Michael Ramirez for October 07, 2022

Only thing blown I’d the fuse inside Micheals head

Time for him to replace it

I presume that Ramirez is spewing about Biden having shut down the pipeline that was going to ship raw (Canadian) crude through the gulf to “elsewhere” to be refined. Unless he’s even less hinged than that.

Come on, Ramirez. You need to stop listening to Tucker Carlson and FoxNews. The United States has been a new-exporter of oil since 2010. If you’re referring to the pipeline that would have brought tar-sands oil from Canada (owned by a Canadian company), that oil can only be refined in very specific locations, and can only be used in certain specific applications. It also has always been intended to be sold in the open market.

This sad trope is beneath you.

Maybe one day, Mr. Ramirez, you’ll actually read more than Alt-Reich media for your “sources” and actually learn economics but I doubt both.

All those people who advocate for fracking should volunteer to live right where the fracking takes place. Let them worry about all the water that is being used up and about the possible pollution of their water supply. Let them listen to the noise it makes. Let them deal with the earthquakes fracking causes, that, although minor, can break up their house’s foundation. They should be willing to make the sacrifice since they are so enamored with it.

What kind of idiots would allow their economy to be wholly dependent on a single commodity?

“What maniac” indeed.

Republican Governor Mitch Daniels pushed for wind generators and solar farms here in Indiana; he also pushed for ethanol-from-corn. (Two-out-of-three ain’t so bad.) His administration was 2004-2012.

His successor, Mike Pence, cancelled all those incentives and began touting strip-mined coal. (No, I don’t know if he was buddies with Manchin at the time.)

As Shod and others have pointed out, IF the US had gone for solar and wind at the time, THEN we’d be selling photovoltaic panels and MW turbines to China and Europe – not the other way around.

fusilier

James 2:24

OY!

Repeat after me. Oil is an international commodity sold on the world market to the highest bidder. This is what a free market does. This is capitalism.

Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Russia have state owned oil companies and can control the flow of oil whenever they want. The US and most of the West have private oil companies. They make business decisions based on profit. It is profitable to restrict production – supply and demand. If anyone wants to nationalize the American oil business, well then you can claim the President has control of American oil and it’s production.

The Keystone Pipeline you are apparently referring to would have transported CANADIAN oil to Texan refineries and then OVER SEAS. Not to your gas tank.

You people do not understand economic, the oil business or facts.

If we continue to depend on burning fossil fuels for energy we are in big trouble. We are already in big trouble, as anyone who pays attention can easily see. Do we want to make a really bad situation even worse? We need to put all our efforts into getting off oil as soon as possible. Energy is perhaps the biggest problem we face right now. I don’t mean that we should ignore other problems, but if we don’t solve the energy problem, then we’re cooked.

America hasn’t been energy independent for the last 70 years.

The existing Keystone Pipeline, yes-there is an existing pipeline, has had bad leaks. One was 383,000 gallons in ND. So Biden closing down a potential polluter for a major aquifer is a terrible thing according to Mr. Ramirez.

Love your artwork, Mike! (:

Mike, couldn’t agree more. Please ignore the detractors who don’t seem to understand that 1) it is not prudent and potentially dangerous to not be able to be energy independent (look at the dependency of Europe on Russia for energy-what if there was war?), 2) it will take a long time to fully develop sufficient non-fossil fuel sources to replace fossil fuels, 3) approximately 80% of electricity in the US is generated from fossil fuels (so you are not really ‘switching’ yet if for example you buy an electric car-develop alternatives more before you pull the plug), 4) you have yet unsolved problems of recycling/disposal (I think expiring solar panels may be in that category), 5) justifying shutting something down just because there are some solvable problems is an overreaction (or a failed attempt at justification), AND MORE. The fact that Biden is dipping into even more millions of our strategic oil reserves to try to avoid the bad press of high prices right before the elections shows that what he is doing is really politically motivated.

In 2021, the United States imported about 8.47 million barrels per day (b/d) of petroleum from 73 countries. Petroleum includes crude oil, hydrocarbon gas liquids (HGLs), refined petroleum products such as gasoline and diesel fuel, and biofuels. Crude oil imports of about 6.11 million b/d accounted for about 72% of U.S. total gross petroleum imports in 2021, and non-crude oil petroleum accounted for about 28% of U.S. total gross petroleum imports.

In 2021, the United States exported about 8.54 million b/d of petroleum to 176 countries and 4 U.S. territories. Crude oil exports of about 2.96 million b/d accounted for 35% of total U.S. gross petroleum exports in 2021. The resulting total net petroleum imports (imports minus exports) were about -0.06 million b/d in 2021, which means that the United States was a net petroleum exporter of 0.06 million b/d in 2021.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=727&t=6

Oh, and little mikey, most of what we import is from Canada… about 10 times as much as Saudi.

The anti-fossil fuel crowd are delusional. Everything they own, wear, or put in their bellies comes from fossil fuels. Farm equipment runs of fossil fuel, the ammoniated fertilizer is produced using methane, the food is shipped to market using gas or diesel powered trucks, diesel powered trains and diesel powered boats. Farm equipment, trucks, and freighters are ill-suited to alternate forms of power. The added weight of batteries would compact farm fields. And farm equipment must run 24/7 during planting and harvesting seasons. You can’t make batteries without diesel – all mining equipment runs on it. And mining the precious metals those batteries require is far harder on the environment than fracking or mining oil sands. As for alternate fuels, they all compete with food production and they themselves require fossil fuels. Before corn can be turned into ethanol it must be dried using natural gas or propane. The carrying capacity of the Earth prior to widespread use of fossil fuels was about 700 million. That means, in a post fossil fuel world, 7 billion people would have to die – that’s 91%. Bill Gates puts it at 95%. That doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll be one of the ones led to the “showers”, but you probably will be.

Another great cartoon for numbskulls who think that the past is the future.

The REAL culprits are those who have insisted that we stay dependent on fossil fuels and have obstructed and blocked any and all attempts to develop alternative energy sources. We gotta keep those oil company CEOs in their yachts and with their offshore bank accounts. Just ask republican politicians.

ABC T.V. Headline – Keystone XL pipeline halted as Biden revokes permitConstruction on the Keystone XL oil pipeline has been halted as U.S. President Joe Biden revoked its permit. This was Joes first day in office, as he bowed to the extremist groups of climate change. After that he declared war on the fossil fuel industry. He has run The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) down to it’s lowest level in 40 years. It’s meant for an emergency, not to help a bumbling politician, who has terrible policies get by the next mid term election. #FJB!

@Michael Ramirez- EXCELLENT!

Why do we have a segment of the population willing to destroy this nation by prematurely betting its existence on green technologies that at this time are not capable of maintaining the nation at its current power requirements!!!????

So lets give more subsidies to the oil giants. Woo Hoo.

Sounds like what a chinese, embedded plant would do!

Brilliant as always Ramirez