America Last - To Keep Gas Prices Soaring, Biden Kills Alaska, Gulf Drilling Leases

[Anti Federalist]

Of course, the answer that could placate both sides is hemp- but we can't mention that.

Dent corn to ethanol is a farming, ecological, logistical, practical and, in terms of lost tax dollars in subsidies, a governmental disaster.

It creates more emissions than an equivalent volume of refined petroleum fuel to manufacture, uses more energy to create than it delivers.

Can you link to some conclusive proof that hemp to usable motor/boiler fuel is a net energy gain?

Or that it would not require using roughly half of all arable land to produce enough to meet current demand?

One of the reasons that we will soon be experiencing food shortages is because we no longer are "The World's Breadbasket".

China, Russia and India all produce more wheat than the US, in large part because we have turned over so much productive acreage to growing dent corn for ethanol.

Dent corn is, for all intents and purposes, non edible.

 

[LibertyEagle]

Huzzah, AF. I'd give you a +rep, but it won't let me.

 

[Anti Federalist]

 

[jmdrake]

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US GoM rig count is 17.

That's it, for the whole Gulf.

At over $100 per barrel, that rig count is pathetic.

In my 25 years of work in the business, prices at that level would produce a rig count of ten times that amount.

Have "the majors" "Gone Galt" as well as me?

Christ help this country if they have...

A) It's disgusting that they have "The Honorable" in front of her name. She's not a judge. She's a cabinet secretary.

B) This should be an impeachable offense.

 

[jmdrake]

Thank you for the infographic. I think I'll turn this into a sticker for gas stations. It's much more informative than the "I did that" stickers.

 

[Voluntarist]

US May Never Build New Refinery Even With Surging Gas Prices
Green policy push means billion-dollar investments may be stranded in coming decades

There may never be a new refinery built in the US despite surging gasoline prices as policymakers move away from fossil fuels, according to Chevron Corp.

“We haven’t had a refinery built in the United States since the 1970s,” Chief Executive Officer Mike Wirth said in an interview on Bloomberg TV. “My personal view is there will never be another new refinery built in the United States.”
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And adding refining capacity is not easy, especially in the current environment, Wirth said.

“You’re looking at committing capital 10 years out, that will need decades to offer a return for shareholders, in a policy environment where governments around the world are saying: we don’t want these products,” he said. “We’re receiving mixed signals in these policy discussions.”
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“We need to sit down and have an honest conversation, a pragmatic and balanced conversation about the relationship between energy and economic prosperity, national security, and environmental protection,” Wirth said. “We need to recognize that all of those matter.”

 

[Occam's Banana]

“We need to sit down and have an honest conversation, a pragmatic and balanced conversation about the relationship between energy and economic prosperity, national security, and environmental protection,” Wirth said. “We need to recognize that all of those matter.”

No. What we need to recognize is that none of those matter to the government except insofar as they can be used as excuses to maintain or expand the wealth and power of politicians and bureaucrats, and that no "conversation" about the "relationship between [those things]" can be "honest" or "pragmatic" or "balanced" as long as the government is involved.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Took a long M/C ride today, saw a number of stations with gas at or near $5 and diesel at or near $6.

 

[Anti Federalist]

US May Never Build New Refinery Even With Surging Gas Prices
Green policy push means billion-dollar investments may be stranded in coming decades

Nuke plant, hydro dam, generating plant, steel mill, coke furnace...the list is endless.

 

[acptulsa]