https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/27/business/fracking-ban-biden-federal-leasing/index.htmlOf course policies like these will have an immediate and an indirect impact on oil and gas production. When a new administration is making its stance on energy policy clear like that, it will of course have a chilling effect on the industry and stymie investment, which will eventually lead to soaring prices and a greater strategic dependence on Russia and the Middle East. If you seriously claim otherwise, you're living in a fantasy world.
Pretty simple: I'm not a very ideologically consistent guy; depending on the topic, my beliefs range from solidly left-of-center (even by German standards!) to hard right. You guys have a warped impression of me because the issues I'm mostly discussing here on PaRD are ones on which I happen to be very conservative.
Side note: the AfD is not "my" party, I actually disapprove of the direction they have taken in recent years and I do not consider them to be an effective opposition party.
Also, they lost two percentage points in a political environment which was much less advantageous to them than that of the 2017 election. And they suffered from a lot of infighting. And from a national media which is bending over backwards to give "their" topics as little oxygen as possible. Losing a little was the expected result for them and is a far cry from an asswhooping.
Relative to my expectations, the results of the German general election were a solid 6.5 out of 10. I'm not thrilled about it, but definitely not mad either.
By that logic any movement by the government to disincentivize fossil fuels is "Cracking down on oil and natural gas over night".
You're reaching super hard.
lol @ ideological consistency. You play with kid gloves against things you consider to be conservative or Republican, and when it's from a Democrat you actively take the worst possible interpretation.