Biden's aggressive climate policy runs
into backlash in debate aftermath
Los Angeles Times,
by
Evan Halper
&
Noah Bierman
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
10/24/2020 9:43:02 AM
After lingering in the backdrop of the discussion through much of the presidential race, climate change has been thrust to the forefront as the Trump campaign rushes to build a closing argument around Joe Biden’s plan to fight global warming. Biden's comment at Thursday night’s presidential debate that his climate action plan would eventually doom the oil industry unleashed a coordinated attack by the GOP in swing states. But the strategy of going after Biden on fossil fuels may be coming too late — by about a decade, experts on the subject said. Voters are far more bullish on phasing
Reply 1 - Posted by:
bpl40 10/24/2020 9:46:37 AM (No. 582589)
Aggressive climate policy my a**. It is the road to ruin. Why people on this side of a lunatic asylum would propose it remains a mystery. Frankly, I am feeling better and better about the outcome of this election!
16 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
mobyclik 10/24/2020 10:18:20 AM (No. 582618)
All these laid off energy workers can get new jobs in bicycle and horse whip factories...and learn to code.
7 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
66Strat 10/24/2020 10:24:04 AM (No. 582625)
Voters are bullish on phasing out fossil fuels? Which voters in which faculty lounges? Give me a break.
8 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 10/24/2020 10:28:16 AM (No. 582629)
Normal people don't want an expensive, short range electric car that takes 4 to 8 hours to 'refuel', can't go on a that trip to Grandma's house two states away.
The average person also want the electricity to come out of the wall socket and the lights to come on ANY TIME, day or night - unlike California where they shut down whole swaths of the state's electric grid for days at a time.
They have been telling us that we have "just a few more years" on MMGW since the 80s, and here we are nearly half a century later and the weather is pretty much the same as it was 100 years ago, with the allowance for normal variations.
Oil and gas, besides fueling ships, aircraft, trucks, tractors, combines, railroads, buses, cars also are the chemical building blocks of all polymer plastics - used in a huge array of products. Will we 'transition' to glass syringes, and hundreds of other plastic, disposible, sterile medical devices? How about the roughly 25% of your car which is plastic?
What about all those kitchen items that are plastic? Wooden housing for your computer? A wooden printer?
This is all insanity. Costs would rise immensely and performance would drop dramatically for ALL transportation, for most consumer goods.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
janjan 10/24/2020 10:29:07 AM (No. 582631)
Democrats love to toss around poll results and statistics. So 70% of the country wants to end oil and gas production, even in areas where people are heavily employed in those industries? Pure bs. Who was polled? When? What were the questions? Whoever is making these claims can’t answer any of those questions.
9 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 10/24/2020 10:57:57 AM (No. 582668)
Assume the U.S. has no fossil fuels. The rest of the world will have fossil fuels.
Our military will love this:
We'll fuel our fighter planes and bombers with solar panels. Our enemies will use their fossil fuels.
We'll have electric tanks, trucks, jeeps, etc.; the needed recharge stations will be on the battlefields.
The enemy will wait while we recharge.
5 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
snakeoil 10/24/2020 11:14:53 AM (No. 582692)
The writer for the LA Slimes mentions Global Luke Warming. Didn't they transition to Creeping Climate Change? If there is no oil how will I lubricate a squeaking door? This is great news for the whaling industry. The main reason for the switch is not to protect The Planet but to put more moola into the pockets of Quid Pro Joe and his bagman Snorter.
4 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
stablemoney 10/24/2020 2:41:15 PM (No. 582867)
When I go to buy an appliance, the last thing I want to hear about is the corona virus and climate change features. I hope someone will help me communicate with sellers that what I want to know is their product will operate the way they used to, and the cost, all listed at the top of the page. Please put the virus and climate changes on a separate page in back. Thank you for making these changes, and keeping climate change and corona virus out of view for those that are sick of hearing about it.
3 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
paral04 10/25/2020 5:55:01 PM (No. 584022)
Apparently, we have had only 180 years of weather record keeping so these numbers mean nothing.
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Article goes on to downplay any impact on the campaign - even claiming voters want oil and gas to be ended. Wishful thinking.