I read these every time but never comment. But, every time I read one, I’m more proud to have you running and to have voted for you. It would be such a relief to have you representing me.
I wrote a research paper on the effects of the oil & gas industry on communities in North Dakota, it isn't good. Small towns not prepared for the influx of roughnecks and what often comes with that industry includes alcoholism, domestic violence & a rise in the cost of living. Additionally, issues like overcrowded schools, high crime rates, & skyrocketing housing prices often burden these small unprepared communities where drilling for oil & gas is taking place.
Mr Hammer, you raise a few critical issues. You start out with the problem that has stopped this country from being a democracy. It is a plutocracy. It's all about that money pipeline. The right has advocated for this for a very long time, and it escalated sharply after Reagan, W, and Trump.
Billionaires do not keep the rest of us afloat. We keep them awash in vastly more money than they can possibly use. Reagan's scam was that money given to the rich would "trickle down." It trickles up. Everyone in government complains about inflation, but many fewer talk about greedflation. Everyone complains about the deficit. That deficit goes up sharply every time the rich are given a tax break.
The fossil fuel industry might as well be a land mine. We should be ashamed, not proud, of our high fossil fuel harvesting. I am a medical doctor. In medical school, they used to say that the treatment of warts should be informed by the knowledge that they go away on their own. Anyone who amputated a limb to get rid of a wart would be an idiot. That's what we do by continuing our steady, or increasing, reliance on fossil fuels. They're killing the planet and everything that lives on it. If you and Biden are not out to destroy the oil and gas industry, you should be. It's all going to be gone some day anyway, like a wart, and our reliance on it is shooting ourselves in the head, not the foot.
Right, it's all about short term gains and deregulation, intended to maximize profits. If these people hate this country that much, they should move.
"Unrealistic?" I have an electric car and solar panels on my house. There's nothing at all unrealistic about cleaner energy. Except we can't aim this for some time in the future. It has to be now.
I want to thank you for your clear comments about what the politics of the industry currently are. My father raised 5 kids working for Shell Oil as a quality control inspector but also spent 5 hours a day running the SF Chronicle Dealership in out town, a 7 days a week job. We kids grew up union strong and sometimes heard about the shenanigans played by the Oil industry to keep clean energy under wraps by buying up all the copyrights and hiding the technology-and that was in the 60's!
. For that, the entire world suffers. I will support your efforts and thank you for your work!
I read these every time but never comment. But, every time I read one, I’m more proud to have you running and to have voted for you. It would be such a relief to have you representing me.
I wrote a research paper on the effects of the oil & gas industry on communities in North Dakota, it isn't good. Small towns not prepared for the influx of roughnecks and what often comes with that industry includes alcoholism, domestic violence & a rise in the cost of living. Additionally, issues like overcrowded schools, high crime rates, & skyrocketing housing prices often burden these small unprepared communities where drilling for oil & gas is taking place.
I would love to know more about your research. I live in ND
Thank you for such a well thought out and written post, and for illuminating the hypocrisies of the typical modern congress-person.
Mr Hammer, you raise a few critical issues. You start out with the problem that has stopped this country from being a democracy. It is a plutocracy. It's all about that money pipeline. The right has advocated for this for a very long time, and it escalated sharply after Reagan, W, and Trump.
Billionaires do not keep the rest of us afloat. We keep them awash in vastly more money than they can possibly use. Reagan's scam was that money given to the rich would "trickle down." It trickles up. Everyone in government complains about inflation, but many fewer talk about greedflation. Everyone complains about the deficit. That deficit goes up sharply every time the rich are given a tax break.
The fossil fuel industry might as well be a land mine. We should be ashamed, not proud, of our high fossil fuel harvesting. I am a medical doctor. In medical school, they used to say that the treatment of warts should be informed by the knowledge that they go away on their own. Anyone who amputated a limb to get rid of a wart would be an idiot. That's what we do by continuing our steady, or increasing, reliance on fossil fuels. They're killing the planet and everything that lives on it. If you and Biden are not out to destroy the oil and gas industry, you should be. It's all going to be gone some day anyway, like a wart, and our reliance on it is shooting ourselves in the head, not the foot.
Right, it's all about short term gains and deregulation, intended to maximize profits. If these people hate this country that much, they should move.
"Unrealistic?" I have an electric car and solar panels on my house. There's nothing at all unrealistic about cleaner energy. Except we can't aim this for some time in the future. It has to be now.
I very much hope you win your election.
Cam; he really does look good with that beard and the hair color is so good with that color!
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I want to thank you for your clear comments about what the politics of the industry currently are. My father raised 5 kids working for Shell Oil as a quality control inspector but also spent 5 hours a day running the SF Chronicle Dealership in out town, a 7 days a week job. We kids grew up union strong and sometimes heard about the shenanigans played by the Oil industry to keep clean energy under wraps by buying up all the copyrights and hiding the technology-and that was in the 60's!
. For that, the entire world suffers. I will support your efforts and thank you for your work!
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