Biden speeds up the rate of inflation.

[RED]

From The Washington post:

The Biden administration has canceled one of the most high-profile oil and gas lease opportunities pending before the Interior Department.

There were at least 3 leases canceled, one in Alaska and two in the Gulf.

[Roadkingtrax]

Why aren't they drilling?

They donate 2-to-1 to GOP lawmakers and suddenly they don't want to make Red happy at the pump?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/06/biden-is-approving-more-oil-gas-drilling-permits-public-lands-than-trump-analysis-finds/

WASHINGTON? New federal data shows the Biden administration approved 3,557 permits for oil and gas drilling on public lands in its first year, far outpacing the Trump administration?s first-year total of 2,658.

Nearly 2,000 of the drilling permits were approved on public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management?s New Mexico office, followed by 843 in Wyoming, 285 in Montana and North Dakota, and 191 in Utah. In California, the Biden administration approved 187 permits ? more than twice the 71 drilling permits Trump approved in that state in his first year.

?Biden?s runaway drilling approvals are a spectacular failure of climate leadership,? said Taylor McKinnon at the Center for Biological Diversity. ?Avoiding catastrophic climate change requires ending new fossil fuel extraction, but Biden is racing in the opposite direction.?

[togor]

Need to get Red into a Prius. A yellow one.

[Major Tom]

Biden is dead set on stopping fossil fuel usage no matter what! He insists that everyone buy an electric vehicle! With rising inflation, who wants to buy an expensive electric car? People are having problems paying for groceries and other commodities! They cannot afford a new car!

[togor]

Well the pickup truck drivers are the ones honking when the petroleum supply chain gets boogered up, while the EV drivers shrug it off. So maybe they have figured out one small problem with petroleum, right?

[lyman]

Well the pickup truck drivers are the ones honking when the petroleum supply chain gets boogered up, while the EV drivers shrug it off. So maybe they have figured out one small problem with petroleum, right?

not just pickup drivers, my shop van is a 6.0 diesel,
round trip to a gunshow a weekend ago was $125 in fuel,
$5.49 a gal sucks,

[Johnny P]

Biden isn't dead set on anything, and can't find his way back to the office. No one knows who is really pushing the buttons, but from the bunch of losers appointed to cabinet positions don't be surprised if he declares the law of gravity unconstitutional.

[RED]

I filled up my Ford Free Star van tonight. It is old and has 200,000 miles on the odometer. It is in pristine condition and has enough torque to pull my 3,000 lb boat. It is built like a tank and has been maintained with precision and nobody thinks it is worn out.

The gas cost me $92.00 and that is a weeks in town mileage of 16.67 MPG.

Biden made the choice on his first day in office to fook over every hard working family man plus all the retired workers. Stopping drilling and the pipelines was intended to kill the economy and it has. Most 401Ks that Americans busted their asses to build have lost 30% in the new tax called inflation.

Let?s all back Brandon and help him build the gas chambers and ovens for all the seniors over 65.

[togor]

Biden isn't dead set on anything, and can't find his way back to the office. No one knows who is really pushing the buttons, but from the bunch of losers appointed to cabinet positions don't be surprised if he declares the law of gravity unconstitutional.

Or maybe that's you not knowing who's pushing your buttons because you keep saying that about Biden over and over and over and over. Yeah I know.....it's what you believe and no facts or evidence will change that. Like I was saying.....

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not just pickup drivers, my shop van is a 6.0 diesel,
round trip to a gunshow a weekend ago was $125 in fuel,
$5.49 a gal sucks,

The broader point is, petroleum as a transportation energy source has this kind of problem. EVs don't have this particular problem.

[RED]

EVs have a multitude of problems. Number 1 is affordability. It will be 40 years before the price comes down to a point the common hourly paid worker will be able to drive one to work. It is expensive and where is the billions of tons of copper used in winding the electric motors and the billions of tons of lithium needed for the batteries?

Even the charging systems are expensive.

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There are three types of charging stations ? Level 1, Level 2, and DC (direct current). The ratings for these three charging levels are as follows:

? Level 1: These are the standard electronic vehicle charging infrastructure with 120-volt single-phase AC of up to 16 amps. They are, however, limited to 12 amps and can deliver up to 1.9-kilowatt (kW) charge rate or about 5 miles of range per hour of charging. Level 1 units can be used with the standard household wall outlets since 120-volt outlets are readily available.
? Level 2: These types require a unit of 240 volts, and they allow for a wide range of charging speeds. With up to 80 amps power rating, they can deliver up to a 19.2-kilowatt charge rate or up to 60 miles of range per hour of charging time. This makes it one of the most suitable charging stations for most electronic vehicles. Level 2 EV chargers require exclusive charging equipment and a dedicated electrical circuit of 20 to 100 amps.
? DC Level 3: These charging stations use a 480-volt unit and can provide up to 80% charge in only 30 minutes. This is equivalent to 249 miles per hour of charging. They are, however, not compatible with all vehicles.

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To charge enough EVs to transport millions of people to their daily routines it is going to take a bunch more electricity and that means fossil fuels are going to be around for a long time. Right now only about 17 percent of American electricity is generated by renewable sources, 20 percent nuclear, and 63 percent +-, fossil fuels.

It is simply not going to happen until a new source of electricity is found. So the solution of our genius Progressives is to kill a few billion humans and go back to horses and wagons. That way we can get rid of fossil fuels.

[RED]

Oh, yeah!! Just for the record. Thirty precent of renewable electric energy in the US is from hydro electric dams. So all the windmills and solar panels are producing only about 14 percent of our total electric use.

[togor]

You don't need to tell an electrical engineer that EVs aren't there yet, and that the grid isn't ready to deliver the transportation joules currently sourced through petroleum.

But no mistake, petroleum as a transportation fuel has plateaued. These engines are as efficient as they can get. It comes down ancillary improvements like weight reduction.

EVs, meanwhile have the advantage of much simpler drive systems, and regenerative breaking, which recaptures about 1/2 the kinetic energy given up in breaking. This is energy that non-EVs dissipate as heat.

Range & batteries is a limiting factor on the vehicle, and older homes with 100 Amp service would need to upgrade the panel for an EV fast charger.

And if course wind/solar/methane will not support this. I vote nuclear.

But....in terms of fossil fuel cost, your electric coop can buy BTUs cheaper in bulk than you can buy them retail in gas or diesel.

Bottom line, a lot of big players are betting that the future of personal transportation is electric.

[RED]

No problem, it is in the future BUT NOT FOOKING YET, with no new energy source EV is still decades away and the crazy Biden ending pipelines and drilling is totally stupid.