Lions and Tigers and Bears Oh My - How will Trump's Fascist Dictatorship Affect You?

[Yellowtail]

13 hours ago, pattayasan said:

 

The House committee is a Republican outfit.

Again, prove you either know nothing, or you are deliberately posting falsehoods. or both. At least 15 democrats on the committee. Is it your position that they so spinless would be silent while they leadership was publishing falsehoods? 

 

Members | About | The U.S. House Committee on the Budget - House Budget Committee

 

 

[Yellowtail]

6 hours ago, RetiredNavy71 said:

You know I've noticed that too.  It seems that most of the idiots that you're referring to are high school dropouts or something similar 

You are unable to state your position or make a coherent argument, call out people for their spelling. 

[BTB1977]

Look at the dollar vs Baht. The dollar went up exactly the same day as the election was called. It is up approximately 1.5 baht. My retirement funds jumped at the same time after not performing to well the last four years. Investments and stocks always out perform under a republican president . Under Biden and Obama I was lucky to get a return of 4 or 5 %. Under Trump's last 4 years I was making 9 to 16 % depending on the fund. My property/farm value decreased under Biden by 400,000 dollars.. There is absolutely no confidence in the American economy under a Democratic  president.  That has been proven time after time. 

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16 hours ago, pattayasan said:

New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman said that voters who believed President-elect Donald Trump would do a better job of handling inflation than Vice President Kamala Harris are in for a "really rude shock."

 

In a podcast published by the Times this week, Krugman outlined why Trump's proposed economic policies were likely to do the exact opposite of what voters believed they would be getting.

 

And yet, Trump’s economic program, as far as we can tell, is the most inflationary program, probably, that any American president has ever tried to implement."

 

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-inflation-really-rude-shock/

 

And now...sports news.

[Patong2021]

13 hours ago, nauseus said:

The United States remained a net crude oil importer in 2022, importing about 6.28 million b/d of crude oil and exporting about 3.58 million b/d. Some of the crude oil that the U.S. imports is refined by U.S. refineries into petroleum products—such as gasoline, heating oil, diesel fuel, and jet fuel—that the U.S. later exports. Also, some of imported petroleum may be stored and later exported.

 

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-products/imports-and-exports.php

 

Yes, the USA imports oil, but it is refined and then sold to third parties at a profit, and is not needed by the USA. The Strategic Reserve is not intended to cover the interruption of these imports. That is not the mandate to the Reserve.

How many times do you need to be told that the USA has been energy self sufficient for several years?

 

The Canadian oil & gas  industry is foreign dominated with the result that a large portion of Canada's oil production is sent to the US for refining. The US buys cheap oil and then sells an expensive product back to Canadians. This allows the USA to exploit Canadian resources. All of that exported oil is sold going back to Canada at an inflated price.  The foreign oil owned interests have acted to prevent the  construction of new refineries in Canada for decades. 

 

 

 

 

[Yellowtail]

6 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

 

Yes, the USA imports oil, but it is refined and then sold to third parties at a profit, and is not needed by the USA. The Strategic Reserve is not intended to cover the interruption of these imports. That is not the mandate to the Reserve.

How many times do you need to be told that the USA has been energy self sufficient for several years?

 

The Canadian oil & gas  industry is foreign dominated with the result that a large portion of Canada's oil production is sent to the US for refining. The US buys cheap oil and then sells an expensive product back to Canadians. This allows the USA to exploit Canadian resources. All of that exported oil is sold going back to Canada at an inflated price.  The foreign oil owned interests have acted to prevent the  construction of new refineries in Canada for decades. 

 

 

 

 

How many oil refineries does the government own? 

 

Why did Biden cancel the Keystone XL pipeline? 

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59 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

 

Yes, the USA imports oil, but it is refined and then sold to third parties at a profit, and is not needed by the USA. The Strategic Reserve is not intended to cover the interruption of these imports. That is not the mandate to the Reserve.

How many times do you need to be told that the USA has been energy self sufficient for several years?

 

The Canadian oil & gas  industry is foreign dominated with the result that a large portion of Canada's oil production is sent to the US for refining. The US buys cheap oil and then sells an expensive product back to Canadians. This allows the USA to exploit Canadian resources. All of that exported oil is sold going back to Canada at an inflated price.  The foreign oil owned interests have acted to prevent the  construction of new refineries in Canada for decades. 

 

 

 

 

 

Perhaps Canada needs new leadership too then?

[Patong2021]

8 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

How many oil refineries does the government own? 

 

Why did Biden cancel the Keystone XL pipeline? 

Biden maintained the Obama administration position on the pipeline. The pipeline went through environmentally sensitive regions of Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska.  A wide coalition of residents were opposed to the pipeline because of the disruption and dangers posed to the water supplies of ranchers, farmers and small towns. Unfortunately, the Canadian pipelines have a bad history of leaks and spills. There is a serious problem of  chemical contamination around the oilsands.  A large portion of the Canadian financed pipeline would have passed through First Nation/Native lands, over which these people who have sovereignty were mostly opposed.  The pipeline would not have benefited US supplies because it was destined to refineries and then for export.

 

I support a pipeline, and am of the view that Canada should have built a refinery in Canada and expanded its pipeline in Canada. Unfortunately, its natives and the province of British Columbia were opposed. I am forever amazed by the double standard of Canadians. They all complain about the cost of gas and are forever going on a holier than thou lecture about environmental responsibility, yet they are big consumers of cheap gasoline and are ok with importing tankers of petroleum from  despotic regimes with nary a concern for oil spills and leaks in the oceans or of the environmental cost of extracting and refining overseas in lands where environmental controls are ignored.