- Thevenin ( @Thevenin@beehaw.org ) 59•8 months ago
I will say this about Biden: the dude’s downright sneaky. It seems to be his administration’s main strategy to publicly walk back a major agenda point, let right-wingers celebrate, and then after the media hype (and potential for right-wing backlash) dies out, quietly split it up into smaller programs that get pushed further than the original agenda ever could.
- He blocked the rail strike, but then went back and ensured the unions got their sick leave anyway.
- He approved historic oil projects, but then went back and curtailed more oil production than he ever approved.
- He let Senator Manchin gut EV tax credits, but then spread that money out in the IRA and IIJA with green infrastructure funding so comprehensive that it has international attention.
- He’s been criticized for being soft on China’s military (by the right) and emissions (by the left), but the CHIPS Act and FABS Act and ban(s) on chip and tooling exports have all but eliminated China’s greatest source of geopolitical leverage: their nascent monopoly on electronics.
- The SCOTUS struck down student loan forgiveness, but Biden went back and forgave more, this time splitting it into multiple smaller programs that are harder to stop.
So yeah, it seems on-brand that the Biden administration would push for LNG exports after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and then go back later and curtail them instead.
- ericjmorey ( @ericjmorey@beehaw.org ) English8•8 months ago
Thank you for this comment
- BurningRiver ( @BurningRiver@beehaw.org ) 7•8 months ago
This should be pinned at the top of every thread mentioning Biden until the second week of November.
- ira ( @ira@lemmy.ml ) 28•8 months ago
A great start! We’re going to need to see way more of this to reverse the massive increase of natural gas production since Feb 2021 (2.6 trillion cubic ft / month then vs 3.5 trillion now, a 34% increase in less than 3 years and an all-time high for the US)
- MrMakabar ( @MrMakabar@slrpnk.net ) 1•8 months ago
Yes, but a lot of it goes to the EU and they lost Russias supply. Similar story with oil. There are massive OPEC+ cuts and the US fills the void.
- lntl ( @lntl@lemmy.ml ) 17•8 months ago
JOE! JOE! JOE!
- eltimablo ( @eltimablo@kbin.social ) 5•8 months ago
Natural gas is produced as a byproduct of gasoline production. He hasn’t done shit besides screw us out of access to a cleaner energy source we’re already producing.
You can re-inject it into the reservoir instead of burning it and dumping the resulting CO2 into the atmosphere. He’s done a good thing here, especially light of the incredible death toll from the by-products of combustion.
- ares35 ( @ares35@kbin.social ) 31•8 months ago
these are export terminals… which are used by the industry to sell the product for more profit than they can get selling it domestically. it also eliminates the ocean-crossing trips made by those pollution-spouting tankers to deliver the product overseas.
- aew360 ( @aew360@lemm.ee ) 24•8 months ago
This will drive down domestic energy prices as well. So naturally, Fox News cannot cover this
- Sonori ( @sonori@beehaw.org ) 8•8 months ago
Na, they’ll cover it twenty four seven as an example of the radical left driving up energy prices for hardworking americans, full well knowing that anyone who would do more then take everything they say at face value has long since left.
- aew360 ( @aew360@lemm.ee ) 5•8 months ago
Shit, you’re right. I was thinking of 2014 Fox News, not 2024 Fox News
- squiblet ( @squiblet@kbin.social ) 29•8 months ago
Natural gas is commonly produced by fracking. And also, this is about export terminals.