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Originally Posted by Swaggs
Biden making the comment about eliminating oil was A pretty bad move if he is trying to win PA. Lots of oil and natural gas fields in between the cities. But, I’d suspect most of those folks are not Biden voters in the first place.
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It seems at best a split issue in a vacuum (recent poll f.e. had it 52/48 against fracking) with lots of softer factors also in play towards the 'green' side of things. Like how those oil and gas fields impact the local environment and quality of live factors. Far as i can tell they are a lot less remote and invisible than other fossil energy harvesting is in other regions. You could very well support it in general but be sympathetic to scaling it back some or regulating it a lot more or simply not pushing it further.
That's what happened with coal in Germany, transitions were much quicker and had much more support in areas where the negative impact was most visible (due to proximity to population centers, in this case right in the middle of them pretty much, and scope of operations) and it wasn't 'only' about obscure topics and/or economic viability.
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Last edited by whomario : 10-23-2020 at 03:58 AM.
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