Let’s get to the Real World….
All the talk in the media and from progressives and environmentalists President Biden hears….
But when things get down to politics and todays economy?
(Senator’s Murkowski and Manchin?)
Fossil fuel’s stay at the front of the line….
Despite President Biden’s pledge to aggressively cut the pollution from fossil fuels that is driving climate change, his administration has quietly taken actions this month that will guarantee the drilling and burning of oil and gas for decades to come.
The clash between Mr. Biden’s pledges and some of his recent decisions illustrates the political, technical and legal difficulties of disentangling the country from the oil, gas and coal that have underpinned its economy for more than a century.
On Wednesday, the Biden administration defended in federal courtthe Willow project, a huge oil drilling operation proposed on Alaska’s North Slope that was approved by the Trump administration and is being fought by environmentalists. Weeks earlier, it backed former President Donald J. Trump’s decision to grant oil and gas leases on federal land in Wyoming. Also this month, it declined to act when it had an opportunity to stop crude oil from continuing to flow through the bitterly contested, 2,700-mile Dakota Access pipeline, which lacks a federal permit.
The three decisions suggest the jagged road that Mr. Biden is following as he tries to balance his climate agenda against practical and political pressures.
Mr. Biden “can’t afford to take a pure position on the climate” because he lacks strong majorities in Congress, said William A. Galston, a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. “That is the backdrop against which this president and the administration will be making trade-offs on every single issue.”
After successfully campaigning on a pledge to address global warming, Mr. Biden hit the pause button on any new gas or oil leases on federal lands and waters, returned the United States to the Paris Agreement on climate change and squashed the controversial proposal to build the Keystone XL pipeline — all on his first day in office.
But he is also trying to provide a safety net for people employed in the oil, gas and coal sectors, including union workers, and ease the transition into wind, solar and other renewables….
The “real world?”
This from one who refuses to acknowledge Trumps dominance of the Republican Party and cites Mitt Romney as proof that he doesn’t.
Problem?Mitt himself has conceded Trumps dominance and says that Trump he wants to be the nominee in 2024 he can!
Yeah James is “really” in the uh…
“Real World.”
Here’s a link from the NY Times that should;d make feel better Jack….
It ain’t do much but it should make ur day….
James,FYI…
I consult many news sources during antypical day(around ten or so).The last thing I need is the likes of you picking out stuff for me to read.
I come here not to read “news” but strictly for amusement and ,while I don’t have any direct knowledge of such,I imagine that applies to the other posters here as well.
Then don’t Read’m Jack….
Ur choice….
Glad to help ya out DSD!😁
And in the final farce to your “assistance” to me?
Your link is behind a pay wall.
Who knows what illumination I’m Missing?
I come here for exactly the opposite reason, not to read that many of the unremarkable comments in eye-breaking purple-mauve italics, but to catch up on the news, since I don’t have a 24-hour news channel on all the time.
May I humbly suggest that perhaps reading the websites of CNN, ABC,CBS,NBC, Political Wire ,Mediaite ,And many others will give you a much broader perspective on the “real world” rather than allowing a “keen political observer” like James to be the arbiter of what constitutes “news,” as he often attemps(frequently unsuccessfully) to publish stories to buttress his editorial comments.
However, if you find his “ pickings” to your liking?By all means join the hundreds from around the world, from Lagos,Nigeria, to Moose Jaw, Alaska and from the mountain villages of Nepal to the far flung stations in Antarctica who depend on James to enlighten them daily on the goings on from the far corners of the world!
Moose Jaw is in Canada (Wikipedia saith the 4th-largest city in Saskatchewan).
And, no, I check far more sources than this one. I can’t even keep up with the newsletters from The New York Times and The Boston Globe (to both of which I currently have on-line subscriptions).
So do I.
And I find that almost every story run here is amply covered by these other sources.
So,No, I come here for entertainment purposes(per James’ s well known dictum that people should come here to have a good time).not to read the articles ,almost all of which I have either read or read the same news in a different article from another source.
And part of the ” good time” and entertainment is observing James take an article that often says either the opposite of what he gleans from it as somehow supporting his editorial comment or,in some cases, making an editorial comment that has nothing at all to do with the article.
I also enjoy the occasional headline that has no underlying article ,but instead is simply an extended editorial of his.
ENJOY!
I cone here to read the comments. Most of the time I don’t read the articles.