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HiHo-Silver t1_ivoghml wrote

And now we freeze and pay astronomical heating bills! Thanks Seth!

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jaydizz t1_ivoj8k2 wrote

Thankfully, that only makes sense in a Fung commercial, because in real life US House Reps don't set prices for home heating...

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mkmck t1_ivop52u wrote

Are you really stupid enough to believe that either one of them can do the first effing thing about energy prices?

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HiHo-Silver t1_ivopeo0 wrote

What has any of these people down to help us don’t call me stupid! Don’t be a jerk we are all going to experience higher energy costs due to the agenda of your party I am an independent. But I am not better off right now. Maybe you are I am on a fixed income and cannot absorb any more increases.

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mkmck t1_ivor6mv wrote

Energy is a global market ..prices aren't set in the US House. If you think they are, you are stupid

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mightynifty_2 t1_ivoshxp wrote

If only we were on a completely US-based system where we got power for the cost of maintenance alone. Something like getting power from natural resources like the sun or the water without needing to work with foreign powers. That would mean fluctuations in the global market wouldn't affect energy prices in the US! And since we wouldn't be using a depletable amount of energy we could call it something like... Renewable energy! Yeah, if only there were a party championing the switch over to that kind of system.

Oh wait...

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HiHo-Silver t1_ivot98s wrote

Germany already tried this and they had to go back to natural gas give me a break. Shutting down Coal plants without a viable solution will simply cause rolling blackouts across the entire grid people are not stupid. I have solar panels they’re 15 years old and they’re not putting out max efficiency and factor at 50% and wind up in a landfill another couple years leaking toxic chemicals into the ground so don’t give me this nonsense about switching over to green energy when it doesn’t exist yet put it in place first and then switch over don’t choke off of energy supplies. we are sitting on massive stores of natural gas it’s far cleaner than oil. There’s no reason to choke off our own energy production and buy it from foreign countries. People across the country are struggling to put food on the table and you guys thing here in Rhode Island it’s no different where are you going to put all the solar panels in Power Rhode Island in the middle of a blizzard. Think people be logical not emotion. There is no system in place you can’t just shut off 28% of energy in this country without a replacement

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mightynifty_2 t1_ivoufqv wrote

It appears that have a fundamental misunderstanding of both green energy and the English language.

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HiHo-Silver t1_ivpb9mp wrote

Injured and typing with one hand give me a break. I see you’re from Rhode Island and are taking guitar lessons I’m in the band contraband duo I play lead acoustic guitar and sing played all over Rhode Island for the last 20 years. Private lessons might be a better way to go. I teach because it’s important to know what guitar player strengths are and weaknesses are to improve them. There are plenty of great guitar players who are teaching and in Rhode Island I would look at that. We can agree to disagree on energy. Biden is squashing energy production here in the United States. And that increases inflation and harms people in fixed-income.

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mdurg68 t1_ivrpt4y wrote

Not really, the energy industry is not investing capital because they got burned pre Covid going into Covid. Remember how we were out pumping everyone? The Saudis weren’t backing down either. Huge world oil glut then shutdowns happened. They took a short term beating. In this past year they have been making record profits. Do you think there is any incentive for them to pump more? Drill more? Produce more? Basically put out more money which drives the price down. Everyone paints the red vs blue picture, but it’s rich vs poor, power vs powerless. You’ve watched too much right wing tv and viewed too many memes and are now one of the brainwashed. Read some oil industry bulletin boards, or some business related articles on oil industry to gain an actual real understanding.

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g_rich t1_ivqb8di wrote

There is only one party working to move the country to renewables and that party is not the Republican Party so you should be happy with who won. Renewables are the only solution to the fluctuating energy prices and the sooner we get them in place the better, Fung would have just been another Republican working against renewables and the Republican agenda would not bring down the cost of energy. Their solution which are just more pipelines and more drilling would do little to bring down costs and come with a significant environmental impact which is then left for the taxpayer to clean up, while also lining the markets of big oil along with those in Congress who support them.

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g_rich t1_ivqa8e0 wrote

You are aware that oil and its byproducts are sold on the global market and the prices are set by the free market, something Republicans like to champion. So unless you are willing to admit that the free market has failed and that commodity prices should be set by the government then there is little that can be done by any one person or party in Washington to lower energy prices in any meaningful and long term way (well there is one solution and we'll get to that). If anything the US is in a much better position than most other countries when it comes to energy supply and pricing and there is only one party working on a long term solution to the global energy problems in the form of renewables and that party is certainly not the Republican's. So if you really want to address the energy problems then you should be happy with who won because that's one more person in Washington working on an actual solution, Fung would have just been another Republican working for the oil lobbies and an obstacle rubber stamping legislation working against renewable energy.

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