08-05-2019, 08:27 PM
(08-05-2019, 07:22 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:(10-09-2018, 01:29 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: The issue now is whether Trump's supreme court can block all efforts even at the state and local level, as well as his congress being unwilling to act.
Dunno about that. However, Mr. Market looks like he's gonna do a number on this stupid shale oil/gas stuff.
https://wolfstreet.com/2019/08/05/oil-pr...-meltdown/
To rescue the oil industry, President Trump would need to find ways in which to compel people to consume more petroleum -- like putting heavy taxes on gas-sipping vehicles and electric vehicles, and banning or prohibitively taxing solar and wind power. Note that energy use plummeted worldwide as former 'socialist' countries started treating energy as a valuable resource than as a nearly-free good.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.