Energy is not the priority- the plunder of the environment is the priority - ThreadSky

ruthbenghiat.bsky.social • 60 days ago

Energy is not the priority- the plunder of the environment is the priority

Reposted from NPR

President Trump is making energy a top priority on his first day in office, pledging to declare a national emergency – which no president has ever done before. The implications aren't clear.

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arborvitae10.bsky.social•60 days ago

Because Canada has oil. The US has invaded countries before over it.

slg23.bsky.social•60 days ago

So true. I heard that it also gives him all sorts of extra powers and control over many of our government agencies.

jpl1.bsky.social•60 days ago

Gas prices are very reasonable

cosmicnexus.bsky.social•60 days ago

He gains and abuses power through ambiguity... keep 'em all guessing and off balance and do whatever you want because by time they really find out it's too late, and he is off already starting more fires.

marcosmontreal.bsky.social•60 days ago

It is about royalties- Oil&Gas companies have to pay royalties to Mexico when exploring oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico. Yeah…you know…

teddley.bsky.social•60 days ago

Purges, privatizations, and pardons.

wokeazzdeadhead.bsky.social•60 days ago

The national emergency is the SOB felon is removing us from the Paris accords the energy priority is that we should be getting off burning fossil fuels and a full scale immediate conversion to renewable and creating renewable sustainable energy that's the national emergency that is worldwide!

msdavinci.bsky.social•60 days ago

They’ll pollute with impunity and show b-roll video of beautiful nature and lie and hide. I keep thinking about Chernobyl. Or the Horizon disaster in the Gulf, how much oil pumped into the ocean all those days? We don’t even talk about that. Or Exxon Valdez. So many more already we don’t know.

rubyinwolfland00.bsky.social•60 days ago

Classic NPR 🙄

blueweevil.bsky.social•60 days ago

First things first. As any competent farmer or rancher knows, the environment matters.

amiemcwayne.bsky.social•60 days ago

Doubtful. The majority of Alabama farmers are trump supporters, even after trump’s tariffs put them in jeopardy. There is no hope

facedamuzk.bsky.social•59 days ago

...which means they're not competent.

crookedbridge.bsky.social•60 days ago

All of his rubes will think this translates into $.39/gal gas. That is literally all they care about.

I never have seen a group so willing to sacrifice so much for just a few table scraps.

lakesvet.bsky.social•60 days ago

"Sorry kids, your planet might not be livable when you grow up. But that's the price you have to pay so that I can save a buck at the gas pump"

theeroberto.bsky.social•60 days ago

Literally my college-educated, well-paid sister-in-law.

profjabbott.bsky.social•60 days ago

It's like putting arsonists in control of firefighting

llp26.bsky.social•60 days ago

Exactly. We have plenty of energy. He just has to flex his muscles over everything. 🤬 and his believers lap it up with gusto.

traymused.bsky.social•60 days ago

I agree that there is a national emergency, but it's not the one the Felon is talking about.

wandaallard.bsky.social•59 days ago

📌

docwest.bsky.social•60 days ago

Bet he opens up or sells our National Parks

julmm.bsky.social•60 days ago

Yes

bruce-ter.bsky.social•59 days ago

In the conservative hierarchical worldview, humankind is above nature (G. Lakoff).

Trump and the GOP believe it is acceptable to destroy nature for the sake of profit.

gralof.bsky.social•60 days ago

Yes

princesslbi.bsky.social•60 days ago

I can’t “like” this bc it’s horrible, but love your brilliant insights!

arsather.bsky.social•60 days ago

maehemm2017.bsky.social•60 days ago

😩😩😩

nancymay.bsky.social•60 days ago

Good you enjoyed the national parks.

alan51972.bsky.social•60 days ago

It sounds like he is going to declare lots of things a "national emergency" so he can steamroll his agenda through Congress. If he declares martial law, that's when we know that our democracy has fallen.

hypergraphic.bsky.social•56 days ago

You mean he's changed his tune of "drill, baby, drill?"

njtootsie.bsky.social•60 days ago

Paying back the favor to oil companies that gave him millions of dollars for his campaign.

abschatz.bsky.social•60 days ago

This may be his most foolish act, especially if courts approve. He has now paved the way for any Democratic President to declare a National Climate Emergency and pave the way for dramatic regulatory action. Bring it on.

onemoney.bsky.social•60 days ago

Trump's motto is "he who dies with the most toys wins". Leaving the country and the world better off than when one came into it is a sucker's task. The only goal is to amass wealth. Preserving the planet is for losers.

lyndsay616.bsky.social•60 days ago

Drama queen is back in office. He misses his days of pretend playing that he’s an apprentice star

jackw1946.bsky.social•60 days ago

How long until this national emergency is challenged in court?

grimatongueworm.bsky.social•59 days ago

We produce more oil and gas than we can use but the Felon President declared a national energy emergency. Yeah, it’s about land grab, mineral rights, and deregulation. #felon47

whatsrealhere2.bsky.social•60 days ago

Maybe he'll use the "national emergency" for energy to justify taking Greenland and/or Canada by force?

They have oil his oligarch pals want, & he's indebted to them for getting him elected

I always thought he'd start a war

I wonder how maga feel about being drafted to enrich oligarchs

trumpistheenemy.bsky.social•60 days ago

Payback to BigOil for the $1B in donations he demanded.

brentrn.bsky.social•60 days ago

The US has record levels of petroleum extraction and refinement. Renewables are at record levels of contribution to the electrical grid.

What is the emergency?

teddley.bsky.social•60 days ago

Exactly. And no more refinery capacity what so ever. Not a lot of storage either. But, “ When the people can be left, uncertain by the constant manufacture of crisis and their emotions and behavior can be managed and directed.”-Solkov, former political advisor to Putin. It was also a Nazi tactic.

neilnotes.bsky.social•60 days ago

I think petromasculinity is playing an important role

neilnotes.bsky.social•60 days ago

“Petro-masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire” by Cara Daggett kicked off this blossoming area of study

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0305829818775817?journalCode=mila

used2balawyer.bsky.social•60 days ago

The beginning of anti-CONVICTED FELON litigation.

artemidorus.bsky.social•60 days ago

Plunder? Maybe. Self-dealing and getting a very big cut of the DEAL is all this creep knows. What is trump's percentage? He tripled his wealth the first term, apparently. How did he do this legally? Pallets of cash are being flown to the Cayman Islands right about now.

irmacdonald.bsky.social•60 days ago

I understand that there are great oil reserves under Mar-A- Lago. Drill baby drill!

teddley.bsky.social•60 days ago

Just waste gases

randomcoolzip.bsky.social•60 days ago

Seizing power is the priority. Authoritarianism 101: declare an emergency, then use it to bypass normal checks and balances.

When Trump says something, we have to assume it is false. He will never tell the truth about his motives.

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