Guy is a former Obama Administration DOE ghoul
He did not support it until it had huge fossil fuel concessions, which will directly line his pockets. Do people like this seriously exist?
But it's like Prof. Snaperino the character from my TERF fantasy children novel - he was the good guy all along
I think this is less of the oil and gas lobby attempting to kill GND "once and for all" as it is just business as usual; exploiting their control over government policy to give themselves handouts and appear green as far as it never impacts their bottom line. This is why the GND is dead already - just as a reminder, American politicians are so thoroughly clients of oil and gas that House democrats failed to get enough support to even put the bill to a vote.
But without a doubt, as you point out, this bill will be the scapegoat for every upcoming economic ill. Like how the Texas blackouts where blamed on wind turbines and small businesses lament fuel efficiency standards and gas prices.
Exactly. Democrats could control 435/435 seats in the House and 100/100 seats in the senate and that shit still wouldn't pass.
Call me crazy conspiracy theorist, but my take is that this is an oil and gas lobby op to bury the Green New Deal once and for all.
Eh. This feels like its just an industry pivot. Natural gas wells are going to be played out in another 20 years. All the easy money fossil fuels have been tapped. Green Energy is increasingly lucrative. So now the Feds are just going to pay the private sector to make the jump.
But private firms do need to lock in capital now, because they don't want any risk of a price war between O&G and Renewables. That's a race to the bottom every capitalist loses. Better to just extend the monopoly
Imagine being stupid enough you didn't realize this meant it was bad
The bill has bipartisan support. "Oh god no" :doomjak:
Being a Democratic voter is just switching between the two thoughts "Republicans are an evil scourge upon the Earth and literally everything bad that has ever happened is entirely their fault" and "Oh boy, I'm so glad the Republicans approve of my team's latest move! Finally a win!" so often that you don't have any brainpower to think about what is actually happening.
That's the thing. The people making these Harry Potter connections aren't even teens or younger. I would expect that sort of thing from a younger group still figuring out the world. Instead, it's usually said by grown ass people in their 30's and older.
The first Harry Potter book came out 25 years ago this year. People in their 30s grew up with them. It's just nostalgia.
By the time Goblet of Fire came out, grown men were buying them to read on long flights. It isn't even as though this was restricted to ten years olds from the early '00s.
True. I never got into it, personally, but it was the only time I've ever seen people line up for a midnight release at a bookstore.
at this point everybody who mentions harry potter ever should just be shot
I love sustainable tech i made it a 1 to 1 parity with oil exploration
:matt: We still need a Matt Shut Up emoji, far more than the others
die
do you mean you want to cross that portal in the department of mysteries in the pre-penultimate chapter of book 5 or go to the pristine version of the king's cross station in the penultimate chapter of book 7 not counting the epilogue? According to my careful analysis of the canon(s) and synthesis of various different interpretative theories, "death" is too imprecise a term when it comes to the wizarding world. You need to be clear.
What kind of lib calls themselves a leftist instead of a commie?
Clearly I am the one true leftist.
It was a really big thing for a while, it's not weird you know about it
Jacques Derrida, "There is nothing outside of
the textHarry Potter."Considering Dumbledore's judgment was basically portrayed as infallible throughout the series and he trusted Snape completely right up to the moment of his death, who the fuck was actually surprised Snape was a Double Reverse Quadruple Agent?
