What is next? Natural gas heating in the homes? What about areas that do not have the infrastructure for fully electric homes? Will they also ban propane heating in rural areas?
Speaking of cooking grease, @Wade_Caldwell - wasn’t there a big push about 8-10 years ago for biofuel from cooking grease?
I think the administration needs to focus on the campaign promise of improved infrastructure before they start to ban anything.
I would not put too much on statements coming from Enron Oil & Gas!
Amazingly people with an anti gas agenda think gas stoves are terrible and people with a pro gas agenda think they are fantastic. And people who want votes often backtrack on things if they think it might one day cost votes.
It doesn’t seem crazy to think that it’s safer to not have gas in people’s homes. Or guns frankly. But whatever. You can’t take a peer reviewed article from a grifter, send it to another grifter, and start enacting policy. I mean you can, but it’s bad business. So is telling 30 million moms that are 57% pro-Democrat that they have to stop cooking with gas. That is all that matters here. Votes and polling and your base. So at some point the Karl Rove-esque figure in the White House has to call the anti-gas guy at the CPSC and tell him to stay in his lane and shut his pie hole.
Everything comes down to how you get your electricity. And make your cement and steel and ammonia and plastic. Random, but most people who are anti fossil fuels are also anti nuclear. IMO if you are anti gas AND anti nuclear you don’t make any sense unless you are living in a cabin in Montana typing your manifesto about how the modern world is evil. And heck even if you are pro nuclear you still need gas until we force 200GW of nuclear through the insane Fed approval process which will take 25 years. So, yeah, pro gas. But hey, I get money from gas so I’m clearly biased as well.
(Steps off soapbox)
And the GOOD news is… this moron has less than 2 years left in office. Maybe it is time for the Republicans to sue him to put his executive order on hold. Oh wait, that means we need to have someone in power in the House that is NOT a RINO. Good luck with that…
I am hoarding a supply of blow torches as we speak. I will use them to my advantage when it is time for them to come and confiscate my gas stove… I won’t have to wait for the sun to shine before they work. The energy effect of the blow torch is immediate and deadly.
Biden administration EPA trying to block two permits issued by the State of La. for some additional plants, citing “environmental justice” type of themes and shaky authority.
For those of you with a WSJ subscription, there is an editorial by Sen. Manchin blasting the administration for trying to sabotage the energy leasing requirements in the Inflation Reduction Act.
According the the WSJ, Pres. Biden is considering freezing new LNG export terminal permits, relying on faulty studies that claim natural gas is worse than coal if you consider methane leaks. Below is a link showing why the study is flawed (to be kind).
Russia and the Middle East must be licking their chops.
I’d say that’s a pretty good bet.
New API ads are pretty good on energy policy.
So Pres. Biden based his “pause” and “review” (really a freeze) of permits for new LNG export terminals based on a paper that came out claiming natural gas is worse than coal on emissions when you consider the effect of methane leaks. A short and easy to read summary of the problems with this paper is in the link below. Again it shows our energy policy is not being based on real, deliberative thought (how do we wean Europe off of Russian gas if we cannot grow exports?), but rather half cocked decisions using the cover of flawed “science” to justify them.
You are exactly RIGHT! All that BS will be eliminated if Trump Wins! Windmills are not as bad of an “eye sore” as solar farms!
Needless to say, thank God that Trump won! We will see a significant return to valuing and developing American minerals.
Oil prices during Obama: $77.00 average
Oil prices during Trump: $53.01 average
Oil prices during Biden: $79.57 average
That is all.
I guess I am going to have the moderators to close out this thread! It’s been an interesting four years.
It could probably be expanded into a generalized thread about the anti-oil and gas crazy ideas floating around out there at the federal, state and local level. It will need a new title, though.
I would expect Trump to undo the “pause” and “review” of new LNG export permits first thing. Then someone will run to court and try to get a judge to agree that Trump’s undoing of Biden’s illegal action is somehow illegal in itself.
That is how crazy and hamstrung our non-functioning government has become because Congress cannot pass meaningful legislation on a regular basis.
The last paragraph sums everything up.
“Drill baby drill” makes me exited for next year!
