Tesla is fast

If we'd stop this stupid sanction nonsense, we could buy Russia's gas really cheap and all be better off. But no, let's punish the whole world for our inability to fight one country in a war.

There are still a few billion people for whom fun isn't an option.

A lot of people pretend to be vegetarians. For a while.

Intelligence, absent observation and discipline, is useless. In the current instance, he considered the input end of a chemical delivery pipeline, and announced 'no chemicals'. That's just willful blindness, not thinking. It seems he IS following propoganda, rather than looking for evidence or logic or testimony of any sort.

Thinking would have easily encompassed the pipeline's other end, disgorging petrochemicals.

Not if it is also a worm hole into another galaxy. Well, a galaxy we don't care about.

NOT an assumption, we have the numbers and isotopic composition confirmation

NOT an assumption, we have a good idea how radiant heat transfer dominates the Earth's temperature and we know the atmosphere and sunlight effect of a variety of gasses.

Not relevant, because we aren't heading into a future that resembles the 16th century. Also, there isn't a monster in your closet.

Greta Thunberg gets it; why doesn't John Larkin?

I've went vegetarian a few times. No philosophical or health reason, just boredom I guess. The last time around it was actually pescatarian until I got tired of tilapia.

The Permian basin in West Texas and eastern New Mexico.

As someone pointed out flaring the gas is seen as the lesser of two evils, since the gas is mostly methane which is seen as a bigger problem than CO2. There are plenty of leaks so you get the best of both worlds, methane and CO2.

Being vegetarian or pescatarian (or Presbyterian) when few others are, makes it boring unless you do a lot of cooking. The two exceptions are Indian and Thai food. They often have lots of vegetarian options as a part of the cuisine, rather than a concession to those who choose not to eat meat.

I used to like Panera's a lot until the boredom of choosing from such a limited menu got to me.

Living in Puerto Rico as a pescatarian is tough. They literally don't understand "no meat" in any language, including Spanish. It's just not a phrase they often hear. Dos huevos fritos, con tostada, sin bacon means, "I want two fried eggs with toast and ham". Or "sin jamon" means, "Bacon, please". I've had breakfast maybe 100 times now in Puerto Rico and can count on one hand the number of times they seem to understand what "no carne" means.

People elsewhere in the US at least understand that some people don't wish to eat meat. I go to Thanksgiving dinner at friends' homes and there is no shortage of veggies. I never go hungry. But in a restaurant, it's much harder to order a meal where the "center of the plate" isn't a slice of some dead animal, usually with hooves. Well, not on the plate.

I believe the name is derived from the Permian epoch, when Pangaea and Panthalassa existed, the land and the sea. That name, in turn, comes from the Perm region of Russia where these strata are commonly found.

Pentti Linkola got it; Thunberg has only figured out half of the story.

Gas price was still cheap in 2019, around $3. It's $8 today and unlikely to fall back again. So, less of the stuff should be burning up.

Of course the price of gas won't stay at $8 a gallon. If nothing else, over the next few years, the amount consumed will drop 10% because of BEVs and that will continue to make permanent decreases in the price of oil and gasoline.

There is an enviromental argument for taxing it more heavily, so less of it gets burnt. As more renewable energy becomes availalble, taxing fossil carbon will put less of crimp on the economy as a whole, so it probably will happen, but the fossil carbon extraction industry won't like it.

I meant $8 Nat. Gas. It was cheap because it could not compete with Russian gas, but it's now profitable even with LNG processing cost and transport.

Not sure if it really make sense to ship LNG to Europe. We (US) got more than enough and Europe need more of it. For $8 NG, it costs around $3 to liquidify, $6 to ship and $2 to gasify. It makes zero economical sense, but only political sense.

It's not an overnight solution either. The last I knew Germany was light on LNG terminals that could easily be wired into the existing pipelines for distribution. I see it as the US trying to sweet talk them into something that really isn't to their advantage. The Ukraine fiasco is a good excuse for dropping the pipeline that would be the obvious answer.

Unless people are freezing. Winter is coming.

Have you used the word "absent" where everyone else would have said "without"? or does "absent observation" mean something?

No, there just aren't that many chemicals used compared to say Lithium mining.

They get burnt.