cchelberg10h ago
David Ho

I’d rather live next to wind turbines and solar panels.

https://apnews.com/article/refinery-explosion-texas-coast-60ecf6d9a70a2f1d5494fb8e38a84c4a

Oil refinery explosion near Texas coast forces residents to shelter in place

Officials say a large explosion at an oil refinery near the Texas coast has shot plumes of smoke into the air and forced nearby residents to shelter in place. Mayor Charlotte M. Moses says no one was injured in the explosion at the Valero refinery in Port Arthur. The explosion comes amid a spike in gas prices driven by uncertainty over the global oil supply because of the Iran war. Valero's website says the refinery has about 770 employees and can process about 435,000 barrels of oil per day. The plant refines heavy sour crude oil into gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.

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Show threadginoputrino11h ago
@davidho Unfortunately looks like you won't get the choice: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/23/climate/trump-totalenergies-offshore-wind-cancellation
Trump administration will pay a French company $1 billion in taxpayer funds to not build wind farms

The Trump administration announced it will pay nearly $1 billion to French energy giant TotalEnergies in exchange for the company abandoning plans to build offshore wind farms in the Atlantic Ocean and instead pursue fossil fuel projects in the US.

CNN
Show threadSander10h ago
@ginoputrino @davidho I will not build solarpanels in the USA for only $800.000.000.
Show threadkali11h ago
@davidho oh that's bad also bc this is a big diesel refinery. re: #energycrisis
Show threadnoldi10h ago

To: David and everyone else, whom it may concern, hello!

I agree, but first should not be:
a. Making war blacklisted? and
b. The profession of 'soldier' be banned, under penalty of death first?

Show threadnormie8h ago

@davidho I live near 4 turbines

I don't even notice them unless I intentionally look at them

hell, I forget there's solar panels on my roof most of the time

anyone who thinks fossil fuels is the way forwards should suck on a car exhaust pipe before debating me

some people can't absorb obvious facts - they need someone else to do their thinking for them - hatemongers and other fascists

I despair

Show threadPasswordsarehard48h ago
@normjess @davidho I’ve known we we’re screwed for awhile. I knew because I seen signs fighting against oil pipelines and wind turbines in the same yards . Not a solar panel in sight, no River from here to he horizon, but all the lights were on and the noon siren goes off each day. Fighting tooth and nail against anything in their backyard and not even knowing where the power came from. It’s from a never ending cargo train of coal btw. They just look past it nowadays.
Show threadnormie5h ago

@passwordsarehard4 @davidho
the US is designed around cars and cheap gas but the world gas supply is finite. over in our lifetimes!

here in Europe cities are designed around bicycles and trains

you can buy electric cars from BYD, who offer double what Tesla does

I get there's small towns that rely on coal mining - but its the biggest cause of climate change, literally destroying our environment

this is the problem with capitalism, people can get very very rich doing bad shit

monopolies can form, small towns become beholden to companies that destroy the environment for an extra buck

imagine after the car became cheap (not even was invented) there was a load of huge horse & cart companies trying to prevent you from owning one

the US is the stupidest country in the world, and the UK is almost as stupid for seeing its backwards thinking nonsense wanting to copy it

Show threadOx1de7h ago
@davidho but the birds?
Show threadsparseMatrix6h ago
@davidho We have those too. It's not a one-or-the other proposition.
Show threadluca6h ago
@davidho Wind turbines are a bit of a concern, when blades are ripped by high winds...
Show threadxs4me22h ago

@davidho

Can say that again!