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23 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
How much would I be hating this thing if I were watching it?
Oh shit, Trump caught on to the windows?
Sounds like Biden still hasn't figured out how to talk about fracking?
Just FYI, the oil & gas industry is already in the shitter and has been for a while. Several analysts, including a few oil company execs, think 2019 might have been peak global oil consumption. vox.com/2020/4/20/2122…

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23 Oct
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OK, thanks to the urging of my above-average followers, I've been prompted to check out Miley's covers of "Zombie," "Nothing Else Matters," and "Wish You Were Here," and now I'm afraid I must report that I'm genuinely looking forward to her album of Metallica covers.
It's partly that Miley's just a great singer, but it's also that when she's singing these covers she is so obviously a *fan*, like just delighted that somehow she's in a position where she gets to do her shower karaoke on stage. It is charming.
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23 Oct
The US political establishment really doesn't get it. Americans WANT to transition off oil & gas to clean energy. It polls through the f'ing roof, across parties, across regions-- has for decades. It's not something Dems need to hide from, it's something they need to champion.
Look at this internal polling power utilities did. They found that Americans want 100% renewable energy and they don't want to hear any more f'ing excuses. vox.com/energy-and-env…
Waiting for the WaPo headline:

"Republicans court political doom by refusing to act on climate change"

That better reflects the facts, and US public opinion trends, but it is a thought the VSPs who run mainstream newspapers just can't wrap their '90s-trapped heads around.
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22 Oct
They're allegedly talking climate change at the debate tonight. Here's a prediction: tomorrow, news coverage of that portion will be dominated by Trump's accusations (about the Green New Deal, a fracking ban, etc.) & Biden's semi-successful defensive responses. It'll be framed...
... as a Biden weakness. ("Will fracking hurt Biden in PA?")

What won't happen: any MSM pundit framing Trump's denial of, and utter lack of a plan to address, climate change as a liability for him, much less a *grotesque moral failure*.
On the national stage, it always ends up Dems defending doing something. Republicans are never called on to defend doing nothing.

So tuned-out Americans will never see the core of the issue laid out. They'll never be told clearly that Rs want to wander blindly into catastrophe.
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21 Oct
1. This is a good excuse to finally try to articulate what I think about the politics of fracking. (I got tired of people saying nice things about my geothermal article and want to resume getting yelled at.)
2. The obvious implication of the poll results described in the article, IMO, is that public opinion on fracking, as on most issues, is quite *shallow*. Most people are happy to take cues from elites. "Oh, we hate fracking? Fine. Oh, but we don't wanna ban it? Fine."
3. On the other hand, there are a few constituencies, in PA & other fracking states, that DO care passionately about fracking. Enviros are passionately against, but they're voting D regardless. Then there are frack workers & communities that have jobs/money on the line.
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20 Oct
This thread shows that it's historically been extremely difficult to pass anything big (federally) w/out bipartisan support. But of course Rs know this & have exploited this feature of the system & plan to continue exploiting it. So what are Dems supposed to do?
The "pull together in unity and simply steamroll the other party" strategy is incredibly difficult & prone to failure, but the GOP has made clear that the bipartisan route is absolutely, 100% closed off. So what else are Ds supposed to do? They can't just do nothing.
Holding onto unity will be difficult, for all the usual Dem-infighting reasons, & also because Rs & VSP pundits will be relentlessly scolding them for being partisan, for not reaching out enough, for not being "open to compromise." Dems either ignore that scolding or they are Fd.
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19 Oct
If you had a chance to talk to some smart experts about CDR (carbon dioxide removal), what would you ask? What are you curious/worried/excited about in that space? Political dynamics? Tech developments? Hit me.
Hm, it appears I'm going to need a 47-hour interview.
One strong message from this call: trees, *as a means of carbon sequestration*, are bullshit. Plenty of great reasons to plant trees, to love trees, to hug trees, but carbon sequestration isn't one of them.
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