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How will they rule ??!

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    Votes: 41 82.0%
  • NO - Disqualified

    Votes: 9 18.0%

  • Total voters
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  • Poll closed .
Free to them. Definitely not free to the us taxpayers
We have some rental properties. Years ago we had a renter that wanted to do Section 8. I didn't want to but the Mrs OK'd it. They were there about a year. Since, have had little to no contact with the housing authority....but obviously still on their contact list. We got...back about Oct....an email (obviously a stock email to a lot of people) offering a $600 'bonus' to people who would rent to a Section 8'er. Since we haven't gotten anything from them for years, I assume it was for Afghans or the illegals.
 
Fair. It's too easy to see issues as black and white and my response was definitely very close to that.

I understand it takes time and $$$ to restart a rig that was shut down during COVID. At what point since March 2020 did demand start trending upward and energy companies begin the process of ramping up rig count? If that point was late fall of 2021, then, yes, it's unfair to lay ALL the blame on this admin's policies. If it was, say, early 2021 (or earlier), wouldn't canceling the pipeline and denying new leases since then have been more (not all, to be fair) of the problem than lack of time and $$$ to bring rigs online?

You bring a wealth of experience and insight into this issue. I'd like to understand when policy began affecting oil prices. Not to mention that giving up energy independence is a national security issue and, as we've seen with Germany needing Russian oil for their economy, puts our NATO allies at increased risk or at least their need for oil may influence their foreign policy decisions (trading their own economic slowdown for decreasing cash flow into Russia/Putin). But, that's my opinion. Your background would definitely be more informed than mine. Is that a reasonable conclusion from Biden's policies?
The pipeline was for Canadian oil so no effect on us production. The oil companies use a fraction of their current leases, they don't need new ones to restart current ones.
By buying oil from Russia, Biden gave Putin $100B to prosecute his war. We didn't have to give him a dime.
Are you just ignoring that Trump bought 4x as much oil from Russia than Biden has? Or the pretty ****ing stupid idea that presidents buy oil when it's private companies that buy oil.
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Burger King shrinks chicken nuggets meal size as inflation eats into margins​

The fast-food giant has also removed its popular Whopper as a core discount item

'...the fast-food giant has reduced the number of chicken nuggets in its meals from 10 pieces to eight'

'Burger King isn't the only restaurant adjusting its menu items to combat higher costs. Domino's Pizza said it would reduce the number of wings in its $7.99 carryout deal to eight pieces from 10......Other restaurants taking a hit from inflation include Wingstop, which said that costs for its bone-in chicken wings rose 27.5% year over year in the fourth quarter and a record 40.9% year over year for fiscal year 2021, and Little Caesar's, which said it would bump up the price of its famous Hot-N-Ready pizza by 11% to $5.55.'
 
Nordstream 2 declared bankruptcy earlier. Biden Just keeps getting shit DONE! The US can buy it up for pennies and charge Russia to move their oil. Winning!
 
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By buying oil from Russia, Biden gave Putin $100B to prosecute his war. We didn't have to give him a dime.
"Biden" didn't buy the oil. Refining companies did. I would be curious to know which American refineries are buying Russian oil. Oftentimes companies will enter into long-term contracts to purchase crude. Even so, if American refineries refuse to buy Russian crude, Russia probably has the capability to divert the crude to other locations.

I agree that putting money into Russian coffers is an odious thing to do. However, they produce upwards of 10M bpd of crude, and the world can't simply take that volume of oil off the market without extreme impacts (daily world consumption is nominally 100M bpd). Unless the rest of the world is able to make up the entire Russian volume, and to do so at a cost that makes Russian uneconomic, simply boycotting Russian oil is a pipe dream.

One area where we could make a difference is in natural gas. With the massive increase in natural gas production here in America, there has been a huge build-out of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) infrastructure to ship our gas around the world. Biden could and should be employing a full-court press to get European nations to buy natural gas from us instead of Russia. We are in a position to take a significant market share from them if we did. On the other hand, Russia is diversifying its risk by constructing pipelines to ship additional natural gas to China.
 
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Nordstream 2 declared bankruptcy earlier. Biden Just keeps getting shit DONE! The US can buy it up for pennies and charge Russia to move their oil. Winning!
According to Reuters, concern is considering bankruptcy.


You are again dismissed.
 

Burger King shrinks chicken nuggets meal size as inflation eats into margins​

The fast-food giant has also removed its popular Whopper as a core discount item

'...the fast-food giant has reduced the number of chicken nuggets in its meals from 10 pieces to eight'

'Burger King isn't the only restaurant adjusting its menu items to combat higher costs. Domino's Pizza said it would reduce the number of wings in its $7.99 carryout deal to eight pieces from 10......Other restaurants taking a hit from inflation include Wingstop, which said that costs for its bone-in chicken wings rose 27.5% year over year in the fourth quarter and a record 40.9% year over year for fiscal year 2021, and Little Caesar's, which said it would bump up the price of its famous Hot-N-Ready pizza by 11% to $5.55.'

Basically a 20% price increase. The trend of making grocery items smaller and smaller for the same price is getting ridiculous. They should just change the name of Little Debbie to Tiny Debbie...
 
Nordstream 2 declared bankruptcy earlier. Biden Just keeps getting shit DONE! The US can buy it up for pennies and charge Russia to move their oil. Winning!
Nordstream 2 is a gas pipeline. Your hyperbole notwithstanding, the American government isn’t going to be getting into the pipeline business, to say nothing of the practical ramifications of bankruptcy - equivalent to Chapter 7, 13 etc.
 
Putin was driven nuts from the day pro West Zelinsky was voted into office in 2019. That was already 2 years into Trump's tenure. Preparing and planning an attack on the scale of Ukraine took time.
I will admit that Trump's appearance at times of being unstable, unpredictable and easily enraged may have played into Putin's calculation but ultimately, Putin was going into Ukraine no matter who was President was at this point.
I do agree that this situation calls for increased oil production and a temporary halt to worrying about it in order to drive the oil prices down and starve Putin of $$.
I also agree that Biden appears old and weak compared to Trump. But Trump's disrespect for our democracy, dumb azz tweets, and erratic behavior is on him for why he lost. I also am not sure he wouldn't have just washed his hands of this whole Ukraine situation and NATO right now.
Biden F'd up Afghanistan but is actually handling this situation pretty darn well imo.
We need new Presidential leadership in 2024 from anyone NOT named Trump or Biden.
That was almost coherent
 
Iran rained missiles down on our soldiers in Iraq for starters. They also killed Americans in Iraq. We also abandoned our Kurdish allies in Afghanistan which was wrong.


Did Iran invade Iraq? I must have missed that.
 
First land war in Europe since ww2, SCIENCE DUDE says.

Milosovic ring a bell, numbnuts?

Bosnia? Herzegovina? Kosovo?

Just please stop embarrassing yourself. Multiple times a day. Good Lord.
That was a limited regional Civil War that was the result of the breakup of the former Communist Yugoslavian state government. That was not one dictator led sovereign country crossing borders and attacking another sovereign democratic nation. At the time those were former republics and regional sections of Yugoslavia that had just recently defined their territories. Totally different situation altogether from Ukraine vs Russia.
Your lack of historical perspective is stark.
 
"Biden" didn't buy the oil. Refining companies did. I would be curious to know which American refineries are buying Russian oil. Oftentimes companies will enter into long-term contracts to purchase crude. Even so, if American refineries refuse to buy Russian crude, Russia probably has the capability to divert the crude to other locations.

I agree that putting money into Russian coffers is an odious thing to do. However, they produce upwards of 10M bpd of crude, and the world can't simply take that volume of oil off the market without extreme impacts (daily world consumption is nominally 100M bpd). Unless the rest of the world is able to make up the entire Russian volume, and to do so at a cost that makes Russian uneconomic, simply boycotting Russian oil is a pipe dream.

One area where we could make a difference is in natural gas. With the massive increase in natural gas production here in America, there has been a huge build-out of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) infrastructure to ship our gas around the world. Biden could and should be employing a full-court press to get European nations to buy natural gas from us instead of Russia. We are in a position to take a significant market share from them if we did. On the other hand, Russia is diversifying its risk by constructing pipelines to ship additional natural gas to China.
Lion's share goes to the west coast refineries. They are using Russian crude to meet short falls caused by sanctions on Venezuela. The rest goes to the east coast and the gulf.

The jones act limits the size of ships allowed to ship oil between US ports. Thanks to that, it isn't profitable to ship in large sums of oil, hence pipelines. We use Russian etal., oil in those areas that have no access to a pipeline.

The US imports way more than just crude from Russia, though. In fact crude import is minute compared to other petroleum products that we get from them. Those are going to be hard to replace.
 
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Well, you consider half of America Nazi's so we'll all take what you said there with a grain of salt.
Not Americans. Real European Nazis. Their flag is the SS symbol. They're covered in Swastika tattoos. They're openly, proudly Nazis. Not some hidden thing. Not y'all screaming "FASCISTS!!" when told to wear masks. Regardless, Putin is clearly the unjustified aggressor here and clearly in the wrong.
 
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Lion's share goes to the west coast refineries. They are using Russian crude to meet short falls caused by sanctions on Venezuela. The rest goes to the east coast and the gulf.

The jones act limits the size of ships allowed to ship oil. Thanks to that, it isn't profitable to ship in large sums of oil, hence pipelines. We use Russian etal., oil in those areas that have no access to a pipeline.

The US imports way more than just crude from Russia, though. In fact crude import is minute compared to other petroleum products that we get from them. Those are going to be hard to replace.
Makes sense that the West Coast refineries are the primary American customers of Russian crude, since a lot of their crude is produced in Siberia.
 
Not Americans. Real European Nazis. Their flag is the SS symbol. They're covered in Swastika tattoos. They're openly, proudly Nazis. Not some hidden thing. Not y'all screaming "FASCISTS!!" when told to wear masks. Regardless, Putin is clearly the unjustified aggressor here and clearly in the wrong.

lol, we’re not Nazis?
 
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