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More than 200 nations pledged last week in Dubai that they would be “transitioning away from from fossil fuels”. Some cheered and some scoffed; we’ll soon know if the world’s biggest producer of oil and gas – the United States – meant what it signed, or if it was just more (literal) hot air.
That’s because the US Department of Energy (DoE) must decide whether to stop rubber-stamping the single biggest fossil-fuel expansion on earth, the buildout of natural gas exports from the Gulf of Mexico. So far they have granted every export license anyone has requested, and as a result the US has become the biggest gas exporter on planet earth. If they keep it up, the veteran energy analyst Jeremy Symons says that before long US liquefied natural gas exports will produce more greenhouse gases than everything that happens on the continent of Europe.
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It’s always a case of what they do, not what they say. 100% of the time. To proceed under any other process or assumption is beyond naive, it is absolutely harmful.
Plans need to be made between the US and MX. Unfortunately, the main support of the Mexican economy is fossil fuels. The military is currently at war with the cartels and we receive warnings to stay off the streets when possible. Everything combined means more immigrants crossing the US borders. Military troops are sent out daily in the cities in troop transports, units of 10 to 12 soldiers, holding automatic weapons pointed skyward. I was informed by a citizen of Oaxaca City that these imperiled men are given an absurdly small amount of ammunition as the govt can’t afford more. It is their presence that is meant to be threatening, but in reality it seems they are paper tigers.