Phil1111

Holy smoke Batman I didn't realize you were a humanitarian at heart. Your lifetime history of posts confused me. Nothing has as much effect on wildlife as warming and the fires that result." Australia’s bushfire crisis was one of the worst wildlife disasters in modern history. The fires killed or displaced nearly 3 billion animals."

That runs contrary to the facts. Instead ban the GOP and send their right leaning followers to school. Unless of course you think the whole covid experience was some sort of a planned left wing/Chinese conspiracy to "steal the election".... But WAIT...hold the press! Perhaps you're right after all(no pun intended). “Right-wing populism is always more engaging," a Facebook executive said in a recent interview with POLITICO reporters, when pressed why the pages of conservatives drive such high interactions. The person said the content speaks to "an incredibly strong, primitive emotion" by touching on such topics as "nation, protection, the other, anger, fear."

Those were all times before the GOP declared Washington and the government as the enemy. That politicians were out to line their pockets, that taxes was theft, benefits from the state all unnecessary. Entitlements corrosive to the work ethic that only White God fearing Americans possess.

As compared to others who also promised to rebuild America: "As a presidential candidate in 2016, Donald Trump promised a $1 trillion infrastructure plan that would use tax incentives to spur private investment in public works projects. He has so far failed to persuade Congress to pass anything like that." In fact the GOP and trump really made no effort to prepare America for the future. Their interests solely in passing and immediately taking advantage of tax reductions, tax credits to personally benefit.

You have a kindred soul with Aaron Rodgers also " a victim of a “woke mob” and “cancel culture.” “I’m not some sort of anti-vax, flat-earther,” Rodgers said. “I believe strongly in bodily autonomy and the ability to make choices for your body, not to have to acquiesce to some sort of woke culture or crazed individuals who say you have to do something.... Rodgers said he did not want to take the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines because he had an allergy to an ingredient in them...he was wary of the vaccines’ potential effects on fertility,...“Some of the rules are not based in science at all,” Rodgers said. “They’re based purely in trying to out and shame people..” He also admitted to getting most of his advice from Joe Rogan and having taken ivermectin

Sure, in your neighborhoods a Black hasn't been shot for......

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This may help you understand M1 and what it means. This better explains the point that you're trying to make.

What point are you trying to make here?

Chew on that one bone Brent. I know its terrible to have to face the new pharma reality on the same day. The provision would, for the first time, allow the government to negotiate prices for some medicines covered by Medicare. “Democrats will deliver strong drug price negotiations to lower prices for our seniors and halt Big Pharma’s outrageous price hikes above inflation.” Stephen J. Ubl, the president and chief executive of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the industry’s main trade group, criticized the deal." Perhaps the new Mercedes SUV will have to last a while longer because the poor and elderly will have cheaper prescription drugs. Then to face the additional humiliation that the major financial firms in the world are restricting financing on new coal and oil projects.

Alberta Aug. 2021 "Production averaged 3.53 million barrels per day between January and June — 5.7 per cent higher than during the same period in 2020 and 1.8 per cent above the same period in 2019, said a release from ATB Economics on Wednesday. The vast majority of that production — 86 per cent — is accounted for by oilsands extraction" and 'Suncor’s Oil Sands operations cash operating costs(1) per barrel are expected to reduce by 8% to $26.00 - $28.50" Selling for an average of $58/bbl in Sept/21 The $30-38 dollar profit per bbl at current prices is being mainly used to reduce debt.

Big oil has conducted a climate change disinformation campaign for decades. Similar to what tobacco did for the last 40 years. Finally congress and the courts held them to account. Now its the turn of big oil. Hearings in congress will start today into the lies and disinformation of big oil regarding climate change. Everyone here knows of someone who has swallowed the hook of the big oil lie. "Today is a day of history-making climate drama in Washington. At the Capitol Hill end of Pennsylvania Avenue, an unprecedented event: the CEOs of four of the world’s biggest private oil companies are summoned to testify under oath to Congress about their companies’ decades of lying about the lethal dangers their products pose.... As voluminous investigative reporting dating back to 2015 has documented, ExxonMobil, Shell, BP and Chevron have known since the 1980s at the latest that burning oil, gas and coal would overheat the planet and imperil civilization; their own scientists told them so. They did it anyway." How long will it be before plaintiffs bring multi-trillion dollar claims against the industry for these lies and campaigns to kill. Campaigns to destroy the environment. All to line the pockets of those same executives. Together with their shareholders whose greed was wanton. From the same story "The companies not only hid their knowledge about what was coming, they spent millions of dollars telling the public that global warming wasn’t real. Indeed, 31% of Americans still don’t accept that climate change is happening, according to a new poll commissioned by the Guardian, Vice News and Covering Climate Now. " Where climate change deniers live.

Which drives conservation and EV purchase and usage. It sounds like the left is winning. Perhaps I'll have to move from the right to the left.

We can always trust Brent to display true knuckle dragging, harry chested thinking.

Sure! Then hide behind the flag for a corrupt, hate filled agenda. (above)"Teddy Daniels, who is running for Congress in Pennsylvania, speaks at a pro-police rally last year. He was at the US Capitol on 6 January. Four officers lost their lives.. Of the thousands of diehard Trump supporters who gathered in Washington on 6 January, some are now beginning to emerge as Republican candidates for national and local office." It seems as if the law, the courts and common sense run slower than some politicians.

Its well established that US military leadership is almost without exception White and Male. Perhaps she is just an example of deflection of the need for diversity?

Considering the slow rate of adoption of public electric charging stations. It would seem as if hydrogen supply stations would present another insurmountable issue.

I'd agree but under-investment in oil and nat-gas are constraints on supply in the short and medium term. The idea that oil is akin to tobacco is scaring away investment/ drilling. Fracking has been shown to be cost ineffective for oil production. Covid will keep commercial air travel down for at least another year. It uses about 8% of total oil consumption and is currently 40 billion gallons under pre-pandemic consumption.

But isn't he wrong about almost everything? The market cap of Tesla today would allow it to buy Ford($62.78B), GM($83.8B),Fiat Chrysler ($30.9B),Toyota($240B), Honda, etc. oh heck the rest of the ten largest auto makers in the world High gasoline prices will do the most to drive energy conservation and EV introductions. IMO they are a good thing. Its just too bad that for Dems, The GOP and Americans high gasoline prices are seen as a national emergency.

Hertz recently emerged from bankruptcy and its new CE0 is a former Ford executive.

Like trump, the fracking oil export dream was a scam on the backs of investors. With U.S. shale peaking & having “never made money,” investors lose billions "2020 marks the 15-year anniversary of the U.S. shale boom but now the industry is in trouble. The same report from Deloitte adds that the “reality is that the shale boom peaked without making money for the industry in aggregate. In fact, the US shale industry registered net negative free cash flows of $300 billion, impaired more than $450 billion of invested capital, and saw more than 190 bankruptcies since 2010.” Brent, why is it that everything that trump gets involved with becomes a money losing quagmire ending is bankruptcies all around? Despite billions in federal handouts? Thankfully he lost in 2020 because he was ready to hand out even more cash had he won! Trump's coronavirus handout to oil industry would be dumb, destructive We know the better half is in tight with big pharma. Are you in tight with big oil? Because handouts are in the center of your thinking.

Your buddy trump is responsible. Iran determined to increase its oil exports despite U.S. sanctions "Tehran does not disclose its crude export data, but assessments based on shipping and other sources suggest a fall from about 2.8 million barrels per day (bpd) in 2018 to as low as 200,000 bpd. One survey put exports at 600,000 bpd in June."

Mostly agree but she is a moderate as far as the GOP goes. Don't forget she is from Wyoming. Agree Agree. The trump base knows power flows from the primaries. Get rid of challengers there and the die is cast.

Nearly 80 percent of Republicans want to see Trump run in 2024: poll "The poll underscores the stubborn support Trump enjoys among the GOP base, backing that may be growing. Sixty-six percent of Republicans said in the same poll in May that Trump should run for the White House in three years." Of course he's eligible to run. Even with some sort of conviction his base will claim it was politically motivated. Most legal actions can be delayed till past 2024. The only hope for republicans is a new moderate political star to run against him.

IMO new immigrants want what every other Canadian has. A car or two per family, condo or detached home, etc. Given Canada's immigration points policy my experience is that it takes no longer than 4-6 years for about 1/2 of new immigrants to acquire property. There is a immigrant family from the Ukraine about three miles from my place. The primary breadwinner is a plumber and speaks very good English. His parents speak none and his wife a little. They have a new home on a acreage worth about $450k. I have no idea how big their mortgage is. They arrived two years ago. Their six member extended family has three vehicles, two boats and two tractors(10 acres). Here is a good example of Canada's courts v. US courts on vaccinations, covid, parents rights, etc. Judge bans Ottawa mother from advising son against COVID-19 vaccine "An Ottawa mom has been legally banned from telling her 14-year-old son not to get the COVID-19 vaccines and prohibited by court order from showing him online information that calls into question the safety or efficacy of the vaccines."