Comment on Oil and Gas Billionaires Drum Up Dollars for Trump
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This is why “moderate” economical policy doesn’t make sense.
American fossil fuel companies are producing more and making more money under Biden than they did under tump, but those billion dollar corporations are never going to be happy.
They’ll donate to whichever team will help them more, there’s no way to appease them more than Republicans are going to, so why even play that game?
Why not give voters want they want instead of taking millions from fossil fuels companies so you can use that money to convince voters they should still vote against their own interests.
I just don’t understand why “moderates” don’t get this, they can’t be this fucking stupid, it’s gotta just be that they love the lifestyle that comes with running campaigns that cost over 2 billion (the estimated cost of Biden’s 2024 campaign www.nytimes.com/2024/…/biden-campaign-money.html)
silence7@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
Running a campaign is pretty miserable; always on the move, talking to skeptical audiences, dealing with really intrusive press, and very little time for ice cream.
A lot of this is because Americans punish politicians when gas prices go up, because we’re still dependent on fossil fuels, and have only started getting off of them.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Maybe 20-30 years ago…
Now it’s big money fundraisers with celebrities and ex presidents…
You might not enjoy that, but lots of people do. And they definitely enjoy the benefits and being the wheel that needs greased.
How is continuingly setting record breaking fossil fuels production levels “getting rid of them”?
Using more fossil fuels to ship it to the other side of the globe so it can be burned there?
Haven’t I explained this to you repeatedly for a long time now?
In fact, didn’t you ban me from you “climate change sub” for continuing proving you wrong about this?
Do you want the links again?
vox.com/…/biden-oil-production-climate-fossil-fue…
silence7@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
I’ve been around campaigns. It’s still a real slog.
What he’s been doing has been cutting US need to use fossil fuels. Here’s what we expect from the Inflation Reduction Act:
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The result is that the US is exporting a big chunk of oil, instead of burning it. Not all that we need, but a part of what it takes to end it extraction and use, and something Trump would never have gotten us to.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Again, were talking about production, you keeping being up emissions.
How do you still think those are the same things?
We’ve legitimately had this discussion a dozen times now…
And that’s not even what’s happening, the actual line of emissions goes up when Bident took office, starts predicting at 2021, and they were immediately wrong…
www.nytimes.com/…/us-carbon-emissions-2022.html
Look at your graph. It predicts a massive decrease. And instead we actually saw further increase…
It’s literally and factually wrong.
What do you think it proves?