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The oil will be drilled now or later anyway.

The question is how much is burned when and why. I can’t really see anyone anywhere being interested in consuming more oil. If consumption stays the same, he’ll basically just be dumping the price.

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Reducing oil prices reduces the financial incentives for using bicycles, taking public transit, living in a city and using renewable energy sources. Drilling itself also has environmental impacts.

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What does that mean for climate concerns?

Kill babies, kill.

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How about to each his or her or their own? Like let Texas be the oil smeared radioactive smelling shithole it wants to be?

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That the US is going to fall further behind China in green energy technology.

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As someone currently on extended vacation, enjoying several national parks, I would suspect national parks will be gutted for natural resources.

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