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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe White House has already taken down the climate change page.
and put up a pledge to drill lots of oil.
http://www.vox.com/2017/1/20/14338342/trump-white-house-energy-page
As soon as Donald Trump was sworn in as president, the official White House website, WhiteHouse.gov, got a speedy makeover as expected.
The Obama White houses page on climate change is now gone archived here for posterity (along with the rest of the Obama-era pages). That page talked about how global warming was a serious challenge to future generations, optimistically touted Americas ability to tackle the problem, and listed dozens of actions the Obama administration has taken to reduce carbon dioxide emissions:
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In its place, the Trump administration has put up a page declaring An America First Energy Plan that makes no mention at all of climate change except to note that Trump plans to roll back many of Obamas climate policies.
Instead, Trump plans to promote more drilling of Americas estimated $50 trillion in untapped shale, oil, and natural gas reserves, especially those on federal lands.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)snacker
(3,619 posts)from Department of Labor page.
cynatnite
(31,011 posts)joshcryer
(62,276 posts)Even with major subsidies from the government it's not happening without a war in the middle east, in Saudi Arabia specifically.
Snackshack
(2,541 posts)Weeks if not days the sanctions on Russia will be lifted and Exxon will be able to begin drilling there and pumping out the projected $500 billion worth of oil it has not be able to drill for because of the sanctions. Even with this new source of oil coming to the market we still see the price of a gallon of gas go back to over $3-$3.50 here in the states with-in few months...
About that same time as the drilling begins the Delaware sized iceberg will fully calve off the Larsen C iceshelf and float off into the sea.
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