130
I’m sure the Republicans will do something to stop this, and blame the Democrats
this post was submitted on 23 May 2024
130 points (98.5% liked)
politics
18870 readers
4044 users here now
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Blame everyone. My brother-in-law works for a refinery. They get beat up in the news and by politicians all the time, but when they need something it always happens - even in California. Which shouldn't surprise - people say they want things like clean air until they discover it means gas prices go up (or they can't drive their car at all) and suddenly they don't care are all.
Oh yes, it's the minimum wage worker who is at fault because they need gas to drive the only available means of conveyance. Surely if they just walked the twenty miles to work, we'd breathe easier.
Why are you blaming the minimum wage worker? It is everybody with a car which is the vast majority of the adult population. Poor, middle class, rich - all of them care about gas prices and scream when they go up.
Sarcasm is meant to drive introspection. My point was that, in your wide reaching claim of "blame everyone", YOU include the minimum wage worker with no options. In fact, I'd argue that most Americans have no reasonable option to cars. I'd also argue that this is by design and mostly influenced by oil producing companies and the politicians they have bought.
But if you think that we can solve this crisis by blaming people with no options, then please help me understand how that works.
People have no options because everyone collectively hasn't created them. Sure a few people vote for transit, bike lanes and the like, but not many. (and the poor are not better than anyone else at this) . There are options - you can move closer to work, get a different job that is closer to where you live, get a bike, carpool, ride transit.... Those all bad options for most people but they exist and so they choose them.
Exactly the regs Cheato promises the oil companies he will get rid of if they raise $1B for his reelection
Waiting for DeSantis to overturn and rescind the Federal regulations in 3....2....
He can't — preemption means federal rules override state ones.
......./s
You were right without the /s. Descrutum will try anyway if it will put his shitty state in the news. Even if it’s just another frivolous lawsuit.
What, regulations work?
No way!
Now do ~~natural gas~~ methane leaks.
The largest controllable methane contributors are livestock and landfills. They need systemic reform, like lab-grown meat or incinerate and capture systems. You can’t stop a cow from farting with legislation.
I agree about the meat and dairy infrastructures. And grain production to, which basically turns diesel fuel into junk-food.
But the leaks from ~~natural gas~~ methane delivery, production and use are much easier to stop though, and would help the supposed greenhouse savings from switching to gas over coal.