Ocasio-Cortez deletes 'absolutely love to see it' tweet about oil price crash amid conservative

[TexasTowelie]

Ocasio-Cortez deletes ‘absolutely love to see it’ tweet about oil price crash amid conservative outrage


She didn’t actually love to see it.

New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez deleted a tweet Monday in which she proclaimed to “absolutely love to see" U.S. oil prices plummet to historic lows because of the coronavirus pandemic.

“You absolutely love to see it," Ocasio-Cortez wrote in the since-removed post amid news that the price for a barrel of U.S. crude oil had dropped to a previously unheard of -$36 per barrel. “This along with record low-interest rates means it’s the right time for a worker-led, mass investment in green infrastructure to save our planet.”

The progressive Queens-Bronx congresswoman’s snarky post sparked intense outrage from right-wing commentators.

“Leftist Congresswoman, BA economics degree holder, and former high school science prize winner AOC wants you to know she thinks the devastation of our oil industry and the impending loss of tens-of-thousands of jobs is something she ‘LOVES TO SEE,’” conservative talk radio show host Buck Sexton tweeted.

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[Quemado]

1. Dumb decision - she should have kept that thought to herself.

As much as I would like to see the end of oil, I think what she did was a mistake. It just gave ammunition to her critics.

[TexasTowelie]

2. It was insensitive to the workers among many industries that will be losing jobs.

It not only affects workers at oil companies, but it stretches out to other sectors of the economy such as the steel industry, banking, and government employees who will suffer from budget cuts. The loss of government employees also means that the general population will see a reduction in services provided to them.

It will also have a negative impact on charitable giving. In Texas, the oil companies are generous providers for college scholarships, civic clubs, and the arts.

[empedocles]

4. Pesistently gives 'ammunition to her critics' - that's where her national recognition comes from

[getagrip_already]

6. shock politics....

Like shock radio, is not necessarily a good thing even though it works for the practitioners.....

You can hate the oil industry practices, but the industry is tremendously important and it is a nationally critical industry.

To hope for it's demise is foolish and immature. Which about sums up shock politics.

[rownesheck]

3. I'm agree completely

with what she said. But, yeah, probably should have held that tweet back. Maybe should have used that moment to push the importance of renewables.

[George II]

10. The thing is what was being talked about yesterday was NOT the price of oil, but the price....

....of May oil futures contracts which came due today. People were dumping them because they would have been required to take possession of the oil in a week or two. It had nothing to do with the real price of oil.

The real price of oil today is in the high $20s and low $30s per barrel.

[PBC_Democrat]

5. Sometimes thoughts and ideas are best kept to ones self ...

Sometimes seems like she is the leader of the "I don't want to be re-elected' club.

[Marcuse]

7. High oil prices incentivize green energy development.

[TexasTowelie]

8. Correct.

There are high infrastructure costs for some forms of green energy such building the wind turbines and the fact that creating that infrastructure also admits a large amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere it has its own set of environmental consequences.

[George II]

9. Not just right wing commentators, lots of Democrats were angered by that, too.