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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 12 days ago

America is becoming a petrostate | The Trump administration’s energy policy will make the country sicker and poorer

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America is becoming a petrostate | The Trump administration’s energy policy will make the country sicker and poorer

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  • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works
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    Pedostate, fixed it for you.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
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      The two are not mutually exclusive.

      • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world
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        All of wealth in America goes hand in hand with pedophilia because wealthy people are above the law.

    • tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      America is bwcoming a prostate

  • ElectricAirship@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Becoming?? A bit late for that realization isn’t it?

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      my appalachian perspective is it has been since the advent of the ironclad in the 1860s

      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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        America has been the world’s largest oil producer since oil production became important. It is, no joke, the actual foundation of American prosperity, and there’s a reason why the oil barons made a move on Venezuela as our own reserves are running out.

        • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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          coal -> oil -> natural gas -> rare earth minerals and uranium

          they won’t allow us to consider any possibility seriously that will reduce the importance of pulling things to make water hot out from under the surface of the earth

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    Right at the start of the biggest energy transition since the invention of gasoline, I might add.

    Canada has the same problem. We’re too closely tied to the USA and our leadership is also doubling down.

    We’re so fucked.

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      I am not Canadian, but are Suncor and CNRL really not lobbying hard right now? I would have though they are the large players in Canadian oil sand and would be the force behind those pushes.

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        I feel they don’t have to lobby very hard. Kinda got gravity working for them since we’re already a gas station for the USA.

    • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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      Hey, how is potash export doing?

      • rbos@lemmy.ca
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        Not an issue I have at the tip of my tongue, so if that’s a gotcha, consider me got. :)

        • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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          no it’s not a gotcha at all. potash is like, another thing the entire world runs on. fertilizers and shit. i just have not thought about it, and it may be being ignored right now. manipulated. idk, i am not an expert at that shit right now.

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    At like, the most hilariously worst and unprofitable time to do so in human history

  • decapitae@sh.itjust.works
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    Population control by policy - eugenist numbskullery

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    America is literally the first petrostate.

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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    just like russia.

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    MAGAts are a death cult so I expect nothing less.

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    Yeah well, I don’t have to get mine checked for another 5 years take that

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    that’s good news for the civilized world

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