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Ok. Did Biden solicit taking a billion dollars to roll back existing climate protections?
Or did Biden just endorse a 1.2 billion dollar plan to build carbon capture facilities in the area of our refineries with the stated goal of being emission neutral by mid century?
Don't act like your false equivalency makes Biden and trump the same.
These are a known scam, by the way. It's just repackaging a technique oil companies already use to squeeze more oil out of the same fields and charge the government and consumers for the pleasure of feeling like they've done something.
Great, you linked an article with a claim about how carbon capture facilities are used by oil companies.
This isn't that. My state, and several others are developing state controlled permanent storage sites for captured CO2 called class VI wells.
I'll grant you that it isn't a permanent or long term solution, but my point still stands that Trump is nakedly and publicly selling our future to oil companies and Biden is at least trying to do something to make things better. They are not the same.
Going to go away and read about this. As a Brit living in Spain, I know very little about the ins and outs of what's going on there.