I think ultimately the bigger issue is it feels like Louisiana doesn't reap the benefits of our incredibly powerful oil/gas economy. We provide something like 25% of the domestic supply of natural gas. That's incredible! Yet it certainly doesn't feel like I live in a place that literally keeps the lights and heat on for the rest of the 99.5% of US citizens.
Indeed. I just drove from Baton Rouge to Lafourche parish and talk about dark roads. No streetlights. It was raining hard and at one point in Vacherie I couldn’t see that the road had flooded. Thankfully there was no traffic in the other lane of oncoming traffic so I drove in the middle to avoid hydroplaning.
Yea so many areas in this state look and feel abjectly poor when billions of dollars of product are being moved through them. And that's just oil and gas. We have some of the busiest ports by tonnage in the country. So much money passes right through our state and it feels we get nothing for it.
It actually takes longer to restore power when underground lines are damaged because it's harder to find and repair. If a tree falls on a line, they can just cut that line and run a new one. Not to mention the added cost. But it would be nice not to have to pay "storm recovery costs" on power bills.
Yea. Let them "pass on the costs" or whatever other BS they like to spew. Let the rest of the country pay slightly higher fuel costs to fund our public services here that make their energy possible!
So why did Biden shut down all drilling in the US so he 1 had to import more and 2 started using up the oil supply. We have enough oil in the ground in the US to never have to import oil but yet your smart faithful moronic president yall love so much said nah I like their oil more shut ours down.
President Joe Biden entered the White House promising to end drilling on public lands. Instead, he presided over a record boom in U.S. oil production.
His Interior Department, which oversees the federal oil program, outpaced the Trump administration in approving new drilling permits. At the same time, Biden leased the smallest amount of public land for drilling in his first 18 months in office than any president since Harry Truman.
[read it for yourself](https://www.eenews.net/articles/what-bidens-oil-record-means-for-the-industrys-future/)
(Literally took me 30 seconds of googling)
Stop regurgitating b******* right wing media propaganda... Be better.
I can google also.
https://www.factcheck.org/2022/03/both-sides-spin-domestic-oil-production/ read that and tell me where it says he is producing more look at the chart at the bottom. Be better my guy stop spitting liberal bullshit
A: that's from 2022..
But put of date bud.
B: did you even read that? Could you comprehend at least some of what they were saying? Sure didn't look to me like they were talking about biden clamping down and preventing oil companies from drilling. It looks like they pointed out the fact that there were 9,000 permits still and the fact that there were additional permits being approved under the Biden administration.
However it looks like the oil and gas industry, who seems to have a bit of a pension for s******* on a Democrats who would prefer to regulate and enforce things like EPA standards, whereas the Republicans are a bit more shall we say Lacks, had to come up with some way to justify the higher fuel prices and the reason for reduction in production. And so that's where you get to the lower few paragraphs where they're talking about "well yeah we have the permits but it takes time"... And not, "well we would be out there drilling all kind of oil right here from the local land if the Biden administration wasn't screwing us over and withholding permits from us"
Try again
That chart doesn't matter. Your assertion was that oil production went down because Biden clamped down on oil production. Just because there was less production doesn't mean that it was Biden doing it. The entire thrust of the entire article spoke to the fact that Biden did not clamp down on oil production and there were other pressures that caused the reduction in production.
Maybe you need to practice your reading comprehension more than you think
I mean I'm not entirely agreeing with the other guy but I feel like you didn't read the article correctly. They are saying that the dems are using the fact that there is a high amount of permits to their advantage, saying it is the oil companies fault. Though the oil companies are stating the problem came from 2019-2020 and the industry crashed from Covid and they didn't have the resources to recover yet(article was from 2021, so is very out-of-date to current production). Between 2019-2020 oil industry dropped 25%, by the end of 2021 it had only recovered by about 4% due to the companies fearing another crash from covid and risk going bankrupt. The article states the industry has been in the fetal position, scared to start drilling because of that exact reason. I'd suggest you go read up on more recent news regarding this to get a better picture of what is happening, 2020-2021 is an extreme anomaly that can't be entirely blamed on any single person or decision
Never said they withheld permits but why did Biden touch the strategic oil reserves if he was producing so much oil. Yeah it doesn't state anything about that bc that's where you get real numbers and not some made up shit from a left leaning site. OK snowflake
Lmao no you clown, God your comebacks are even copy pasted from that shit show.
I'd say touch grass but it's green so you probably think it's a liberal conspiracy to kill the coal industry or some equally inane shit
Look, if Louisiana got to keep some of those monies, I'd be off for it.. however, it's obvious we don't!
We pay our teachers the lowest possible! We pay our law enforcement officers the lowest possible! We pay our service workers the lowest possible, we pay our daycare workers the lowest possible! Do you see a trend here? If you're not born into money, you ain't making any in Louisiana!
Edit! Typos
That's where it's being extracted out of the ground. But even those operations all have land-based facilities. But more importantly a whole bunch of that comes right back into the state to be processed.
All they get from a golf is crude, there's still a whole bunch they got to do to break it down into his various components and truck it from one place to the next and all that happens in the refineries.
They pay the fed govt for the land they use. I worked for mms, I know exactly how it works. All we get in taxes is what the company pays for processing. Which is not much. Don't try to downplay the whole upstream side that has the majority invested in the operation. The location extraction and drilling aspect are huge parts. The majority of the companies spending money upstream are spending very little in the state of LA
This has nothing to do with Biden, MAGA, nor anyone else at the federal level. You need to blame the neighbors you voted for who go to Baton Rouge and sell your future to the most mediocre bidder.
Dude, I was not commenting on our President. Quite frankly, I was just explaining to my son and his friend that it is our US senators and representatives who have screwed us over! Ever since statesmen, like John Breaux and J Bennett Johnston, stopped representing the best for our state, we have suffered. The only things our elected politicians for the last 20 plus years have done is gut out state of any resources, and that includes educational!
You should write a post to your son and his friend explaining that mom's reddit posts aren't good sources of information.
Our US senators aren't going to Baton Rouge and giving away hundreds of millions worth of tax subsidies.
Um, that is rude, and certainly not necessary for you to come at me personally.
Plase note that I used to run a facility for underserved communities, but had to quit bc of chemo, and I have been very vocal about how idiotic it was that our governor did not accept monies for summer feeding programs, especially when there are so many food deserts in our State.
I was not responding to what you had said. I was making a statement about how Louisiana senators and representatives in Washington DC do not take care of making the best decisions for the people they represent. You're the one that started talking about it being our local politicians.
I know I'm rude. I'm also plum tuckered out of MAGAs in human clothing concern trolling state policies and blaming the liberals a thousand miles away.
John Kennedy and Mike Johnson are not the ones handing away tax money from energy companies. That's the topic you started when you said "If Louisiana got to keep any of that money..."
It absolutely is our local politicians who do that. Every problem you brought up in your first post is a state issue.
And I didn't make it personal. You brought up this being an explanation to your son.
I'm sorry I offended you.
See I have no problem putting blame on those 2 individuals you mentioned but for yall to assume their the problem our state is shit is completely off base. Yeah they suck but don't act like the state was fucking rainbows and pretty green flowers when the democrats were in office. Each party has dug their heals into this state and has been fuckingbit up for a long time. I mean just look at one of the worst Huey p long and tell me what party he stood for.
Thank you for this. I understand your frustration and, believe me, there have been days weeks and months that I've questioned if I should even get out of bed when I see the lies being spread. I'm sorry if my post made you think of the maggots because I'm anything but! However, if we don't get out in vote, this is exactly what's going to happen! I was told that Democrats didn't get out and vote in the last governor primary because they were so frustrated with John Bell Edwards, so we got this Project 2025 governor now! I appreciate your passion, and I'm hoping that that kind of passion is growing among people who are just done and that it leads to voting these shit ass politicians out of office. Btw, I've been saying the same thing about oil money staying in Louisiana since I became 18 and begin to vote in the 1980s! I've never missed an election, even when I gave birth the night before bc it's just that important!
Conservatives are the problem. Project 2025, pg 417 wants to end climate protection. Pg 363-417 wants to shut down things like EPA,
This has everything to do with continued MAGA conservative agenda.
Echo chambers or not he is objectively correct. This is due to policies and practices found on the conservative side of the aisle. It’s frustrating that we have to suffer while some of our countrymen just blindly stumble through life, tongue hanging limply from their mouth, “hur durr” as they nonchalantly vote for the leopard to eat their face more.
He has to advertise that in order to have a hope of getting any votes across the aisle. However, his administration has taken significant steps to update US infrastructure to break our dependence on fossil fuels, while congressional Republicans and red state governors have fought it every step of the way.
The Republican/Trump plan is to essentially outlaw the infrastructure shift that would allow us to stop using coal, gas and oil while still having electricity and heat for our homes.
This is the most hilarious echo chamber. Everything wrong with the world is bc of conservatives lmao. What an embarrassing depiction of Louisiana folks. Can’t do anything but laugh.
It’s not because of them but their current beliefs are what caused it. People from the 1900s are the cause. But republicans today certainly are still running with that same mind set. They deny climate change because they want money.
Let’s not confuse conservatives that deny climate change at all vs those of us who agree that there are changes, but to what degree are they man-induced and what are part of the cyclical warming/cooling of the earth. Then how can we make small changes over time vs a cold turkey approach that has a more dire effect short term. Remember that the earth’s stopwatch runs a completely different scale than the avg human lifespan.
You're still stuck in big oils propaganda whirlpool.
The problem people seem to have is looking at the label and thinking that's all they need to know.
"Climate change" doesn't exactly Express the problem. Because it's not so much *that* the climate is changing but rather *how fast* the climate is changing over the last 100 years.
Because yes, the Earth most definitely has cycles of heating and cooling. But those are typically stretched out over tens or even hundreds of thousands of years. Whereas all the science clearly points to rapid acceleration and heating around the turn of the industrial revolution when we started releasing absolute Gob tons of hydrocarbons into the atmosphere. Pretty much all the science points to how that has an effect on the atmosphere and trapping and containing more of the sun's energy. Pretty much all the science points the fact that we are heating the planet thousands of times faster than its natural cycle would otherwise do.
And when that heating is stretched out over tens or hundreds of thousands of years it's a lot easier for all the life forms to adapt and evolve with it. But whenever you can condense those massive changes into much smaller time frames it becomes very problematic. Not to mention the particular form of heating that's occurring is exponential. So the warmer it gets the faster it gets warmer.
Again, it's not so much an issue with the fact that the climate is changing, because it's been doing that ever since there was a climate to be had. But there's clear definitive evidence that shows human machinations have rapidly intensified the speed at which the climate is changing and that is very problematic for all life, especially human life.
And then when you look at who benefits from maintaining the status quo of generating all our energy from otherwise stored hydrocarbons that are sequestered beneath the crust of the Earth you really got a wonder why anybody would be opposed to putting less pollution into the air.
Imagine if all the r&d money that's going into finding and producing fossil fuels into energy has gone into solar capture when capture and battery technologies. We could generate as much if not way more electricity and meet all our energy needs without putting pollution into the air.
Even if we want to say that the amount of fossil fuel we burn isn't having a drastic effect on the atmosphere, why would we still want to put billions of tons of pollution into the atmosphere? Why should we not be looking to do better find better ways?
Seems to me the only people who have any reason to stand up and cry about moving away from fossil fuels are the people who make billions of dollars off of fossil fuels.... And then they go around and convince even people who think that they're moderate interests to say stuff like you just did..... It's crazy man.
Right. The climate most certainly never changed before cars were invented, people ate beef, or lived in houses. No sir, the climate didn’t change one little bit before all of that.
Read carefully and understand the following:
Yes the climate has changed in our planet’s history before. It has never changed at this rate in any observable period of geologic history that we can measure. In fact, human beings and possible mammals in general have *never* experienced such a rapid change in climate. This is a fact. We know this because we know when mammals and humans evolved and also can observe and measure when these heat up and cool down periods have happened. It is also a fact that this rapid heat up coincides roughly with the Industrial
Revolution and we know that carbon dioxide is causing this greenhouse effect in the atmosphere. You can replicate the effect in an experiment with a terrarium.
To review:
1. The earth has never heated up at this expedited of a rate as far as we can observe in billions of years
2. Life has never been tested on whether it is able to endure or adapt a rapid heat up like this
3. CO2 emissions factually are the thing to blame
4. Some portion of humans will read everything I just wrote and still not comprehend it or understand it and it will be someone else’s duty to try and explain it for the millionth time, while society at large can improve anyway from a transition to green energy.
5. I guess ensuring that shareholders for Big Oil make record profits and owning the libs is more important than being able to stand outside in Louisiana or not getting wiped out by weather catastrophes yearly, because that will be the next thing.
Your points 1 and 2 are arguably incorrect. Temperature fluctuations were much more severe during the Younger Dryas. Temperature records from Vostok (Petit 2000) covering 450k years also do not agree.
So explain to me the phenomenon occurring right now to cause rapid heating? Because it seems they have at least some ideas as to what caused it during the younger dry ass. Since you want to point to another point in time when the climate did start acting all crazy. Seems like it could have been problematic for life forms, but it also seems like there weren't exactly a bunch of humans putting a bunch of pollution in the air causing it. Seem like it was just a natural occurrence. So point to the natural occurrence going on right now that's causing the dangerous rapid temperature change that we're seeing.
I mean, just because I can accidentally break my leg walking down the stairs doesn't mean you can just come along and hit me in the knee cap with a sledgehammer and then point back to that one time that I slipped and broke my leg and say see it doesn't matter that I hit you with the sledgehammer.
So just because you can point to one short period of time where there was rapid heating in a few regions in the world which seem to be a bit of a mini cycle occurring within a much larger cycle is in no way shape or form the same as you pointing to the effects that we've observed in global warming over the last century and saying see this doesn't matter this is just what Earth does.
If you're saying this is a completely natural phenomenon I'd sure like to hear your hypothesis as to what major cycle is occurring causing this many cycle of increased global temperatures. Cuz it sure does seem to coincide with the industrial revolution and US throwing a bunch of extra chemicals into the atmosphere changing the way our atmosphere handles heat exchange. And not so much just some naturally occurring cyclical thing.
Yeah, and almost everyone else. But to say that maga/conservatives are responsible is just dumb, when out of the last 16 years, a Democrat has been in office 12 of those years. But somehow, those 4 years of a republican caused this heat wave.
as easy as it is to blame republicans for everything, its not solely their fault. democrats are equally to blame. the enemy isn't one party or the other, its billionaires and corporations in general. if you genuinely think democrats care more than republicans, you are in for a rude awakening lmao.
100% US Taxpayers need to wake up to the facade politicians have made of it being a R problem or a D Problem it is a lack of representation for the US Taxpayer that causes our issues. Lobbiests and Billionaires (Gates, Soros, Blackrock etc) that get laws passed and people elected to office that will vote the way they want them to.
i don't think both sides are the same, i think both parties are on the same side. the democratic party in the united states is center-right. thats the point i'm making here. democrats do the same shit republicans do, except they hide it and pretend like they're not doing those things. republicans are just unapologetic about how much they despise poor people. yes, republicans are worse, but that doesn't make democrats good. they contribute to the climate crisis too.
I do have a story about Edwards. One day I had the opportunity to talk the a formor president of the NAACP Louisuana chapter. George Emms was his name maybe? I know he passed away several years back, but we were both waiting for our vehicles to be serviced. It was he and his wife (a white woman 😂).
We got to talking and he was telling me Edwin Edwards was his man & that he didn't care who ran against Edwards, Edwards always had his support. He told me Edwards was good to him. He prettymuch said, without actually saying directly that any think he could use to turn it into a racial issue, he would. That's how he established himself as a leader in the black community. When election time came around he would te the black communities they had to get & an vote to make sure Edwards wins bc he was the only one who cared about them. And for that Edwards took very good care of him.
I was just thinking... This dude just pretty much admitted he got paid to use his position in the NAACP to influence people to vote for Edwards. At the time Edwards was still in jail, but it was just funny how freely he spoke about it.
Lol there is a hell of a lot more impacting carbon emissions than corruption within the republican party. This is validation porn / pandering at its finest. This is unbelievably naive. America is not the only polluter in the world, #1. Democrat politicians also accept kickbacks and participate in unethical / illegal practices (opensecrets(dot)org, various insider trading tracking websites); plenty of businesses arrange legislation & votes with elected officials in the democrat party in exchange for financial contributions and personal favors, #2. Either side of the aisle, thats the only way they make it into power or stay in their seats, otherwise theyre shot down or replaced asap.
There are 4 estates of government - the 4th is the lobbying industry and both major parties participate greatly. There is ample amount of evidence and any basic 100 level community college sociology course would teach this.
This has got to be a bot or troll. This sub is overrun with them. Theres no way people legit believe this....i hope
Edit: OP, youre strangely silent in response to my comment. Care to reply?
You didn’t address the point so OP probably ignored you.
The point is that only one side of the aisle opposes clean energy as a policy point and wants to ramp up the things that would make this issue worse while eliminating the things that would make it better.
Ironically, the heat wave that we’re having this summer is very similar to the one we had last summer, which was a heat dome / high pressure pattern centered over Texas. That heat dome prevented hurricanes from coming to Louisiana and we had zero last year. Given a choice of a heat dome or hurricane, I choose the heat. You may choose the opposite but that’s not happening.
Louisiana enjoys a plantation mentality. Keep the poor poor, so the crumbs that fall from the banquet table might mean more to their existence. Be sure the population fears you (through incarceration).
Much like a slave and slave owner relationship - or an abused spouse in an abusive relationship - if you destroy any hope of person escaping dire circumstances, soon they acquiesce and appreciate any days when they're not beaten.
An uneducated public is Louisiana's biggest resource. It's keeps the status quo. Keeps the oligarchy in power.
Ever winder how or why Louisiana is in the top 5 states of disparity of wealth when we have so few extremely wealthy people living here? Abject poverty skews it.
I hear you, but all of Louisiana could go negative carbon emissions overnight and nothing will change. If all this climate change \*is\* exclusively man made, Louisiana makes up less than 0.5% of the world population. 99.5% of the problem are people elsewhere and you're giving the people who cause you angst far too much credit.
More like control the weather as a force multiplier..we all know ... The weather is being manipulated and hurricanes strengthened so they can declare emergency funding and then steal it.... Ooppss that's the left.
Actually, greenhouse emissions in the United States dropped from 2007 until 2020. Between 2020 and 2022 they grew 5.7%. [https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-us-greenhouse-gas-emissions](https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-us-greenhouse-gas-emissions)
You're not wrong. America is full capitalism so corporations come first before anyone else. Doesn't matter what kind of corporation, as long as they have massive amounts of money they can do whatever they want.
>If you are enjoying the Heat, thank the conservative MAGA GOP Republicans
Actually, I AM very much enjoying this heat dome keeping hurricanes like Beryl away from us.
Didn’t realize that *conservative MAGA GOP Republicans* were the ones that caused the heat, but if you say so, I guess I have to give credit where credit is due.
Thanks Republicans! 😃
Bro, let’s not forget that Trump suggested nuking a hurricane and was quickly rebuffed, but what if he was right. Good chance we’ll find out and the Supreme Court will rule him right.
Anyone pretending that July has ever felt *this* hot is gaslighting people. It has never felt this hot outside ever. It’s crazy how some people want to watch the world burn just to own the libs or feel correct. Weird behavior.
Yep, every major city in Louisiana saw their hottest temperature every recorded last August. And this August will almost certainly be worse. And every August from here on out until we all die.
Where did I say anything about the state high temperature? Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Shreveport, and Lake Charles all had their highest temperatures in recorded history last August. Look it up.
Shreveport: 110 degrees, August 26th, 2023
New Orleans: 105 degrees, August 27th, 2023
Baton Rouge: 106 degrees, August 27th, 2023
Lake Charles: 109 degrees, August 27th, 2023
August 2023 was also the hottest month on record in history for all of those cities. So try again.
Baton Rouge, Shreveport, New Orleans, Lake Charles, Monroe, and Alexandria all saw the hottest temperatures ever recorded last August. And I guarantee that those records will be broken this August, and every August afterwards until we all die.
So did the heat get better during the 8 years of Obama?
Is this how it works?
Let me know if so and I'll make sure to vote for him this year so we can get better temps!
I thought it was decided that the rapid increase in temperature and erratic weather was blamed on the ban on heavy fuel oil ships had been using and this was an unavoidable consequence of removing something that had been masking climate change.
They hold more responsibility for ensuring reduced and removed emission regularly oversight on corporations that result in more heat. So this is right, thanks for agreeing with me. I appreciate the confirmation.
Trump hasn’t been president for 4 years and was never president before that. So why isn’t everything perfect since Biden has been the president and Obama was President before trump? It’s a mystery I tell, a big unsolvable mystery.
You can't blame Louisiana's problems on 1 party. IMO the best governor La had since I have been able to vote was Mike Fostsr. He was a Republican. One of the worst was Jindal who was also a Republican. Just from leaning about Louisiana history, Edwin Edwards, a Democrat, while very popular was a crook. There is an element of La politics that keeps "business as usual" and it doesn't matter what party is in charge.
Now Jeff Landry is an idiot who seems to like the power of government. I sure hope someone worth while runs aganst him & kicks his ass, parties also evolve. 30 years ago Jeff Landry would have likely been a democrat.
Yes you can because all republicans do is obstruct, take away and destroy everything purposely.
They want a dumb and poor population and they want us all fighting eachother over dumb culture shit so we're distracted from them fucking us over and so they can keep the power over us.
The top ten poorest states are red states.
The inability to learn by integrating new information even if it doesn’t agree with your worldview - such as the facts about the Republican Party politicizing the issue of protecting the planet - isn’t a mental disorder it’s a cognitive disability
When you vote, please be aware that the homeowner’s insurance on my mother’s $350,000 Metairie house is more expensive than the homeowner’s insurance on my 3M home in San Francisco (and San Francisco has fires and earthquakes).
Sounds about right. My sister lives in Los Angeles and laughed when she heard what our insurance is. My parents live in MS near Jackson in a house 1.5x our house and pay half what we do.
Yep- and Louisiana keeps electing the same insurance commissioner. I just don’t understand. At least in San Francisco, we kicked out the school board when they spent their time during Covid renaming schools more politically correctly, and they decided to do away with the testing admission requirement for best public highschool in The CIty (because it wasn’t fair). Boot the joker out. I mean WTF? Why is he still in office?
Under educated people are afraid of and do not like change so essentially their satisfied getting screwed over. Louisiana refuses to produce well-rounded well educated free thinking people who can spot a fallacy so they're being lied to.
you’re brain dead if republicans have anything to do with changing weather patterns. look at shit hole countries like India and the entirety of Africa if you’re looking to point fingers at “greenhouse emissions helping the heat”
Google Exxon 1977 climate change report and read. Then think about all the emitters of greenhouse gases and then look up how they lobby and donate money. Then come back and tell the class what you learned and how you’re wrong.
If you get a cut on your finger do you pour salt in it, because by not regulating greenhouse emissions that is what we are doing. Yes, other countries are not helping, but now neither are we.
Republicans say leade by example, work in salt mines with open wounds!
Let’s not look at all the paved land that use to be green space. Let’s not look at all of the building whether commercial or private buildings that are being built. Let’s just blame the Conservative Party and maga people. I mean all of the concrete and asphalt don’t hold heat and radiate it upward. Let’s act like all of the asphalt and metal roofs don’t hold heat and keep radiating it throughout the day. People are so idiotic today that they believe everything they are told by a political party and the agenda that they push. I know science and physics only work one way, the liberal way. I don’t even know why I’m responding to this stupid statement that the o.p. Made. I just don’t understand how people can go through life as dense as they are.
I think ultimately the bigger issue is it feels like Louisiana doesn't reap the benefits of our incredibly powerful oil/gas economy. We provide something like 25% of the domestic supply of natural gas. That's incredible! Yet it certainly doesn't feel like I live in a place that literally keeps the lights and heat on for the rest of the 99.5% of US citizens.
Indeed. I just drove from Baton Rouge to Lafourche parish and talk about dark roads. No streetlights. It was raining hard and at one point in Vacherie I couldn’t see that the road had flooded. Thankfully there was no traffic in the other lane of oncoming traffic so I drove in the middle to avoid hydroplaning.
Yea so many areas in this state look and feel abjectly poor when billions of dollars of product are being moved through them. And that's just oil and gas. We have some of the busiest ports by tonnage in the country. So much money passes right through our state and it feels we get nothing for it.
The GOP is robbing you.
The GOP has been begging for LA to get it's share of royalties.
We should be looking like Dubai tbh
All I want is for the power companies to bury electric lines underground so next hurricane I do not have to wait 2 weeks for power.
My parents live in a neighborhood with underground lines and it still takes forever. They just dont care.
It actually takes longer to restore power when underground lines are damaged because it's harder to find and repair. If a tree falls on a line, they can just cut that line and run a new one. Not to mention the added cost. But it would be nice not to have to pay "storm recovery costs" on power bills.
Exactly. We could raise taxes 100% on them and they'd still make billions. Not like they are gonna leave, the resources are here!
Yea. Let them "pass on the costs" or whatever other BS they like to spew. Let the rest of the country pay slightly higher fuel costs to fund our public services here that make their energy possible!
We've all seen it before, and we know it's true. https://youtu.be/RWTic9btP38?si=fWNAPyG70tH1_yP4
Nah. The bigger issue is still what the OP said, but to your point, yeah the GOP is robbing you.
So why did Biden shut down all drilling in the US so he 1 had to import more and 2 started using up the oil supply. We have enough oil in the ground in the US to never have to import oil but yet your smart faithful moronic president yall love so much said nah I like their oil more shut ours down.
President Joe Biden entered the White House promising to end drilling on public lands. Instead, he presided over a record boom in U.S. oil production. His Interior Department, which oversees the federal oil program, outpaced the Trump administration in approving new drilling permits. At the same time, Biden leased the smallest amount of public land for drilling in his first 18 months in office than any president since Harry Truman. [read it for yourself](https://www.eenews.net/articles/what-bidens-oil-record-means-for-the-industrys-future/) (Literally took me 30 seconds of googling) Stop regurgitating b******* right wing media propaganda... Be better.
I can google also. https://www.factcheck.org/2022/03/both-sides-spin-domestic-oil-production/ read that and tell me where it says he is producing more look at the chart at the bottom. Be better my guy stop spitting liberal bullshit
A: that's from 2022.. But put of date bud. B: did you even read that? Could you comprehend at least some of what they were saying? Sure didn't look to me like they were talking about biden clamping down and preventing oil companies from drilling. It looks like they pointed out the fact that there were 9,000 permits still and the fact that there were additional permits being approved under the Biden administration. However it looks like the oil and gas industry, who seems to have a bit of a pension for s******* on a Democrats who would prefer to regulate and enforce things like EPA standards, whereas the Republicans are a bit more shall we say Lacks, had to come up with some way to justify the higher fuel prices and the reason for reduction in production. And so that's where you get to the lower few paragraphs where they're talking about "well yeah we have the permits but it takes time"... And not, "well we would be out there drilling all kind of oil right here from the local land if the Biden administration wasn't screwing us over and withholding permits from us" Try again
So guess you can't read charts huh. It's OK sunshine
That chart doesn't matter. Your assertion was that oil production went down because Biden clamped down on oil production. Just because there was less production doesn't mean that it was Biden doing it. The entire thrust of the entire article spoke to the fact that Biden did not clamp down on oil production and there were other pressures that caused the reduction in production. Maybe you need to practice your reading comprehension more than you think
Nah I'm good I don't liberal bs. You do you I can read words and charts but I guess you can't. Good luck
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I mean I'm not entirely agreeing with the other guy but I feel like you didn't read the article correctly. They are saying that the dems are using the fact that there is a high amount of permits to their advantage, saying it is the oil companies fault. Though the oil companies are stating the problem came from 2019-2020 and the industry crashed from Covid and they didn't have the resources to recover yet(article was from 2021, so is very out-of-date to current production). Between 2019-2020 oil industry dropped 25%, by the end of 2021 it had only recovered by about 4% due to the companies fearing another crash from covid and risk going bankrupt. The article states the industry has been in the fetal position, scared to start drilling because of that exact reason. I'd suggest you go read up on more recent news regarding this to get a better picture of what is happening, 2020-2021 is an extreme anomaly that can't be entirely blamed on any single person or decision
Never said they withheld permits but why did Biden touch the strategic oil reserves if he was producing so much oil. Yeah it doesn't state anything about that bc that's where you get real numbers and not some made up shit from a left leaning site. OK snowflake
The American people need to reclaim this country's natural resources. It's wild we let private businesses have so much of what is a shared resource.
I blame Taylor Swift flying everywhere.
Point at all billionaires and not the least offensive one, edgelord.
It was clearly sarcastic. Take a deep breath.
There is no sarcasm when it come to liberals
Tell me that Fox News does all of your thinking for you without telling me. What a clown.
Offended much?
Lmao no you clown, God your comebacks are even copy pasted from that shit show. I'd say touch grass but it's green so you probably think it's a liberal conspiracy to kill the coal industry or some equally inane shit
Bullshit
Republicans control the weather. You heard it here first on Reddit
I think i saw an ad for Biden fairly recently bragging that US oil production is at an all time high under his administration.
Look, if Louisiana got to keep some of those monies, I'd be off for it.. however, it's obvious we don't! We pay our teachers the lowest possible! We pay our law enforcement officers the lowest possible! We pay our service workers the lowest possible, we pay our daycare workers the lowest possible! Do you see a trend here? If you're not born into money, you ain't making any in Louisiana! Edit! Typos
Keep em dumb enough to vote against their own best interests. No critical thinking classes, remove free will!
All of the oil being produced is on federal regulated offshore blocks. State owned oil taxes are super small comparatively
That's where it's being extracted out of the ground. But even those operations all have land-based facilities. But more importantly a whole bunch of that comes right back into the state to be processed. All they get from a golf is crude, there's still a whole bunch they got to do to break it down into his various components and truck it from one place to the next and all that happens in the refineries.
They pay the fed govt for the land they use. I worked for mms, I know exactly how it works. All we get in taxes is what the company pays for processing. Which is not much. Don't try to downplay the whole upstream side that has the majority invested in the operation. The location extraction and drilling aspect are huge parts. The majority of the companies spending money upstream are spending very little in the state of LA
This has nothing to do with Biden, MAGA, nor anyone else at the federal level. You need to blame the neighbors you voted for who go to Baton Rouge and sell your future to the most mediocre bidder.
Dude, I was not commenting on our President. Quite frankly, I was just explaining to my son and his friend that it is our US senators and representatives who have screwed us over! Ever since statesmen, like John Breaux and J Bennett Johnston, stopped representing the best for our state, we have suffered. The only things our elected politicians for the last 20 plus years have done is gut out state of any resources, and that includes educational!
You should write a post to your son and his friend explaining that mom's reddit posts aren't good sources of information. Our US senators aren't going to Baton Rouge and giving away hundreds of millions worth of tax subsidies.
Um, that is rude, and certainly not necessary for you to come at me personally. Plase note that I used to run a facility for underserved communities, but had to quit bc of chemo, and I have been very vocal about how idiotic it was that our governor did not accept monies for summer feeding programs, especially when there are so many food deserts in our State. I was not responding to what you had said. I was making a statement about how Louisiana senators and representatives in Washington DC do not take care of making the best decisions for the people they represent. You're the one that started talking about it being our local politicians.
I know I'm rude. I'm also plum tuckered out of MAGAs in human clothing concern trolling state policies and blaming the liberals a thousand miles away. John Kennedy and Mike Johnson are not the ones handing away tax money from energy companies. That's the topic you started when you said "If Louisiana got to keep any of that money..." It absolutely is our local politicians who do that. Every problem you brought up in your first post is a state issue. And I didn't make it personal. You brought up this being an explanation to your son. I'm sorry I offended you.
See I have no problem putting blame on those 2 individuals you mentioned but for yall to assume their the problem our state is shit is completely off base. Yeah they suck but don't act like the state was fucking rainbows and pretty green flowers when the democrats were in office. Each party has dug their heals into this state and has been fuckingbit up for a long time. I mean just look at one of the worst Huey p long and tell me what party he stood for.
Thank you for this. I understand your frustration and, believe me, there have been days weeks and months that I've questioned if I should even get out of bed when I see the lies being spread. I'm sorry if my post made you think of the maggots because I'm anything but! However, if we don't get out in vote, this is exactly what's going to happen! I was told that Democrats didn't get out and vote in the last governor primary because they were so frustrated with John Bell Edwards, so we got this Project 2025 governor now! I appreciate your passion, and I'm hoping that that kind of passion is growing among people who are just done and that it leads to voting these shit ass politicians out of office. Btw, I've been saying the same thing about oil money staying in Louisiana since I became 18 and begin to vote in the 1980s! I've never missed an election, even when I gave birth the night before bc it's just that important!
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Conservatives are the problem. Project 2025, pg 417 wants to end climate protection. Pg 363-417 wants to shut down things like EPA, This has everything to do with continued MAGA conservative agenda.
You need to get out of your echo chambers
Echo chambers or not he is objectively correct. This is due to policies and practices found on the conservative side of the aisle. It’s frustrating that we have to suffer while some of our countrymen just blindly stumble through life, tongue hanging limply from their mouth, “hur durr” as they nonchalantly vote for the leopard to eat their face more.
So you’re ok with it as long as your people get paid? Starting to sound like the people you claim to hate…
Yeah the true enemy is neoliberalism/unregulated capitalism.
Yeah, all of the MAGA attack ads claim he cut it down to zero and we’re all going to suffer.
We’re already suffering.
And America has never pumped our produced as much oil as we are now.
That's not an ad, well it may be, but it's also 100% true. Most domestic production ever!
He has to advertise that in order to have a hope of getting any votes across the aisle. However, his administration has taken significant steps to update US infrastructure to break our dependence on fossil fuels, while congressional Republicans and red state governors have fought it every step of the way. The Republican/Trump plan is to essentially outlaw the infrastructure shift that would allow us to stop using coal, gas and oil while still having electricity and heat for our homes.
People will read this sensible and correct thing you wrote and still disregard it to harm themselves. We’re cooked.
Yeah, Cause the GOP is directly responsible for this heat wave.. and global warming
This is the most hilarious echo chamber. Everything wrong with the world is bc of conservatives lmao. What an embarrassing depiction of Louisiana folks. Can’t do anything but laugh.
I mean we are on Reddit. It has its ups and downs. But with this subreddit it is shit talking the state you live in.
It’s not because of them but their current beliefs are what caused it. People from the 1900s are the cause. But republicans today certainly are still running with that same mind set. They deny climate change because they want money.
Let’s not confuse conservatives that deny climate change at all vs those of us who agree that there are changes, but to what degree are they man-induced and what are part of the cyclical warming/cooling of the earth. Then how can we make small changes over time vs a cold turkey approach that has a more dire effect short term. Remember that the earth’s stopwatch runs a completely different scale than the avg human lifespan.
You're still stuck in big oils propaganda whirlpool. The problem people seem to have is looking at the label and thinking that's all they need to know. "Climate change" doesn't exactly Express the problem. Because it's not so much *that* the climate is changing but rather *how fast* the climate is changing over the last 100 years. Because yes, the Earth most definitely has cycles of heating and cooling. But those are typically stretched out over tens or even hundreds of thousands of years. Whereas all the science clearly points to rapid acceleration and heating around the turn of the industrial revolution when we started releasing absolute Gob tons of hydrocarbons into the atmosphere. Pretty much all the science points to how that has an effect on the atmosphere and trapping and containing more of the sun's energy. Pretty much all the science points the fact that we are heating the planet thousands of times faster than its natural cycle would otherwise do. And when that heating is stretched out over tens or hundreds of thousands of years it's a lot easier for all the life forms to adapt and evolve with it. But whenever you can condense those massive changes into much smaller time frames it becomes very problematic. Not to mention the particular form of heating that's occurring is exponential. So the warmer it gets the faster it gets warmer. Again, it's not so much an issue with the fact that the climate is changing, because it's been doing that ever since there was a climate to be had. But there's clear definitive evidence that shows human machinations have rapidly intensified the speed at which the climate is changing and that is very problematic for all life, especially human life. And then when you look at who benefits from maintaining the status quo of generating all our energy from otherwise stored hydrocarbons that are sequestered beneath the crust of the Earth you really got a wonder why anybody would be opposed to putting less pollution into the air. Imagine if all the r&d money that's going into finding and producing fossil fuels into energy has gone into solar capture when capture and battery technologies. We could generate as much if not way more electricity and meet all our energy needs without putting pollution into the air. Even if we want to say that the amount of fossil fuel we burn isn't having a drastic effect on the atmosphere, why would we still want to put billions of tons of pollution into the atmosphere? Why should we not be looking to do better find better ways? Seems to me the only people who have any reason to stand up and cry about moving away from fossil fuels are the people who make billions of dollars off of fossil fuels.... And then they go around and convince even people who think that they're moderate interests to say stuff like you just did..... It's crazy man.
You don’t drive a car? Eat beef? Live in a house?
Right. The climate most certainly never changed before cars were invented, people ate beef, or lived in houses. No sir, the climate didn’t change one little bit before all of that.
Read carefully and understand the following: Yes the climate has changed in our planet’s history before. It has never changed at this rate in any observable period of geologic history that we can measure. In fact, human beings and possible mammals in general have *never* experienced such a rapid change in climate. This is a fact. We know this because we know when mammals and humans evolved and also can observe and measure when these heat up and cool down periods have happened. It is also a fact that this rapid heat up coincides roughly with the Industrial Revolution and we know that carbon dioxide is causing this greenhouse effect in the atmosphere. You can replicate the effect in an experiment with a terrarium. To review: 1. The earth has never heated up at this expedited of a rate as far as we can observe in billions of years 2. Life has never been tested on whether it is able to endure or adapt a rapid heat up like this 3. CO2 emissions factually are the thing to blame 4. Some portion of humans will read everything I just wrote and still not comprehend it or understand it and it will be someone else’s duty to try and explain it for the millionth time, while society at large can improve anyway from a transition to green energy. 5. I guess ensuring that shareholders for Big Oil make record profits and owning the libs is more important than being able to stand outside in Louisiana or not getting wiped out by weather catastrophes yearly, because that will be the next thing.
Your points 1 and 2 are arguably incorrect. Temperature fluctuations were much more severe during the Younger Dryas. Temperature records from Vostok (Petit 2000) covering 450k years also do not agree.
So explain to me the phenomenon occurring right now to cause rapid heating? Because it seems they have at least some ideas as to what caused it during the younger dry ass. Since you want to point to another point in time when the climate did start acting all crazy. Seems like it could have been problematic for life forms, but it also seems like there weren't exactly a bunch of humans putting a bunch of pollution in the air causing it. Seem like it was just a natural occurrence. So point to the natural occurrence going on right now that's causing the dangerous rapid temperature change that we're seeing. I mean, just because I can accidentally break my leg walking down the stairs doesn't mean you can just come along and hit me in the knee cap with a sledgehammer and then point back to that one time that I slipped and broke my leg and say see it doesn't matter that I hit you with the sledgehammer. So just because you can point to one short period of time where there was rapid heating in a few regions in the world which seem to be a bit of a mini cycle occurring within a much larger cycle is in no way shape or form the same as you pointing to the effects that we've observed in global warming over the last century and saying see this doesn't matter this is just what Earth does. If you're saying this is a completely natural phenomenon I'd sure like to hear your hypothesis as to what major cycle is occurring causing this many cycle of increased global temperatures. Cuz it sure does seem to coincide with the industrial revolution and US throwing a bunch of extra chemicals into the atmosphere changing the way our atmosphere handles heat exchange. And not so much just some naturally occurring cyclical thing.
Yeah, and almost everyone else. But to say that maga/conservatives are responsible is just dumb, when out of the last 16 years, a Democrat has been in office 12 of those years. But somehow, those 4 years of a republican caused this heat wave.
You do realize the President does not control what Congress does right?
Four years of Trump didn't cause us to start using fossil fuels, but Trump's plan for his next term is to essentially make replacing them illegal.
Well the GOP and MAGA certainly arent the only ones to blame. But they will definitely make things much, much worse.
as easy as it is to blame republicans for everything, its not solely their fault. democrats are equally to blame. the enemy isn't one party or the other, its billionaires and corporations in general. if you genuinely think democrats care more than republicans, you are in for a rude awakening lmao.
100% US Taxpayers need to wake up to the facade politicians have made of it being a R problem or a D Problem it is a lack of representation for the US Taxpayer that causes our issues. Lobbiests and Billionaires (Gates, Soros, Blackrock etc) that get laws passed and people elected to office that will vote the way they want them to.
Oh shit, I sense a sensible person here, you bout to be banned! ;)
“Both sides are the same!!” While empirically one side is OBVIOUSLY far and away doing shittier things.
i don't think both sides are the same, i think both parties are on the same side. the democratic party in the united states is center-right. thats the point i'm making here. democrats do the same shit republicans do, except they hide it and pretend like they're not doing those things. republicans are just unapologetic about how much they despise poor people. yes, republicans are worse, but that doesn't make democrats good. they contribute to the climate crisis too.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! What a good little sheep you are! You think giving politicians money can change the weather, huh? Bless your little heart.
Yeh MAGA made it hot. Braindead. Propoganda works that's why it continues.
I do have a story about Edwards. One day I had the opportunity to talk the a formor president of the NAACP Louisuana chapter. George Emms was his name maybe? I know he passed away several years back, but we were both waiting for our vehicles to be serviced. It was he and his wife (a white woman 😂). We got to talking and he was telling me Edwin Edwards was his man & that he didn't care who ran against Edwards, Edwards always had his support. He told me Edwards was good to him. He prettymuch said, without actually saying directly that any think he could use to turn it into a racial issue, he would. That's how he established himself as a leader in the black community. When election time came around he would te the black communities they had to get & an vote to make sure Edwards wins bc he was the only one who cared about them. And for that Edwards took very good care of him. I was just thinking... This dude just pretty much admitted he got paid to use his position in the NAACP to influence people to vote for Edwards. At the time Edwards was still in jail, but it was just funny how freely he spoke about it.
😂😂😂where were you when Edwards was paid off by air products?
Lol there is a hell of a lot more impacting carbon emissions than corruption within the republican party. This is validation porn / pandering at its finest. This is unbelievably naive. America is not the only polluter in the world, #1. Democrat politicians also accept kickbacks and participate in unethical / illegal practices (opensecrets(dot)org, various insider trading tracking websites); plenty of businesses arrange legislation & votes with elected officials in the democrat party in exchange for financial contributions and personal favors, #2. Either side of the aisle, thats the only way they make it into power or stay in their seats, otherwise theyre shot down or replaced asap. There are 4 estates of government - the 4th is the lobbying industry and both major parties participate greatly. There is ample amount of evidence and any basic 100 level community college sociology course would teach this. This has got to be a bot or troll. This sub is overrun with them. Theres no way people legit believe this....i hope Edit: OP, youre strangely silent in response to my comment. Care to reply?
Nah, it's easier to just express muh outrage!!! No critical thinking required!
You didn’t address the point so OP probably ignored you. The point is that only one side of the aisle opposes clean energy as a policy point and wants to ramp up the things that would make this issue worse while eliminating the things that would make it better.
Ironically, the heat wave that we’re having this summer is very similar to the one we had last summer, which was a heat dome / high pressure pattern centered over Texas. That heat dome prevented hurricanes from coming to Louisiana and we had zero last year. Given a choice of a heat dome or hurricane, I choose the heat. You may choose the opposite but that’s not happening.
Holy hell what a take. You people are getting weirder by the hour. Move then.
Louisiana enjoys a plantation mentality. Keep the poor poor, so the crumbs that fall from the banquet table might mean more to their existence. Be sure the population fears you (through incarceration). Much like a slave and slave owner relationship - or an abused spouse in an abusive relationship - if you destroy any hope of person escaping dire circumstances, soon they acquiesce and appreciate any days when they're not beaten. An uneducated public is Louisiana's biggest resource. It's keeps the status quo. Keeps the oligarchy in power. Ever winder how or why Louisiana is in the top 5 states of disparity of wealth when we have so few extremely wealthy people living here? Abject poverty skews it.
don’t forget louisiana’s brain drain; a decent chunk of educated people flee the state as well
I hear you, but all of Louisiana could go negative carbon emissions overnight and nothing will change. If all this climate change \*is\* exclusively man made, Louisiana makes up less than 0.5% of the world population. 99.5% of the problem are people elsewhere and you're giving the people who cause you angst far too much credit.
More like control the weather as a force multiplier..we all know ... The weather is being manipulated and hurricanes strengthened so they can declare emergency funding and then steal it.... Ooppss that's the left.
Actually, greenhouse emissions in the United States dropped from 2007 until 2020. Between 2020 and 2022 they grew 5.7%. [https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-us-greenhouse-gas-emissions](https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-us-greenhouse-gas-emissions)
Don't forget they add more permanent surcharges to our electricity bills every major hurricane.
I believe they won't bury the power lines for this reason.
Don't forget to thank Rex Tillerson for his guidance at the helm of Exxon and his cohorts for their cover up about climate change!
 Thought it was because of summer being a hot season, glad you can explain that
But I think your last sentence summed up your essay. :)
>That is just my opinion, I could be wrong. You are
How, please explain.
I explained in my comment as did others, youre just being an insufferable troll at this point
You're not wrong. America is full capitalism so corporations come first before anyone else. Doesn't matter what kind of corporation, as long as they have massive amounts of money they can do whatever they want.
>If you are enjoying the Heat, thank the conservative MAGA GOP Republicans Actually, I AM very much enjoying this heat dome keeping hurricanes like Beryl away from us. Didn’t realize that *conservative MAGA GOP Republicans* were the ones that caused the heat, but if you say so, I guess I have to give credit where credit is due. Thanks Republicans! 😃
Bro, let’s not forget that Trump suggested nuking a hurricane and was quickly rebuffed, but what if he was right. Good chance we’ll find out and the Supreme Court will rule him right.
I will not be surprised if he wins there will be a presidential decree that he never leave office and that this post will get me jailed.
Don't tread on me flag, but unironically.
Also a good chance Trump lives another 25 years after getting that presidential decree.
lol dude. Louisiana in July has been hot since the beginning of time
People are downvoting you, but no one can dispute that you’re right lol. Reddit is hilarious sometimes.
Anyone pretending that July has ever felt *this* hot is gaslighting people. It has never felt this hot outside ever. It’s crazy how some people want to watch the world burn just to own the libs or feel correct. Weird behavior.
Yep, every major city in Louisiana saw their hottest temperature every recorded last August. And this August will almost certainly be worse. And every August from here on out until we all die.
Louisiana’s record highs were in 1936, and a quick Google proves your claim is complete bs. But facts don’t matter in the land of make believe.
Where did I say anything about the state high temperature? Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Shreveport, and Lake Charles all had their highest temperatures in recorded history last August. Look it up. Shreveport: 110 degrees, August 26th, 2023 New Orleans: 105 degrees, August 27th, 2023 Baton Rouge: 106 degrees, August 27th, 2023 Lake Charles: 109 degrees, August 27th, 2023 August 2023 was also the hottest month on record in history for all of those cities. So try again.
Baton Rouge, Shreveport, New Orleans, Lake Charles, Monroe, and Alexandria all saw the hottest temperatures ever recorded last August. And I guarantee that those records will be broken this August, and every August afterwards until we all die.
So did the heat get better during the 8 years of Obama? Is this how it works? Let me know if so and I'll make sure to vote for him this year so we can get better temps!
Goodness sakes you must be well versed in how climate effects take time to change our temps!
I just planted a tree in my backyard + made a donation to The Satanic Temple. My outside thermometer instantly went from 85F to 84F. I got this.
I like how the comments providing legitimate counterpoints are all hidden, although they’re also the highest upvoted posts.
I see you've been drinking the koolaid. Get your facts stright and stop listening to democratic own news media.
I better watch what I say or the Jewish Space Lasers will get me.
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I thought it was decided that the rapid increase in temperature and erratic weather was blamed on the ban on heavy fuel oil ships had been using and this was an unavoidable consequence of removing something that had been masking climate change.
Right. The GOP is responsible for summer in Louisiana being hot. Brilliant.
They hold more responsibility for ensuring reduced and removed emission regularly oversight on corporations that result in more heat. So this is right, thanks for agreeing with me. I appreciate the confirmation.
That is next level dumbass.
muh...Trumps fault
Not just Trump, but anyone who keeps giving him power, or giving into his demands and way of selfish thinking.
Trump hasn’t been president for 4 years and was never president before that. So why isn’t everything perfect since Biden has been the president and Obama was President before trump? It’s a mystery I tell, a big unsolvable mystery.
This is such a smooth brained take
Bwahaha hilarious
You’re blaming politics on the weather? Big yikes
You can't blame Louisiana's problems on 1 party. IMO the best governor La had since I have been able to vote was Mike Fostsr. He was a Republican. One of the worst was Jindal who was also a Republican. Just from leaning about Louisiana history, Edwin Edwards, a Democrat, while very popular was a crook. There is an element of La politics that keeps "business as usual" and it doesn't matter what party is in charge. Now Jeff Landry is an idiot who seems to like the power of government. I sure hope someone worth while runs aganst him & kicks his ass, parties also evolve. 30 years ago Jeff Landry would have likely been a democrat.
Yes you can because all republicans do is obstruct, take away and destroy everything purposely. They want a dumb and poor population and they want us all fighting eachother over dumb culture shit so we're distracted from them fucking us over and so they can keep the power over us. The top ten poorest states are red states.
OP please turn in any and all diplomas you have.
What an absurd post.
Thanks Republicans!
I’m telling y’all, it’s a mental disorder.
The inability to learn by integrating new information even if it doesn’t agree with your worldview - such as the facts about the Republican Party politicizing the issue of protecting the planet - isn’t a mental disorder it’s a cognitive disability
When you vote, please be aware that the homeowner’s insurance on my mother’s $350,000 Metairie house is more expensive than the homeowner’s insurance on my 3M home in San Francisco (and San Francisco has fires and earthquakes).
Sounds about right. My sister lives in Los Angeles and laughed when she heard what our insurance is. My parents live in MS near Jackson in a house 1.5x our house and pay half what we do.
Yep- and Louisiana keeps electing the same insurance commissioner. I just don’t understand. At least in San Francisco, we kicked out the school board when they spent their time during Covid renaming schools more politically correctly, and they decided to do away with the testing admission requirement for best public highschool in The CIty (because it wasn’t fair). Boot the joker out. I mean WTF? Why is he still in office?
Under educated people are afraid of and do not like change so essentially their satisfied getting screwed over. Louisiana refuses to produce well-rounded well educated free thinking people who can spot a fallacy so they're being lied to.
Probably the dumbest thing I ever heard… go back to kindergarten with that opinion
you’re brain dead if republicans have anything to do with changing weather patterns. look at shit hole countries like India and the entirety of Africa if you’re looking to point fingers at “greenhouse emissions helping the heat”
Google Exxon 1977 climate change report and read. Then think about all the emitters of greenhouse gases and then look up how they lobby and donate money. Then come back and tell the class what you learned and how you’re wrong.
If you get a cut on your finger do you pour salt in it, because by not regulating greenhouse emissions that is what we are doing. Yes, other countries are not helping, but now neither are we. Republicans say leade by example, work in salt mines with open wounds!
Loud, racist and wrong just like the GQP
So we only have bad hurricane seasons or heat waves when there’s a democrat in office? Because that’s some funny shit.
Let’s not look at all the paved land that use to be green space. Let’s not look at all of the building whether commercial or private buildings that are being built. Let’s just blame the Conservative Party and maga people. I mean all of the concrete and asphalt don’t hold heat and radiate it upward. Let’s act like all of the asphalt and metal roofs don’t hold heat and keep radiating it throughout the day. People are so idiotic today that they believe everything they are told by a political party and the agenda that they push. I know science and physics only work one way, the liberal way. I don’t even know why I’m responding to this stupid statement that the o.p. Made. I just don’t understand how people can go through life as dense as they are.
lol
No , it’s the contrail chemicals and all of the cloud seeding being done by the cabals n stuff
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