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My understanding of these changes is that the canceling of the leases was anticipated however the western leases were not. That is where the National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska is located. Work was well under way to develop these leases and the infrastructure, pumping stations and transfer lines connecting to the existing infrastructure. Gigantic oil and gas reserves especially in an emergency.
To me our energy policy is to drive up energy and electrical prices and create a crisis. I can’t help to wonder who benefits from all this and how much they they paid for the result.
Here is what the author doesn’t mention.
Xi looks around and sees US Troops in South Korea (25,000), Japan (55,000), Australia. Sees the nuclear armed 7th Fleet out of Japan prowling the South China Sea. Sees the hostile US alliance with Taiwan. Sees the stockpiles of nuclear weapons on Okinawa. Watched the never ending wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and now Ukraine. And sees in Washington leadership that is hostile to his country among many others.
My best guess is that XI is removing his country from a wildly unhealthy and unwinnable situation and is no longer going to play. He will look for other partners.
Good question. Reading a book on JFK and what happened. The Cuban missile crisis got to the point it did for 2 reasons. We were not talking to them on any level. And Kennedy and Krushchev were under tremendous pressure from their military commanders to attack because each side thought they would win.
Both Kennedy and Khrushchev admitted to each other that they were worried of a military coup and that time was running out in their private letters to one another. That event scared the crap out of Kennedy and may have cost him his life.
I’d say the probability of the use of nuclear weapons would be directly proportional to these 2 factors. Especially the military and the likes of Neocons like Lindsey Graham and Victoria Nuland. Kennedy was thinking clearly but Biden’s capacity to work through a problem of this magnitude is not there. And now Russia is deploying Sarmat missiles. Not encouraging.
Exercising power because it’s easy. Hasn’t Bonta ever heard of Omertà?
The loudest are always the weakest.
On Bloomberg, maybe he’s got REITS. He once wanted a congestion tax for NYC so go figure.
I’d say a lot of people can work successfully from home so long as performance is good. Outside sales people for example pay themselves. Lawyers and accountants to a large extent but not in the beginning. A lot of seasoned technical people can. I know a lot of engineers and they all say no way.
The problem with government people is that they are union protected and performance is hard to measure. They never get laid off and they know it. I’ll bet their unions to include teachers unions among others are trying to figure out a way to work at home all the time as a benefit. They will use lower carbon as a cover. They all should go to work.
I suspect academia is infected too. Know a young PHD physics candidate at Berkeley who told me that labs were quite often empty.
Get rid of tenure wherever it exists and you can probably use the work at home model efficiently.
You reap what you sow.
I can see no one in Washington who is thinking about the citizens and what is good for them.
Nixon’s moment of truth was when Barry Goldwater lead of group of Republicans to the White House to tell him he had lost support. Goldwater told him he had 16-18 Senators left that supported him. Everyone was decent about it. The country had been through enough. The citizens mattered. Nixed left.
Can you imagine that ever happening today? Cities would burn.
Curious. You mean a Speith who makes 50 million+ of which 6-10 million of it is “gambling” is taxed on the other 40 mil less deductions at the normal rate?
This is an area that used to be known as “special taxpayers”. A team pro sport athlete for example would not be considered earnings as gambling. But has to pay the state income state tax where the game is played each game. Just like an actor.
Well yea. It’s just like the recently finished White House cocaine investigation. “There are no leads”. Or the Supreme Court can’t figure out who the opinion leaker was after a nine month investigation. They have their own variation. No one is guilty. But we all all embarrassed.
Republicans have reached new levels of “baffled” by all of this.
Nobody’s innocent. Just not guilty.
So who screwed up? I doubt it was the commanders on the ground. It was Biden or his advisors.
And according to the Republican Senator below, “he must do better”. There you have it. I doubt Biden even remembers it.
The rule is Nobody is Innocent, Just Not Guilty. Like the nuns used to talk about original sin. Everyone starts out dirty until the sins are washed away. That’s where press and lawyers come in.
I don’t think that any of the mob at the Justice Department, the Democrat party mob, and most of all the judges who preside over these trials make any moral decisions as to the consequences of what they are doing. It is a march to totalitarianism. So where is no-nonsense Judge John Sirica? There are none.
As to Trump, he should have stepped aside. He has to make moral decisions too and put the country first. But he won’t. Even though this bunch of horrible nobodies will chase him to his grave. He needs to rise above it.
Your son made a smart decision.
So, what could go wrong? Let’s see. Biden is rattling swords with China, got NATO in Ukraine, is sending 3000 US troops to /EuropeUkraine, provoking North Korea and is now sending another 2500 Marines to counter Iran moves in the Persian Gulf after the Justice Dept had seized the Greek tanker Suez Rajan in April with 800,000 barrels stolen oil from Iran. That tanker sits off of Galveston as we speak.
Right now the US has 900 military bases in foreign countries in addition to the 749 in the US.
Wouldn’t be easier to just get energy independent?
Worse, the Republicans are all in as far as I can tell. The media is all in. The Ukrainian stand up comedian gets whatever he wants. Biden is giving everyone a green light for whatever they want and Putin is lying in the weeds with some awful firepower.
If I were a Presidential candidate of either party I would start hammering away at the potential for your draft age son or daughter to possibly die in Ukraine. Or worse.
Yes, it does effect everything. I have wondered how the 4.2 million miles of highways will be paved once oil is gone. And the 300 million driveways and parking lots. My driveway is 350 feet and pavers aren’t going to do it. I could always build a stall and get a horse.
