If we need more people to pick apples and clean hotel rooms congress can vote on what the correct number should be. But that doesn't mean it's OK to bring the rest of the family. IMO accepting people based on what we need can fall under merit.
Ready to fill your car with Iranian gas this summer?
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I agree with most everything, but I do think you have to remove illegals or else that just encourages Democrats leave the door open again.
Who are you arguing with????
And for reference, because of our declining education scores, rural economic stress, declining environmental conditions...we refer to Iowa as Mississippi North.
(Sigh)
1. I already established the US does not directly import Iranian oil.
2. I already stated in a previous post I know jack sh*t about the actual refinery process. For the purposes of our discussion, I don’t need to.
3. You and the other guy can duke it out over how well Iranian crude oil can be refined here. I posted the quick Google search to demonstrate it can be done. Again, for the purposes of our discussion, none of this is relevant.
What’s going to get worse for me, ol’ chap? You want to have an actual discussion on Iran or pivot to irrelevant wedge issues like the one you are trying to keep the focus on now? If it’s the latter, I am not interested. The topic is trivial, I know nothing about it, and it has no relevant bearing on the actual issues.
Given the OP, I thought he was being serious - ending as he did with "I hope America likes losing. Because paying for the privilege of buying Iranian gasoline is just the start."
He didn't respond to say he was being facetious. Why would you assume or pretend that he was?
You are really putting pressure on me. Hope I can withstand it.
Oil is fungible.
Probably. Look it up and report back.
Too soon to say. Their military assets and economy have been so crushed I don't know (nor do you) if it will "significantly" strengthen Iran. I doubt it.
In your hypothetical, I think Trump will bide his time and bomb the crap out of them shortly after the midterms. Or he may opt to bomb the coastal areas around the strait as he did recently, which prompted them to suddenly want an MOU.
If you were being "perfectly honest" here, you wouldn't put forth such an absurd hypothetical to imagine appeasement dems would take strong action of any kind.
Too soon to say for sure, but it looks likely that the outcome will be highly favorable for the US and our gulf allies for various reasons that even you should be able to discern in your less TDS-hysterical moments.
If Iran was as close to a nuke as they told our negotiators, we are certainly safer - as are Israel, Europe and our gulf allies. Obviously, Iran is substantially weaker.
The "peace deal" you refer too is in negotiation.
Credit to you for not lapsing into one of your perverted sexual fantasy rages about Trump. I hope this higher level of maturity is not temporary - although I would bet it is.
That doesn’t answer the question.
That doesn’t answer the question.
The current negotiations do not indicate this assertion to be true.
So, you’re saying we are going to do this dance all over again?
This is a really stupid response. Prior to the Iran War, the MIB painted Obama as a warmonger and war criminal. Seriously, what you typed is meaningless drivel and a complete dodge of the actual question.
More meaningless drivel and baseless assertions posited with not one piece of supporting evidence whatsoever. “If you can’t see how awesome all of this is for the United States, you are a cacapoopoohead with TDS.”
Riveting.
And the credible evidence for that is…?
If what you’re saying is true, that’s pretty scary since last June Iran’s nuclear capabilities had been “totally obliterated.” In what…6 months time Iran rebuilt and restored their nuclear capabilities to being an imminent danger? Yikes.
Then why is President Dealmaker negotiating as if they are anything but? Square that circle for us.
And has been for months. We know.
I have no idea what this even means, but I am sure it sounded good in your head.
What or whom do you base maturity off of…Donald Trump? If so, I will be happy continuing to defy your standards.
Well, no one can say I didn’t try to give you the benefit of the doubt and an opportunity to present a cogent argument. As expected, you followed the same script you always do—baseless assertions, dumb tropes, debunked talking points, revisionist history, and more grand finales about sexual fantasies of Donald Trump that you invented in your head and for some odd reason continue to project onto me.
Anyway, in good faith, I tried. Happy Trails.
Nice try, Rifler, but ya wrong.
Petroleum products account for a very small fraction of electricity in Iowa, generating about 0.1% or less of the state's total electricity supply. [1]
The state relies heavily on renewables and is heavily dominated by wind energy. A breakdown of Iowa's utility-scale generation mix includes: [1, 2]
Wind: Wind is the absolute dominant force in Iowa's electricity mix. In 2024, wind turbines generated approximately 63% of the state's total electricity. This makes Iowa the highest wind power producer by share of in-state generation in the United States. [1, 2]
- Wind: ~59%
Iowa's Electric Profile
The IUC has regulatory authority over investor-owned utility (IOU) rates and other service issues.iuc.iowa.gov
Nationwide, renewables account for roughly 25% of US electrical production,... So I'm 75% correct.
You don't even understand fungibility?
It would if you knew how to look up the answer, as I assigned you.
How do you imagine you know what is going on in the current negotiations? Ms. Now?
It was a hypothetical response to your hypothetical. You now seemed to be confused about the meaning of 'hypothetical'.
The MIB, whatever that is, is irrelevant to the question because Obama negotiated an appeasement-based deal with Iran that even Schumer voted against for being so weak.
Again, I overestimated your intelligence level, as it is even lower than I thought. The US now has more energy customers, better weapons systems based on what we have learned, and closer cooperation with Gulf allies. Iran will be a declining oil power from this point forward.
I posted a WSJ article making that very point within the last week, but it had some big words so you must have skipped it.
Loth.
The words of their negotiators to Witkoff and Kushner. It would be stupid not to believe them.
Our intel must have been bad, which would not be surprising.
You are not directly involved in the negotiations, so you have no idea how Trump is negotiating. He did pretty well in reducing the war in Gaza and getting the remaining hostages released, right?
Must be sad for you he hasn't met your time requirements. Is it impacting your perverted fantasy life?
I just bumped a representative post of yours to help your feeble memory.
No doubt your active perverted fantasy life involving Trump will continue to make you happy.
Go ahead and list some alleged "baseless assertions, dumb tropes, debunked talking points, revisionist history" to back your claims. (No need to include one of your oral sex fantasies involving Trump.)
Try again slick, I pay higher energy rates as part of a co-op which subsidized the cost of building solar panels.
Pretty similar, here in Kansas. I pay 0.138 per kWH for solar. I buy 2700 KWH per month. In summer I go over and the "carbon" rate which is coal around here is $0.10 per kWh. We heat with gas in winter so use less energy. I rarely get below 2500 unless we have a super warm spring month like March where I don't have to run AC and we aren't powering the furnace fans to run heat.
Typical lib. I say congress should be able to vote on an appropriate number of work permits instead of relying on people who enter our country illegally. Your response is that I'm a racist.