It's an argument for not using them for a lot of things. That doesn't mean that the same amount of oil will be used to make more of of the less harmful products. There would likely be lower production levels once we stop looking for new things to do with the amount of oil that could be pumped.
They tried. That's what the Hunter Biden laptop was supposed to be.
I think Trump's comment lacks the word 'some' after 'likes'.
That's not going to happen. I don't often say things are impossible but this is one time the word is appropriate. A constitutional amendment has to be approved by two thirds of State legislatures which, in a second Trump term, just isn't going to happen. Consider that something as apolitical as the Equal Rights Amendment (which, in a nutshell, says that women have the same rights as men) took from 1923 to 1971 to even be approved by Congress and is still (almost fifty years later) five states short of being ratified (five states previously ratified it and then withdrew their ratification). Getting an amendment through in just four years? Not going to happen.
He doesn't have to worry about it, but the GOP does. Many prominent Republicans are already starting to put daylight between themselves and Trump, and this is only likely to continue during a putative second term.
There's no way that Trump wins in a fair election. There are ways that the GOP could manage to arrange a Trump victory, but see above about wanting to remaining in power. If they blatantly steal the election in the "lame duck" session then they are booking a one-way ticket to the electoral wilderness, especially considering that the down-ticket races are increasingly favouring the Democrats.
Another reason for reducing oil dependency that doesn't get the coverage it needs is we stop depending on the cartel that is OPEC, including all its immoral authoritarian regimes and associates like Russia.
I know the US isn't us and this isn't the same sort of scandal/leak, but when the trade talk papers for a prospective US trade deal were leaked online and found by Corbyn, it hardly did anything to the opinion polling that was relatively accurate in getting the result last year, despite the fact Johnson and co. then going to say we have to find the culprit in this leak meant they technically conceded to the papers being legitimate.
Indeed. I am almost tempted to start this in its own thread. I have already seen some trend in the USA but not sure it is tied to this election cycle. Wooden sticks are replacing plastic for stirring drinks in many places. In fact I thought Trump had made a disparaging remark about them.
It is fairly easily replaceable in cars and trains and even ships so save it for planes and producing other useful chemicals/polymers in the interim.
The thing is, the pollsters were just about spot on as far as the actual popular vote was concerned. What polls couldn't predict was exactly how the vote would break down on a per-precinct basis. I think I read/saw somewhere recently that the Electoral College was swayed by 0.09% of the total number of votes cast, just unfortunately they were in the right (for Trump) voting districts.
Yes, but if the polls had probed more deeply - which a precinct-by-precinct level poll would have necessitated - then it would have been a lot clearer how close the election really was. There were areas that were just assumed to be voting Democrat where the numbers just didn't come out.
Indeed. Some on the Left (not including Biden) want to defund the police which, despite the scary sounding name, simply means taking much of the money that currently goes to the police departments and reallocating it to other services. As an example, New York spends more on Policing than it does on education, skills training, mental health services and drug rehab combined. The idea behind defunding the police is that spending more money on crime prevention means that they save a lot more money that's currently spent on crime fighting.
