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Drumpf: ENGINES FULL REVERSE
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2024
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The cruelty is the point.
we can't have 4 years of natural gas and coal expansion
The thing is we should've never had 80 years of gas expansion if only we invested in electric science earlier. Instead we invested fully on oil and only now, at the brink of climate collapse the solution is to force 180° turn to state controlled electricity.
Why not start by aknowledging mistakes? Instead they force us EV.
So the current US situation is, that the most powerful men in the country is either the guy, who turned the US into the biggest oil producer in the world or a guy who promises to go even faster and further in terms of emissions. Seems like the leaders of the free world, plan to kill us all.
The US has meaningfully cut coal use, resulting in an overall emissions drop, and put in place the measures which will sharply lower the need for oil in the coming years. It makes total sense to support Biden in light of those.
The lower coal lead to 2.5% drop in US CO2 emissions since 1990. At that rate the US is at zero emissions in only 1200years. That is not what meaningful change looks like.
I'll attribute the date of the peak to the Obama mercury regulations, which made it substantially cheaper to avoid coal. The continued drop is in large part because gas, wind, and solar, and short-term storage have become cheaper over time. Part of this is due to an improved regulatory environment and subsidy system under Biden.