***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[wavycrocket]

Queue the Lindsay Graham quote

 

[heelsandeers]

climate and energy policy is going to get interesting. i'm somewhat optimistic considering the alternative before last night. Manchin supports investment in long distance interregional transmission, which is an essential component of transitioning to renewable energy

if there’s a post-coal economic future in rural WV, a big part of it has to be putting wind turbines up in the mountains. and there’s no case for building them unless you have transmission capable of exporting the power all the way to the coasts

at some point Green opportunity will outweigh fossil fuel opportunity in Appalachia and other regions. then we will see a total flip on energy politics. we’ve seen it happen once already here in PA about 10 years ago, when SWPA veered hard away from coal politics when the money and jobs were suddenly on the side of killing off coal with fracked gas

 

[dinyc3st]

Not even 10 mins in and the congress' tension is heating up lol

 

[harlemtothebronx]

‘Respectfully’

 

[JustBlaze.]

This is a ****-show already.

 

[paulwest1985]

This is straight comedy

 

[IATT]

 

[biggie62]

climate and energy policy is going to get interesting. i'm somewhat optimistic considering the alternative before last night. Manchin supports investment in long distance interregional transmission, which is an essential component of transitioning to renewable energy

if there’s a post-coal economic future in rural WV, a big part of it has to be putting wind turbines up in the mountains. and there’s no case for building them unless you have transmission capable of exporting the power all the way to the coasts

at some point Green opportunity will outweigh fossil fuel opportunity in Appalachia and other regions. then we will see a total flip on energy politics. we’ve seen it happen once already here in PA about 10 years ago, when SWPA veered hard away from coal politics when the money and jobs were suddenly on the side of killing off coal with fracked gas

Problem with getting through to people in these regions is that many of the green jobs will be for higher educated people and not for the high school drop out and why they are against it. Even though those jobs will slowly go away.

It’s the same argument that people have for manufacturing. Manufacturing will somewhat come back to the US as automation becomes a thing. But again, the jobs will mostly be for engineers and not the blue collar person who would manually put things together. It really stinks but that’s the reality.

 

[IATT]

 

[had pants]

 

[JustBlaze.]

Here we go...

 

[IATT]

 

[harlemtothebronx]

These ****** crazy.

 

[paulwest1985]

Here we go

 

[freeze]

These losers dawg. These objections. Bro...clowns man. They all need to be pulled up on

 

[aepps20]

The only reason he sounds different is because I switched out his Moonshine for White Claw.

 

[UsualSuspects]

Pence went Full Heel

 

[deleted]

Bring out the pepper pellets

 

[Mark Antony]

Time for those rubber bullets and pepper spray to come out like they did peaceful protesters.

 

[blackboyfly]

Wait. So they'll withdraw for each individual objection???!?!?

 

[getback]

Bring out the paddy wagons

 

[had pants]

 

[JustBlaze.]

Wait. So they'll withdraw for each individual objection???!?!?

Yep.

 

[daruma]

can someone link?

 

[elpablo21]