I'm just saying that's all I've seen him do to address the issue other than lip service. Obviously it's not going to solve things by itself.
Personally, I don't like or want any of the "solutions", not really (new pipelines, facilities, more fracking, more oil production, encourage poor Americans to buy expensive EV cars they can't afford, it all sucks).
All of this shit is basically turning the opposite direction from where we need to head towards for climate goals, and I hate it. But I also know people as a whole don't give a shit, and will punish whoever is in power if they're hurting enough come election time (and it does seem like a lot of people are legit suffering from the high gas and food prices).
At least for the midterms, Democrats look like they're fucked, and their general attitude of "Shrug, we can't change the status quo because of that one bad man Manchin, oh well, guess we'll do nothing" means they probably deserved it, as much as I'd hate to go back to Republican Congress of "fuck the environment, cut taxes for the rich, and turn back the clock on all progress" overall agenda.
EDIT: Actually I forgot there's something that Biden could be pushing for and is pushing for the opposite instead - encouraging/incentivizing corporations to keep/switch their staff to WFH, but instead he encouraged (during the State of the Union address even) everyone to go back into the office. Making more people WFH would cut down on demand for gas and might lower the gas prices at least somewhat, but no, it's more important to "return to normalcy" so fuck that, keep encourage everyone to use as much gas as possible.
It recently leaked that the Irish government have a plan to force more WFH if their fuel situation gets worse[1], so it's not like this has no precedent elsewhere.
> guess we'll do nothing" means they [Democrats] probably deserved it
To use an Americanism, “all y’all” don’t deserve it, but you’re the ones who will suffer while the people you elect will, by and large, float on.
Personally, I think most Americans are generally good people who’d just like to get along, having adequate empathy to support basic human rights and basic social welfare systems. If more voted, everyone would be better off. Mind, getting more people involved in primaries is probably necessary, because the parties as-is are not representative of the people: they’re representative of decades old internal power struggles. All y’all need new, fresh representatives.
Personally, I don't like or want any of the "solutions", not really (new pipelines, facilities, more fracking, more oil production, encourage poor Americans to buy expensive EV cars they can't afford, it all sucks).
All of this shit is basically turning the opposite direction from where we need to head towards for climate goals, and I hate it. But I also know people as a whole don't give a shit, and will punish whoever is in power if they're hurting enough come election time (and it does seem like a lot of people are legit suffering from the high gas and food prices).
At least for the midterms, Democrats look like they're fucked, and their general attitude of "Shrug, we can't change the status quo because of that one bad man Manchin, oh well, guess we'll do nothing" means they probably deserved it, as much as I'd hate to go back to Republican Congress of "fuck the environment, cut taxes for the rich, and turn back the clock on all progress" overall agenda.
EDIT: Actually I forgot there's something that Biden could be pushing for and is pushing for the opposite instead - encouraging/incentivizing corporations to keep/switch their staff to WFH, but instead he encouraged (during the State of the Union address even) everyone to go back into the office. Making more people WFH would cut down on demand for gas and might lower the gas prices at least somewhat, but no, it's more important to "return to normalcy" so fuck that, keep encourage everyone to use as much gas as possible.
It recently leaked that the Irish government have a plan to force more WFH if their fuel situation gets worse[1], so it's not like this has no precedent elsewhere.
[1]: https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/return-of-wor...