We're not going to get to an "EV-society" until we start taking nuclear energy seriously again.
Instead of playing slap-fight with the Saudis and Russians, I'd love for America to say that it'll continue to support its domestic petroleum industry as a legacy stopgap until we're up and running fully with atomic power, but make the moves we'll need to make the nuclear industry as large as the petroleum industry is now, and drive policy not through weak-ass fist-bumps, but through controlling and reducing American (and Western hemisphere) demand for the goop that gives the Saudis and Russians their power in the first place.
That won’t sit well with the post-industrial society shapers who don’t want nuclear, or anything other than urban hives of humans living in close quarters surrounded by wind and solar plants, eating bugs and Soylent Green.
The issue with Musk isn't just that he's floating giving the Russians something they do not deserve to have, but using Kremlin talking points like "Khrushchev's mistake" re: Crimea, or the "handing over" of Taiwan to China.
RE: Khashoggi: do we expect POTUS (of any party) to ignore US citizens being murdered by other country's governments (and this includes Shireen Abu Akleh)?
Have you looked at the US oil field production rates before writing this? You can see them at https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MCRFPUS2&f=M. Note that, while we are still working our way back up to pre-COVID pumping levels, we are still near all-time highs of oil production: your perception doesn't match reality.
"RE: Khashoggi: do we expect POTUS (of any party) to ignore US citizens being murdered by other country's governments (and this includes Shireen Abu Akleh)?"
Just to pick nits, but Khashoggi was a US resident (on an O "genius" visa on his way to obtaining US citizenship) who still was a Saudi citizen at the time of his murder. But the main point remains the same.
We're not going to get to an "EV-society" until we start taking nuclear energy seriously again.
Instead of playing slap-fight with the Saudis and Russians, I'd love for America to say that it'll continue to support its domestic petroleum industry as a legacy stopgap until we're up and running fully with atomic power, but make the moves we'll need to make the nuclear industry as large as the petroleum industry is now, and drive policy not through weak-ass fist-bumps, but through controlling and reducing American (and Western hemisphere) demand for the goop that gives the Saudis and Russians their power in the first place.
That won’t sit well with the post-industrial society shapers who don’t want nuclear, or anything other than urban hives of humans living in close quarters surrounded by wind and solar plants, eating bugs and Soylent Green.
The issue with Musk isn't just that he's floating giving the Russians something they do not deserve to have, but using Kremlin talking points like "Khrushchev's mistake" re: Crimea, or the "handing over" of Taiwan to China.
RE: Khashoggi: do we expect POTUS (of any party) to ignore US citizens being murdered by other country's governments (and this includes Shireen Abu Akleh)?
Have you looked at the US oil field production rates before writing this? You can see them at https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MCRFPUS2&f=M. Note that, while we are still working our way back up to pre-COVID pumping levels, we are still near all-time highs of oil production: your perception doesn't match reality.
"RE: Khashoggi: do we expect POTUS (of any party) to ignore US citizens being murdered by other country's governments (and this includes Shireen Abu Akleh)?"
Just to pick nits, but Khashoggi was a US resident (on an O "genius" visa on his way to obtaining US citizenship) who still was a Saudi citizen at the time of his murder. But the main point remains the same.
Oooh, fun follow-up fact: the US is currently the largest producer of oil too, and has been since 2018.