Among other things, we are still a slight net importer of petroleum products, so higher oil prices, other things equal, hurt US real income 2/ https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RS22204.pdf">https://fas.org/sgp/crs/m...
What is true is that energy accounts for a surprisingly large share of business investment, so talking up oil prices is in a weird way a kind of Keynesian stimulus. But I thought Republicans don& #39;t believe in that? 3/
Of course, it might be relevant to look at political contributions by the oil and gas industry 5/ https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/totals.php?cycle=2020&ind=E01">https://www.opensecrets.org/industrie...
My sense is that there& #39;s also a sort of ideological thing: conservatives love to talk about the wonders of fracking, and still think of renewables as hippie stuff even though they& #39;re now a huge sector 6/
Anyway, amid everything else it& #39;s hard to focus. But Trumpian favoritism on fossil fuels is quite something 7/
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