Global oil use heads for steepest annual contraction

Re:Global oil use heads for steepest annual contraction by kortilla on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @02:33AM (#22602329)

> You have the attention of the whole country; rally them into making changes that can affect longer term gains.

That’s not how politics works. You can’t abuse a crisis to ram something unrelated down the opposing party’s throat. You end up alienating everyone including the moderates.

This never works with even something as simple as a government shutdown over budget considerations.

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Re:Global oil use heads for steepest annual contraction by ianleeclark on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:41AM (#22602639)

> That’s not how politics works. You can’t abuse a crisis to ram something unrelated down the opposing party’s throat.

This is exactly how it works in practice in the US because the government is in terminal gridlock.

> You end up alienating everyone including the moderates.

The largest political party in the US is the non-voting party. Again, how it works in practice is that almost half of the population is already alienated.

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Re:Global oil use heads for steepest annual contraction by buzzkillington on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @04:29AM (#22602881)

Have you seen the patriot act?

Hell, it was written by the oppositions party current presidential front runner.

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Re:Global oil use heads for steepest annual contraction by i2amsam on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:07AM (#22602489)

Well, we did invade Iraq, so sometimes it works.

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Re:Global oil use heads for steepest annual contraction by techbio on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:22AM (#22602550)

Worked with contaminated vape toxicity and the Juul flavor ban.

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