Biden and Big Oil Had a Truce. Now, It’s Collapsing.
www.nytimes.com
Companies were enjoying record profits. But the president’s decision to pause permits for gas export terminals has whipped up industry support, and donations, for Donald Trump.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/9745434

This comes after Trump promised the oil executives he’d end all decarbonization efforts in exchange for a billion dollars, and made it possible for Trump to start outraising Biden for the first time

If you’re reading this, and you’re an American, it’s on you to actually be a counterweight to this. That means:

  • Make sure you’re registered to vote — you’ll need to register for the first time if you turned 18, and will need to update yours if you moved, changed name, or simply had your registration purged by Republican officials
  • Volunteer. Phone banking and such are help, but if you’re able to, travel to volunteer in-person and talk to people.
  • Donate. Give what’s ok for you, not more. If you’re well-off enough to show up for an in-person fundraiser and tell officials why you’re donating, that’s amazing.
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    6 months ago

    This is why “moderate” economical policy doesn’t make sense.

    American fossil fuel companies are producing more and making more money under Biden than they did under tump, but those billion dollar corporations are never going to be happy.

    They’ll donate to whichever team will help them more, there’s no way to appease them more than Republicans are going to, so why even play that game?

    Why not give voters want they want instead of taking millions from fossil fuels companies so you can use that money to convince voters they should still vote against their own interests.

    I just don’t understand why “moderates” don’t get this, they can’t be this fucking stupid, it’s gotta just be that they love the lifestyle that comes with running campaigns that cost over 2 billion (the estimated cost of Biden’s 2024 campaign https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/briefing/biden-campaign-money.html)

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
      22·
      6 months ago

      Running a campaign is pretty miserable; always on the move, talking to skeptical audiences, dealing with really intrusive press, and very little time for ice cream.

      A lot of this is because Americans punish politicians when gas prices go up, because we’re still dependent on fossil fuels, and have only started getting off of them.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        6 months ago

        Running a campaign is pretty miserable; always on the move, talking to skeptical audiences, dealing with really intrusive press, and very little time for ice cream.

        Maybe 20-30 years ago…

        Now it’s big money fundraisers with celebrities and ex presidents…

        You might not enjoy that, but lots of people do. And they definitely enjoy the benefits and being the wheel that needs greased.

        A lot of this is because Americans punish politicians when gas prices go up, because we’re still dependent on fossil fuels, and have only started getting off of them.

        How is continuingly setting record breaking fossil fuels production levels “getting rid of them”?

        Using more fossil fuels to ship it to the other side of the globe so it can be burned there?

        Haven’t I explained this to you repeatedly for a long time now?

        In fact, didn’t you ban me from you “climate change sub” for continuing proving you wrong about this?

        Do you want the links again?

        https://www.vox.com/climate/24098983/biden-oil-production-climate-fossil-fuel-renewables

        For the last six years, America has outstripped Russia, Saudi Arabia, and other OPEC countries in crude oil production. And it has picked up the pace under Biden, who had approved more permits for oil and gas drilling on public lands by last October than former President Donald Trump had by the same point in his presidency.

        • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
          21·
          6 months ago

          I’ve been around campaigns. It’s still a real slog.

          What he’s been doing has been cutting US need to use fossil fuels. Here’s what we expect from the Inflation Reduction Act:

          The result is that the US is exporting a big chunk of oil, instead of burning it. Not all that we need, but a part of what it takes to end it extraction and use, and something Trump would never have gotten us to.

          • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            6 months ago

            Again, were talking about production, you keeping being up emissions.

            How do you still think those are the same things?

            We’ve legitimately had this discussion a dozen times now…

            And that’s not even what’s happening, the actual line of emissions goes up when Bident took office, starts predicting at 2021, and they were immediately wrong…

            https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/climate/us-carbon-emissions-2022.html

            Look at your graph. It predicts a massive decrease. And instead we actually saw further increase…

            It’s literally and factually wrong.

            What do you think it proves?

            • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
              21·
              6 months ago

              The bill passed in late 2021. Less than 1/10 of the money it allocates for decarbonization has been spent yet. Key provisions didn’t even kick in until this year.

              So no, you can’t judge its impact by what happened in the months immediately after passage. Particularly when US emissions started dropping again in 2023:

  • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
    31·
    6 months ago

    I’ll note that the NYT changed the headline after I started writing this.