Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.

Infrastructure week. at last.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

This fight is for everything.

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  1. 1.

    srv

    I wonder who Exxons candidate for 2008 will be.

    Even if reserves haven’t peaked, production has. Some will blame the environmentalists, but I guarantee that whenever a new refinery comes on-line, an old one will be shut down.

    It would be interesting to see a yearly analysis of refinery maintenance (shut downs) schedules and seasonal consumer consumption. I bet there’s no relationship whatsoever…

  4. 4.

    JonBuck

    Cellulose ethanol.

    There are alternatives out there. But we’re going to have a very rocky and difficult time before they really start to have an impact.

    But consider this. In 1998 we made 500,000 gallons of biodiesel. Last year we made 25 million gallons.

    This year, 125 million gallons.

    We currently have 45 biodiesel plants operating in the United States. There are 50 under construction, with capacities between 5 and 50 million gallons per year. Many will become operational next year. Though they mostly use soybeans, it will still work as a stopgap until the algae become viable (~5 years). Check out Green Fuel Technologies.

    We will have dozens of these small biodiesel plants all over the country pretty soon. This is how industries start. It probably won’t be enough to alleviate shortages and very high prices, though. So we will have to become more efficient, tighten out belts, and prepare for shortages.

  5. 5.

    Gray

    This Michael Fumento guy (the Malkin link) seems to fit into the same drawer as Steven Milloy. He only cites facts that will help his argument and omitts everything that would give the reader some more background. One example: “On the whole, the industry expects production to triple by 2020.” He links this to a WaPo story that also states that this industry is cuttently producing 1 million barrels/day ans expects about 3 millions by 2020. In perspective, the US is currently consumting more than 20 millions barrels every day. It looks like the traditional oil production is on the decline and this alternative source will only be able to produce 15% of todays needs in 15 years. So there are no reserves for more oil consumption in the future. This isn’t exactly a reassuring outlook, and it shows that we all should “pitch in by being better conservers of energy” (even W digs something every other year…).

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