The problem with CCUS is it’s not carbon and it’s not CO2. What’s being captured is industrial waste - flue gas - any effluent from a stack. And the injection is not being managed by professionals experienced with underground injection. So what could possibly go wrong? Not being CO2 is good as we need more CO2. But the grifting and rent seeking is so egregious that even supposed responsible organizations are getting in line with the CCUS grift so as to please a politician they want to garner favor from . . . The greed is excessive and sickening. Research is one thing but outright full financial support for commercial activity is simply wrong. Stop the madness.
Houston, we have a Problem! We need Actions to Match Rhetoric! Trump’s EOR stated this:
“They’ve spent trillions of dollars of things having to do with the Green New Scam. It’s a scam. And that has caused tremendous inflationary pressures in addition to the cost of energy.”
Here’s the bottom line argument to Trump and ALL Politicians “potentially”STILL standing for the whole CCUS wealth transfer scheme: 100% of the “green new scam” involves CO2 emission-based reduction strategies like: “net-zero/decarbonization/CCUS/etc and that CO2 is a “Pollutant”. By labeling CO2 as a Pollutant - as the primary devil causing “Global Warming, ‘er now labeled “Climate Change” by the zealots pretending to give two-💩’s about anything but self-dealing more money to themselves - they have conveniently been able to condemn ALL fossil burning fuels.
So let’s hypothesize here: We vividly all recall that Trump, Vance, Chris Wright (DOEnergy), Lee Zeldin (EPA), Ramaswamy, RFK,jr and many others spoke against the “green new scam” and the net-zero nonsense and vowed to eliminate this burden off the backs of America’s energy consuming economy. Furthermore, even the proliferation of the Ethanol industry was for a two-fold justification: reduce petroleum derived fuel consumption and reduce foreign oil imports, hence reduce CO2 emissions (sidebar note: newsflash - the life cycle analysis of the entire Ethanol production from the farming operations to processing to the retail pump to the tailpipe actual produces a NET INCREASE to CO2 emissions (just don’t asked the Ethanol industry ‘cause they still use an abacus 🧮 to do their calculations 😂).
And so, Here we have An Oxymoron: HOW can anyone be against the “green new scam” and STILL be promoting ANY CO2 Emission reduction strategies including the grotesque subsidies for CCUS, Ethanol, Wind (dumbest power source ever), Solar (dumb but not as dumb as wind depending on southern climate), faux-green anhydrous ammonia, hydrogen, EV’s, Battery Storage (very costly dumbness) and any other CO2 reducing technology scheme? How? Well in ND we have two DC senators and a new Congresswoman that are still pushing hard to keep CCUS going backed by the speculative notion that one-day, maybe 12 or 15 or more years in the future the North Dakota Bakken/Three-Forks oil shales will be past primary economic production and ready for Enhanced Oil Recovery using very pure CO2 (like the 98% Summit proposed pipeline will deliver) in some yet-to-be-determined technological way. Newsflash! It’s speculative propaganda!The EOR oil shale “secret sauce” use of CO2 is not known today with the EERC (Grand Forks ND) being awarded over $14 million less than a year ago to do R & D to determine the most economical way to use CO2 in the oil shale EOR secondary recovery process. Even the head of ND’s oil and gas division testified before a Senate Energy Resources Committee April 2024 telling Legislators that there were currently four “oil shale EOR pilot test projects” going on in ND with just two of them using a percentage of CO2 in combination with other fluids and gases. He also spoke of the potential for more CO2 than available from ND industrial sources being needed possibly 12 to 15 years down the road. So the Harold Hamm oil industry is using the potential “Oil Shale EOR Pawn” no differently than the Ethanol Industry is using the “Corn Growers Pawn” to support their faux-Narrative of gloom-and-doom to those industries (and loss of State tax collections) if the Summit CO2 pipeline/CCUS does not happen! Folks, you all know this - they are self-serving grifters who have dehumanized us all in their quest to gain America’s taxpayer dollars “At any and all Costs!”💥😳
The problem with CCUS is it’s not carbon and it’s not CO2. What’s being captured is industrial waste - flue gas - any effluent from a stack. And the injection is not being managed by professionals experienced with underground injection. So what could possibly go wrong? Not being CO2 is good as we need more CO2. But the grifting and rent seeking is so egregious that even supposed responsible organizations are getting in line with the CCUS grift so as to please a politician they want to garner favor from . . . The greed is excessive and sickening. Research is one thing but outright full financial support for commercial activity is simply wrong. Stop the madness.
Houston, we have a Problem! We need Actions to Match Rhetoric! Trump’s EOR stated this:
“They’ve spent trillions of dollars of things having to do with the Green New Scam. It’s a scam. And that has caused tremendous inflationary pressures in addition to the cost of energy.”
Here’s the bottom line argument to Trump and ALL Politicians “potentially”STILL standing for the whole CCUS wealth transfer scheme: 100% of the “green new scam” involves CO2 emission-based reduction strategies like: “net-zero/decarbonization/CCUS/etc and that CO2 is a “Pollutant”. By labeling CO2 as a Pollutant - as the primary devil causing “Global Warming, ‘er now labeled “Climate Change” by the zealots pretending to give two-💩’s about anything but self-dealing more money to themselves - they have conveniently been able to condemn ALL fossil burning fuels.
So let’s hypothesize here: We vividly all recall that Trump, Vance, Chris Wright (DOEnergy), Lee Zeldin (EPA), Ramaswamy, RFK,jr and many others spoke against the “green new scam” and the net-zero nonsense and vowed to eliminate this burden off the backs of America’s energy consuming economy. Furthermore, even the proliferation of the Ethanol industry was for a two-fold justification: reduce petroleum derived fuel consumption and reduce foreign oil imports, hence reduce CO2 emissions (sidebar note: newsflash - the life cycle analysis of the entire Ethanol production from the farming operations to processing to the retail pump to the tailpipe actual produces a NET INCREASE to CO2 emissions (just don’t asked the Ethanol industry ‘cause they still use an abacus 🧮 to do their calculations 😂).
And so, Here we have An Oxymoron: HOW can anyone be against the “green new scam” and STILL be promoting ANY CO2 Emission reduction strategies including the grotesque subsidies for CCUS, Ethanol, Wind (dumbest power source ever), Solar (dumb but not as dumb as wind depending on southern climate), faux-green anhydrous ammonia, hydrogen, EV’s, Battery Storage (very costly dumbness) and any other CO2 reducing technology scheme? How? Well in ND we have two DC senators and a new Congresswoman that are still pushing hard to keep CCUS going backed by the speculative notion that one-day, maybe 12 or 15 or more years in the future the North Dakota Bakken/Three-Forks oil shales will be past primary economic production and ready for Enhanced Oil Recovery using very pure CO2 (like the 98% Summit proposed pipeline will deliver) in some yet-to-be-determined technological way. Newsflash! It’s speculative propaganda!The EOR oil shale “secret sauce” use of CO2 is not known today with the EERC (Grand Forks ND) being awarded over $14 million less than a year ago to do R & D to determine the most economical way to use CO2 in the oil shale EOR secondary recovery process. Even the head of ND’s oil and gas division testified before a Senate Energy Resources Committee April 2024 telling Legislators that there were currently four “oil shale EOR pilot test projects” going on in ND with just two of them using a percentage of CO2 in combination with other fluids and gases. He also spoke of the potential for more CO2 than available from ND industrial sources being needed possibly 12 to 15 years down the road. So the Harold Hamm oil industry is using the potential “Oil Shale EOR Pawn” no differently than the Ethanol Industry is using the “Corn Growers Pawn” to support their faux-Narrative of gloom-and-doom to those industries (and loss of State tax collections) if the Summit CO2 pipeline/CCUS does not happen! Folks, you all know this - they are self-serving grifters who have dehumanized us all in their quest to gain America’s taxpayer dollars “At any and all Costs!”💥😳