Biden was the right vote over Trump, even on the issue of Gaza. However, it's fucked up to minimize Biden's culpability in the Gaza genocide this way. He wasn't indecisive, he was complicit and was actively involved in helping Israel lie and obfuscate. Maybe we as a country deserve Trump, or maybe we don't, but Biden and Harris did not deserve to win.
Tinidril
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There is going to be benefit any time workers take their power back. The signal it would send would echo in every job/salary negotiation for years.
I think we might finally have a common demand that we can all agree on. Deport illegal immigrant Elon Musk and confiscate his ill gotten wealth. General strike time?
Read the summary.
Send a postcard. A lot more letters just get tossed instead of opened because of security risks.
We don't ship any oil, we ship an unrefined slurry
The oil products are part of that slurry, so is it slurry with oil products, or oil with crap in it? That's a weird semantic distinction to make. Crap oil wasn't intended as the technically correct term, but I chuckle the thought of at seeing that in the paperwork.
Sorry about the tone. It's becoming appropriate so often lately that I fear it's becoming a bad habit.
I internally objected to you referring to the refinement of the slurry as "modern processes". It's not inaccurate, but it implies improvement when the primary advantage is offshoring the pollution, as you just described. I partially think that an impending surge in renewables is a factor in their unwillingness to add the capability here. I guess we'll see if there is any truth to that now that we are Trumpland and renewables will probably be set back at least a decade.
Defense contractors have started entire wars to manipulate the market. It's all market manipulation.
What the fuck is a Landman?
I never said the US was incapable of building (or upgrading) refineries to handle shale (light sulfuric crap) oil. We just don't, for a variety of reasons. As of today, we ship the crap oil out and import the good stuff.
The EU has it's own rising fascism problem, with Canada not far behind. Hopefully the insanity in the US will drive things the other way, but threatening times are generally good for fascism.
The US produces crap oil that US refineries can't even process. We export that, then import the good stuff.
To be fair, he isn't exactly trustworthy.
Is a decade ten months now?