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A Sneaky Way To End Fossil Fuel

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Posted By: RockyTCB, 5/28/2024 10:03:00 AM

When candidate Joe Biden promised while on the campaign trail that “we’re going to end fossil fuel,” could anyone have guessed that emptying the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve was part of the plan? Maybe Biden had that in mind all along – enact policies that raise the price of gasoline, dip into the reserves to lower prices for consumers, then finally wring them dry for, putatively, the same reason. That’s one way to get rid of quite a lot of fossil fuel. The federal Strategic Petroleum Reserve is “the world’s largest supply of emergency crude oil,” says the Energy Department. It

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Reply 1 - Posted by: seamusm 5/28/2024 10:23:12 AM (No. 1726479)
High prices should not legally constitute an emergency justifying use of the reserve. Yet another Democrat power grab to remain in office. Having drained the reserve we have little left to protect America from a true emergency. Use should require agreement from all three federal branches.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: bpl40 5/28/2024 10:34:48 AM (No. 1726484)
Laws, rules, conventions, even morality don't mean a rat's behind to these people. Political convenience is the prime definer. We all know this now.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: SkyKing1222 5/28/2024 10:54:46 AM (No. 1726497)
Simple energy policy. Scatter small Nuke plants (basically submarine motors) throughout the country. The price of oil is what we can supply from our own resources. If the World wants to pull what it did under Trump. ie: suppress world pice to undermine domestic production. Fine, tariff any imports and control the price at our needs.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 5/28/2024 11:42:04 AM (No. 1726524)
My very first thought when Traitor Joe started draining our emergency reserves is that he wanted us to be in a position where we had no reserves, to cripple the nation. We'll have to rebuild those reserves as soon as this vermin is gone from the scene.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: mc squared 5/28/2024 11:44:37 AM (No. 1726529)
We will no longer need petroleum for defense as Obiden has already ordered military vehicles will be electric. "Biden energy secretary doubles down on electrifying US military's vehicle fleet by 2030" https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-energy-secretary-doubles-down-on-electrifying-us-militarys-vehicle-fleet-2030-we-can-get-there
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Reply 6 - Posted by: walcb 5/28/2024 11:52:45 AM (No. 1726535)
Oil is not a fossil fuel. Coal is, but not oil.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: LadyHen 5/28/2024 12:29:01 PM (No. 1726564)
Depleting the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for anything other than a genuine crisis which should be outlined in detail by Congress should be an offense punishable by imprisonment. But then any sitting President using our national security infrastructure as his/her personal tool with which to punish their political enemies should also be punishable by law.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: red1066 5/28/2024 1:52:09 PM (No. 1726624)
Biteme won't be in office long enough to complete the plan to empty the SOR.
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