What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign

[robosmith]

What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign

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As Donald Trump sat with some of the country’s top oil executives at his Mar-a-Lago Club last month, one executive complained about how they continued to face burdensome environmental regulations despite spending $400 million to lobby the Biden administration in the last year.

Trump’s response stunned several of the executives in the room overlooking the ocean: You all are wealthy enough, he said, that you should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House. At the dinner, he vowed to immediately reverse dozens of President Biden’s environmental rules and policies and stop new ones from being enacted.

“Giving $1 billion would be a ‘deal,’ Trump said, because of the taxation and regulation they would avoid thanks to him.”

Trump’s remarkably blunt and transactional pitch reveals how the former president is targeting the oil industry to finance his reelection bid. 

Of course the MAGA CULT will defend another Trump violation of ethical norms by his solicitation of a quid pro quo BRIBE. 

[herbie]

Going on 60 years of people trying to make people aware of the environment but some people are so damn thick they back people who are outright hostile to do anything at all about the subject.

[robosmith]

1 minute ago, herbie said:

Going on 60 years of people trying to make people aware of the environment but some people are so damn thick they back people who are outright hostile to do anything at all about the subject.

We've lost a lot of ground on the right since Nixon established the EPA.

[herbie]

Goddam commie extreme leftist that Nixon guy!

Like the Orange Oaf wants not just to march backwards, but to stop anyone even trying to do anything. Gotta tear down those offshore windmills, they're chopping up whales and causing the hurricanes.

[robosmith]

Why Big Oil Executives Are Already Salivating Over a Second Trump Term

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President Joe Biden has framed his rematch against Donald Trump as a referendum on democracy and abortion rights. But November is not just about “freedom.” It is also a “climate” election, as a number of Biden environmental initiatives hinge on the outcome at an absolutely critical juncture for the planet.

As the Washington Post reported Thursday, Trump has promised oil executives that he'll immediately tear down Biden’s green policies if elected again, prevent others from being enacted, and rip up regulations on drilling—all in exchange for a billion dollars of campaign contributions. “You’ve been waiting on a permit for five years,” the former president told the CEOS at a Mar-a-Lago event last month, as an attendee recounted to the Post. “You’ll get it on Day One.”

In addition to his promise to ramp up drilling, Trump also said he would undo the Biden administration’s “ridiculous” electric vehicles initiatives, among other clean energy policies. While some oil executives seem to question Trump’s ability to effectively do their bidding—especially with much of his attention focused on beating the felony charges he’s facing in his Manhattan hush money trial—the industry has already been drafting executive orders to lower drilling costs and boost offshore leases that Trump would be able to approve immediately after retaking office, as Politico reported this week. “We’re going to have to write exactly what we want, actually spoon feeding the administration,” as one energy company lawyer involved in an executive order on gas exports told the outlet. 

Voters used to punish politicians for selling policies to private interests instead of making them compete with newer and better ideas. 🤮

[gatomontes99]

23 minutes ago, robosmith said:

Why Big Oil Executives Are Already Salivating Over a Second Trump Term

Voters used to punish politicians for selling policies to private interests instead of making them compete with newer and better ideas. 🤮

The irony here is that "alternative" energy sources are getting money, hand over first, from the government while oil is getting taxed and regulated out the wahoo...and oil is still winning. Some competition. It's like the Knicks playing St Mary's school of disabled girls and the girls got a 120 point head start and still lost.

[robosmith]

22 minutes ago, gatomontes99 said:

The irony here is that "alternative" energy sources are getting money, hand over first, from the government while oil is getting taxed and regulated out the wahoo...and oil is still winning. Some competition. It's like the Knicks playing St Mary's school of disabled girls and the girls got a 120 point head start and still lost.

In reality, wind and solar are competing and winning on COST. It is the fossil fuel producers which need the subsidies NOW.

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The authors illustrate this point by showing that most coal plants are substantially more expensive than wind and solar. About 80 percent of the coal plants in the report have operational costs that are at least one-third more than the costs of getting that electricity from new wind and solar.Jan 30, 2023

 

New Wind and Solar Are Cheaper Than the Costs to Operate ...

Maybe you would know that if you bothered to look for evidence before posting your OPINIONS.

[Nationalist]

Considering that we now know all those doomsday climate reports have all been altered by politicians and that actual scientists cannot declare any sort of climate crisis, it's now evident that the climate cult does not really "follow the science". They follow the cult.

Trump will probably gain a huge election war chest from all mining sectors as well as support of the farmers.

Meh...the truth will always win out...and so will Trump.

[Rebound]

13 hours ago, gatomontes99 said:

The irony here is that "alternative" energy sources are getting money, hand over first, from the government while oil is getting taxed and regulated out the wahoo...and oil is still winning. Some competition. It's like the Knicks playing St Mary's school of disabled girls and the girls got a 120 point head start and still lost.

First, oil gets billions of dollars in tax breaks of all kinds.  Second, the U.S. went to war in Iraq TWICE to protect our oil interests. 
 

Third… how is oil “winning” against alternative energy?  Wind and solar are BOOMING these days; the growth of them for US electricity generation has been exploding.  And electric car sales keep growing. 
 

You’re just a typical Trumper. You make up whatever BS you want and declare victory. When someone shows you facts you call them fake. But you don’t know what you’re talking about at all. 
 

You are foolishly gambling the future of the world on make believe ideas that aren’t based on fact.  

[robosmith]

6 hours ago, Nationalist said:

Considering that we now know all those doomsday climate reports have all been altered by politicians

What we "know" is that you post ^gratuitous OPINIONS.

And that you DON'T READ peer reviewed climate science journals.

 

6 hours ago, Nationalist said:

and that actual scientists cannot declare any sort of climate crisis, it's now evident that the climate cult does not really "follow the science". They follow the cult. 

And that you make up BULLSHIT about a "climate cult."

6 hours ago, Nationalist said:

Trump will probably gain a huge election war chest from all mining sectors as well as support of the farmers.

Farmers know that climate change is reducing the crop yields due to drought and other extreme weather events.

6 hours ago, Nationalist said:

Meh...the truth will always win out...and so will Trump.

Trump doesn't know the truth when it bites him in the ass and neither do you, cause you get your "info" from sources like FOS LIES.

[robosmith]

Trump just made more promises to oil industry campaign donors

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In a rambling fundraising pitch to oil executives in Houston on Wednesday, Donald Trump promised them that he would immediately approve their projects and expand drilling in a second term — just as he worked to expedite the controversial Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines soon after taking office in 2017.