Understanding U.S. Energy Independence
From senior energy analyst Robert Rapier:
Every time someone says “Trump made us energy independent, and we lost that under Biden” — I ask them to back that up.
The most important thing is to get them to define energy independence. What do they think it means? If it 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.
My stats as a political prognosticator aren’t excellent. As my mom likes to point out, “Craig, you’ve been predicting that Trump is going to be criminally prosecuted since a few months into his term.”
Most of what we know about astrophysics we learned over the past few decades, and that certainly includes the idea that everything we see around us came from stars that exploded billions of years ago.
Bette Midler’s observation here rings true to me, FWIW.
Why do Republicans vote against measures that will making life-saving drugs affordable?
It’s not hard to see how Donald Trump came to power. He saw that we could tap into the seething hatred of a very large group of uneducated people.
Our country certainly is “Flirting with Disaster,” if it lets a president attempt to overthrow its government and establish himself into the same position that is held by Vladimir Putin in Russia, Kim Jong-un in North Korea, and Xi Jinping in China.
This from Laurence Tribe, described as: “an American legal scholar who is a University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. He previously served as the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard Law School. A constitutional law scholar, Tribe is co-founder of the American Constitution Society.”
Great job, Seth Silverton.
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