Why Trump's "drill baby drill" is so important!

[Woodznutz]

In the last two locales that I resided in, two different states, they have waste-to-energy power plants and where I live now, there is an ag-waste-to-energy plant. Although, I agree that it is not utilized to nearly the extent that it should be.

We have one in operation here in southern Wisconsin and another proposed. One requirement is close proximity to large dairy operations where manure can be trucked or piped to the facility easily. There have been some pretty bad manure spills that have polluted the groundwater around the one in operation.

State-financed manure digester plagued by spills, explosion

The $12 million system — financed with $3.3 million in state funds — has fallen far short of expectations and has cost the company that operates it more than $1 million in repairs.

archive.jsonline.com

 

[Robert W]

Among the list of prohibited hazardous wastes, EV garbage trucks.

This firm, in Boise, has a huge fleet of 17000 garbage trucks nationally, with 9 EV in Boise and 2 in Denver.

 

[berg80]

Trump Wants Oil Drilling in Alaska. A Lease Sale There Just Flopped.​

One of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s biggest “drill, baby, drill” initiatives suffered a significant setback on Wednesday as the Interior Department announced that a lease sale in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ended without a single bidder.

The sale, which was required by Congress, marks the second time in four years that an effort to auction oil and gas leases in the pristine wilderness — home to migrating caribou, polar bears, musk oxen, millions of birds and other wildlife — has been a flop.

The repeated failures suggest that oil companies are either not interested in drilling in the refuge or do not think it’s worth the cost, despite insistence by Mr. Trump and many Republican lawmakers that the refuge should be opened up for drilling. The Biden administration offered 400,000 acres after shaving off one million acres from the original boundaries to avoid areas crucial to the polar bear and Porcupine caribou populations.

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Received No Drilling Bids

No companies bid for the chance to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It was the second auction in four years that failed to draw strong interest.

www.nytimes.com

As I've noted before, when the economy was recovering from COVID and demand for oil and gasoline caused prices to rise, Biden did what he could to rhetorically pressure oil companies to increase production. But past boom-bust cycles as well as shareholder demands for capital expenditure discipline resulted in oil companies refusing to expand production quickly.

Then again I suppose things might be different under Dotard if he threatens to throw oil exec's in jail for not doing what he tells them to do.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

The NYSlimes is giddy

 

[Robert W]

Biden did what he could to rhetorically pressure oil companies to increase production. But past boom-bust cycles as well as shareholder demands for capital expenditure discipline resulted in oil companies refusing to expand production quickly.

That lie is not even amusing. Biden fights the publics need for fuel by carving off the best property and offering the dregs to the oil firms. Sure they don't want to bid for that land.