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President Biden literally just gave a speech months ago demanding oil companies increase production and lower prices. Energy companies would have been happy to
by legitster 3y ago
President Biden literally just gave a speech months ago demanding oil companies increase production and lower prices.
Energy companies would have been happy to push solar or nuclear everywhere if there was any market/regulatory demand that justified the effort.
Even if oil companies decided that "oops, we shouldn't exist" and decided to cut production to zero and give back their shares to everyone (which is arguably what they have been trying to do until the current administration began threatening them), that vacuum would have to be filled with something. And it would probably be filled with a nationalized oil company that is un-sue-able like most of the rest of the world has.
- elchief 3y agoThat argument worked great at Nuremberg
- legitster 3y ago???? To the best of my mind there is not a developmental need or even a market demand for war crimes and genocide. I really have no idea what kind of equivocation you are trying to make.
- mcpackieh 3y agoIt isn't illegal for oil companies to produce oil, so they have no legal obligation to refuse such a demand from the POTUS. The superior orders defense for producing oil isn't relevant because producing oil isn't an offense in the first place. Maybe it should be illegal to produce oil, but even if such laws are eventually passe they won't be retroactive. Ex post facto laws are unconstitutional for good reason.