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04-05-22 01:39 #7807
Posts: 2580Breathing your own exhaust isn't going so well is it?
Originally Posted by PVMonger [View Original Post]
Buckle up, the red Tsunami is already roaring!!
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04-05-22 01:37 #7806
Posts: 2580Originally Posted by PedroMorales [View Original Post]
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04-05-22 01:05 #7805
Posts: 689Originally Posted by Canada [View Original Post]
LOL regarding buying oil stocks when the smart money is buying lithium and rare earths and making 5 -10 times. Lithium prices are up 10 fold in the last year. But you just keep thinking you are smart!
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04-05-22 01:00 #7804
Posts: 689Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
Even if there is a pipeline shortage in Texas, production is 1 m bpd less than peak so there is sufficient capacity to increase production without adding Capacity. Pipelines in Texas are governed by Texas and not a federal issue.
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04-05-22 00:03 #7803
Posts: 1604The person who has no clue is you
Originally Posted by Canada [View Original Post]
What a rube.
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04-04-22 23:19 #7802
Posts: 1056Oil Blues
Originally Posted by Canada [View Original Post]
Cost of oil production varies. Saudis need about $70 a barrel to pay for all their bling etc even though it costs them pennies to extract it. When oil prices are high, they take it from the the tough areas. When they are low, they take it form the easily accessible areas.
Pipeline politics is for the USA to control the world. Russia and China will hopefully save the world and Germany is prepared to fall on an American sword.
Although the world would be better off without the USA, there could be a different play afoot here, to wit to bring rationing etc in as a matter of policy, per the World Economic Forum.
Lidl, one of the world's biggest chains and a German colossus, are putting up prices by 50% tomorrow I believe. The Greens, the Americans' Trojan horse, do not help matters.
Disney must be fucked with the higher gas prices.
Tell me, Americans, how are those lines (queues) doing? They were very long at food banks etc during the Covid layoffs. How stand they now? Is Joe Schmuck fucked?
Our millionaire friend can afford his tacos and the occasional Puerto Rican ho but how are ordinary folk doing? Here, the civilized world is fucked because it follows the USA and pimple countries like Lithuania that pick fights with China and Russia to impress Biden. Moving to Hungary might be the best option.
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04-04-22 22:20 #7801
Posts: 3160Originally Posted by GDreams [View Original Post]
The part you left out with regards to oil is which is the cheapest way to transport it and that cost is passed onto the consumer. When Dems are in office, they most care about Warren Buffett and his trains shipping the oil even though it is more expensive than a pipeline.
And I was in West Texas and even there, they had issues with not enough pipeline capacity. There are limits to how many trains and trucks there are. Without pipelines, it may be easier to load up a ship on a sea port in another country than ship oil via train and truck.
And there is this: Although Alberta has already produced over 90% of its conventional crude oil reserves, it has produced only 5% of its oil sands, and its remaining oil sands reserves represent 98% of Canada's established oil reserves.
So the potential then is to produce a ton of oil from Canada. Why not make it as easy and cheap as possible to transport it to the USA where it is needed. Why would you not want to do that versus buy oil from Iran or Venezuela?
The official reason is that pipelines are not safe and could destroy water supplies. The real reason is Republicans specifically the Koch brothers would financially would benefit from more Canadian American pipelines and Democratic king maker Warren Buffet would be hurt. THAT is what is going on.
Biden would rather allow Venezuela and Iran to make money off of oil than American oil companies because the American oil companies tend to support Republicans, and the end result is all Americans are paying more for gasoline.
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04-04-22 22:10 #7800
Posts: 1068You have no clue do you?
Originally Posted by PVMonger [View Original Post]
I invested almost $1,000,000 in major oil stocks soon after Biden got elected. My return has been over 100% plus they pay dividends also and oil stocks are are still a buy at current prices. I would bet that not one dumb ass democrat bought oil stocks when Biden tried killing the oil industry.
Every intelligent person knows oil companies want to drill as much as possible with $100 oil. They are fighting Biden policies daily to try to increase production. As an investor I want the oil companies to drill as much as possible.
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04-04-22 21:39 #7799
Posts: 2344Inside the return of the gridiron
New Hampshire Republican Gov. Chris Sununu stole the show Saturday night at the annual Gridiron Club dinner by saying out loud what most Republicans in Washington *privately* whisper about Donald Trump.
"You know, he's probably going to be the next president," Sununu said of Trump, musing about his "experience," "passion," "sense of integrity" and the "rationale" he brought to his tweets. As the room quieted to see where he was going with this, he paused, then yelled: "Nah, I'm just kidding! He's fucking crazy!" The ballroom roared with laughter. "Are you kidding? Come on. You guys are buying that? I love it. He just stresses me out so much! . I'm going to deny I ever said it. "
It didn't stop there: "The press often will ask me if I think Donald Trump is crazy. And I'll say it this way: I don't think he's so crazy that you could put him in a mental institution. But I think if he were in one, he ain't getting out!
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04-04-22 19:27 #7798
Posts: 2580Really? Seriously?
Originally Posted by Xpartan [View Original Post]
Seriously? Maybe you should grow up and try to think like an adult, and take in all information and make an informed decision like an intelligent adult.
Instead of just being spoon fed with the Davos crowd want you to believe is the the "only truth".
I hate the NYT but I read it everyday, any guesses why?
I look for the truth in every direction, why.
Because I have something called a brain, and I use something called critical thinking skills.
I am not a partisan.
I hate the DNC and RNC.
I love the truth.
And I can tell you the truth right here.
Partisans are fools!
They hate the truth.
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04-04-22 18:41 #7797
Posts: 2580Thanks jackoff Joe
Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
Looks like your dollar won't buy as many THB, you may have to find a job bro.
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04-04-22 14:18 #7796
Posts: 1604Interesting read
https://news.yahoo.com/fox-viewers-t...063911332.html
Evidently, a large diet of FUX "NewZ" leads to a belief in idiocy. Unfortunately the study didn't examine other more partisan rightwingnut propaganda outlets. But here is the article:
"Fox News viewers who were paid to watch CNN for 30 days eventually became more skeptical and less likely to buy into fake news, according to a new study.
The study titled "The manifold effects of partisan media on viewers' beliefs and attitudes: A field experiment with Fox News viewers" by David E Brockman and Joshua L Kalla was conducted in September 2020 and published last week.
"Of 763 qualifying participants, we then randomised 40 per cent to treatment group. To change the slant of their media diet, we offered treatment group participants $15 per hour to watch 7 hours of CNN per week, during Sept. 2020, prioritizing the hours at which participants indicated they typically watched Fox News," the study said.
The study found changes in attitudes and policy preferences about Covid-19, evaluations of then president Donald Trump and Republican candidates as well as elected officials.
"Despite regular Fox viewers being largely strong partisans, we found manifold effects of changing the slant of their media diets on their factual beliefs, attitudes, perceptions of issues' importance, and overall political views," the authors of the study said.
They found that participants became more likely to agree that if Donald Trump made a mistake, Fox News would not cover it.
"CNN provided extensive coverage of Covid-19, which included information about the severity of the Covid-19 crisis and poor aspects of Trump's performance handling Covid-19. Fox News covered COVID-19 much less," said the study.
It found that Fox News gave viewers information about why the disease is not a serious threat, while CNN provided a lot more information about the disease itself.
Fox News covered racial issues "extensively but selectively about Biden and other Democrats' supposed positions on them and about outbreaks of violence at protests for racial justice in American cities". The study found that CNN provided little information about either.
The two networks also covered the issue of voting by mail, but again differed on the information provided about it in addition to offering different frames.
A survey was conducted after three days on the participants.
"We found large effects of watching CNN instead of Fox News on participants' factual perceptions of current events (I. E, beliefs) and knowledge about the 2020 presidential candidates' positions," the researchers said. "They discovered changes in attitudes about Donald Trump and Republicans as well as a large effect on their opinions about Covid."
The researchers concluded that this is an effect in part of "partisan coverage filtering", wherein partisan outlets selectively report information, leading viewers to learn a biased set of facts.
"Consistent with this, treated participants concluded that Fox concealed negative information about President Trump. Partisan media does not only present its side an electoral advantage — it may present a challenge for democratic accountability," the study said."
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04-04-22 14:10 #7795
Posts: 1604Very true
Originally Posted by GDreams [View Original Post]
But the wingers are "all in" on the API "drill, baby, drill" propaganda.
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04-04-22 14:04 #7794
Posts: 1604Wrong, as usual
Originally Posted by CaliGuy [View Original Post]
Therefore, "the majority" of Canada's production doesn't come from drilling at all. And you lied. https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/page...in-canada.html.
You are a VP? At a "financial institution"? Where they hand out VP titles like candy and where everybody but tellers and janitors are VP's? What a hoot.
But sure, let's ignore industry experts who say that the lack of drilling comes from financial pressures from investors to show more profit. And by all means, let's focus on the API's propaganda that "drill, baby, drill" is the way forward. After all, if you'd invested a dollar in 2016 in oil company stocks, you'd have lost about 60% of your investment by the start of 2021. If you'd invested the same dollar in the S&P 500, you'd have doubled your money.
What an idiot you are.
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04-04-22 09:30 #7793
Posts: 689Originally Posted by CaliGuy [View Original Post]
Oil sands are among the world's most expensive hydrocarbon resources, and the heavy, sulfur-rich crude fetches a lower price than the "light sweet" crude that sets the benchmark for the value of oil. In mid-February, a barrel of Western Canadian Select was selling at $12/ barrel less than the USA Benchmark, West Texas International (WTI crude). (See real-time prices.).
The oil sands industry has been walking a difficult balance between the high cost of production and its value on the open market. In 2014, the cost to produce oil sands crude was more than $60 per barrel (expressed in WTI terms), but improvements and efficiencies have brought costs down to $46 to $53 per barrel, according to one estimate, and the mid $40's, by another. Nevertheless, the margins are thin in the best of times, and the industry incurred billions in debt in 2020 when a barrel of Canadian crude was worth less than a bottle of inexpensive wine.
Now if you were a clever investor you would invested in lithium and rare earth stocks that have at least doubled your returns.
So you are trying to tell us you are the VP of an investment firm and that shareholders are only concerned about production and not profit and return on investment and you call me stupid, LOLOL.