If you’re concerned about fossil fuels and climate change, consider an energy source that, according to its backers, will make everyday living “comfortable and healthier.” What is this miraculous substance?
Big Oil companies seem to have no conscience, no remorse at all, taking public subsidies, gouging in prices, lying about climate change and, knowing that fossil fuel use is polluting the oceans, warming the atmosphere and raising the global incidence of asthma and other health ills. We consumers are actually subsidizing their lies and corruption of our government through lobbying, campaign contributions and other forms of influence. It's a form of being taxed by privately held corporations so they can use our money to bend our government into acting for their benefit and against ours. How rotten is that?
Enough with the lies. I am tired of oil making huge profits, paying no taxes and keeping fuel prices high just so they can make more profit while contributing shamelessly to the destruction of our planet.
We're in deep climate trouble. I implore people to take advantage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which is largely a climate catastrophe prevention act, to get an energy assessment of your home, electrify your homes, install solar panels if possible, switch to heat pumps from fossil fuel furnaces - all at discounted costs. There are state level rebates and federal tax incentives. If you haven't done so, check with your local utility now for the climate programs they steward!
Did anyone else notice the story today that the melting of the ice caps due to human action is actually causing the earth's rotation to slow down? Gives new meaning to the old expression, "Stop the world, I want to get off".
"Six hundred and forty-five people died from heat in metro Phoenix in 2023, breaking the record set the previous year." (AZCentral.com)
They had six (6) weeks straight of over 100-degree weather and often it was 110!! Now just wait until the end of summer THIS year and then see how the industry is going to promote oil and gas and denigrate alternate sources of energy like wind and solar! Texas, too, had the hottest year on record, I believe. This year is amping up to be even worse!
We had a warm winter here in Northern California, and it's only just now Spring and 70-degree days already. Climate Change is a "thing," folks!
This sounds like the fossil fuel corporations response to the message given them by the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP28) weakly calling for a fossil fuel phase -out. What energy lobbyists won't acknowledge is that science is true whether you believe it or not. Earth Science weather is happening now and the good health of the life of this planetary balance is not controlled with arrogance and money. That's only people acting as cogs in the Corporate Economic Money Matrix. Pop Goes the Weasel !
This oil is dark as the souls who promote it to make money & kill the ,future & health of all the earth.Wake up to the sunshine,it is the energy source of clean energy from the Creator & we are just beginning to understand it.
More than any other factor, Big Oil is responsible for the high inflation coinciding with the wind down of the pandemic (No, not Biden). Don't believe me? The top five oil companies all had record high quarterly and annual profits, some of them the largest corporate profits in the history of the world. Of course, we lowly humans paid for a lot of that, but the companies from whom we buy food, furniture, clothing, cars, and everything else had higher expenses too, further compounding inflation. Such taxes should be almost totally taxed and funds used to reduce taxes for everyone else. Oh yeah - does anyone else remember paying $4.50 a gallon for gas during the W admin? The elephants were not rampaging about that!
At some point in the future oil will no longer exist. At the rate the world producers are pumping it, it may be gone in the next 100 years. Hopefully the human race will still be here to survive what's left of the planet. The government needs to eliminate the $2B dollar welfare check they give to big oil and put it to better use, say funding social security so the GOP can quit with their scare tactics and threats to cut the program.
Not your best effort, Sir. I found your arguments to be one sided and uneven. Almost - but not quite - like the misguided people on the right. There are too many cartels in American industry, fossil fuels being one of them. TRC is another.
That said, keep on sounding off, Be calm and drive on, Pun intended! ;>)
Big Oil companies seem to have no conscience, no remorse at all, taking public subsidies, gouging in prices, lying about climate change and, knowing that fossil fuel use is polluting the oceans, warming the atmosphere and raising the global incidence of asthma and other health ills. We consumers are actually subsidizing their lies and corruption of our government through lobbying, campaign contributions and other forms of influence. It's a form of being taxed by privately held corporations so they can use our money to bend our government into acting for their benefit and against ours. How rotten is that?
Enough with the lies. I am tired of oil making huge profits, paying no taxes and keeping fuel prices high just so they can make more profit while contributing shamelessly to the destruction of our planet.
We're in deep climate trouble. I implore people to take advantage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which is largely a climate catastrophe prevention act, to get an energy assessment of your home, electrify your homes, install solar panels if possible, switch to heat pumps from fossil fuel furnaces - all at discounted costs. There are state level rebates and federal tax incentives. If you haven't done so, check with your local utility now for the climate programs they steward!
Did anyone else notice the story today that the melting of the ice caps due to human action is actually causing the earth's rotation to slow down? Gives new meaning to the old expression, "Stop the world, I want to get off".
old sayings: Plato"To do is to be." Aristotle "To be is to do". Sinatra " Do, be, do, be, do,"
Here's a News story we read earlier this year:
"Six hundred and forty-five people died from heat in metro Phoenix in 2023, breaking the record set the previous year." (AZCentral.com)
They had six (6) weeks straight of over 100-degree weather and often it was 110!! Now just wait until the end of summer THIS year and then see how the industry is going to promote oil and gas and denigrate alternate sources of energy like wind and solar! Texas, too, had the hottest year on record, I believe. This year is amping up to be even worse!
We had a warm winter here in Northern California, and it's only just now Spring and 70-degree days already. Climate Change is a "thing," folks!
In Oct '23 I shredded my diesel car and got an '18 BMWi3. You're welcome.
Wifey has a Chevy Volt, but rarely uses gas.
We have no kids.
We never run the cooler and don't run the gas heater unless it's below 61º in the house. At bedtime the heater goes off.
No lawn, no lawn mower.
The next step is to follow Ms. Green's suggestions!
Pretty darn oily. Maybe it’s a really dangerous OIL SLICK!!!
Why is it not so easy to just switch over to renewable energy sources and not just make money but help heal the Earth plus life on Earth as well.??
This sounds like the fossil fuel corporations response to the message given them by the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP28) weakly calling for a fossil fuel phase -out. What energy lobbyists won't acknowledge is that science is true whether you believe it or not. Earth Science weather is happening now and the good health of the life of this planetary balance is not controlled with arrogance and money. That's only people acting as cogs in the Corporate Economic Money Matrix. Pop Goes the Weasel !
This oil is dark as the souls who promote it to make money & kill the ,future & health of all the earth.Wake up to the sunshine,it is the energy source of clean energy from the Creator & we are just beginning to understand it.
More than any other factor, Big Oil is responsible for the high inflation coinciding with the wind down of the pandemic (No, not Biden). Don't believe me? The top five oil companies all had record high quarterly and annual profits, some of them the largest corporate profits in the history of the world. Of course, we lowly humans paid for a lot of that, but the companies from whom we buy food, furniture, clothing, cars, and everything else had higher expenses too, further compounding inflation. Such taxes should be almost totally taxed and funds used to reduce taxes for everyone else. Oh yeah - does anyone else remember paying $4.50 a gallon for gas during the W admin? The elephants were not rampaging about that!
Lobbying in a foreign country is called graft and corruption.
In the USA it is legal even if they lie.Perhaps the good citizenry of our nation can end this malpractice.
At some point in the future oil will no longer exist. At the rate the world producers are pumping it, it may be gone in the next 100 years. Hopefully the human race will still be here to survive what's left of the planet. The government needs to eliminate the $2B dollar welfare check they give to big oil and put it to better use, say funding social security so the GOP can quit with their scare tactics and threats to cut the program.
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Not your best effort, Sir. I found your arguments to be one sided and uneven. Almost - but not quite - like the misguided people on the right. There are too many cartels in American industry, fossil fuels being one of them. TRC is another.
That said, keep on sounding off, Be calm and drive on, Pun intended! ;>)