1. As for importing oil and gas from other countries rather than produce it here: Does it somehow matter less to Mother Earth that the oil and gas we consume was produced somewhere else? Is foreign mined oil and gas somehow less evil than ours? Given the fact that Russian gas is at least 30% "dirtier", that is, containing a larger sulfur content that U.S. produced gas, and that Venezuelan oil has a higher sulfur content and has fewer of the fractions which are most valuable when refined (gasoline, kerosene, industrial chemicals used for agricultural chemicals and plastics manufacture, for example), exactly what overall environmental benefit do we accrue from using foreign oil and gas?
2. Forget trying to make sensible arguments to hard core Marxist progressives like Rep. Jayapal. For such people, the ideological cause somehow makes them believe that they can implement policies which make no obvious sense altogether, for they believe that because the policies fit the ideological mold, they will somehow work. This is the reason why otherwise sane, reasonable people keep flogging the long dead horse of socialism. Perhaps a reading of Einstein's famous definition of insanity to them would help, but I sadly doubt it.
A couple thigs:
1. As for importing oil and gas from other countries rather than produce it here: Does it somehow matter less to Mother Earth that the oil and gas we consume was produced somewhere else? Is foreign mined oil and gas somehow less evil than ours? Given the fact that Russian gas is at least 30% "dirtier", that is, containing a larger sulfur content that U.S. produced gas, and that Venezuelan oil has a higher sulfur content and has fewer of the fractions which are most valuable when refined (gasoline, kerosene, industrial chemicals used for agricultural chemicals and plastics manufacture, for example), exactly what overall environmental benefit do we accrue from using foreign oil and gas?
2. Forget trying to make sensible arguments to hard core Marxist progressives like Rep. Jayapal. For such people, the ideological cause somehow makes them believe that they can implement policies which make no obvious sense altogether, for they believe that because the policies fit the ideological mold, they will somehow work. This is the reason why otherwise sane, reasonable people keep flogging the long dead horse of socialism. Perhaps a reading of Einstein's famous definition of insanity to them would help, but I sadly doubt it.
November can’t get here fast enough. The Democrats are living in a world apart from reality. They are destroying the country.