If you're cold, they're cold (picture of icebergs)

;_;

There was a hot minute where the propagandist narrative was that we needed to pump more oil to achieve "energy independence" despite the US already exporting, since that's where the money was made

mandate WFH wherever possible, institute generous EV tax rebates, etc etc

Oil production will not stop until we have alternatives to other items oils helps produce. I.e. plastics, latex, etc.

Edit: all of you saying it comes from trees might want to check again. Synthetic rubber is used as it can prevent allergic reactions from the natural protein of the plant. Also synthetic rubber is used a little more than natural rubber.

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Personal passenger EVs won't do much to dent global climate change. Gotta build mass transit and rail shipping, and clean up the electricity grid.

Carnival Cruises (63 ships) emits as much as 300,000,000 cars, and electricity generation and shipping are even more insane. All transportation combined is only 27% of our emissions. And EVs still need a lot of oil for tires and asphalt.

EVs are definitely better than ICE, especially for local air quality, but for global climate they're like deleting a text file to clear up hard drive space, instead of looking at the 400GB rip of LOTR.

We're all going to die lmao

people may wish that oil production would suddenly just stop

Given the massive size of related industries and dependencies, “sudden” was never on the table. However we should be ramping down. The industry should already know that long term investments such as new pipelines will never pay off.

Gasoline/oil should be getting more expensive, or we’re doing it wrong. The best incentive to figuring out how to switch to options kinder to our environment, is higher prices with the promise of more increases. That doesn’t only apply to gasoline/oil, but heating oil, jet fuel, deisel for farming, construction and heavy trucks, marine deisel, plastics of all types, etc. Holding these prices low may help the economy in the short term but means we’re not going to switch to better choices and the impact will be more serious when it finally hits

Ten percent is still a nice chunk. Especially for just getting started. Add in hybrids to that, and it’s even better.

No, this is actually a good thing for the environment because this way we'll hit 'peak oil' sooner and the world will be forced to look for energy elsewhere.

/S

That was never intended to be true, same with the most progressive president line. They just know that no one can call him out on it because they'll just be drowned out by people who are terrified of Trump.

What should he be doing instead? If he somehow had the legal authority to make companies cut production in the US, gas prices would increase drastically, the price of everything made with oil or transported with oil (which is basically everything) would spike, and consumption wouldn't even go down much.

What needs to happen is to have an alternative to oil first, and Biden's infrastructure bill was a big step in that direction, at least compared to every other president before him.