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If HN had a slogan today it would be "this is fine."

• sremani 5y ago
  Shale revolution saved US and indirectly rest of the world of many things. We had one heck of decade with cheap Natural Gas prices in the US and the market adjusted to that. The days of Cheap NG are over given that it is now the preferred input for electricity generation including the peaker plants. The next step is US banning NG and Oil exports which can happen before next presidential election. There are many reasons but the second and third order effects of 'plague' have to run through the system and it would take a decade for all these things to wash through. It is not a coincidence famine follows plague and war follows famine. The bush fires have already started if you are paying attention.
  • exhilaration 5y ago
    If anyone is curious, the US had a ban on natural gas and oil exports until 2015, when Republicans in Congress passed legislation to overturn the ban, which Obama then proceeded to sign: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fiscal-oil/congress-kills-u-s-oil-export-ban-boosts-solar-wind-power-idUSKBN0U121U20151219 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fiscal-oil/congress-k...
• djrogers 5y ago
  We've been here before isn't the same thing as 'this is fine'. The earth has had several extinction-level events in it's history - it wouldn't be 'fine' to have one again.
  • dev_tty01 5y ago
    Well, the earth would be fine. The earth would carry on without us and it wouldn't be long until there were no traces of our incredibly short term existence. I've always been amused by "Save the Earth" campaigns. The proper phrase is "Save the Humans."