The Biden Presidency

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CapelDodger said:
No doubt, but the subject there was specifically fracking, which I don't think is viable even in the medium term.
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It won't be viable if alternative energy cars become more popular. It's really only viable if oil is over about $50 a barrel. As alternatives increase, demand for oil will soften. That will kill fracking before regulation does.
 
Craig4 said:
It won't be viable if alternative energy cars become more popular. It's really only viable if oil is over about $50 a barrel. As alternatives increase, demand for oil will soften. That will kill fracking before regulation does.
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The problem is that the demand for energy will continue to rise.
 
Man, I get it, Biden just doesn't stir controversy like Trump did so apart from tempest in a thimble moments we don't have much do discuss. That said, why do we keep talking about electric vehicles or fracking in this thread?
 
acbytesla said:
The problem is that the demand for energy will continue to rise.
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If that's so then the question becomes how will the extra energy be generated : will capital be put into 20th Century technology (19th in the case of coal) or 21st Century? Governments can have some influence on that through their tax and subsidy regimes, and Biden seems more than open to doing that. He's not promising to bring back coal jobs, that's for certain.
 
CapelDodger said:
If that's so then the question becomes how will the extra energy be generated : will capital be put into 20th Century technology (19th in the case of coal) or 21st Century? Governments can have some influence on that through their tax and subsidy regimes, and Biden seems more than open to doing that. He's not promising to bring back coal jobs, that's for certain.
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Coal is dying and the environmental problems it has caused has little to do with it. It is not cost competitive to mine, transport and burn billions of tons of coal any more.

I'm thinking nuclear, solar and energy storage technologies such as gravity storage and flow batteries.
 
wareyin said:
Man, I get it, Biden just doesn't stir controversy like Trump did so apart from tempest in a thimble moments we don't have much do discuss. That said, why do we keep talking about electric vehicles or fracking in this thread?
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But this has a lot to do with Biden. Biden is pushing for the electrification of government fleets. He banned fracking on public lands.
 
Biden reopening private child prison with record of sexual and physical abuse to hold migrant children.

When the Democratic presidential debates were held in Miami back in June 2019, several candidates visited the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children, an unlicensed and for-profit detention center that held thousands of migrant children who came to the U.S. without their parents throughout the administrations of presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump. The shelter became the subject of national scorn because of reports of sexual abuse, negligent hiring practices, overcrowding, and human-rights violations. Some children described crying themselves to sleep at night, worrying they would never be released.
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https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/biden-to-reopen-homestead-shelter-for-migrant-children-11881926

The Miami-Dade Democratic party has issued a statement urging that the for-profit child prison facility remain closed.

https://twitter.com/MiamiDadeDems/status/1364347557728706561
 
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Is there a link about the reopening?

My first question is, are the same people running it? I wouldn't imagine there's something about the building that makes children get abused there. It would be decisions made by people.
 
wareyin said:
Man, I get it, Biden just doesn't stir controversy like Trump did so apart from tempest in a thimble moments we don't have much do discuss. That said, why do we keep talking about electric vehicles or fracking in this thread?
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Because it's sooooooo niiiiiiice to be having arguments about policy again, and not, "Was what the "president" said today technically treason?"
 
gnome said:
Is there a link about the reopening?

My first question is, are the same people running it? I wouldn't imagine there's something about the building that makes children get abused there. It would be decisions made by people.
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That was my thought. If staffing hasn't changed but there's new policy, then nothing will change. Biden has to put people in charge who firmly subscribe to his policies and goals if we're not to repeat the past.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Lauren Boebert tweets

@laurenboebert
The lids are back on! Don’t you miss having a President who worked tirelessly?
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Kelly O'Donnell
@KellyO
White House has called a “lid” for this Sunday so no expected events or public activities by the president.
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I knooooooooow! (said in best Sybil Fawlty voice). I don't know how he managed to get so much golf done during those rounds of work! As Biden hasn't spend much, if any, time on the golf course since taking office, how in the world can he be getting anything done?
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
Biden reopening private child prison with record of sexual and physical abuse to hold migrant children.



https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/biden-to-reopen-homestead-shelter-for-migrant-children-11881926

The Miami-Dade Democratic party has issued a statement urging that the for-profit child prison facility remain closed.

https://twitter.com/MiamiDadeDems/status/1364347557728706561
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I'm not all the familiar with the situation. That said, this is why governing sucks. Sometimes governing is about the lest bad of bad alternatives. I would be interested in finding out what the alternatives were.
 
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Craig4 said:
I'm not all the familiar with the situation. That said, this is why governing sucks. Sometimes governing is about the lest bad of bad alternatives. I would be interested in finding out what the alternatives were.
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Yeah, it's not like all the kids Trump detained just disappeared on Jan 20. Biden needs to deal with the reality of what was left to him. That wouldn't be pretty no matter what they did.
 
Stacyhs said:
I knooooooooow! (said in best Sybil Fawlty voice). I don't know how he managed to get so much golf done during those rounds of work! As Biden hasn't spend much, if any, time on the golf course since taking office, how in the world can he be getting anything done?
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Oh nonsense! I've heard, and possibly from the same person who said that Trump only wanted to restore the nation's faith in our election system, that Trump never took vacations! Sure, he may have gone golfing two or three times, but one of them was with a foreign leader he was negotiating with, so it counts as work!

This is the kind of no-information voter that forms the core of the GOP. They're not stupid, it's a question of trust. They trust their news sources, the same sources tell them to fear all others (and brown people, and 'the government', and probably the children too) so they don't accept any other sources.
 
acbytesla said:
Coal is dying and the environmental problems it has caused has little to do with it. It is not cost competitive to mine, transport and burn billions of tons of coal any more.

I'm thinking nuclear, solar and energy storage technologies such as gravity storage and flow batteries.
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Probably shouldn't forget wind, as a general matter, when talking about energy sources. At last check, building more wind power is an outright cheaper option now than simply operating coal power plants.

Horatius said:
Yeah, it's not like all the kids Trump detained just disappeared on Jan 20. Biden needs to deal with the reality of what was left to him. That wouldn't be pretty no matter what they did.
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Add to that those who see a bit more hope and don't want to wait any longer, now that the Biden Administration is openly working to make things a bit more humane and efficient than they were under Trump, that the Biden Administration is working on getting backlog that built up under Trump handled, and plenty more.

Tangentially related to the topic, though... Lawyers have found the parents of 105 separated migrant children in past month
The parents of 506 separated migrant children still haven't been found, however. Lawyers say the parents of 322 of them were likely to have been deported.

To poke elsewhere, though... it looks like Biden's soon to nominate 3 people to the Post Office's Board of Governors.
 
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Aridas said:
Probably shouldn't forget wind, as a general matter, when talking about energy sources. At last check, building more wind power is an outright cheaper option now than simply operating coal power plants.
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True. The economics of coal compared to other energy sources is what is killing coal. New coal plants are not being built. What new coal plants that were being built are migrating to natural gas, solar plants or wind. Solar and wind would dominate the energy future if we could cost effectively store electricity. Right now in most locations we are not capable of storing hours of electricity. What we can store is for minutes of peak demand.
 
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