This I suspect. A lot of words, best summarized by “drill baby, drill!” and “what climate emergency?”
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Just the fact that some X post from a random poster isn’t a trustworthy enough source for me. I’ll totally disagree if you don’t believe the source is fundamental to establishing what the facts are in the first place.
For me, this USAID funding press release is more trustworthy than a random X poster. But to each their own.
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A good move by President Trump, who knows his diet coke.
I will be signing an Executive Order next week ending the ridiculous Biden push for Paper Straws, which don’t work. BACK TO PLASTIC!” the president wrote.
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Everything in there would take many years to develop and have any impact, if it happens at all.
Hell yeah! Not just because they don’t work, but also because they’re coated with PFAS (mentioned in the article).
The smarter move would’ve been to ban single use straws. Most people don’t need them, and those who need them should get reusable straws.
Thank you for helping my very long and frustrating day end with a laugh. Just to be clear, you, who are ultra-anti-Russian, want to trust the organization being investigated to provide you with answers that you deem trustworthy? Please confirm my understanding before I waste time pointing out the seeming hilariousness of that, because I may have completely misunderstood what you were trying to say.
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If you had quoted the rest of my statement, I suspect that even Californians would understand what I said. 
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The rest of your statement did not talk about “unleashing of the U.S energy resources onto the market.” I quoted what I was interested in, the rest seemed unrelated.
But your 
ing of xerty’s comment above implies that he is correct. It also implies that you are completely wrong – there is no unleashing, and there won’t be any impact on the market for many years, because it takes a long time to develop resource extraction. I have not noticed any significant movement in the price of energy futures.
Ah, it seems someone explained my point in a way that you understood. To be clear of your response, something that takes years to develop or have impact, if ever, is to be discarded?
If so, then yeah, I’ll point out the idiocy of most of the O’bama and Biden (surrogated) policies, including the pallets of cash to Iran to fund the attack(s) on Israel and Trump.
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Don’t change the subject with your what-aboutism. You said that you
There are no new tariffs on Russia as far as I know, and there is no unleashing of the energy resources onto the market.
Generally, no. But in this particular case, probably. The reason is because it takes longer to develop than a single administration, and there’s a decent chance that a future administration, if not the next one, may reneg on the same “drill baby drill” idea. It would be risky for any company to invest money in developing these resources, perhaps too risky. I would be surprised if any energy resources even begin to be developed as a result of this Act. There’s something in the Act about minerals and rare earths, and that might actually work to our advantage, but it’s not energy (you specifically mentioned energy and I am countering your point) and I doubt it’ll scare our adversaries much.
There are new tariffs on Russian allies. Despite your understanding or misunderstanding of energy production, the United States can produce enough energy to support itself, without the need of imported oil from Russia. It won’t happen overnight, but it’s not a decades out result. Even if a moron gets elected who wants to make us bend a knee to Russia, Saudi Arabia and other oil producers, like a couple of recent leaders, it will not be a permanent thing. Imagiine if 10% back to the big guy were a permanent thing. How sad would that be for a country born of democracy.
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Which tariffs and which allies?
The USA has been producing enough energy to support itself for like 8 (?) years. Pretty sure we haven’t been importing any oil from Russia, or we’d better not be since the war. What the heck are you talking about?
10% on China, but I suspect that you already new that.
Since Donald J Trump was President? Is that what you’re saying?
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Yes, but I don’t see why Russia would be unhappy about this. Tariffs mean that there is likely to be less trade between US and China, which could mean more trade between Russia and China. It’s actually good for Russia.
I don’t know the exact moment it was reached, possibly during his presidency. But the trajectory was set long before that.
Ha Ha! You’re now ready for Democrat seat anywhere. :}
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You prefer a random X post to a press release directly from the White House? I did not realize you mistrusted the Trump administration that much. 
More seriously, for me the bigger issue is that what USAID funds is not by default publicly available. Transparency solves a lot of things. I want to know where my tax dollars go exactly. We’ve just seen here some of the questionable causes it was funding lately. Who knows what this administration or the next will fund. I’d like to know this ahead of my vote on their record. It shouldn’t take DOGE snooping/leaking this info to get it out in the open.
Trajectory was set from 2007, and accelerated in 2015. The US has been a net exporter since 2019 (and before 1952).
But that doesn’t mean we’re not importing oil/gas from other countries, especially Canada, since US refiners need different type of oils for various grades they produce.
Other reason is trade agreements. We’re not using our own oil/gas because at times we can export them at a higher price than we can import them. Sounds inefficient and counter-intuitive to me, but fact is, in 2023, we exported 10.15 million barrels/day while we imported 8.51 million barrels/day. I don’t know how much we’d lose if we kept using our oil/gas and only exported the surplus though.
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I know this one – arbitrage! 
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I’m pretty sure these crazy trans cultists who killed a customs/border guy unprovoked were mentioned previously, but I couldn’t find it. here’s a follow up - the leader of the trans vegan death cult has been arrested and charged with half a dozen murders.
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Speaking of trans crazies, here’s the worlds smallest violin for the ones in the NSA -
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