Interesting response.
You do not dispute paragraph one of my reply regarding the two charts trending together, instead you dispute my ability, while providing no evidence, to fairly read a chart.
However, after complaining of my ability to read a chart you in no way dispute the numbers I pulled from it!
You do reference a 14-month-old opinion piece that critiques what the Biden administration said it was planning to do in regards to the oil industry. Interestingly, the piece admits that Biden said he would not shut down fracking. And he hasn’t.
I give you this opinion piece, out today, regarding the US oil industry’s lack of response to the current oil crisis.
Mostly what your opinion piece decried was shutting down a pipeline (reminder, pipelines don’t actually produce any oil), as well as talk of ending some government financial incentives for the oil industry. (Why does a mature industry like oil needs financial incentives in the first place? Doesn’t free-market capitalism work in that industry? Does it require government incentives to operate effectively?)
Are you the Chernobyl professor? I Googled. You should know, you do know, that correlation isn’t proof of causation. Yet, you claim a correlation (Biden “declared his war on fossil fuels!”), and call if proof of causation (prices started rising). You need more than that. A lot more. It’s a global market.
And by the way, does the fact that “political deals are made all the time” excuse Trump for trying to leverage a political favor out of a US ally? Really? Especially under those circumstances?
Is that how the nuclear power world works? When something important is going down, like, reactor testing, is it okay to ask the reactor operator to ignore the safety manuals because, hey, I need a favor… and, unstated but known to all parties, ‘I control something you need (your job), so you do what I need for me to look good…’?
Isn’t that why ‘Chernobyl’ is now global slang for institutional failure?
Especially on the global stage, US presidents are supposed to do the right thing for the country. Not the selfish thing for themselves.
Don’t you agree?
Take care.
PS I had a friend who taught nuclear safety at Chernobyl after the accident. I don’t think he was there long. Like myself, he was an ex-Navy nuke. It was the first I’d heard that they were still operating the other plant, but he was amazed at the place. He told me of the utter incongruity of driving to a nuclear power plant, and passing horse-drawn wagons on the way.
