$7/gallon gas is coming

[Anonymous]

Plastics may be more of an environmental emergency than fossil fuels. COVID drastically increased the demand for single use everything. It’s killing us, disrupting the endocrine systems of our youth and uses fossil fuels in order to be manufactured. If we all really cared, we would stop using plastic.

$7 a gallon sucks and greatly affects lower and middle class people. I don’t expect DC Urban Moms to care about this. You will continue to travel to far away destinations several times a year and feel nothing about using single use plastic everywhere you go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I see the narrative by this White House of "Putins fault" is dutifully being carried by the complicit media. Too bad America is smart enough to know this isn't Putins fault and long has been this administration's goal of pushing the green narrative.

If you believe this, you are delusional.

[Anonymous]

I fully support increasing funding for public transportation, more rail lines, more street cars, busses, lightrail, and subways. More economic help for those on the lowest rungs of the economy, including funds for transport.

The faster we get to no dependency on fossil fuels the better off we all are. I’m sure we can all agree on that. Let’s make it happen.

I don’t use single-use plastics. I bring my lunch to work in reusable containers. I don’t use plastic wrap for anything. I do not buy water and we don’t do carry out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Plastics may be more of an environmental emergency than fossil fuels. COVID drastically increased the demand for single use everything. It’s killing us, disrupting the endocrine systems of our youth and uses fossil fuels in order to be manufactured. If we all really cared, we would stop using plastic.

$7 a gallon sucks and greatly affects lower and middle class people. I don’t expect DC Urban Moms to care about this. You will continue to travel to far away destinations several times a year and feel nothing about using single use plastic everywhere you go.

Thanks for telling us about yourself. What are you doing to chanfe?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Plastics may be more of an environmental emergency than fossil fuels. COVID drastically increased the demand for single use everything. It’s killing us, disrupting the endocrine systems of our youth and uses fossil fuels in order to be manufactured. If we all really cared, we would stop using plastic.

$7 a gallon sucks and greatly affects lower and middle class people. I don’t expect DC Urban Moms to care about this. You will continue to travel to far away destinations several times a year and feel nothing about using single use plastic everywhere you go.

The CapEx expenditure is enormous for American Oil companies who have already pivoted to renewables. Hard to convince them to repivot back. I think the administration is doing a fine job looking at this issue holistically and thinking creatively of all the means available to plug the gap, including engaging Maduro.

American cheap gas has been made available by expensive military interventions. Pick your poison.

[Anonymous]

The public is tuned in to the cost of gas at the pump because the dramatic increase is immediately evident as prices rise day by day.

What is not as visibly evident, but just as bad, is the rise in heating costs for homes.

These are increases that many low and middle income families will find really difficult to negotiate.

[Anonymous]

Oil is a short term crisis, but it's also a long term crisis that is only a few generations off too. Some of you seem hellbent on going fullbore on oil right until the day we run out. Profits and cheap gas today, screw our kids and grandkids tomorrow. Total lack of vision and strategy. And even if we weren't gradually running out of oil, we still need to adapt and evolve, we have the technologies, we have the means. We didn't get out of the stone age because we ran out of stone.

Don't be the bands of cavemen that went extinct because they wanted to cling to the past and reject new ideas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oil is a short term crisis, but it's also a long term crisis that is only a few generations off too. Some of you seem hellbent on going fullbore on oil right until the day we run out. Profits and cheap gas today, screw our kids and grandkids tomorrow. Total lack of vision and strategy. And even if we weren't gradually running out of oil, we still need to adapt and evolve, we have the technologies, we have the means. We didn't get out of the stone age because we ran out of stone.

Don't be the bands of cavemen that went extinct because they wanted to cling to the past and reject new ideas.

We need both. Transition takes time but we need to start. In the interim both the US and Canada need to increase production so the Sphere of Democracy can say eff off to dictators.

Both sides of this issue annoy me. We should be able to do both. It shouldn't be an either or.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gas prices are high because oil companies are using the pandemic and now Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to price gouge. Plain and simple.

Agree. Local Shell has prices ranging from 5.99 to 6.29 ( high octane) and we know that She’ll just got Russian oil for a super sweet price…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oil is a short term crisis, but it's also a long term crisis that is only a few generations off too. Some of you seem hellbent on going fullbore on oil right until the day we run out. Profits and cheap gas today, screw our kids and grandkids tomorrow. Total lack of vision and strategy. And even if we weren't gradually running out of oil, we still need to adapt and evolve, we have the technologies, we have the means. We didn't get out of the stone age because we ran out of stone.

Don't be the bands of cavemen that went extinct because they wanted to cling to the past and reject new ideas.

We need both. Transition takes time but we need to start. In the interim both the US and Canada need to increase production so the Sphere of Democracy can say eff off to dictators.

Both sides of this issue annoy me. We should be able to do both. It shouldn't be an either or.

We can’t do both because the fossil fuel industry and their paid-for politicians have been slow walking the necessary technology for decades.

You can’t prevent the development of alternative energy sources and then spin around and claim that the world is not prepared yet to transition from oil. That is called a scam. We are being scammed by oil companies and their shills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The public is tuned in to the cost of gas at the pump because the dramatic increase is immediately evident as prices rise day by day.

What is not as visibly evident, but just as bad, is the rise in heating costs for homes.

These are increases that many low and middle income families will find really difficult to negotiate.

LNG really is a different market from petroleum, though. We make so much of it here and there is nowhere for it to go. Prices have been extremely low for so long, there is nowhere for it to go but up. Unfortunately people got accustomed to it being cheap and thought it would stay cheap forever. People who rely on heating oil know better.

And it’s not just heating gas- many power plants now run on natural gas so prices will go up for electricity too.

More government programs to help low income people insulate their homes will help. Budget billing for everyone else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oil is a short term crisis, but it's also a long term crisis that is only a few generations off too. Some of you seem hellbent on going fullbore on oil right until the day we run out. Profits and cheap gas today, screw our kids and grandkids tomorrow. Total lack of vision and strategy. And even if we weren't gradually running out of oil, we still need to adapt and evolve, we have the technologies, we have the means. We didn't get out of the stone age because we ran out of stone.

Don't be the bands of cavemen that went extinct because they wanted to cling to the past and reject new ideas.

We need both. Transition takes time but we need to start. In the interim both the US and Canada need to increase production so the Sphere of Democracy can say eff off to dictators.

Both sides of this issue annoy me. We should be able to do both. It shouldn't be an either or.

We can’t do both because the fossil fuel industry and their paid-for politicians have been slow walking the necessary technology for decades.

You can’t prevent the development of alternative energy sources and then spin around and claim that the world is not prepared yet to transition from oil. That is called a scam. We are being scammed by oil companies and their shills.

You are correct. But at the same time you can't just ignore that we currently need it. The real transition problem is the grid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm looking forward to $10 a gallon gas. It will spur the development of alternative energy and will encourage the production of electric cars and will also encourage Americans to take public transport and drive a lot less. It will stop this mindless commuting for millions of Americans who have no need to commute to work to sit in front of a computer all day when they can do their entire job at home, saving gas and money.

Bring it on! Life will be a lot better when gas costs $10 a gallon.

You really have no clue what $10 gallon gas will do to the working poor and middle class? Or the basic economy?
How privileged of you to look forward to this....

[Anonymous]

It looks like we're making nice with Venezuela now. Biden must be getting desperate. If gas is over $5 a gallon during midterms, no one will care about the reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm looking forward to $10 a gallon gas. It will spur the development of alternative energy and will encourage the production of electric cars and will also encourage Americans to take public transport and drive a lot less. It will stop this mindless commuting for millions of Americans who have no need to commute to work to sit in front of a computer all day when they can do their entire job at home, saving gas and money.

Bring it on! Life will be a lot better when gas costs $10 a gallon.

You really have no clue what $10 gallon gas will do to the working poor and middle class? Or the basic economy?
How privileged of you to look forward to this....

Oh now you expect us to believe that you care about the working poor? So then you support universal pre k? Government sponsored healthcare? Family leave? Minimum wage laws?

You keep trying to make your lame talking point stick and it is totally transparent.