Replies to post #438002 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[hookrider]

hap0206: "Zab, I wonder how you fail to understand the appeal of MAGA

Energy independent = Give into all dictator's like Trump

Peace through Military Strength=Fake bone spurs like Trump

Low taxes= Only to the rich

Limited regulation=Only big company's that give $$$ to the Fucking republicans

Pride in being an American -- no CRT; no WOKE" All fake bull Shit

Fucking republican Bull Shit = Of No value

[zab]

Most Republicans do not want to keep helping Ukraine defend itself against Russian aggression.

The only low taxes Republicans believe in are for the wealthy and corporations, every America then has to pick up the tab.

Limited regulation allows corporations to act without regard to the public, or the environment, like we all are witnessing once again East Palestine, Ohio. That is when companies are held responsible by the very government you want to curtail.

Republicans are the perfect example of "woke."

Even you can look at yourself for your comments against almost all Americans who are not of a white heritage. Of course, even you are not a good example of anything except the racist piece of shit you keep portraying yourself to be with many of your posts.

Americans have pride with in themselves, we have a problem with Republicans who tried to overthrow an election, storm the Capital, and harm the very democracy that saved them from being killed.

As for energy independent, America leads the world in oil production, to achieve anything more would require embracing green energy, solar, wind, and learning to turn away from oil and coal.

As for MAGA, this newest form of the Republican Party is the scariest of all, they hate Americans, unless they represent the old southern version that they are special people.

MAGA is afraid of embracing America as it goes forward. Life moves forward, it is that simple. MAGA is trying to embrace a way of life that never was, it is not a white civilization. It is a combination of anyone in the world who comes to America and seeks freedom.

[blackhawks]

I'll deal with the energy independence is a subsequent post, first the easy shit...

U.S. Military strength remains at Mutual Assured Destruction levels and American weapons superiority is on display in Ukraine no less impressively than it was in Desert Storm. Trump would NOT have rallied NATO to oppose his 'I don't know why they would interfere in our elections' buddy Putin.

Trump's bluster never deterred Russia from Ukraine or Syria. Nor did it keep Rocket Man from regularly launching rockets. Nor did it stop Iran from increasing it's enrichment of Uranium.

Low taxes mean 'infrastructure weeks' and no infrastructure bill, no Chips and Science bill.

Limited regulation results are on display in East Palestine OH.

Pride in being an American is not to be found, by educated Americans, in denying the warts of history that all nations have nor in keeping one's head up one's ass RE current injustices. There would have been no women voters nor desegregation if the un-woke bastards of yore weren't rudely awakened and confronted with social and political injustice.

That's four for four, standby.

[blackhawks]

U.S. Energy Independence Has Grown

Robert Rapier Senior Contributor

Oct 1, 2022,06:00am EDT

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2022/10/01/us-energy-independence-has-grown/?sh=63bad765657e

I am often asked if the U.S. is energy independent, or whether we have ever been energy independent. A claim I frequently encounter is that President Trump made us energy independent, and we lost that under President Biden."

Before addressing such a claim, you must ensure that everyone is speaking the same language. When someone makes that claim to me, I ask them to define energy independence.

If energy independence means we don't import oil, then that hasn’t been true since the 1940s. If it means we export more energy than we import, then we became energy independent in 2019 (following a decade of soaring oil and gas production), but we remain energy independent today.

Others may define energy independence as producing more than we consume. In that case, we reached that milestone in 2020. It was primarily a result of a sharp drop in consumption because of the Covid-19 pandemic, accompanied by a smaller drop in energy production that year. But, that milestone remained intact in 2021.

It is true that we achieved both of those energy independence milestones under President Trump. What isn’t true, is that it was because of anything special that he did. His energy policies may have helped a bit, but the primary cause was a surge in domestic oil and gas production that occurred as a result of the fracking boom.

From 2006 to 2016, U.S. energy production increased from 70.7 quadrillion British thermal units (quads) to 84.3 quads. The U.S. experienced record energy production in 2015, but 2016 production pulled back because of the oil price collapse.

During Trump’s term — 2017 through 2020 — U.S. energy production increased by another 11.3 quads (although, again, 2019 was a record year and 2020 production declined because of the pandemic). The rate of increase was a bit higher under President Trump, which you can see in the graphic below. But the trend of surging energy production and falling energy imports since 2006 is also clear.



So President Trump didn’t make us energy independent. In fact, the gap between supply and demand substantially shrunk when President Obama was in office (again, because that’s when fracking really ramped up). But it would be fair to argue that President Trump’s energy policies slightly sped up the timeline in getting to the finish line of energy independence.

However, what isn’t true is that we lost that energy independence under President Biden.

Using the definition of exports minute imports, 2021 was our highest level of energy independence in history. In other words, we are even more energy independent than we were in 2019. (You can see all the data in U.S. Energy Facts Explained at the EIA website, which is also the source of the above graphic).

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/imports-and-exports.php

You can see the proof at the link. In 2019, our energy exports were greater than our imports by 0.61 quadrillion Btus (quads). In 2020, that excess grew to 3.47 quads (mainly because imports fell as Covid hit demand) and in 2021 it grew to a new record of 3.82 quads. By that measure, we are more energy independent than we have ever been.

If you prefer the definition of production minus consumption, then we are also still energy independent. In 2020 the U.S. produced 2.7 more quads than we consumed. In 2021, that excess shrank to 0.45 quads on the back of strong post-shutdown demand. So you could argue that by that measure our level of energy independence declined from 2020 to 2021, but it didn’t disappear.

If your preferred definition of energy independence is that we don’t import energy, as you can see from the graphic we haven’t come close to meeting that metric at any point since the 1950s.

So, on an apples-to-apples comparison, depending on your definition we are either still energy independent, or we never were.

[zab]

MAGA

Make Assholes Go Away, then again it does fit your personality.

Morons Are Getting Arrested- over 1000 of those Trump supporters were arrested and were found guilty of crimes against America.

[sortagreen]

White supremacy. Don't forget that, you old racist piece of shit.

[fuagf]

hap0206, "Zab, I wonder how you fail to understand the appeal of MAGA"

The lure of the lies by a member of the swamp who claimed he never was. By an establishment figure
that was never going to address the grievances of those whose emotions he manipulated so skillfully.