the one new large refinery since 1977
Approximately 25-50% of costs are regulatory
Today there are about 150 refineries in the US compared to over 300 in '80
There's also not been any nuclear plants built in the US since the 70s
Why?
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25 minutes ago, babysdaddy said:
"Putin's price hike". That's good....don't think it will work but a good line regardless.
It will work
People absorb whatever gets repeated on the tee vee
Very few read or uses reason or looks at numbers
Thanks alot pooten!
C'mon Maduro let us in Venezuela pretty please
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17 minutes ago, David Dennison said:
Free market also means eliminating subsidies.
So yeah, let the free market be free.
Agreed, no more subsidies, no more higher taxes. The more the government can fuck off and stay away the better.
20 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:Please cite the insane regulations stopping these private companies from building new refineries.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2021-12-14/pdf/2021-26983.pdf
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39 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:
Battery technology is improving by leaps and bounds and lithium isn't/won't be the only option. To your first point, yes, but still better than using gas and oil to run them.
Whats the other option?
2 minutes ago, Dutchrudder said:Batteries? wut?
Interesting how the "other" could be the most efficient and cleanest way to create energy and it's not being done because it's overregulated. France pulled it off. France.
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5 minutes ago, Horn Dog said:
Nah. That would be socialism. We need to let the free market offer the proper incentives since I have been told that is always the answer.
Free market?
The "incentivize" would be to just relax the costs of all the insane regulations that prevent us from building the refineries. So yeah, let the free market be free.
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Holy shit I knew it was bad but damn they release the pedophile on bond back to the daycare where he raped kids and keep Cain locked up?
Yikes
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6 minutes ago, Cody2422 said:
There are definitely infrastructure and refining issues with being truly energy independent. Here is what I don't understand. We have the answer to all of this in our back yard. It's not oil long term. It's not electric vehicles, solar or wind in the short term. There is a transitional energy that I thought was going to be a larger player when EOM bought XTO. It's natural gas. Sure, we don't have filling stations for vehicles, but most city buses run on natural gas or a derivative. The cost to transition vehicles to run on natural gas is relatively low. It is cheap, clean and affordable. But like everything else in society and politics, each side decides to take a stance on either the far right or the far left (oil vs. electric), and fucking ignores the middle ground easier solution, thus fucking the middle and lower class. Oil is dirty and spills are a true environmental disaster (I'm in the OG industry). Electric vehicles require raping land to get to the required minerals to build batteries. Natural gas is the solution.
Not to mention unless they are being charged by Nuclear/Solar/Wind then they aren't really all that GrEeN either.
Also if lithium is the only option I don't think there's enough or that it can be extracted fast enough to keep up with demand.
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3 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:
Are you mentally slow?
We produce light sweet crude. We don't have enough light sweet crude refineries to make the amount of gasoline we consume. We can extract as much light sweet crude as we want, but it doesn't mean we are energy independent if we can't fucking refine the energy out of the goddam oil. It just means we all swim around in useless vats of light sweet crude.
Sounds like we should incentivize more light sweet crude refineries then.
1 minute ago, Dutchrudder said:I'm going to take a wild guess here and say you don't know shit about the oil industry, and you have no idea why our producers dropped production significantly at the end of 2019. But by all means, show us your O&G industry knowledge by explaining it and telling us exactly why we aren't back to net export status now.
Ill hang up and listen
I'm not saying we should be a net exporter, I'm saying we should be trying for energy independence. Instead we are regulating ourselves to death and dependent on paying third world countries like Russia.
Why did our producers drop production? They saw the Covid coming and the price war between SA and Russia coming?
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11 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:
Please stop posting Russian/Chinese propaganda.
Yeah it's why I'm posting in a thread called China sucks, they suck.
It's good to know what shit they are spewing though.
6 minutes ago, B00M said:I don't know that Western sanctions would be as effective against China, but I do know they can't secretly prepare to invade Taiwan. We are not so fucking distracted by Russia's bullshit that we wouldn't notice a military buildup large enough to invade Taiwan. It will be interesting to see how willing China is to support Russia economically moving forward as they suddenly hold huge leverage over putin.
Sanctions? lol half the US politicians are paid off by the Chinese they aren't going to do shit.
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15 minutes ago, TXSG8R said:
This probably deserves a neg for gaslighting or ignorance. I’m not remotely an O&G guy but even I know there’s a couple of massive steps between the Beverly hillbillies and putting gas in my car. If refining capacity doesn’t match what’s being pulled out of the ground, you aren’t energy dependent. If distribution doesn’t match refining input or output, you aren’t energy dependent.
It doesn’t matter how much we drill if we can’t turn it into gas, diesel, etc, that makes it to the pump/home/factory. That’s the issue, stop with the bullshit.
Step 1: get more oil than you need
Step 2: refine it
We had step 1 down at one point, now we don't, and it's costing us.
Are you are saying we since we don't have step 2 it's all good to just keep buying from the Middle East and Russia instead of producing our own?
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7 hours ago, Dutchrudder said:
Being a Net Exporter of a product does not make your country independent of that product. You're being fed a political talking point that isn't a fact, it's just a dumb one-liner for morons to repeat. Even in 2019 the US still imported about 7million bpd. It's going to take a lot more production to get us "independent", but first we need to figure out how to replace 10 million bpd from Russia...
Being a net exporter means exactly that, if other countries decide to stop selling to us (or we need to stop buying) we would be independently producing enough to be fine.
Right now we've decided to stop paying Russia $600M a day and without capacity to balance that out the prices have skyrocketed and fucked the middle class in America again with more inflation.
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Total chickenshit
You got guys beat the shit out of women Joe Mixon and only get a couple games
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6 hours ago, aggie08 said:
When was this? Be specific.
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=42735
In November 2019, the United States exported 772,000 barrels per day (b/d) more petroleum (crude oil and petroleum products) than it imported, marking the third consecutive month in which the United States was a net petroleum exporter. Although the United States is a net petroleum exporter as a whole, most regions other than the U.S. Gulf Coast region remain net petroleum importers.
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47 minutes ago, StruggleBus said:
Hasn't the leftist cabal always wanted high oil prices to help facilitate the transition to clean energy?
Well, here ya go, fucktards.I think a few billion people need to starve to death first, but yeah
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$9.00/gal with continued inflation of everything, 600,000/barrels a day from Russia, or go back to energy independence?
C'mon Ricchetti or Ron Klain make up your mind
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3 hours ago, Bullneck said:
Let's see what Pussy Riot has to say:
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Joe Biden 2022: Enter Dark Brandon
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He's got it, 3 months ago he said China was gonna help us out and a major effort to moderate the price oil was underway. It worked too thanks!