I hope World War III happens soon, cause I'm just sick and tired of life
Christ on a stick! Let's all die already. All this waiting and watching for the nukes to destroy us all. It's boring. And I'm sick of tired of my useless, pointless, old ass life. I want to die, but you know what's better than just me dying? Knowing everybody else will be dead too.
But, but, but, wait. I'm talking to you life, or destiny, fate of god or Satan, or whatever you want to call it. Just let me have one last trip to Bangkok to get my fuck on, and then destroy the world.
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Cut spending where? When? What Trump goal could anyone with a brain fall for?
[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2986257]Uh yeah, cutting federal spending and having a goal to balance the budget would bring down borrowing costs and inflation, and it is nice to see someone give cutting government costs something more than lip service.
Loony Tooms, I have gone over this before. If companies are raising earnings, the federal budget deficits are under control, and the market goes up, then you have a government presiding over a healthy economy. That was the case under the market boom with Clinton. With Obama, there was some earnings growth but the Fed and Obama administration were pushing money into the market. With Biden, market stimulus was at record levels.
So do not tell me how rich you are when you are buying all your shit with a credit card, and Biden was using the nation's credit card like a drunken meth snorting sailor.
And with Biden, we had record deficits and decades high inflation. The market currently is priced for less than 2% inflation and zero interest rates. The chances that anyone could push it higher is crazy. In fact, unless we see a balanced budget, inflation way down, and earnings up, all you are doing by pushing market prices higher is blowing a bubble.
Trump has been in office 5 weeks now. The only way you can get the market up in 5 weeks is through very unhealthy means which means using market prices to judge Trump now is patently unfair but what else is new? You have been blaming all these market issues on Trump before he even got into office.[/QUOTE]Chainsaw Musk isn't cutting spending anywhere. He's firing people who, when it is time to pay the piper and Blue States have to pull Red States out of this mess as usual, will cost everyone more!
A "goal" to do what? A stated "goal" from a blatantly obvious con man liar who keeps saying one of the worst economies of all time, his, was "the Greatest in the History of the World", that "we got billion and billions of dollars from China in my trade war because other countries pay the tariffs I impose" is not taken by anyone with a brain as a realistic "goal" but only one more of the 30,000 plus documented lies spilling out of his pie-hole every day.
It does not fool investors and real business entrepreneurs when real money is on the line.
Only dumb MAGA Repub hillbillies fall for that crap.
Markets are forward-looking. They most certainly can rise quickly on certainty in the prospect that competent leadership will do the right thing for the economy. That is why Biden's post-election rally was one of the greatest of all time while Trump's has been one of the worst. And that is despite the fact that there was night and day difference between the total crap, seemingly insurmountable for years conditions Biden inherited from Trump vs the Envy of the World Economy and historically strong and solid conditions Trump inherited from Biden.
Good god. There is still not one shred of evidence that Bitcoin loves Trump more than it loved Biden. And that was one of the most demonstrably optimistic, no-brainer, sales pitches for choosing Trump over anyone else.
See the chart below for Biden's last day in office, after which con man Trump and all of his supposedly "pro bitcoin" Cabinet and Staff were lined up with all their lofty "goals" for Bitcoin to really take off!
Compare to the chart for election day 2024.
Compare to chart for Biden's inauguration. Or as close as I could slide it.
Compare to chart for Biden's election day win.
Slow your roll, did someone just say "...beautiful clean coal"? (...kkkk!)
[QUOTE=Tiny 12;2986334]Only 0.5% of natural gas produced in the USA is flared.
[url]https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=62383[/url] [/QUOTE]
Wow! Hey look everybody! U.S. flaring and venting fell to an 18-year low in 2023, after decades and decades, and took them well over a hundred years, of venting toxic methane plumes into our breathable air, to figure it out. Look at you, being so proud!
Sounds like you're itching for a medal? Or is it just a cookie? How about a pat on the back? [b]Or how about another 100 years[/b] to have natural gas at zero 0% flaring and zero 0% CO2 emissions. Now thats something worth hanging your hat on in 3025? Duh!
So while flaring rates have come down, and its good that the industry is capturing more associated gas, places like North Dakota and Wyoming, have flare rates, as high as 31.6%, and signaling there are no guarantees they'll never remain low. But who really cares, when you have S+W+B and nuclear (if that reactor/SMR industry ever gets its act together).
[LIST]Look Natural Gas is always going to have:
• flaring issues and problems,
• methane leaking problems (80x more potent than CO2),
• burn and emit CO2 gas emissions and last but not least,
• (my fav.) have the dubious honor, of being 50% cleaner than coal (and only when there are no methane leaks)[/LIST]Let's face it, Tiny 12, when your only claim to fame is, being a cleaner burning fuel than coal, by 50%, that's not saying much!
[QUOTE=Tiny 12;2986334]Thanks to [b]clean burning natural gas,[/b] USA CO2 emissions are down by 20% since 2007. China's are up by 70%. They were up in China by 5% from 2022 to 2023.[/QUOTE]
Thanks, those are pretty good charts! If anything they do reinforce my argument that the U.S./Europe, have been burning huge amounts of fossil fuels for decades longer than China.[LIST]*Note: It was only as recent as 2007, where China began emitting more CO2 then the U.S.[/LIST]So IMHO, China isn't doing that badly, when you consider and take into account that the USA is 4x smaller, but emits 2x as much in relation to, it's population size, to that of China's.
Tiny 12, "[b]clean burning natural gas[/b]", really? [i][b](...kkkk!)[/b][/i] Ahhh!...you crack me up! And here I thought Elvis 2008, was the one, with the funny bone. Or do you guys share it, every other post?
Your nostalgia, for those bygone days, when the coal industry, would boldly try to bamboozle, hoodwink and greenwash coal, with a huge campaigns, calling it "clean coal", are all but a laughable faded memory.
Remember those days of greenwashing coal, ...NO! Well, I sure do! As your clean burning gas barb, had me laughing so hard, from way back-in-the-day, to as early as 2018, when idiots like your American Fuhrer refers to it as [i][b]"....beautiful clean coal" (...kkkk!)[/b][/i]
[QUOTE=Elvis 2008;2986330]Your Financial Times article describes tax subsidies for carbon capture in Biden's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). I thought you were a big fan of the IRA? The only oil company that's gotten a significant tax benefit from carbon capture so far is Oxy. And "significant" is stretching it. They've got one project in West Texas that removes a small amount of carbon dioxide from the air. Yes, other oil companies have plans on the drawing board. Hopefully the Republicans will kill this stupid tax subsidy as it relates to direct air capture. Direct air carbon capture is extremely expensive compared to other types of carbon mitigation. And it will do very little to reduce carbon in the atmosphere.[/QUOTE]
That's the Great President Joe Biden, for you, almost to a fault. Too often, he goes out of his way to, include and accommodate, all Americans to the best of his ability. This will be the one thing, I would definitely not miss, if your American Fuhrer, puts that kibosh on the IRA. Still a huge fan of the IRA, BTW!
[b]But talk about a pipe dream.[/b] Both direct air capture (DAC) and carbon capture and storage (CCS), are once again (I have to admit), masterfully crafted, snake-oil, smoke and mirrors boondoggles, designed to transfer wealth, from taxpayers pockets to the oil-n-gas robber barons.
But I guess when you've had 100+ years to practice the grift of funneling gov't/taxpayers into your own pockets, it is not hard to see, that after 100+ years, it's NOT the art of flaring, that oil-n-gas firms have perfected, but [i][b]"the art of the oil-n-gas gov't subsidy grift" (...kkkk!)[/b][/i]
The U.S. energy industry emits about 5 billion metric tons of CO2, annually and yet somehow in the next several years and A NEW carbon capture industry is going to magically emerge and ramp up, to tackle 5-billion tons, throughout the states, annually?
Just more silly clean coal hubris from oil-n-gas industry, when the simply answer to our growing CO2, problem, is to buildout S+W+B, quicker, faster and cheaper. Then circle-back, a few years down the road, at which point perhaps the DAC tech (CCS ??) has been properly developed.
[QUOTE=Elvis 2008;2985772]When cosmonauts look down from their space station at Earth, they say the brightest spot they see is not a metropolis in America or Europe. It is the oil fields of Western Siberia, where thousands of wells flare off the natural gas they produce in giant wasteful torches. A single flare at the Portovaya LNG facility in Russia is estimated to produce more black carbon than the entire country of Finland.[/QUOTE]
Hey Elvis 2008, that must be Tiny 12's methane fueled [i][b]"clean gas"[/b][/i], your Russian cosmonauts, are witnessing from space! [i][b](...kkkk!)[/b][/i]
MAGA News Flash! It's not just Russia! As satellites have repeatedly exposed methane plumes in U.S. Oil-n-Gas fields, proving that American oil and gas companies can pollute and light-up the earth, to be seen from space, with the best of them. And no doubt honoring their astronauts, in true MAGA "American Exceptionalism" form.
Elvis 2008, I've decide, I'm giving Tiny 12, a grade of B+, on his awkward attempt at greenwashing natural gas, as [b]"clean burning gas"[/b], although I did enjoy the laugh, it wasn't on par with your Fuhrers [i][b]"...beautiful clean coal" [/b][/i]
Not proud to be from the United Staes of America right now!
[QUOTE=Sirioja;2986399]Then, you were right to elect crazy shameful Trump who is one more danger for our world. Never forget, his dictator friend Putin who hold his balls in hand, attacked Ukraine and stole lands, after Crimea and trying to fuck elections in Georgia, Romania and Moldavia. And now, USA president just trying to rob poor Ukraine. Such shameful USA. My big respect for Ukraine led by Zelensky and 0 respect for fat Trump, now image of USA.[/QUOTE]Bro, I don't agree with your opinions that much. But I had a visceral negative reaction to the Oval Office Performance by POTUS.
He is in my opinion a: [B]punk ass ***** sitting up in the White House with his thumb on the nuclear button acting more like a gangster than a US President[/B]. He appears to be on his knees in front of Putin. It is a crying shame. I am embarrassed for me and [I]my fellow Americans[/I].
[B]We need Obama, Clinton, Bush Sr. hell even Regan back![/B]
We are on the path to dictatorship if the courts and congress do not put a check on dis mother fucker!
South Australia Leads the Way! 0.03% Reduction in Worldwide CO2 Emissions!
[QUOTE=Tiny12;2986578]The USA, Canada, Australia (probably including your beloved South Australia) and Russia all emit more CO2 per capita than other developed countries. That's because they occupy large areas and people are more spread out. Furthermore people in developed countries, like the USA, consume more energy and thus emit more CO2 per capita than people in developing countries. We have air conditioning, cars, etc, that many in developing countries, like China, don't have. Our economies and GDP's are larger -- we produce more.[/QUOTE]I'm reading that South Australia's CO2 emissions in 2022 were 15.8 million tons, and the population is 1.82 million. So that would be 8.7 tons per person, or the 30th highest emitter, per capita, out of 208 countries in the world.
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita[/url]
It is doing better than the averages for Canada, the USA, Russia and Australia, which are all in the top 20. And South Australia's total annual emissions would have been 10 million tons higher in 2022 if it were at the Australian average. Given that world emissions are about 37 billion tons per year, South Australia, all on its own, was able to reduce world CO2 emissions by 0. 03%! Wow! That's going to make a huge difference in global warming.
