Lisa Benson for January 26, 2021

Do you really think Sleepy Joe knows what he is doing? All 16 of those first-day executive orders were written up by the left wing swamp dwellers. He just knows he has to sign that stuff to survive.

Executives from Jeff Bezos to Ford Motor Co.’s Bill Ford tell Joe Biden: Fighting climate change means job creation https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/25/bezos-benioff-ford-sign-open-letter-to-biden-on-climate-change.html

Ms Benson knows that U.S. Energy pollutes our air, our water, and by extension, our Earth. She knows that global warming and climate change is a direct result of fossil fuel use. Ms Benson knows that the use of fossil fuels has caused millions and millions and millions of deaths worldwide over several centuries and that the continued use of fossil fuels will cause millions and millions and millions more deaths. Ms Benson does not care. Ms Benson’s concern is not to promote civic responsibility nor seek alternatives to fossil fuels. Ms Benson’s SOLE concern is her pocketbook. The more she can stir things up by twisting the truth, the greater the appeal her grotesque, specious, and spurious political cartoons will be to her fascist puppet masters. I’m sure she loves HER pillow.

Still pushing the debunked lies.

Pipelines are just the safest and most environmentally friendly way to ship crude. They do not change demand for or use of petroleum products significantly by reducing the shipping cost as well. Canada is subsidizing the US by shipping highly discounted crude.

Sorry, stupid European posting here…. has anyone in the US ever heard about “clean energy”….?

The Keystone Pipeline extension is designed to carry a particularly difficult to handle form of Canadian crude oil from Canada to Louisiana, because Canada doesn’t want the refineries necessary to handle it and the environmental damage that goes along with them. The refined products would mostly be exported to Japan and the western Pacific Rim. The number of permanent American jobs to be created would be less than 100. We would create more jobs, and do more good for the US, by requiring existing pipelines to be repaired, strengthened, and retrofitted.

Yeah we lose some temporary gig jobs building it, and prolong an industry that is steadily phasing out, and some healthcare jobs treating those whom pollution sickens… the upside is that there is far more opportunity in developing alternatives to replace it.

You’re right, it’s about four jobs that will be lost. That’s the reason why the big corporations want the pipeline so badly, the other forms of energy we’ll consume will create more jobs.

Not even a week in office and sleepy Joe well on the way to returning America to the Obama days of unemployment, a terrible economy, high taxes, putting American interests behind the rest of the world’s nations and especially kowtowing to China. You know something is terribly wrong when the country with the worst human rights record and environmental policies in the world is happy that Trump is gone and Biden is set up as a puppet President.

Nicely drawn Lisa, I like your artistic style.

This may be nitpicking but you can’t loosen the bolts on the flange of a pipe from inside the pipe, as is drawn here… but I guess that proves once again that getting the details right is never important in this cartoon…

Those were the dyin energy jobs anyhow, try thinking to the future where renewable energy is the place to go.

The same folks contracted to build a pipeline can be trained and contracted to build wind turbines and solar arrays and work on new power infrastructure. So it’s not jobs that are being eliminated it’s fossil fuels.

I know you can’t actually be this dumb, Lisa.

The whale oil market is OVER! Welcome to the present day. Please stop with the kicking and screaming.

Total fallacy about energy industry. It confounds me the way conservatives fear the future and the development of new things. It’s like they see the future as a foreign country they aren’t allowed to enter.

^ @Kracklin Rosie — Did you and Lisa attend the same classes at Trump University?

A c̲o̲n̲s̲e̲r̲v̲a̲t̲i̲v̲e̲ analysis from Forbes:

" … most experts, including those in charge of some of the world’s major oil and gas companies, agree that such a transition is inevitable, given that most of the world’s nations have committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050. The only question is whether the transition will take place over the next several decades or more abruptly, by as early as 2030, as proponents of the Green New Deal advocate.

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Two recent studies that compare traditional fossil fuel energy jobs with those in the renewable energy industry arrive at slightly different conclusions. Clean Jobs, Better Jobs, released last week by a coalition of clean energy groups, finds that clean energy jobs are more likely to come with better benefits than jobs across the rest of the private sector, and pay as well as or slightly better than fossil fuel jobs.

“The median hourly wages for clean energy jobs overall are about 25 percent higher than the national median wage,” the study found. Compared with jobs in the coal, natural gas and petroleum industries, which pay about $24.37 an hour, jobs in solar and wind pay about $24.85 an hour, while jobs in the energy efficiency—the biggest employer in America’s energy sector—come with median salaries of about $24.44. …"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimmagill/2020/10/26/oil-gas-vs-clean-energy-which-will-have-best-jobs-in-the-future/?sh=62b0b3cd5738

Lisa is part of the disinformation machine.

I’m tired of trying to be polite. This is just a stupid cartoon.

It’s worse than stupid, it’s not even original. This is the RW Meme for the Day (or maybe the week). Payne will probably get to it next week since he tends to read the memos a bit later than the rest.

Lisa just LOVES air pollution and global warming.

The number of US jobs associated with building the Keystone pipeline was substantial (I have no figures). The last time I looked, though, the number associated with maintaining it was minuscule. Like a dozen or some such. This is Canadian oil that will be shipped out of the US to other countries.

22 is the number of permanent jobs that might have been created. Unless she is counting all the taxpayer paid positions to clean up the inevitable oil leaks. On oil that can’t be used for anything in the United States by law!

This pipeline will be forgotten in a month. No more running roughshod over the country, EPA is back online.

Trump had two million fewer jobs than when he became president, that’s history.

I enjoy toons from various points of view – nothing better than an intelligent back and forth, but Lisa fails to pass the intelligence test. She is now another one I won’t waste my time reading as she brings nothing either new of factual to the table.

Why even bother to comment on Lisa’s outright falsehoods? Sheesh. Hey Lisa! Go look up some statistics about jobs in the green energy industry and extraction industries. This whole ’toon is just lazy.

Puhlease Lisa!! Read some real news/information. E2’s recent Clean Jobs America report found nearly 3.3 million Americans working in clean energy – outnumbering fossil fuel workers by 3-to-1. Nearly 335,000 people work in the solar industry and more than 111,000 work in the wind industry, compared to 211,000 working in coal mining or other fossil fuel extraction. Apr 22, 2019 Fossil fuels are dying out. Becoming fossilised, if you will.

Not just the US workers he threw under the bus, the Canadian Provincial and Federal governments are fit to tied.

I really think we should bring back the buggy whip subsidies.

The Biden admin won’t do the bidding of the oil companies like the republicans do.

Trump ended his office with two million less jobs than he came in with.

Temporary jobs, pollution that lasts for generations.

The cons should be happy. Those are union jobs according to the traitorous Cruz. They hate unions.

Wrong AGAIN, Lisa… as usual.

That oil will now be loaded onto a tanker ship. If that tanker should leak, the damage to the environment will be far greater than if it were on land. Way to go green, there…

Any guesses why Lisa hates the truth?

Renewable energy sector has some of the fastest job growth in the country, and if we allow troglodytes like Benson continue to stymie the movement away from fossil fuels, we will continue to fall behind countries like Denmark and China.

Lord a’ mighty but this lame bull is tiresome.

EDF: “The most rapid renewable energy job growth has come from the solar and wind sectors, which rose by 24.5 percent and 16 percent, respectively, from 2016 to 2017. Solar and wind energy jobs outnumber coal and gas jobs in 30 states, including the District of Columbia.”

“The coal industry, which has been declining, now employs 160,000 workers, less than a quarter as many Americans as the renewable energy industry.”

@Gorillazilla – Thank you for your solid input. Notice the leftist always believe they areright, no matter what! Again, thanks!

@Lisa Benson – Stand tall, Lisa….stand tall!

Facts, Lisa, facts. I was a Republican for fifty years. I switched to Independent in 2014 because the BS the party was shoveling was getting too deep. I guess you enjoy being buried up to your ears in it.

So disingenuous. Renewable energy is the fastest growing industry not just in the US but in other industrialized countries. The US is falling behind thanks to the efforts of politicians bought by fossil fuel lobbyists and companies. But Lisa, do tell us about the revival of the coal industry the last four years.

Lisa drew pretty much the same toon in 1910, only in that one Henry Ford was standing next to an assembly line in his automobile factory flipping the bird to a bunch of buggy-whip manufacturers being escorted out of the plant by security.

The problem with the right is that they can’t see any further than the dollar bill in their hand. Should they ever decided to look up from the rapture of that buck, they’d see the piles of even larger bills right in front of them.

The only debunking comes from the left!

“We don’t need this, you know, the thing…”

When gas prices are the same California’s, “Brown” out occur, and the electric is a third of the cost of a mortgage payment. Plus the economic blow to state revenues.

The renewable power industry has already provided far more jobs than traditional fossil fuel industries of coal and oil. Solar and wind energy jobs outnumber coal and gas jobs in 30 states, including the District of Columbia.

Ya gotta wonder, with her knee-jerk resistance to change, whether that includes LIsa’s underwear.

Addition by subtraction!

The stupidity here! It Burns! He canceled a project and thousands of jobs lost. Not a conspiracy. It happened on his first day. This comic is a statement. Stupidity should hurt.

The # of jobs lost in the US are 1,080 “for a few months” and once constructed 50 total jobs, many of which are in Canada. This is per the company which issued a statement clarifying the wild rumors about jobs. Here’s a link with the response from the company. The "thousands of jobs lost’ is a complete fabrication. https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/verify/verify-yes-thousands-jobs-lost-after-biden-axes-keystone-xl-pipeline-but-not-as-many-as-these-posts-claim/77-8955155e-457d-4fc2-bbd9-35ea8df83ee3