AOC Mockingly Thanks Oil Exec. Over Transparency In Efforts To Manipulate U.S. Legislation

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mocks an oil executive over his honesty when it comes to lobbying U.S. Congress, during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing entitled, "Fueling the Climate Crisis: Exposing Big Oils Disinformation Campaign to Prevent Climate Action".
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[@sawyer4713]

Lobbyists are lobbyists. Go after ALL of the congressional representatives who accept the lobbyists in their offices. And I am sure that includes AOC.

[@harshilpatel9643]

Yes including the NAACP lobby and Renewable Energy lobby. All bad

[@asphcon1]

She's the only waitress in history that brings nothing to the table.

[@dachisoncarrazco]

Brings more than you! Lol 😂

[@asphcon1]

@@dachisoncarrazco seeing how I'm not a waitress, I'd say you're right!

[@LMM7880]

I think you are confusing her with Lauren Boebert.

[@Globovoyeur]

@@asphcon1 Neither is she -- now.

[@Logiconfire]

She is helping Republicans get elected.

[@davidmauldin6295]

AOC please give up all of your benefits in life from the petroleum industry. Oh, oil companies please keep lobbying against green agendas, it will save us all a lot of suffering and suffering.

[@wageslaverysucks6939]

"I think one thing that often gets lost in these conversations is that some of us have to actually live the future that you all are setting on fire." Girl speaks truth!

[@antlerman9516]

Oil and gas companies supply a product like any other company, people around the world use this product, they are not the problem, consumers are, you don't like gas and oil stop using it.

[@janwoodworth1]

@@antlerman9516 when a product produces lethal consequences, we take it off the shelf, don't we?

[@ElGeetaro8929]

Does she? I feel like the fact she never acknowledges nuclear energy as the cleanest form of energy we have as being a bit disingenuous. I'd bet she sees a lot of lobbyist for green energy too. And you've been sold on the idea that carbon emissions are more responsible for the climate versus proximity to the sun; a sun we're begining a phase of rotating closer to for the next couple thousand of years. These climate policies are nothing more than Machiavellian ploys to keep under developed countries poor by outlawing the energy sources they would need to build infrastructure. It's just another economic hit job.

[@Globovoyeur]

@@antlerman9516 Would you say the same thing about opioids?

[@oscarjones5297]

@@janwoodworth1 then instruct congress to take it off the shelf. This is Congress that is failing us. Create another avenue so we can stop using fossil fuel...btw..it is all still embedded into consumption...china uses tons of coal to produce energy to produce all the junk Americans buy

[@ralphpal]

She just destoryed more jobs in queens As she gets richer

[@jessicabe3278]

Richer??? Are jobs in Queen's tied to oil?

[@shannonskelley1681]

And stays warm

[@wonder7798]

They cause the issue and then create a remedy in which they profit either way

[@greeleyestateslove]

That annoys me too. These specific people will also be long dead by the time the earth they shat on is unlivable.

[@benjaminrichard7741]

Oil executives have to pay up! Those greedy jerks!

[@mrnull682]

Pay enough 10% across d board for everybody

[@alab3657]

Leftist---- greed is keeping money you earned. Also leftist--- stealing other people’s money through threat of imprisonment is not greed. Moral of the story, leftist R DAF.

[@brittanywalling1305]

They're ruining our planet, I don't care if she screamed at him and called him names- they deserve it

[@bessforman1773]

How are they ruining the planet? They are taking the dirty oil out of the ground so we can get cheap energy. The planet is cleaner when they are done.

[@jucobanditsforlife3927]

@Bess Forman how is it cheap energy? The cost of burning oil for fuel is the destruction of our planet. There is nothing cheap about that. Thoughts?

[@uche007us]

@@jucobanditsforlife3927 better question, what is dirty about CO2?

[@MalcamPrasad]

@@uche007us buddy, take a chemistry class to see what CO2 can do to warm an atmosphere in a control volume. Why are you asking random people questions when you can learn in high school.

[@mrbill304]

How much OIL do these air planes use?

[@shannonskelley1681]

Hells bells,dont worry, dont worry, lot of us are getting ready to help this administration with their climate agenda, lots are going to have to make hard decision on whether we want to eat or stay warm.

[@SacredWaves]

I'm going to do both. I wonder what we the people plan to do about these idiots. Complaining on you tube does nothing. Try a petition to impeach ALL of them, and then go to the next step, if needed. Then no one can say we didn't try the peaceful way.

[@Dra741]

She doesn't understand without a robust petroleum industry, you're not going to be able to correct any problems and by the way China is opening up more than 300 coal-powered plants, even if we are at NetZero in two years it's still would not make a difference

[@glenbreeding2819]

It’s amazing how the vocal fry in her voice comes and goes

[@paranoidjones]

@@Dra741 Are you paid to echo the talking points of these psychopathic arsonists, or do you do it for free?

[@allenforbus9020]

@@Dra741 Exactly and they all know this!!!

[@johnhansen8272]

She has so many of her own members sticking around to hear her wise words, lol.

[@leeolmeda3595]

Aoc is absolutely correct. She made a valid valid. We don't have time to not clean up..

[@bustersmith5569]

What about the other country's on this little ball we live,,, the USA is the one that has to apply 🤔,,,,

[@williamrolando2819]

Aoc shouldn't be given any time she still hasn't figured out a garbage disposal

[@crasherxtreme]

What are you talking about? We need to give her double time. Triple time. What is wrong with you? You're not being rational. God keep them talkin'.

[@dickw323]

I'd love to see the list of lobbyists that AOC has contact with, but of course, those lobbyists are wonderful, caring individuals with no agenda.

[@joshcourt1393]

Lobbyists insure you have no representation... how about we treat it like bribery with extended sentences in our worst prisons for violating the public trust. Blaming either side just perpetuates the status quo.

[@poppydillings7448]

AOC IS her own lobbyist! Shame on her selfish narcissist self. We’re still dealing with NARCISSIST communist Nancy Pelosi AND along comes another ‘Daddy’s little Rich B’ AOC. Shame on you dictator narcissist AOC!

[@billybeads3328]

dickwhichyouare 323 Stop with the deflection as the vast majority of Senators who take big oil money are Republicans

[@pls_explain9608]

@@poppydillings7448 you make it really easy to dislike what america has become 🙁

[@iwaazi624]

you mean the chinese.

[@chicaddo]

She’s full of it.

[@AngelRodriguez-tf1zl]

So shes full of it why you know better and also better then the scientist good luck with your knowledge let me guess you get it from FOX LIES RIGHT? 😊🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@chicaddo]

@@AngelRodriguez-tf1zl No research you might try it.

[@katkrisher3865]

@@chicaddo your “research” is actually propaganda!

[@bobbanana568]

@@katkrisher3865 not necessarily true. I am actually a research scientist. A trained molecular biologist. Let me ask you a quick question about science. What do you know exactly about the process from conception of a hypothesis to test to paper publication?

[@bobbanana568]

@@AngelRodriguez-tf1zl what field of scientific research are you in?

[@marcosmedina6940]

Yall think we would get to this point without oil? we don't just magically get technological advances

[@bustersmith5569]

👍TY,,,,,

[@Jc-nt4ro]

After Krystal and Saagar left the hill took a hard turn right. Just look at the comments on this video compared to the MTG video.

[@raymondjacinto4880]

That's why I stop watching.

[@edmondgreen7970]

@@raymondjacinto4880 if you stopped watching then why are you here?

[@uche007us]

@@edmondgreen7970 I believe he stopped watching. Most lberals and progressives melt whenever they hear any idea that deviates from progressive orthodoxy. This is why they love Saagar, the man is to the far left of Bill Clinton.

[@justinscott4503]

And it’s finally watchable

[@ericksonjustinAK]

Thank God.

[@joeduca6071]

BY 2038 or 2028 or 2033 or or or or...... in school in 1945we were told there would be no oil by 1965

[@karlzipp181]

No matter which number you take, the bottom line is that oil WILL run out. Ancient volumes of decomposed vegetation are limited to the actual amount that have lived in the past.

[@starlord7573]

I would like to see Kamala Harris and AOC, the battle of the idiots.

[@samadamms3432]

AOC says, she has, limited time, but pauses, for effect, between words, when she, makes statements, or, asks questions.

[@Martian74]

Just because she has low intelligence, little experience and is very hypocritical in a lot of things that she does, that doesn't mean you should make fun of her obvious speaking deficiency. Her mouth has a high ability to speak but her brain can't keep up with it so she has to pause a lot so her brain can catch up to her mouth, especially when she wants to use a big word. Making fun of someone with low intelligence is not nice.

[@jujitsujew23]

@@Martian74 you idiots are pathetic. She only has 5 minutes and can't let one person go on a long rant instead of answering her simple question. I guarantee she's smarter than you

[@Martian74]

@@jujitsujew23 I'll put my engineering degree up against her bartending diploma.

[@Globovoyeur]

@@Martian74 LOL! Care to show us YOUR second prize from the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair?

[@caroh3071]

FREEDOM FOR STEVEN DONZIGER WOULD BE A BIG STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.

[@johnw8984]

We ARE circling the DRAIN AS A SPECIES.

[@tonymiller6847]

Of course, but the corporations have ALL of us by the SHORT HAIRS.

[@johndoyle2296]

Sandy have you thought much about how your life would be like without oil?

[@tonymiller6847]

Juvenile delinquent (JD) have you thought about what it would be like if you had a moral compass and a conscience?

[@noneya9444]

If everyone got on the same page we would be able to make it work!

[@michaelrees3216]

I'm living without oil right now , its easy actually. .

[@noneya9444]

@@michaelrees3216 That is awesome I commend you. I think if everybody came together and put the $11 million a minute that we gave Deb a fuel companies into renewable energy would be a lot better off

[@bobbanana568]

@@tonymiller6847 I am and have been a solar installer and now a lithium battery manufacturer. Now that said the man you just attacked is correct. Without oil how would we have had the industrial infrastructure to produce solar products with the history we have? Serious question.

[@win-itpropertiesllc8814]

Love what you told the owners of oil companies that some of us have to live in this future. Way to go! Advocate for our children and the american public!

[@ronaldgrider7463]

She's a joke

[@ahmd-mi9964]

She's grilling him and highlighting the lobbying powers.

[@benc2972]

She’s a phony that’s putting on a show for you.

[@justinscott4503]

She’s putting on a BS show

[@howequalspeace]

@@benc2972 well she doesn't take any corp money so idk what phoniness you're referring to but that part of her approach certainly is helping matters

[@benc2972]

@@howequalspeace She actually takes PAC donations now. She also takes corporate donations directly from Google, Amazon, a couple of universities and a pharmaceutical company. That’s just what I could find in a few minutes. It’s been four years since she ran for office on lies like that. Where ya been?

[@riuqpijfkdls]

Don't agree much with her, but she is actually right in this instance. We should be aiming for carbon neutral economy.

[@slickrick1042]

Then what do you do about volcanoes? Since ONE volcano eruption releases more carbon into the atmosphere than the entire industrialized era has by many times over!

[@riuqpijfkdls]

@@slickrick1042 So we should do nothing? Lets just polluting our cities, our rivers and keep dumping plastic into our oceans.

[@lobuxracer]

To save the climate? What incredible hubris. To save the stored carbon resources for more valuable purposes? Absolutely. Mankind cannot impact the climate by burning hydrocarbons by any reasonable measure and anyone with more than a gnat's memory of history can see this. But - we need hydrocarbons for paint, plastic, asphalt, and a million other uses. We should not squander it for transportation.

[@alizzz719]

Love how she cuts them off before they even respond "personal point of privilege" comraaaaaaaade

[@valkondarvalakev6377]

Lol you are a clown why are these meetings even limited to 5 mins per congress person

[@OutSideTheBoxFormat]

@@valkondarvalakev6377 5 mins of idiocy is a lot to endear.

[@sabinereynaudsf]

She actually let him go on quiet a bit before she reclaimed her time.

[@alizzz719]

@@sabinereynaudsf lol "quite a bit" like 60 seconds before he could even finish his sentence 🤣 "come on man" stop clenching your firsts.

[@sabinereynaudsf]

@@alizzz719 Is this the first hearing you ever listened to? She let him go on way to long. I have to admit Ted Cruz does a much better job at cutting people of. 60 seconds is 1 of your 5 minutes wasted.

[@ericksonjustinAK]

This is just grandstanding and brow beating and she's such a flake. "Are you compensated differently if your company is worth more?" What does she think their jobs are supposed to be? There is a big difference in meaning between manipulating and influencing. How much lobbying "green" money is spent to manipulate legislation?

[@Globovoyeur]

This assumes that what ExxonMobil is pushing is equivalent to what First Solar is pushing. First Solar is described by Wikipedia as "an American manufacturer of solar panels, and a provider of utility-scale PV power plants and supporting services that include finance, construction, maintenance and end-of-life panel recycling." Both are publicly traded companies trying to maximize their profit. But one sells fossil fuels, while the other sells carbon-free power. Thus, you assume an equivalence that does not exist.

[@aaronshruby2674]

Wrong, wrong, wrong 🤦🏾

[@ericksonjustinAK]

@@Globovoyeur Well, I for one, am glad that there is some lobbying to counter the corruption of science by environmental activism that cares not about being logical or practical and just blindly wants to give money away with the notion that it is never enough. These fossil fuel companies are just evil no matter what they do, in your eyes. So why in the world should they be trying to appease somebody like you or AOC that will never be happy despite the need we all have for fossil fuels. And I don't want politicians giving endlessly blank checks to "First Solar" or any company because you think every bit of money funneled their way is nothing but nobel despite it being everyone's hard earned tax dollars that are definitely not endless.

[@djpuplex]

Coming from her that's rich.

[@joeydimaggio6429]

one thing is certain, rod. she is doing much more than you.

[@joshuakeef4371]

AOC is only slightly more productive than slow minded joe biden. Almost brain dead president joe.

[@djpuplex]

@@joeydimaggio6429 "what about the ten percent" AOC: "we are gonna figure it out" does nothing.

[@joeydimaggio6429]

@@djpuplex makes you feel better

[@justwatchingvideos7944]

"Look at me! I'm SOOOO smart!" NOT!

[@joeydimaggio6429]

no, you are not "beard"

[@kerryb2689]

The bank should foreclose on those who perpetually pay their heat and electric bill with borrowed money. Then the electric company and gas company can turn it off. I'm talking about congress.

[@colico14]

I'm assuming that also includes the money that was allocated to subsidize the fossil fuel industry. We can shut them down, too?

[@kerryb2689]

@@colico14 There's 2 ways to think about it. 2. The fossil fuel industry will make the same profit regardless of whether there is a subsidy or not, so you might say the subsidy passed along to anyone who uses gasoline, diesel, natural gas, or electricity (pretty much everyone). Because it's a supply/demand market the subsidies may even have the effect of being multiplied....ie. a 10% increase in supply causes a 50% decrease in price. Most people don't comprehend this concept. Just think about what happens to the stock market when it crashes...10% of the money is pulled out of the market, and the price crashes by 50%.

[@noneya9444]

Check their bank accounts I bet they get richer during a pandemic

[@kerryb2689]

@@noneya9444 If you mean check the bank account of fossil fuel industry...(ie. the stock price), yes they got richer because of people who were still working during the pandemic (and didn't need the borrowed handout) placed it all in the stock market. Supply/demand price of the stock has nothing to do with the real wealth of a company,. Their wealth is in the property equipment and commodity they own or have control of. Same thing applies to bitcoin, or even dollars for that matter. Just heard on the radio counties are still trying to figure out how to spend covid money...they will spend it on wage bonuses. Remember when oil price went to negative $40? that was also supply/demand for oil the commodity. Stop building a pipeline (speculation of future reduced supply.) , return demand back to somewhat normal, and commodity price goes up

[@donaldkeene854]

@@colico14 what subsidies?? talk through your a...

[@Ecovaluations]

The Hill really brings out the ill-informed, self-centered viewer. 🤯

[@sfaire04]

Long live the oil industry!!

[@mrnull682]

And my job

[@xqt39a]

@@mrnull682 😂 good joke and good attitude

[@wolfiesmith7674]

The oils running out bud.

[@sfaire04]

@@wolfiesmith7674 yes sir it is, it’s gettin very expensive to drill and complete also.

[@ryr4770]

Does AOC take hot showers or cook her food?

[@kendaniel8601]

Does she have an iPhone? laptop? use a plastic water bottle? get driven in a car? use heating? use lifts? the list is endless but rules for thee and not for me seems to be the order of the day!

[@MalcamPrasad]

Reduction is not the same as elimination. You love to call her a hypocrite for using anything with plastic and oil but chastise any attempts and pivoting to renewables. Why does the oil and gas industry need government subsidies if it’s so profitable? Why are oil and gas companies sabotaging any research and development in green energy and blocking subsidies to enhance greentech but want more subsidies and public land for exploratory drilling? That’s rules for thee but not for me. The hypocrisy is palpable.

[@flpanhandler7749]

The saddest and scariest thing about AOC; people support her!

[@MalcamPrasad]

Yes they do. Because she speaks truth to power.

[@maxr4448]

Quit raising TAXES!!!!!!!! Read my LIPS>>>>>> QUIT raising TAXES!

[@amale4202]

Juxtapose AOC talking about actual important adult issues with MTG showing enlarged Fb memes in congress.

[@margyrowland]

CO2 is not pollution. Plants take it in and release oxygen. It’s pumped into greenhouses to increase yields.

[@theotrman1]

I struggle to understand how the dialog progresses to action.

[@jessicabe3278]

Exposure. By directly speaking to individuals who are responsible of the lobbying that influences legislations it no longer is something that is spoken about secretly to the winds. Although, it obviously simply results in denial but it most likely creates some discomfort, rather than the usual which is the protection and comfort that is dispensed to them through secrecy. Unfortunately, it may be true, as you have allude to, dialog does very little, as long as congress can be bought off.

[@numchucklee4279]

its called educating the public on how these oil snakes bamboozle us into believing that exon spends money on environmental protection and isn't really pillaging every oil resource in the world for gross profits at the same time taking subsidies from tax payers.

[@BeingPoorSucks]

Good upload! AOC made me happy in this video. She says everything that needs to be said on this topic

[@jasonjackson33]

Pay attention to what she actually does not what she says.

[@aharonemanuel4010]

I don't know why people don't like her.

[@jamesyoung151]

The lip smacking was driving me batty....

[@griffeyjohnson7243]

Say you’re a simple man without saying you’re a simple man.

[@bonesmacgones7502]

Everything is disinformation or misinformation if u don't like it.

[@slickrick1042]

Replace the word “misinformation” with “blasphemy” and it all makes sense!

[@ldfreitas9437]

@@slickrick1042 Blasphemy is the cover up of what increased oil production would do to the greenhouse effect, and Big Oil knew fifty years ago.

[@OutSideTheBoxFormat]

@@ldfreitas9437 Big oil doesn't burn their product up now do they?

[@ThatGuy-xg5hj]

Go get these criminals, AOC! 👍👋👋👋👋👋👋👋💙

[@Dra741]

I knew as soon as I heard AOC she was going to make a fool out of herself

[@bessforman1773]

It's what she is good at.

[@jujitsujew23]

the only fools here are people like you

[@jujitsujew23]

@@bessforman1773 she's clearly smarter than you

[@jaredschreiber4455]

@@jujitsujew23 are you an AOC supporter?

[@jujitsujew23]

@@jaredschreiber4455 If you can't figure that out based on what I wrote then you need help

[@gees9258]

I vote (AOC) for the position of: Accountant Of Cowfarts

[@chucktowne]

AOC for AoC!!!

[@MrManfly]

👍🏻🤣🤣🤣

[@janwoodworth1]

I love how a smart, articulate young woman gets all these old white men all butthurt and insecure. In 2007, Ocasio-Cortez won a prize at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in microbiology. The ISEF isn’t your standard panorama-filled science fair: It’s the largest pre-college scientific research event in the world. She entered in her senior year of high school with a project on Caenorhabditis elegan (C. elegan) lifespan extension, with her findings indicating that “antioxidants could potentially help prevent degenerative illnesses induced by oxidative stress.” She's talking about degenerative illness and you, about cowfarts.

[@wolfiesmith7674]

@@janwoodworth1 use to many bigly words and the cultists brain cell starts to shut down. Use 3 word slogans in future.

[@AngelRodriguez-tf1zl]

Haha! Funny atleast she accomplish to be in a very important position you who are you?🙄

[@gjsterp]

Grilling Big Oil Executives on their disinformation campaign on Climate Change seems a pointless waste of valuable time to me. It's not addressing the real issues: How are the World's societies to function without oil? What measures and actions can Our species take to minimize the effects of climate change, and what sources of energy can we safely substitute for oil? What can each of us do to use less fossil fuels? We need strategies Not finger pointing! FREE JULIAN ASSANGE !!!

[@MW-fz3zg]

Every environmentalist should stop using petroleum products. This means stop driving (get a bike). Stop using electricity unless it comes from a nuclear power plant. Grow your own food since petroleum products were used to produce and transport it to the stores. So until you environmental religious zealots start living your belief system, shut up.

[@gjsterp]

Michael Wasiewski I don't consider myself an environmentalist and I'm definitely NOT a religious zealot, since I'm an atheist , I think my angst is directed at those who would lay blame on corporations for supplying a product the world can't presently survive without, Instead of making this an individual problem by people who waste energy. For instance, I was driving at 2 AM last night and drove past many "Closed" businesses that had sign lights on, and in many cases Also had interior lights on. The car dealerships had bright flood lights on their parking areas. While I realize this is to protect their merchandise from vandals and thieves, I think the installation of motion detectors to turn these lights on would be a step in the Green direction. We are wasting energy like there is No Tomorrow, that future generations will need to survive. We need to take small steps, and each of us can help or hinder the situation.

[@srvblueslvr]

Problem with you climate change useful idiots is that you don't realize many of us were around when the "New Ice Age" was the hysteria of people like AOC for 20 years. Then it was "global warming" for 20 years. None of that panned out so now the hysteria is "Climate Change" Well I can't argue with that. There will all ways be seasons as long as the earth rotates. Question is.....if communists were able to stop climate change......what temperature would they stop it at? That is the question that isn't being addressed. I'm never going to use less fossil fuels. We have enough fossil fuels to supply the world for hundreds of years. We don't need to use less so that the communists can feel good about controlling us. F the Communists like AOL.

[@brad577]

If you let them have their way...you wll never know...even if it's a disaster coming your way...

[@gjsterp]

srvblueslvr Please point me to an article that mentions the "New Ice Age" and AOC. That's a new one on me. Did you even read my post? What did I say that gave you such an attitude? I said we should stop pointing fingers and find solutions, You point the finger a AOC and Communists? How did communists get into the conversation? Are you on drugs?

[@kavijackson868]

Can we stop talking to them and start punishing them!? 🤳🏽🤦🏽🙄

[@kavijackson868]

@@connieburleson6690 Do you really want to do this?

[@kavijackson868]

Tell you what I got one better why don't we go into why Gaddafi was really killed.

[@kavijackson868]

Or how about you just watch Zeitgeist Moving Forward... Or maybe just maybe we can keep using finite resources when we don't have to instead of saving and preserving them as an absolute last resort.

[@kavijackson868]

@@connieburleson6690 So status quo so far is brilliant why because we subjugated and merged with Afghanistan with all that Lithium and other natural resources to strategically keep playing ball in a losing game of capitalistic economic warfare and finite insanity in order to keep dysfunctionally opposing absence of waste and renewable alternatives and luxurious needless supply and demand for "people" who want to live the high life sky high fast lane of inhibitionless shameless globalists!?

[@kavijackson868]

What about the petrol dollar and fiat currency?

[@josmotherman591]

When is AOC going to start speaking and acting like an adult, and stop trying to use hypothetical opinions as fact. The World is going to end in 8 years. Said AOC 5 years ago. In 2009, Al Gore said the Polar Caps will be ice free by 2013. AOC has no solutions.

[@griffeyjohnson7243]

More gaslighting. She never said that. All you guys can do is lie and gaslight to muddy your BS

[@josmotherman591]

@@griffeyjohnson7243 You are correct. She said it was going to end in 12 years. It's funny how nuance matters unless it's Donald Trump,. and four years of Russian Collusion lies. You have no high ground.

[@presidentbrandon7140]

Exxon mobile has admitted climate change is real

[@josmotherman591]

@@presidentbrandon7140 Why would they not?

[@kevinmackfurniture]

Wow... I'd Like to have a "Compensation Committee " working on My behalf... That would be great. Betcha the cost of that Committee is more than the average person's annual income.

[@cszpetecki]

Right everyone wants their big SUV, big steaks, big TVs , big house but want to blame the industries bringing it to you for destroying g the planet. You are the consumer blame yourself

[@marlonstjohn]

Not everyone. According to recent polling 78 percent of Democrats and 49 percent of independents are not satisfied with the current policies on how climate change is being addressed. Two thirds of Americans feel that not enough is being done according to a survey done by Pew Research last year. Bigs steaks and big TVs is a little 2005, dontcha think?

[@tyj9175]

@@marlonstjohn civilization never will be sustainable. oil is what makes solar panels, wind turbines, electric cars and your precious fluorescent light bulbs. it would take hundreds of years to get the grid sustainable and by that time, according to the washed brains of the left, earth wont even be around anymore. green energy is certainly $green$.

[@marlonstjohn]

@@tyj9175 I don't have precious fluorescents. I do have a growing collection of adorable LEDs. Fifteen years ago I did not consider LEDs to be particularly useful for stage lighting and stuff that I need. Too expensive and unreliable. Now, they are affordable, incredibly efficient, and I have a whole bunch. The technology continues to advance more rapidly than I can keep up. Green real estate development is very popular now. Fifteen years ago, green building supplies were hard to source, and lenders for projects were extremely wary. No more. People like green buildings. They lease well and they sell well. The market will dictate more and more of our energy choices, and it markets scale predictably according to demand. Where I live in Chicago the State Line power plant was decommissioned and an Indiana wind farm now more than offsets the megawatts once generated by coal. It happened in a blink of an eye while you were still looking towards the past.

[@bassplayer9315]

I get bashing AOC. But defending lobbyists? Y’all are disgusting 🤮

[@christianl8615]

Can we schedule to vote on whether or not you left your district at age 3, and graduated from one of the wealthiest/private/institutions in America regarding BU? Seems counterintuitive to talk about have nots, when clearly you’ve only benefited from the extreme have side.

[@steveconrad8857]

I sure hope that I don’t have to live the future

[@srvblueslvr]

You don't have to ......its your call. Stop whining fool

[@robgrant9348]

If you don’t want to, you don’t have to.

[@S0CD0C]

All this talk….is she gonna give up all the luxuries that fossil fuels provide? There is not a better energy source at this time. Come up with a better alternative and let it compete on the free market. Money doesn’t care where it gets it’s energy.

[@sabinereynaudsf]

Oil and gas gets all sorts of subsidies. We need to develop technology around renewables. The rest of the world is doing it. The US is already way behind when it comes to electric cars. Fossil fuels will not be completely replaced, but their lobbying against a climate change response has to stop. We all pay for extreme weather, from droughts to fires, tornadoes etc. Corporation function on short term profits, a change in energy production needs longer term planning.

[@sharonminsuk]

What "free market"? Huge subsidies to fossil fuel companies don't make a "free market". I agree, let's have one by eliminating those subsidies, then we'll see how that goes.

[@ericksonjustinAK]

@@sabinereynaudsf How much money is spent on influencing climate change science to be alarmist? There are big leaps in logic you are making here. You go from talking about subsidies to we need to do what other countries are doing because they are doing it already. I bet you believe we fall behind even China in making efforts to stop climate change despite China burning way more coal than all other countries combined. The US government spends billions on climate change research. Electric vehicles are heavily subsidized and don't pay fuel taxes. What more do you ask? You just want to keep up with the Jones. And then you blame all extreme weather events on oil companies being short cited. Who was to blame for all of the countless amounts of droughts in the past? That's pretty big leaps in logic that are just based on "we should do what other people are doing" and people wonder why climate change alarmists get accused of sounding like chicken little and not actually following science at all. The predictions AOC is referring to are not settled at all. The magnitude of global warming is and should be debated amongst climatologist and it ranges a lot, but that doesn't go with AOC's self righteousness. I'll take what people like you say seriously when you sound rational and seem to actually understand scientific research and computer modeling. At least you can admit that fossil fuels can't be replaced completely.

[@Globovoyeur]

@@ericksonjustinAK "That's pretty big leaps in logic that are just based on "we should do what other people are doing" and people wonder why climate change alarmists get accused of sounding like chicken little and not actually following science at all." Do you follow the science? It sure doesn't sound like you do.

[@wolfiesmith7674]

One day, you will realise you cannot eat money.

[@johndoyle2296]

Hay Sandy what part of your anatomy did you pull those "facts" from?

[@wolfiesmith7674]

Your scared because you don’t understand.

[@jupiterregional8326]

fun thought experiment: Name a single issue where AOC and Bill Gates disagree.

[@valkondarvalakev6377]

Taxes, there u go. Are you going to cry now? Want another? Vaccine recipe for free Gates wants corporations to sell vaccines to citizens at a price overhead? Want another one? Estate tax, oil, water, land etc

[@thanksforbeingausefulidiot9016]

Do you mean to say that two sane people tend to agree on common-sense solutions? Gee, what a shocker.

[@kathyjones1078]

They have nothing in common.

[@edmondgreen7970]

@@thanksforbeingausefulidiot9016 wow....you think both of them are sane and use common sense? Now THAT'S the real shocker.

[@frazerpiccolo4484]

Gates agreed with Epsteins hanging, where as AOC wanted his snitching tongue cut out private reasons?

[@DarkMatter09]

Listening to that woman made me dumber and we don’t need that considering all these voters out here Voting for socialism and communist in a historically free country, shake my head!

[@mastanvx]

Made you dumber? Buddy I don't think that's possible xD

[@parkyayak]

Made you dumber? This is political theater. Her portion of the play was intended to highlight the severity of lobbyist influence, from big oil and gas, over our politicians. If listening to this exchange made you dumber, your caretaker deserves a raise. Your concern over socialism/communism while our democracy has been bought off by big business interests is very telling of your intellect. It's the equivalent of your house being on fire, but instead of being concerned over the fire, you're more concerned that your dinner is going to be burned.

[@insanelynuts3106]

@@parkyayak also the communism means no freedom argument. Great to hear uneducated people repeat propaganda they’ve been fed

[@parkyayak]

@@insanelynuts3106 Great! I love it when morons break down the meaning of words they don't understand and tell me what they "really" mean. Thanks for the education in troglodyte.

[@michellefrye7981]

Also, is she familiar of how much SHE SPENT on going to that gala wearing her "tax the rich" dress?? Where did all that money come from? I'm sure her pay doesn't compensate that ticket.

[@zenbeatlezen2084]

Check your info.

[@craignelson3965]

Tickets were a "gift" from the event owners. A 30k gift in other words but no ethics were broken.

[@slickrick1042]

Oh no the woke lefties don’t like you to talk about their queen bartender activist like that. They might burn down some buildings in “peaceful protest”!

[@corydor4218]

Typical comment when you know nothing about the issues, lady.

[@AngelRodriguez-zt6nv]

She was invited at no cost to her or the taxpayers 😉👍🙂

[@rickybate4701]

Trillions & trillions in debts, AOC candour.

[@throughmylens5127]

While wearing clothing, glasses, talking into a microphone made with fossil fuels using electronic devices made with fossil fuels and transported with fossil fuels will she give up her live style to save the planet.

[@jessicabe3278]

Has the problem been stated as absolutely no use for fossil fuels or that the excess use of them is detrimental?

[@armorfoursleep]

Hey its the bors comic

[@insanelynuts3106]

This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever read and it’s the left without common sense🙄. If we say illegalised the consumption of all fossil fuels tomorrow it would almost entirely halt energy production, but if we added regulations that made it less profitable I’d be willing to bet that we’d see green energy production take its place fairly quickly. Also even if we did stop all fossil fuel consumption immediately why would that prevent us from using products made with them? And if your argument was that fossil fuels are the only way to manufacture those products you’re dumber than I thought

[@TheGeoDaddy]

“A horse is a horse, of course, of course, unless the horse took a bar tended course, and then the horse is known, of course, as the mouthy Ms Cortez”

[@69BTony]

As a company leader, do you do better when the company does better? Yes AOC, that is how businesses work.

[@marlonstjohn]

Do you do better if the world does worse. That is how oil companies work.

[@rk5845]

Right Tony, Hey AOC when he does worst or does not meet company expectations he is fired. Unlike those like you in Congress. And listen to the chief air head gas light predictions of the future which is always the Dems play with no facts what so ever to back up there claims.

[@marlonstjohn]

@@rk5845 Oil companies get around $22Bn in direct taxpayer subsidies annually. Of course he's going to do well. He's a welfare queen.

[@rk5845]

@@marlonstjohn dont blame him or the oil companies blame AOC and the government they are the ones who pay are tax dollars to these people and companies for votes. Americans like you are all backwards on who you blame. Come election time AOC will gladly take there donations. My point is in any business if it dont make money then people are sent packing. But congress they dont have to preform and dont. But yet they still get there salary and insurance and perks while Americas starve from paying gas prices 3 times what they should be. So say what you want rich companies are rich because they invest and work and grow. End result MORE jobs for Americans. What does congress do???? That's why their rating is about 10% with the people. You must be in that 10 percent

[@marlonstjohn]

@@rk5845 Corporations are not self regulating. They will burn it all down for a buck and then dissolve. We saw that in 2008. AOC got 62% of her campaign donations from small donors giving under $200. She took zero dollars from PACs. I own a small business. The rules for me are not the same rules for a large company. I operate in another world. I don't get to purchase the legislation I want from a Congress set up to serve me. Our Congress has a low rating due to gridlock. They fail to move the people's business forward. The gridlock serves the needs of the 1%. I am the job creator; not them.

[@mechminded2207]

There is nothing genuinely good between her ears, but she is nice to look at.

[@jonnuanez2843]

She needs to make TikTok videos only. She's about as irritating as they are. And keep bringing your party down.

[@scottgordon1781]

Lobbyists should form their own political party !

[@wolfiesmith7674]

They have in the UK, check out the tory party.

[@ACT1O1]

Put that on shirt

[@scottgordon1781]

@@wolfiesmith7674 LOL

[@timlang4946]

Thanks guys for all the R&D. Switch to Hydrogen✌🗽

[@duketogo2616]

Most of it is extracted directly from fossil fuels. It's abundant in space, not so much here on Earth. The other method is via. electrolysis of water where you lose the majority of the energy used to make it and have to keep it supercooled & compressed and it leaks out of any container you put it on over time.

[@timlang4946]

This Company Makes Jet Fuel From Water, Sunlight And CO2 7 Dimensional Energy is one of Elemental Excelerator’s latest companies and is considering developing a renewable fuel facility in Hawaii

[@darrin8955]

@@duketogo2616 What about a car that runs on water ,with on demand hydrogen, people has done it successfully. I also hear the same thing about using more energy to make it, another alternative and battery to make it in a car but what no one tells is you are using water to make that extra energy, not gas. Their is someone that gets his hydrogen from solar panels in the day ,fills 3 scuba tanks,drilled with sensor to keep it cool. All free energy.

[@duketogo2616]

@@darrin8955 - You can't run anything off water. You need to either heat the water to steam and use that to run a steam engine or spin a turbine to generate electricity or you have to seperate the oxygen from the hydrogen so you can use the hydrogen. All of that requires energy and it requires more energy than you will get back from the end product due to basic thermodynamics/law of conservation of energy.

[@darrin8955]

@@duketogo2616 what don't you get ,if you use hydrogen to start your motor,which in turn makes on demand hydrogen to run your motor. The only think your using is water to make that energy, so it really doesn't matter if your using alot of energy to create more energy, because it is all done with water or like the guy that uses the sun to make hydrogen. It is free energy ,except the cost of solar panels.

[@crasherxtreme]

I must stress to all, please donate to AOC's permanent seat for the house. We need to keep her, Corey Bush, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Talib etc. keep em talkin. Please keep giving them the lime light. I'm all for full steam ahead Nancy. It's the best thing you can do for "OUR" side.

[@michaelhill6889]

Hey let's put all the used batteries in your back yard from the electric vehicles I'm sure you would get sick

[@MrManfly]

@@michaelhill6889 👍🏻😂😂😂

[@michaelhill6889]

Hey how you doing sense sense you don't want it's won't fossil fuel Can we bury the bad Batteries from from electric cars cars in your you're backyard I'm sure the battery's won't cross a problem

[@wethepeople905]

First off, has AOC been formally educated in Climatology? Regardless, maybe she can explain to 5he American people why everyone in the world is going to die if the United States produces oil, but not if Russia produces oil that gets exported here by means of transportation that just dirties up the environment. I would LOOOOVE to hear her explain that! Someone has got to ask her while she's on the floor so there's no dodging an answer!

[@MalcamPrasad]

They can pivot to natural gas which is cleaner than oil and invest in renewables. But they’re not. Also, politicians don’t need a scientific background to talk about climate change, just like your mother doesn’t need a midwifery course to go into labour. User learning and personal experience count for something. Do you need to be a mechanic to drive a car?

[@KonigGustavAdolph]

Uh, lobbyists try to manipulate legislation? You mean by, like, lobbying?

[@ericksonjustinAK]

Exactly, how much environmental activism and alarmist lobbying money is spent to "manipulate" legislation? Hint, it's a lot more.

[@steveconrad8857]

What about the reasons know and unknown?

[@theophilus494]

This girl is a joke... I thought the earth would have been destroyed before 2028.. she said it one time about climate change . 😜

[@checkedpizza182]

In her defense, at least she was taking notes and obviously listening when Republican senators questioned Garland. She sucks but she will get better if she survives herself

[@genericallyaccepted]

I've heard that because we can barely predict the weather in a week's time that these predictions that are years out are straight up guessing. I see the argument but I see the other side, too. Its not as though they're hand-in-hand, right?

[@SophiaAstatine]

Not sure about comparing the two. The reason it's harder to predict weather is that it is somewhat chaotic, amongst numerous other issues. The global climate isn't about localised weather phenomena, but general conditions spanning the entire planet. Climate is the foundation for weather, but it isn't the weather, so you can make general predictions about what kinds of weather is possible on the basis of climate conditions, but you still can't predict the exact time of day a given event happens. Weather predictions depend on tracking what is in the air and how it is moving, among other things, to give a relatively accurate time and day for something to happen, hence going too far ahead means a lot of those local parameters can change in the mean time. That is not the same method that is used when talking about the general changes to weather in the far future, which is based on the development of the global climate.

[@sharonminsuk]

Or to put it more simply: climate and weather are two different things. Climate projections that are years out are *_not_* "predicting the weather". Don't know where you've "heard" that but it is a misleading argument.

[@sharonminsuk]

This analogy occurs to me: it's like actuaries (the mathematicians who work for insurance companies). They can't predict whether you'll get sick next week or get hit by a bus tomorrow. But they can predict with deadly accuracy (because the profits of the insurance company depend on it) exactly what their payouts will be for years to come.

[@polarbianarchy3333]

We should listen to the future and not cling to the past. Thank you AOC

[@Ace0_-]

my mind is blown

[@garyperkovac1002]

AOC talks directly, intelligently and responsibly with the oil executives on these issues. I didn't hear any " mocking " in this clip, as The Hill describes it.

[@mikekupidlowski1514]

AOC and intelligent 🤣 two words that should never be used together are you kidding me

[@Bloodname_Gaming]

She is going after these guys loud and clear, she hurled a bunch of questions at the first one and then cut him off as he was explaining. And then said they were all setting the world on fire. I wouldn’t call that responsible. And about the mocking, learn what the meaning of the word is then get back to us. She basically says “Thank you for being transparent in being one of the most evil corporations ever.”

[@jdavis6650]

The more AOC gets face time in the national media, the better the Republicans feel. My condolences to her constituents.

[@ajcat99]

That was tough to watch

[@Randy2653]

aoc Stinks.

[@jujitsujew23]

what a sad and pathetic person you must be. OAC is brilliant

[@micwilliams7743]

Heat trends?? Need more TEXT there aoc and more than what could be written on the back of an envelope please. I know you like to give great details about everything especially the NGD and how you love to debate anyone. So please give more details about "heat trends". The people expect a detailed response from you before you pass any more bills. Tanks!

[@johnphillips7444]

Live how everything is so absolute to her.

[@donaldpalmer6269]

and she flies back to NYC every week and then back to Washington, but she wants zero carbon

[@bobbanana568]

Exactly

[@yourtallness]

We learned nothing today 😜

[@edmondgreen7970]

with AOC you lose IQ points evertime you watch her.

[@jeeperspeepers8323]

Did AOC cry again?

[@racerd9669]

Please this winter turn the gas off in AOCs office and then see what she thinks about natural gas.

[@edwardmcmanus7496]

"Honey (AOC), fix me an ice cold Heineken and a bowl of nuts ".

[@jrtstrategicapital560]

Yes..I too don’t like her politically..but am glad she grilled the oil executives .

[@carternelson8982]

Why. It is one of our lifeblood’s and will always be. What did these guys do wrong. Nothing

[@OutSideTheBoxFormat]

@Bret French Oil is abiotic. It's renewable.

[@OutSideTheBoxFormat]

@Bret French First off, I'm not your dear or sweetheart unless you're a female. You said where are the new fossils coming from. Fossil fuels is an outdated term. Oil is most likely a result from tectonic plates moving in the Earth's crust.

[@ACT1O1]

Tracy Flick grew up and turn into this woman.

[@duanewirth273]

So much brains in her rhetoric.

[@joshuakeef4371]

Aoc with brains is like saying joe biden has brains. Democrats are the dumbest bunch on earth.

[@cranberryeater7459]

I don’t understand what she was trying to achieve, and what did she achieve.

[@jupiterregional8326]

She's just vying for a viral clip that her base of dimwits can swoon over. She's a reality TV star, not a legislator.

[@armorfoursleep]

Defending giant multinational oil conglomerates to own the libs

[@IChIDH]

And what is AOC salary based on, how well she does for China?

[@MalcamPrasad]

Troll

[@i2really1der]

If projections hold, the impact of climate change/global warming would affect different generations at different rates. That’s a fair point.

[@billwalsh388]

They never seem to have "Those numbers" at their disposal.

[@saintjames8018]

Who cares if "those numbers" are accurate? I would rather that guy persuading legislation that AOC.

[@albertomolina3868]

I think it is the Democratic Party that never has the numbers at their disposal! Let's see, the Southern border for example.

[@saintjames8018]

@@albertomolina3868 Exactly, unfortunately we now have beta males like Bill who want to push CRT and makes us all fee bad for being hard working Americans

[@howequalspeace]

If you want to keep up the status quo keep voting for repubs and corp dems. We need more real progressives in Congress that are not tied to big money interests

[@vancewizzard]

AOC is a boss

[@my_master512]

All joking aside, how is this lady a congresswoman?

[@larrysmac]

She's a woman with a brain-a concept that yours is apparently too small to comprehend.

[@bryanhendrix1113]

You point at AOC when someone like MGT exists?

[@wolfiesmith7674]

In a country where Trump was president 😂🤣😂 AOC is the future of politics, it’s what the world needs to survive.

[@mikekaping9584]

Why is she still talking...make a drink already!!!

[@AndrewOrion85]

Such a lame comment, smh.

[@medicineshroom1386]

Why does she hide from these comments. We should not forget how naive this person is. She lives in her own bubble

[@maggiereeves2534]

Clearly been coached and rehearsed. OC don't have a teleprompter there, she just another baffon.

[@michaelwallden7261]

baffon?????